Moyers says: "Politics Today is Money Laundering and the Trafficking of Power and Policy" - and "why New Yorkâs Zuccotti Park is occupied is no mystery. Reporters keep scratching their heads and asking: Why are you here? But itâs as clear as the crash of 2008: they are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street has occupied America." (Program ends with Arlo Guthrie's recording of Patriot's Dream.)
Public Citizen and Arlo Guthrie
Bill Moyers, elder, intellectual, journalist and public broadcaster for four decades has know politics more intimately than most of his media colleagues. He was an organizing founder and deputy director of the Peace Corps, Special Assistant and then Press Secretary to President Lyndon Johnson and played a key role in organizing and supervising the 1964 Great Society legislative task forces.
Bill Moyers delivered the keynote address at Public Citizen's 40th Anniversary celebration in October 2011. Public Citizen was co-founded by Ralph Nader, and now has over 225,000 members. Their motto is "defending democracy, resisting corporate power"