Because of Occupy: Stories of Action and Change

Love (and Revolution) Radio

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're hosting an Occupy Anniversary Special, bringing on guests Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight, Jerry Ashton of Rolling Jubilee and RIP Medical Debt, and Sue Sierralupe of Occupy Medical to discuss what has happened "because of Occupy". Joining us for the conversation is Occupy Radio cohost David Geitgey Sierralupe.
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About Our Guests:
Comedian and commentator Lee Camp is the host of Redacted Tonight, which airs weekly on RT America. His stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy Central, ABC’s Good Morning America, MTV, and has headlined more than 500 college and university shows. He was asked, before Occupy, to send out a message calling people to protest and rise up against inequality, and continues to do so to this day. http://leecamp.net/about/
Debt Collector Jerry Ashton is the executive vice president and cofounder of RIP Medical Debt and a participant in the Rolling Jubilee working group during Occupy Wall St. He is the co-author of "The Patient, The Doctor and The Bill Collector", and has been blogging about debt, inequality, and the Occupy movement on Huffington Post and debt industry journals. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/jerry-ashton
Sue Sierralupe is the cofounder and clinic manager of Occupy Medical in Eugene, an on-going free weekly medical clinic providing direct experience of the single-payer universal healthcare model in the streets. She is the author of ten books, and the cohost of Real Herbalism Radio show. She blogs at ThePracticalHerbalist.com http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/
Guest Host David Geitgey Sierralupe is the cofounder of Occupy Radio, which he previously hosted along with Rivera Sun. He is a media activist, a father, and the husband of Sue Sierralupe. His next project, Irresistible Fiction, is in development and soon to launch.
Related Links:
S17 Occupy 5th Anniversary Commemoration
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/occupy-wall-streets-fifth-anniversary/
Lee Camp
http://leecamp.net
Redacted Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/user/redactedtonight
Oligarchy Study
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Rich People Rule: Struggle Lies Ahead by Rivera Sun
(article about Oligarchy Study)
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23473-rich-people-rule-struggle-lies-ahead
Clean Money Candidates
http://www.cleanmoneycandidates.org/
RIP Medical Debt
https://www.ripmedicaldebt.org/
Rolling Jubilee
http://rollingjubilee.org/
Strike Debt
http://strikedebt.org/
Debt Collective
https://debtcollective.org/
The Patient, The Doctor, and the Bill Collector by Jerry Ashton and Robert E. Goff
http://nomoremedicaldebt.com/
Occupy Medical
http://occupy-medical.org/
The Practical Herbalist
http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/
Real Herbalism Radio
http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/podcasts/
Occupy Love by Filmmaker Velcrow Ripper
http://occupylove.org/
Music by:
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio and this week's featured music is "Shall We Rise - Occupy!" by Diane Patterson on her Build a Bridge CD. www.dianepatterson.org
About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline
Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/