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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) – Virtual Teach-In with Doug Henwood

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Another installment in a series of virtual teach-ins designed to bring the great minds of our day to the multitude of smaller occupations across the globe. Taryn Hart and Doug Henwood, journalist and radio host specializing in economics and politics, discuss how Wall Street works, how it has influenced the economic trends and political system over the last several decades, how these interactions have contributed to the current economic crisis, and how these problems may be reversed. Henwood is the author of Wall Street (available for free download at http://wallstreetthebook.com/), can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/DougHenwood, and you can read his work at http://lbo-news.com/ and http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ To join the OccupiedMedia team and publish

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Another installment in a series of virtual teach-ins designed to bring the great minds of our day to the multitude of smaller occupations across the globe.



Taryn Hart and Doug Henwood, journalist and radio host specializing in economics and politics, discuss how Wall Street works, how it has influenced the economic trends and political system over the last several decades, how these interactions have contributed to the current economic crisis, and how these problems may be reversed. Henwood is the author of Wall Street (available for free download at http://wallstreetthebook.com/), can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/DougHenwood, and you can read his work at http://lbo-news.com/ and http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/



To join the OccupiedMedia team and publish your own virtual teach-ins and interviews, contact [email protected].



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John Quiggin
He is an Australian economist, a Professor and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a former member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.

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