Our second episode of Who Rules America goes back to the origins of the American Revolution to show how the fight against entrenched wealth and privilege date back hundreds of years. Columbia University's Eric Foner, a Pulitzer prize winner and America's most pre-eminent historian: "There is nothing un-American about raising the question of economic plutocracy, economic inequality. It's as American as apple pie." he told us, and said the Occupy Movement is nothing new. We tell the story of the Shays Rebellion after the American revolution by traveling to Western Massachusetts to hear about the "Occupy Wall Street of that era, we go to the "Freedom Trail" in Boston to discuss what was and was not revolutionary about the American revolution. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, an indigenous activist told us, there never was a real revolution, "The United States of course was founded as a settler's state, as a colonial state, became an imperialist power, and the democracy has always been an oligarchy." The program puts modern day economic inequality in historical context.
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Who Rules America? | S1E02 | Occupy is Not New: The History of the Fight for Democracy in America

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0:00 Who Rules America?
0:34 Inequality and Occupy Wall Street
1:55 Impact of the 99% Movement
2:43 $46 Trillion and the Top 1%
5:09 Was the American Revolution Real?
6:00 Paul Revere and Boston's Merchant Class
10:25 Shays' Rebellion: The First Occupy
13:57 Slavery, Native Americans and W.E.B. Du Bois
19:07 The Real Boston Tea Party
20:04 Conspiracy Theories and the Power Elite