and covered Occupy favorably and really well. Was she actually part of the protests? That would make three Occupiers with shows on RT (now that Chris Hedges is doing one).

First time I ever met Lee Camp was during Occupy. We were both at the unofficial latrine for Revolutionaries at a fast food franchise (which doesn't need mentioning but did let us use their facilities, for a while, which for me is the only purpose I ever enter fast food places anymore) a block from Zuccotti Pk. I almost hugged him, because I had known him mostly from this video:

Here's a funny story and just one of surely thousands of incredible moments of serendipity that happened at Occupy Wall St:

Around the same time I encountered Lee at Occupy, I had become good friends with another comedian who was a fixture there. On my first day there as I'm walking through the park not 20 minutes into it, someone calls out to me. He asked if I lived on the same street he did. I said yeah....thinking, wow! Not even down here for a few moments and there's some kind of weird surveillance or something going on, wtf? Turns out he was my neighbor. Long story short we had never met on our quiet Queens street though we had both lived there for a few years. We rapidly became good friends, our relationship deepening with every visit spent together and then at home, and ultimately including our families and a wider range of local activists. We're very close friends now, and during that time of course I've met Lee on numerous occasions being they're both in the same field. I'm always wondering if Lee remembers my overly effusive thanks to him during that first encounter at Occupy.
That's my vignette for the day.

So many incredible stories/moments there. Running into Naomi Klein, Chris Hedges, Sam Seder, Jesse Jackson, the Egyptian woman who recorded the YouTube video challenging folks to join her in Tahrir Sq to stand up against police injustice and corruption credited as starting the uprising there, Michael Moore, etc, and the legions of beautifully bright and committed souls who were drawn to stand, march, sit and sleep in solidarity at the social experiment of Dreaming In Public of a better world possible for the 99%.

We need that spirit to congeal in another way, now that Bernie sparked up that conversation again.

Back to your point Alphalop, she is wonderful and we need more fearless journalistic voices calling truth to power.

This performance is similarly worthy of seeing, particularly as another example of someone unafraid to challenge the mainstream status quo huggers, not buying the faux feminism of a Hillary presidency - and so apropos right now again, on the cups of the DNC. Get a feeling you'll feel the same about her too: ("Is Hillary Clinton our Mitt Romney? Smart? Sure. Competent? Absolutely. Incredible resume? Without a doubt. But also kind of tone-deaf and unrelateable." Just one of many in a complete tour de force dressing down of the fraud of Hillary)