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99% Boston, "Working Class Wednesday"

"99% Boston," nicknamed "Working Class Wednesdays," was a lively and irreverent show featuring some of the angry anarchists, rude radicals and beautiful dreamers that lived and worked at the Occupy Boston encampment until it was destroyed by Boston Police in December 2011. In the months that followed, these activists clashed with cops in DC, NYC and Chicago, some returning with stitches or broken ribs to prove it. The show was hosted by John Stephen Dwyer (@JSDwyer), tech produced by Chris Maxield (@cmax88), and was podcast live on Occupy Boston Radio Wednesdays at 8 pm from April 2012 to August 2012. It then changed its name to "Radical Element" and moved to the Thursday 8 pm timeslot on UNregular Radio. Several episodes of "99 Boston" are available here for streaming or download.

• Debut Episode (April 11, 2012 – 76 minutes) with guests Patrick Doherty, John Ford, John Murphy, Nelson Terry and Zoe White. There were some tech problems, and it's a really silly episode, but the gang obviously had lots of fun making it. It goes quiet for a few seconds near the 55 and the 69 minute mark before starting back up. Topics include the "Blunts and Blankets" marijuana activism event on Boston Common, NDAA 2012, the "rat bloc," and dumpster diving in Greater Boston, Camp Charlie at the Massachusetts State House, and the Burger King Safer Spaces Agreement.

• Burning Bridges (April 25, 2012 – 52 minutes) with guests Stephanie Fail, Patrick Doherty, John Ford, John Murphy, and Nelson Terry. There are a lot of laughs here although the first few minutes of the episode are missing and conversation sometimes gives way to chaos. Topics include May Day, trolling Facebook, Occupy the Hood, Occupy the Capitol, Occupy Hyannis, Occupy Holyoke, the disbanding of Occupy Boston's Media Team, the sleepful protest called “Camp America” in front of Bank of America HQ, and guessing which one of the gang is a cop.

• Sage Advice (May 16, 2012 – 57 minutes) was tech produced by Matt Womer with Sage Radachowsky bringing his music as the first guest. This was broadcast the night the gang left for protests against NATO in Chicago and guests Nelson Terry, John Murphy, Lauren Chalas and John Ford arrive as the show progresses. Topics include police culture, name calling, feudalism, a hidden cure for cancer, grade school rebelliousness, life in the mountains of Nepal, Occupy Oakland and the Oakland Commune, jury nullification, restorative justice and the obsolescence of NATO.

• Home from Chicago (May 30th, 2012 – 73 Minutes) with guests Mike Figa, Rene Perez and Nicole Sullivan, this episode centers around protests against NATO that took place May 15-22, 2012 in Chicago. The gang discusses humorous mishaps during the trip from Boston, the so-called “NATO 3” activists arrested on terrorism charges, black bloc and pushing against police lines, Nicole Sullivan's broken ribs, Richard Harding Wood's ten stitches in the head, John Dwyer's encounter with Jesse Jackson, and Chicago Police hitting a protestor with a van.

• The O Bomb (June 6, 2012 – 72 minutes) with guests Meaghan Day, Patrick Doherty, Mark Joyce-Shore (bringing his music), Jay Kelly and John Murphy. Topics include planning the future of Occupy Boston, use of taboo words in humor, the previous evening's GA, a return to Camp Charlie, Occupy Boston screen printing and sign making, actions on Boston Common, Mayor Menino, Occupy Falmouth, Canada, the Scott Walker recall and third party presidential candidates Jill Stein, Roseanne Barr, Vermin Supreme and No One. They also talk about Obama and his drones despite trying not to.

• The Green Way (June 27th, 2012 – 104 Minutes) with guests Lauren Chalas, Greg Murphy, Sage Radachowshy, and Rita Sebastian. This show has a somewhat different tone from previous episodes as these knowledgeable folks were brought into the studio specifically to talk about foraging, urban agriculture, community gardening and sustainability. Their talk includes such fun topics as “the underground chicken network” and how to catch a swarm of bees. This combination of people as so successfully that their ongoing conversation was spun-off into its own weekly show called “The Green Way.”

• Clean Up BPPA (July 11th, 2012 – 57 Minutes) with guest Bil Lewis. Much of the episode is devoted to Bil's correspondence with James Carnell, editor of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association’s newsletter, as well as the nasty, sexist, bigoted content found within that publication. Later Bil talks about his trip to Philadelphia for the Occupy National Gathering that took place the week of Independence Day, his membership in the local branch of the Tea Party, and Scott Lively's book about gay Nazis, "The Pink Swastika".

• Anaheim Riots (July 25th, 2012 – 78 Minutes)

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