The Pie's the Limit

[first lines]

news anchor:
[voice over a pie being made] Like a couple of notable people before him William Brown was targeted by activists with pies.

reporter:
[vo] There's been a rush of this lately: prominent faces getting slapped with pie. Is it funny? A political statement or a physical assault?

news anchor:
[vo] Those responsible for the not-so-sweet surprises are members of the Biotic Baking Brigade, also called the BBB, a self-proclaimed activist group fighting a number of problems including downtown development, clearcutting of the redwoods, and homelessness.

Christian Parenti:
Milton Friedman is the intellectual architect of neo-liberalism, or you might call him the sort of ideological Godfather of neo-liberalism. And neo-liberalism is an economic theory that liberates corporate power from any kind of state control. And that means neo-liberalism justifies corporate plunder of the environment, corporate poisoning and exploitation of consumers, and corporate exploitation and spiritual and physical mutilation of workers.

Christian Parenti:
Milton Friedman... is like the purveyor of an ideological poison that is central to the policies and politics that are threatening the health of the planet, and threatening the interests of common people all over the planet.

Rahula Janowski:
The only thing that's necessary to be a member of the Biotic Baking Brigade is a pie and a vision of a better world.

Agent Apple:
The three main TV networks are owned by Disney, by Westinghouse, and by GE. That's the same corporations that are destroying us through nuclear energy and nuclear warfare and through infotainment which creates the set of values that are completely opposed to any kind of sustainable and any kind of peaceful process.

Agent Apple:
So we have the situation where the same corporations that are destroying us - and destroying our future! - are presenting us with the News.

Christian Parenti:
Neo-'liberalism' is an economic theory that liberates corporate power from any kind of state control, and thus justifies corporate plunder of the environment, corporate poisoning and exploitation of consumers, and corporate exploitation and spiritual and physical mutilation of workers.