cross-posted at Minnesota Progressive Project
The title is meant to be ironic. Of course the band in the first video is playing klezmer, and of course the protesters aren't anti-semitic. That's the chosen meme of the conservative propaganda machine though, even though it's based on pretty much nothing and overlooks that the Wall Street occupation includes a lot of Jews (not a surprise in lower Manhattan) who even held a large Yom Kippur service. Maybe being Jewish and holding the service was just a clever disguise.
I was told the band is called "The Brass Band", but I can't find a mention of them on the web, so I have a feeling I was told wrong. If anyone knows them, please tell us who they are. The movements are me moving to a better position and doing some panning of the crowd (and photobombing the video my wife was making at the same time).
The speaker in the second video is Katrina Plotz, the woman who was briefly seen in the interview with one of the people in the tents blocking a downtown Minneapolis intersection Thursday. Here, she explains what they were protesting and why they resorted to blocking the intersection and getting arrested. It turns out the blockage was impromptu, as they had been intending to set up in the US Bank lobby but were forced out.
Sun Oct 23, 2011 at 6:19 PM PT: I was informed by a commenter on YouTube that the band is the Brass Messengers.