identify their ancestry as flim noe american, making it the second largest asian-american community in the united states and whereas earlier this year california star leyland yi passed the bill sell -- acknowledging the importance of flill -- filipino americans in our history, now be it resolved that gavin newsome, mayor of san francisco, in recognition of the bonds between the philippines and america do hereby proclaim october, 2009 as filipino history month in san francisco. i'd like to give this honor to our deputy general consul, santos. at this time i'd like to welcome my colleague and friend lisa ongoing who -- ong who serves as liaison to the office of community affairs. lisa? >> thank you, hydra and thank you call -- all for being here today. i know the circumstances in getting here might have been a little more difficult for some of you but i do appreciate you coming out on behalf of the mayor to help celebrate filipino american month. the mayor was here earlier to stop by and say hi and make sure everyone recognizes the importance of of the filipino community in the united

african-americans and asian- americans. do you novak when the agent exclusion act, the chinese exclusion act was before congress in 1870, the first national leader to speak out against that was frederick douglass. the same man who fought against slavery. do you know that when the chinese exclusion act was voted on in congress, there was one black senator named blanche bruce, the only african-american in the u.s. senate, voted against it. similarly, we work side-by-side for semel -- civil rights and improve public education. in '86, and laundry owner sued the san francisco board of supervisors for a racially discriminatory law, and it brought equal protection to minorities, and that overturned the 1857 dread scott case, which held that minorities were not protected by the u.s. constitution. we have the landmark case of brown harris is board of education, 1954, to thank for equality in education. -- brown v. board of education. seven years later, the chinese community here worked shoulder to shoulder with the african- america

i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it

the first homeland event, our native american american indian warriors. [speaking foreign language] >> all right, there you have it. how about a big round of applause, our men traditional dancers. thank you very much, gentlemen. next we're going to bring out another society of men and boys, another healing society of the grass dancers. and they are from the northern plains, the northern regions and the northern south dakota, montana, all the way up into canada and we're going to call up on the native american aids project for the grass dance song. michael is the lead singer. when you're ready, michael. grass dancers, let's give them a nice welcome. our grass dancers. >> all right, there you have it. our grass dancers. how about that? all right now we're going to go into our contemporary style of dancing. that's our fancy men's dance and we're going to start with our fancy shawl dance category. we have a couple young ladies, three of them that are going to come out. this is a modern style, contemporary style. it evolved into 1950's to present and they danc

to the american people. they forced down the throats of the american public a bill which is now law that was designed to fail. designed to fail, america. why do i say that? it was designed to push people off of private health insurance. designed to push people into a, what's now called a public exchange. that's going to force people into more and more government. it's designed to lead us just before obamacare was passed into law that he said he wanted to go. where everybody in this country would be on one insurance policy. one pool is what he said. that means socialized medicine, where bureaucrats here in washington, d.c., direct the health care for everybody in this country, that tell doctors like myself -- i'm a general practice doctor -- how to practice medicine, who we can give care to, what tests we can do. and in fact, right now today the federal government tells me and other physicians across this country whether we can admit a patient that's on medicare to the hospital or not. it's not determined by

accent and the american people will take an american accent in a better way that's right well george bush proved that you could fool the american people into accepting anything that he sent adama and he sounded deep south enough in texas enough so he said look george bush we're going to completely destroy your economy and you're now left with nothing and everyone bought into it now you've got tony hayward's got that kind of british accent and of course i was like oh no it's foreign we don't accept it so they put in an american what's his name dudley robert dudley robert dudley so he'll get on there for b.p. and say well where do mick goes completely destroy what we totally eviscerated and we bought a new economy. and we're occupying your country and you know a bunch of peasants now but does american accent suits ok and they're going to be like. we're peasants i feel like i could have a beer with him. well this however you know they're going to have an american accent to explain to the population of america which is suddenly interested in b.p.'s role in the release of the lockerbie bo

who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene happening in that area. there's this wonderful book called fillmore harlem west and also there's several other books that are about that particular era. but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that'

financial regulatory reform legislation, and as the chairman of the federal reserve testifies about the american economy before congress, we have a conversation with the secretary of the treasury, tim geithner. people ask two things about this financial reform legislation. number one, will it prevent another crisis? number two, does it speak to, in terms of capital requirements, and risk and leverage, the very things that caused the crisis in the first place? >> i've always said that the centerpiece of any reform is capital. stronger capital requirements. constraints on leverage. forced to institute more stable funding. that's the most important way to prevent future financial crises and it is the most important test of reform and what this bill does is provide authority that the government of the united states did not have to make sure we can set and enforce those capital requirements on these institutions, not just the banks but the large institutions, complicated institutions that are the big global leaders in these areas like goldman sachs, like morgan stanley, like g.e. capital, not just ci

indian, american indian aids project and the american indian health center to celebrate five outstanding local heroes for their work in the san francisco bay area, american indian community. now therefore be it resolved that i, the mayor, do hereby proclaim november, 2009, as american indian heritage month in the city and county of san francisco. at this time i'd also like to recognize the offices of several elected officials who are providing certificates of honors to all of the awardees this evening. the office of senator mark leno, assemblyman tom amiano and speaker of the house nancy pelosi. i'd also like to thank helen walkasou of friendship house, john ben with a of the american native -- john ben with a -- jonbenet, lindo brian from kqed and mark espinosa from the native american health center. and i'd like to now introduce mark espinosa, executive director of san francisco native american health center. >> good evening, everyone. welcome. i'd like to congratulate all the winners tonight as well as thank all the sponsors for this great event. native american health center of san f

see americans and russians in space together. in one hundred seventy five the so you project put an end to the space race. i'm approaching so use. less than five meters. three meters. contact. i like chocolates most of all like the trickle of chocolates a location. cosmonaut valeri could bounce off was part of the soyuz apollo project and often visits this museum he remembers every minute of his mission the food what they talked about and how they welcomed the apollo crew lives board which is a good suit vapor labels from ball tolls off bald go with us. and when we were up there i randomly pasted them on a couple of chub and one of them turned out to be filled with borsch and the other with some kind of a tomato paste. on the end when american astronauts stafford and dick slayton said sound on the table. i show them that use and you know yeah good idea they said. today new cosmonauts are set to go into space one by one of the countries are creating their space programs india and japan and china has already launched its own cosmon

well doug a son in just the border region is also a huge country and if the americans were unable to successfully fight the taliban inside of honest on where they have a pretty powerful presence how are they going to be able to attack the border regions the fata region inside pakistan successfully given all the the factors that have been mentioned earlier on this program that pakistan has an air force an army and also has nuclear weapons and you certainly cannot remove pakistan from or secure graphy it will always be where it is between afghanistan and india and and on the commanding heights of the gulf so the u.s. needs to look at this very carefully before it goes down this very dangerous spot of trying to save yourselves by provoking some kind of a military conflict with pakistan i think this is also ok fear and i actually lied because we're almost running out of time you want to finish you want to have a last word anatole go ahead. i just want to back up shooter and say that actually most of the american soldiers i know do recognize the appalling take pictures of a direct attack

i just want to back up sugar and say that actually most of the american soldiers i know do recognize the appalling dangers of a direct attack on pakistan i think there are two circumstances in which this would happen the first if that was if they really had actionable intelligence concerning bin laden and zawahiri then i think they would launch a rate to get them the second is if of course there's a serious terrorist attack on the united are i knew i knew someone was going to have to jump in here and i talked to john here many thanks to my guest today dubai london and washington and thanks more viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember process. and you can see. i feel. there's no end in sight for russia's exceptional each way which continues to claim dives and increasingly threaten the environment and protests. an international space station ops ten minutes since it first became eligible for russian to go to support systems don't feel. abandoned to be adopted on t.v. the concept of a people see this kind of on the street these people children give them the hope

i already have the american spirit. i am proud to be here and i really appreciate the spirit of committing to things and being honored and being collaborative. when i flashed back to my career, i think about what an artist can do is a teeny tiny thing. i want to contribute to the hall human society. what art can do is just this tiny bit. >> your invitation has already proven to be a great success and we really look forward to spending time with your sculpture. thank you for being part of "culture wire." >> thank you for being part of this project. >> thank you for watching. join us for future episodes. you can>> many people are not af this building was built in 1936. as a board to preserve the history and make the students aware of that history. the partnering between sfmoma and the arts commission means they will be more aware of the artwork that we have here, the artists that painted a, and the history behind this itself. >> students came from george washington, and it was wonderful to have them on a panel. people fro

in iraq if the if the state were to not be a solid is the americans who told me when there is hard to believe there always are already talking about leaving afghanistan i mean the united states is talking about the future and for americans the future comes real soon in the region it's a lot more long term so how can we be talking about a negotiated peace when at the same time the obama administration are enormous pressure is being pressured to actually leave the region or leave it in not on the same level of where troops are and security forces are just and lowered and moved back how can you do both at the same time. well i think you have to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past and that is to have a very prison project would draw which is what has informed a lot of the cajun is and the caution on the part of the pakistanis that as happened after the the the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan that the americans after having helped pakistan with the majority in and installed government in kabul basically took off in the middle of the night. that is unlikely to happen this t

americans angry at the expenditure of funds in this way abroad and in iraq. afghanistan but also the expenditure of seventy five billion a year on the so-called security intelligence industrial complex which is a two and a half fold increase from the time before nine eleven and when people say after nine eleven everything changed well yeah it sure did but not to the good. former cia analyst roy mcgovern there and our website or two dot com has a lot more for you to check out and here's a taste of what's streaming there right now. russian american drug police busted a trafficking ring involving a show man and a corrupt officer. and russian lawmakers predict the last days of sham psychics will call on their trust in clients out of thousands of dollars more had to r t dot com. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and an air blue passenger plane reportedly carrying one hundred fifty two people has crashed into hills close to the pakistani capital islamabad rescuers are trying to reach the scene but roads in the region are difficult to

elderly asian-american victims allegedly committed by african-american youths has raised the question of whether the growing interracial tensions in cities like san francisco and oakland are partly to blame. i think most of us hope that the election of president obama would transcend the racial divide. however, even if this divide were somehow overcome, it would not address the racial divide amongst minorities in this country. the reality is

the american original. for over two decades, for the l >>> issue one, the american dream. >> the economic expansion that began in the middle of last year is proceeding at a moderate pace. supported by monetary policies. we will and fiscal policies. we will continue. >> america is recession weary. now in its third year since the meltdown and more bad news this week, item, jobs vanish. employment last month dropped 301,000 workers. item, banks busted. 96 banks have shut down so far this year on track for the highest number in 18 years. item, markets wobble. the dow fell 6.6% this year. the s and p has dropped 5.0%. item, confidence plunges in june. from 62.7 to 52.9 on the comforts board index. 10 points in one month. item, retail sales, manufacturing, auto making. all down. >>> little wonder that the fourth annual metlife study of the american dream shows that the percentage of americans who believe the u.s. economy will be the same or worse than last year is 67%. two out of three people, which is consistent

they loved the native americans. there was a navajo-hopi agreement, and the big boys, the interior committee would not let me end. -- would not let me in. will of the conflict was right in my district, and they would not let me ein. i offered an amendment that said we are going to freeze a moratorium on the navajo-hopi settlement. the navajo people were with me and cheered me, but the navajo leadership did not like it. neither did mo. he said bill, this is not the way to get things done. the champion of the navajos was against it. everybody was against it. for a while, i said i am going to back off. but the navajo people wanted it because there was some unsettled claims. stewart udall came up and said bill, you have had fun with this. good worked. you have got the people behind you. but now it is time to go. and we ended up with an agreement. now i have 30 seconds to say this. there was a conference recently called the great outdoors. i commend the president and secretary salazar for putting it together. there were a

they were the architects of the american and russian space programs. in the battle to reach out to space. and make their first attempts to reach for the stars in their childhood as a boy in the soviet union so gay designed simple ideas but as time went by he came up with a more sophisticated rocket propelled craft as for venice at the age of twelve he created a prototype rocket by equipping a crate with fireworks he also built a walking wagon that he launched in his hometown and apparently this wagon in the ad had. rockets he had made on it and it. ran down the main street of his hometown and. who was von braun's long time private secretary says venet attracted police attention many times for firing things into the air nowadays buckbee often takes people on a tour of the space museum in huntsville where each exhibit is related to von braun . but the best storyteller of. exploits is his only daughter natalia she wrote about him in three volumes of memoirs simply titled my father. with these this is a picture of the first soviet rocket it was launched on

it's going on all over the world it just seems like america or the americans or american citizens are just kind of sleeping right now i don't know i don't know if they understand what's really going on in the world or how it effects affects them or affects us because on american citizens we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know we become just like people in third world countries. look to america and say you know you guys are really seem like you got it together you know. it's not really together it's just a facade of you know everybody is the make up is there but behind the make up is kind of like kind of like chaotic if it's not a democracy here in the united states what is it that's a good question it's a good question. when people can speak up when they can have a peaceful protests. about injustices that's in the community is for something as small as from police brutality to what's going on and with the oil spill. and be active when you have the people dissatisfied what was going on with the policies then you have to wake up in the morning president o

pakistan is virtually the whole population regard their interests as very different indeed from the americans but in the wider context of what i suppose we're still doomed to call the war on terror america simply cannot get on without pakistan this is a matter of scale in pakistan is six times the size of afghanistan or iraq it has one of the biggest and most effective armies in the world it has nuclear weapons it has a huge d asper in britain and therefore in europe. and when it comes to controlling terrorism against the west i stress against the west in the west not in afghanistan pakistan has in fact been an indispensable and very useful ally in tackling al qaeda so america simply can't do without them even though when it comes to afghanistan and the afghan taliban pakistan continues to follow what is in effect a very different agenda dan i'd like to go to you in dubai that's a very good point a different agenda i mean of course the united states and pakistan have mutual interests on a number of things but not on everything i mean a lot of people within the even the political establishment

it's time for us, the american people, to restore the american dream. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you very much. mr. speaker, i rise to express my strong support on social security. this year we celebrate 75 years of this critical program and must reaffirm our commitment not only to protect it but to ensure its continuing viability. american senior citizens have lived through wars -- they pioneer technologies in communication, transportation and industry. and these remarkable achievements demonstrate the strength and character of our older americans, underscoring the debt of gratitude that we owe to generationes that have given so much, a generation that includes my own parents who are celebrating birthdays this week and next. unfortunately, the recent recession has reminded us that economic prosperity is never a guara

and it was the health center and nailtive american aids project together -- native american aids project together that really helped me to be where i'm at today and without these two organizations, without these two women, i wouldn't be where i'm at today. so it really is with deep respect, i thank these two ladies. so thank you. and now mark would like to say a few words about kathy. >> thank you. about three years ago kathy was hired at the native american health center. i didn't know her at the time or at least i didn't think i did. we started talking about the old days and how things were and it turned out she knew my mother and we talked more and it turns out she remembered me as a kid. during the longest walk. and i thought, wow, that goes back 1978. i'm 45 now. that story that you're under 40e isn't going to work anymore. no, honestly i think, you know, what we do at the health center as well as nap is provide services that are needed for our community and the city as a whole. with the recent budget cuts and cuts to the h.i.v. programs and dental and medical, it's apparent that we

we raised a flag the american flag on the surface of the moon congrats. i really believe that the soviet union drove the us to the moon and are in our day and we did that in the sixty's and i think it was because there was serious competition between the two countries and. didn't get to see strong take the first step on the surface he died in one thousand nine hundred sixty six during summer. his anonymity died with him and his identity was finally. triggering a wave of the. streets when the. monuments and plaques run failed in his own even. after reading. that he never realized the work could be done by just one person. my father like to say that people can travel into space issued by train he was absolutely sure that outer space was not empty and people must live and work there he said. seeing americans and russians in space together. in one hundred seventy five the so he. put an end to the space race. less than five meters. i like. most of all like the trickle of chocolates a location. was part of the apollo project and visits this museum he remembers

i got to work alongside afghan soldiers, very few americans pretty much myself and one other american would be out on missions. and i saw how the afghans approached these prickly moments when there's uncertainty, when it's a shoot-don't shoot moment. for the most part, they laid back and i think we could today we call it coin doctrine, they were more passive. they were more conservative in the use of force. and they reaped a lot of benefits from that, because unfortunately more times than not when we reacted that split second we make the wrong decision, we may shoot the wrong vehicle, we may shoot the wrong person. so i think we should never equate killing bad guys with winning in afghanistan. i think for me personally i think the coin philosophy is cause to cause us some short-term frustration. but it's going to get us a lot of long-term benefits in civilians not injured, in villages seeing that we the coalition forces use restraint and the enemy did not. the taliban did not. that is how you win in afghanistan. and in your runup to the story when you had some of the guys out on the f

heritage month, every month can be african american heritage month. every month can be seen the demise of. every month could be irish american, every month could be women's history month. don't you agree with me? [applause] this is a place where we all call home. we recognize there are a lot of issues in our communities these days, but this is a place we all call home, so the message that the apa heritage celebration committee would like you to take with you after this celebration is that we believe heritage and culture is something that we are proud of and something that we can all share. there is common ground in many traditions and common values among communities of all colors that we can all appreciate. we, the committee, are committed to take every opportunity to invite all communities to come together in occasions like this, to connect, to open doors ..., to get to know each other more. we need to do that in this city, and i know that today is not the first day, but every day can be the first day of forever. i want to thank you for coming as we

. -- participation of all americans. it's better for them and better for our country. now we can go forward as clearly saying that we respect people for what they can do not judge them or limit them for what they cannot. and that we can more fully honor the pledge of allegiance that mr. kennedy led us in earlier, one nation, under god, with liberty, and this is about liberation, with liberty and justice for all. congratulations, mr. langevin. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the chair thanks the house, the gentlelady from california. the chair will entertain further one-minute requests. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the minority leader without objection. mr. boehner: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to join with the speaker and majority leader in recognizing the 20th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act. first i want to applaud you, mr. speaker, for making history today as the first american wi

bush was particularly lawless i don't think there's ever been a time in american history when we had the highest officials in government so flagrantly break the law and show no respect at all for the rule of law they just created laws just out of whole cloth they created laws in secret behind closed doors that were in them a cold to american democracy and and shameful to our international image some of those laws for instance redefined torture so that it made it ok for the c.i. a to brutalize prisoners and detainees. supposedly even doing it legally for instance allowing waterboarding to be done legally one in fact it is a violation of international law and u.s. law but it didn't matter provided that they did these laws in secret do you realistically with all due respect i think you're going to be successful. i take the long view i think that to do nothing is a travesty because of the damage that's been done to our country and to our reputation around the world we the people we the american people. have to come forward and say enough is enough we've had enough of the impunity in the

yeah it'll probably be the american playground like it was with but these stuff but they still had free education they still had free health care when it wasn't under a communist regime so i don't think that's going to change i just do believe that they're going to see mcdonald's on every corner i think they're going to see starbucks on every corner i think they're going to see kellogg's in their grocery stores and i don't think things could actually get worse so if there's a regime change and there is an influx of money i think the people will benefit i think you'll have more tourism from the united states and things cannot get worse in that country you know go back to the way it was with by these that which wasn't fantastic but slowly and surely maybe things will get better and. i believe that it will help and also i was disagreeing with frank before i think you have to understand that gusto is loved around the world because the united states is often seen so much as a big bully examinations little tiny desirable island with eleven million people with this guy who is willing to stand

but to most american media she's yet another twenty something russian agent. in light of this season's spy hike every russian woman in the u.s. seems to use mystery. young maybe a schoolteacher maybe a reporter doesn't matter what you do but the allure of a russian spies there and the women are the most intriguing. movie critics say the rest of ten russian agents in the u.s. this summer was the best and campaign possible for the latest movie with angelina jolie a russian spy story song might have come across as a little outdated but after the rest it appears fresh and new the most challenging was speaking russian very hard language hard beautiful beautiful scotti if they're feeling could make a great gift to this movie and it's not the only one in the summit like night and day it with tom cruise it's a favorite books in hollywood but i think in the future they're going to be more comedy and some spice rather than serious drama. real life spying is no joke but when a young attractive woman enters the picture things change. i was. most readers were intrigued and

up first, the most powerful woman in american politics. in an exclusive one-on-one interview house speaker nancy pelosi called the flood of major legislation that has passed congress and been signed by the president tantamount to the new deal. we interviewed her for a half hour special profile story that will air on this program the weekend before the november elections. >> i spoke with speaker pelosi just after she returned from the signing ceremony in which president barack obama signed into law the most comprehensive financial regulatory overhaul since the great depression. pelosi is to you being called the most powerful woman in american politics, and the most powerful speaker in recent times. since she became speaker in 2006, she has shepherded through the u.s. house passage of the first increase in the minimum wage in a decade. the $787 billion economic stimulus package to battle the recession and a massive overhaul of the health-care system. >> well, it's a... the enthusiasm and the boldness of the new deal but with less government.

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors. the average american could step in their shoes even for a day. to hire a. white person to. i haven't seen any american here working here in the fields said he'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries he feels in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodying american citizens to take the jobs of these farm workers wouldn't be surprised if after a day or two th

fifteen million americans are out of work and yet extending unemployment benefits turned out to be a very long and drawn out battle on capitol hill makes you think that those in washington are living in a completely different world than the rest of america. correspondent christine for has this story. the united states of america it's made up of fifty states and this isn't one of them but it is a place that decides the fate of those other fifty states and a place with a thriving economy where area restaurants are kept busy and people shop at luxury grocery stores. many call d.c. a one industry town with politics dominating the pulse of the economy where the dollars are trickling down to nearby communities like delicate city and columbia maryland recently ranked the number two area to live in the country by money magazine we are close to washington d.c. you know who lives there and we're very close to ford mead including the national security agency enhanced by brac that's coming in here with three major organizations and soon to follow the cyber command which will dwarf and probably s

and mexican americans? why is one often more conservative? >> it is very simple. the cuban americans have been very successful in presenting the point of view in washington. they know how washington works, and they have been able to protect people coming from cuba, so if you are a cuban, and you get into the united states, and you are able to touch u.s. territory, you can stay here legally, but if you are a mexican during the same thing, you are going to be detained and deported. >> what the think about that? >> it would be great if mexicans could have the same rights. it is a difficult situation because cubans are escaping from a dictatorship, and most mexicans and central americans are coming for economic reasons. i think the united states has the right to protect its borders, but we have to change the immigration system. it is not working. it is not right that some have certain rights of others are different. i understand why cubans are doing it. i am in favor of protecting both. >> you lived among a lot

he was an enslaved african american. he worked for the owner of a foundry and was selected to test the bronze statue. he figured out how to disassemble the plaster model by attaching an iron "to the statue's head and gently, ever so gently lifting the top section until a hairline crack appeared. the crack indicated where the joints were located and he then repeated the operation until the five different sections of the statue were discovered. we know about philip reed because the son of a foundry under shared this story back in 1869. it describes philip reed as an expert an admirable work and and highly esteemed by all who knew him. we stand here today not only because of philip reed but for other enslaved african americans like them who worked tirelessly and sacrificed in the face of strife. these plaques in their own right will serve as a symbol of their sacrifice and will be seen by visitors will enter the building for evermore. in closing, i would like to personally thank the members of the slave labor task force, ch

they depict native, latino, asian american, and african- american heritage and culture. >> that artist was talking about the history coming alive. that is what we want for the students here. i also think they might share that with past alumni and the community, so they could no the treasure that we have here in the schools. many people have the same experience i did when i first walked into this building three years ago, being the new principal. the grandeur of these murals is fantastic. many of the students who have come here have come here and are very proud of these murals. they're so happy that they're still here and are being preserved. >> to learn more about the civic art collection, visit >> welcome to "culture wire." on this episode, we visit with one of the arts commissions very special teams. >> the asia-pacific island cultural center receives help from the census but our commission. john mean today to talk about in off festival is the executive director. welcome. i understand this is the 13th annual festival. can you tell me the name? >> the name is a celebratory name. we al

the americans i hear from in letters and town hall meetings, americans like lesley ann and jim and denise are not looking for a handout. they desperately want to work. right now, they can't find a job. these are honest, decent, hard- working folks who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own and who have nowhere else to turn on less -- except unemployment benefits. tomorrow, we will have another chance to offer them that relief, to do right by not just the gym and lesley and denise but all the americans who need a helping hand right now. i hope we seize the opportunity. it is time to stop all the workers laid off in this recession hostage to washington politics. it is time to do what is right, not for the election, but for the middle class. we have to stop what the emergency relief for americans out of work. we have to extend unemployment insurance. we need to pass the tax cuts for small businesses and extend landing for small businesses. times are hard right now. we are moving in the right direction. i know it is getting close to election but there is a time when you put e