[applause] >> i want to think on this pride weekend and assemblyman who is here who spent many years of visiting a friend of his who was a resident at laguna honda. before i bring up the next speaker, i will tell you this story are probably should not, but i am going to tell you anyway because it's so exemplifies the next speaker. i am going to ask that you imagine the scene. it is 1998. i am in the office with mayor willie brown, who i still could not find enough mr. mayors to say his name. louise comes in to discuss the future of laguna honda hospital. she had just won this huge settlement with the tobacco company. she was the first of any local city attorney to join in that lawsuit. at the time, a lot of people were arguing tobacco companies would overwhelm us. there will be all of these freedom of information act. you should not do it. she stood bravely and did it. she said to the mayor, and i will never forget -- she said "we have this opportunity. we can either use this money to rebuild laguna honda or we can pass it away -- piss it away." that was the exact quote. [applause] b

[applause] and a man who went to bed on saturday night, a cop with a badge and who woke up on sunday morning a new d.a., george gason. [applause] city attorney twice elected in san francisco, and usually without opposition, dennis herrera. [applause] a member of the board of education and from your administration, mr. newsom, hydra mendoza. [applause] the assessor for the city and county of san francisco, phil teng. the treasurer of the city and county of san francisco, jose cisneros. [applause] the public defender and the man that first whispered to george, you should be the d.a., jeff hadachi. one of the judges with whom we have worked for years, lilian singh. [applause] and of course the woman who was your lifeline from here to hong kong when you were trying to escape this awesome responsibility, rose pack. [applause] fire chief of the city and county of san francisco, joanne hayes white. and a man whose work as an architect in three or four administrations, a man that i got from the board of supervisors years ago, he became deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff under mayo

like mock and laugh at people who talk about the goaltenders anything to protect you. oh my me have you just been reincarnated as a flea or something that should not be allowed to be reincarnated that's just luck my first coma is i let's get the chinese going to the fundamentals dr green corner because you've been going no good so as we see the libyan central government building was on fire on monday and this follows the rambling crazy speech by saif gadhafi the son of moammar gadhafi a year that i was watching it on the web the guy is i don't know that methamphetamine labs in libya in tripoli and now going back to this manufacturing consensus and propaganda here's a headline just from a few months ago could offer you saw and to get invitation so this is davos in january just a few weeks ago where he was invited in and the world economic forum was making a big point as we're going to invite this guy and there were rumors that he wouldn't be invited so in his speech of course he blamed drug addicts the unemployed union members and illegal immigrants for the chaos in his

if we look at the genuine interest, from the perspective of someone who has a disability, not just who is in crisis -- right now, we are talking about people who are in crisis and how they respond to them. " we're not talking about is what happens 24 hours later. you were asking other people here about repeat offenders, people picked up by the police over and over in some state of psychiatric crisis. why is it that this question is not ask -- what happens to those people after the crisis is finished? they do not get regular treatment. this is not a personal attack on anyone within the health department, but the health department, if they further investigated, if the official further investigated, what happens in each of those outpatient clinics? how do you get treatment there? what is the weight? the latest three months to see a psychiatrist -- the weight is three months -- the wait is three months. they will not get a hospital bed or a place to stay for the night or medicine. it does not happen. it is wonderful that there is cooperation. i look at this hearing as one of infinite possi

in the koran it's a lot of us who tell about how christians have to be mistreated cute. hot water in the stomach and so on put in teens we can't have a religion who have a book through how to kill their neighbor us. they have to take away these kind of things from the qur'an pull out these things and then we can start to talk about integration but so long time the hell is how i mean you hear way through a coup for us to look to for us then they have to understand we can't have them here. ok mohammed do you want if they want to integrate they want to to accept our democracy is ok the no problem but what is another you all do have is a very small country we have a sign our democracy we are five yellow is knowing or do we have fifty million people yes so this five million people really are in denmark and we have tried for certain years to integrate the muslims we have just seen we nearly have a civil war in denmark. the police but i think you have to enjoy that if your eyes are on fire no no no no no protect the firemen or the m.p.'s before the drive into the ghettos priest

now let me ask you, who are these people who work eating all this sugar? 90 pounds of sugar, 40 cups of tea, what is going on? why are people eating so much sugar in their day? >> because it is sweet. >> was always had this week. why suddenly so much consumption of the sugar coating on? >> because sugar is in everything now. >> why were people craving -- that's now. >> at prices gunned down so much. >> the prices come down. who are the people eating the sugar? >> who is consuming? those barrels a going off across seed. where are they going? >> what is happening is just at the moment that the sugar prices going down, there is a huge change taking place first in england and how people work. people used to work on farms. they would work in a little shop. starting around 1800 comely people in england are working in fact aires. if you work in a fat tree, you are working 10 hours, 14 hours. any disfigure factory and go to the firemen pick an apple? if you are working, how are you going to give enough energy to get to your day when you are working in a factory? >

who is in control? of these rights? to, you know, just the financial hassles, many of the agents, secretaries and other representatives of various writers insisted that they should look at my head notes to the selection of the writer. they wanted to critique it. they wanted to make sure that it was all okay. several of them wanted to know and they wanted xeroxed copies of the writer who would come before them and the writer who would come after them in the book. [laughter] >> the book is actually arranged bit writer's date of birth so i didn't have a lot of flexibility on that. there were writers and their agents who demanded revisions of my head note, who objected to critical statements that i made about them. in one case they complained that i had not given sufficient space and detail to the author's political causes and sent a long list of things they would like included. finally, i had to drop 20 of my original 100 writers because they were too expensive or too demanding or too controlling in their requests. and i t

know what war is and those who don't. i'd like to continue working with war veterans, returning soldiers and their families, who are actually proper veterans as well. krzysztof wodiczko, thank you so much for your work, and please keep us informed. we want to know. >> i will definitely do so. thank you for inviting me. continue the conversation at wgbh.org/oneonone. >> brave new world, the 20th century novelist albert huxley envisioned a future where everyone was kept happy and tranquil with a drug called soma. mr. huxley's brave new world is here, from ritalin to paxil to zoloft, people are taking mind-altering drugs in record volumes. not since the '60's have americans popped so many pills. have psycho pharmaceuticals turned us into a zombie nation? or should we just go with the flow and embrace the brave new world of mood control? we'll ask new york magazine journalist ariel levy and washington psychiatrist dr. brian doyle. >> >> if. for such a small if i live to a hundred. if social security isn't enough. if my heart

whether it is one of you who voted for this, or one of our wonderful residents who has been a volunteer here. all of you had a role in creating that facility we are so proud of. with that, i would like to bring out the mayo -- the mayor of san francisco. give him a round of applause, because he deserves it. [applause] for the last seven years, he has been a steward of this city, helping us to overcome many of the challenges that we have faced, as you will hear throughout the program. part of what makes today so sweet is it was not easy to get here. it was really hard. there were a lot of bumps on the road to this fantastic moment, many things we could not have anticipated, many things we did not know. throughout it, the mayor has always supported it, help us to solve the problems we face. i think the biggest part of the to be to him is the fact that this is the first leed building -- the environmental certification -- the first leed hospital in california to be built. i think that really speaks to his commitment to environmental issues at a time, 12 years ago, when it was not so popular

who would benefit most? >> well, i would say there's three tier. there's professional, there's students that are either high school students, for example, martin is bringing students from fresno who were identified as not only honor roll students but grew up in the farming community in fresno and martin helped place over 125 latinos into ivy league schools. yes. and he's bringing about ten high school students. undergraduate students, whether they are transferring from a junior college to a four-year institution or graduate students as well as middle management and senior management, have already registered for this summit. >> that is awesome. it's happening up here in may, at stanford university. there is the web address. final thoughts from you about this great event, frank? >> yeah. i think one of the things that in mentioning closing the achievement gap and really building tonight latino pipeline, is this year it's going to be the first year we honor a visionary leadership award that's going to victor adias. victor is a board of trustees emerit

there will not be a consensus in the audience about who's good and who's bad and who's right and wrong. those arguments will happen in the parking lot. >> get up! you can't sit there. >> why not? it's a chair. >> that's not a chair, that is... that... that is st. edward's chair. >> people have carved their names on it. >> that chair is the seat on which every king... >> i don't care. >> listen to me! >> by what right? >> my divine right if you must, i'm your king! >> no, you're not. you told me so yourself, you said you didn't want it. why shouldn't i sit here? why shouldn't i listen to you? >> because i have a voice! >> my australian mother invited my australian friends to go to this fringe theater to make up part of the token australian audience of this fringe play reading called "the king's speech." and my mother meredith almost didn't go. she's never been to a play reading in her life but she went to be a good australian to sea what this play is. she called me up and said "i found it excellent." >> and you knew this was your king sglorj >> i knew it. all my research, i thought this

she is someone who will tell you that she is a person who loves and loves big and is someone who always speaks remind and always tells you the truth. not only did she work at the san francisco unified school district, she was supposed to go into retirement but could not do it. she is working with an organization that really helps all of our youth. i have the privilege of saying thank you to -- for all of your work. we look forward to what you will be doing even in your retirement. we don't want you to ever stop. thank you for everything you have done. >> thank you. >> well, supervisors. thank you. i know that the afternoon is getting longer. if this is my 15 minutes i would like to take just a few for myself. i grew up in a family of six kids. mom and dad refuse to to let us work. they required us to do community service starting in the ninth grade and finishing when we graduated from high school. my father said that there is no greater honor than to do service, to be in service to a dream that advances humanity. so, i grew up in a time of the dreamers and big dreams. the kennedy presid

a family member who was murdered. she found a connection with her students through knitting and taught them to be in patterns and math. gave his students the self- esteem and hope to be someone with a goal in life. the best part of all the -- the best part where all the hugs and smiles from students when they would come to school with a sense of peace and hope in a world that could be a better place for them to live. our february teacher of the month, karen. congratulations. >> thank you, everyone. like the other teachers have said, it is different talking to a group of adults. i'm mystified girls. anyhow, i want to tell you i'm very thrilled and honored to get this award. i could not do it without all the wonderful people i work with. our principal and all the teachers and our staff -- we have such great families at our school, and children that are amazing. thanks for coming. i have to tell you, a q story. this is my 30th year teaching, so i am really excited. about getting this award and about 30 years ago, i had a

and women who were my closest friendses. the elderly residents they could find hathey could find and a lot uponed to remain in china town or manila town. the housing was really very dangerous for many of them because it wasn't home. wasn't like their family or friends protecting them. i think for a lot of them died of a broken heart. if you look at the hotel it was not just a housing struggle it was a fight to open up other things bike a book store and a workshop. the asian american art form. at the same time this was not something that pertained to san francisco it spread. it became a symbol for asian americans all over the country. it was on television with the whole country to see much the struggle to save the hotel was over. both sides continued to maneuver trying to win the real victory hawould have on 848 kerny the impact lasted for 15 years. >> our mission was to get the building up. the e vision was 77 the building went down in 79. after 79 it was a hole in the ground. all the years when it was a hole in the ground n

who was he listening to? >> that's another problem. i don't know who he was listening to. maybe his son. maybe some of these businessmen who are always around him. and he has grown old also. he was not... how can i say? the end he wasn't listening too much. >> rose: it's said... there's a rumor in the city today that he's very sick. is he sick or is he simply a broken man? >> i think he's a broken man. i think i did my best to avoid that. >> rose: what happens to him now >> rose: what happens to a broken man? people didn't give him the tool, when you're like that you only hear what you want to hear. people are scared... when you scare people they don't tell you the truth. it's known. i remember one phone conversation with him where he called me and shouted at me... it was younger, eight, nine years ago and he shouted a certain minister, accused him of a lot of things and there was only a split second for know answer, okay? so there was two answers, the usual answer that everybody would have given him. okay, sir, yes, sir. if i would have said that i would have condemned an

personals. >> woodruff: people who are respected in egyptian society. >> people who write, people who are respected, yes. but i agree with michele, i'm not sure whether this will be acceptable to the demonstrators in the streets. many of them are still insisting on mubarak leaving. i mean there is a huge symbolism in seeing the far owe as they-- pharoah as they refer to him getting outing of the stage and reluctantly, with suliman who is a part of the same regime, a man who is not necessarily, the nicest history. so it is going to involve a great deal of debate, a great deal of involvement. as long as we don't have violence, i think there is some wriggle room. i don't think it's goinging to last for weeks. we are look for days before you see really the evolution of the shape of that kind of transition we're talking about. >> woodruff: marc lynch s it your sense that the power center is already shifted. you heard the president all but same the words lame duck today that mubarak, president mubarak has said i'm leaving. and he should be worrying about his legacy. so has the power shifted

people who think that the court is not political but is a group of people who just sit and deliberate and come down on the side of a question regardless of their own views think i'm taking an unfair shot. so a lot of it depends on how it's read. tavis: speaking of your comment about the supreme court being political in the minds of some, there are three great quotes, one from bob dylan, one from oliver wendall holmes and one from powell. the quote reads, "many lawyers claim that the constitutional law is not law but politics. perhaps all law is more politics than some may be willing to confess. do you agree with that? >> yes, yes. i knew i had to put that quote in the front of the book because when you had in the period i'm talking about, we had three constitutional amendments at the end of the civil war. one abolished slavery, one guaranteed the right to vote and another guaranteed equal justice under law. for a period of 30 years, the court came down with decision after decision which narrowed -- they didn't say you can't say an amendment is unconstitutional, it's in the constitutio

who are more invested in change. it is a way of connecting with people and getting stories out. >> i am not sure the most effective way to communicate the message, but part of the message that jonathan is talking about, most of the victims and people accused of crime coming from the same place -- part of the message that needs to get up there, talking about justice and all that, it is meaningful to folks like us, but it does not play all that well with people who are afraid of crime, people who are out of work. part of the message has to become it seems to me, going back to the sources of crime, not from an economic point of view, if you want to save money, you should do things that effectively will fight crime, as opposed to making you feel tougher and stronger. also, if you can get part of the message out that it is a tragedy when anyone is wrongfully convicted, for that person, for their family and friends, but the other part is, if there are wrongfully convicted, there is somebody out there who is actually the cr

so who came first? >> the board of trade came first. >> let me ask that, who in your family came first? >> my grandfather was the first member of the henner family to trade, and he went to the merc in the early 40's i believe that when they were still trading onions, but i think he primarily treated in the eggs market leave >> and what was coming to your knowledge what was the merc like? >> it was much, much smaller. actually i went to work for the first time at the old merc in 1969 when i was only 16-years-old and a summer job working there and at that time i think there were a total of 500 members, most of them were there on any given day, so it was probably three, maybe for, 400 or so actual light traders on the floor. it was much, much smaller. i remember there were only three products we were trading. they were hogs, cattle, and the most important which was frozen pork bellies. >> tell me about the pork bellies. how did people trade, talk about that, and then you had your uncle that was in the port

they are the ones who... you know, who basically ended themselves. they kept oppressing and oppressing and oppressing and oppressing. right after i came out of jail, i wrote a status message that we are going to win because we don't understand politics, because we don't understand their nasty games. we're going to win because our tears comes from our hearts. we're going to win because we have a dream. we're going to win because we're convinced that if anyone stands up in front of our dream, we're ready to die defending it. >> smith: two and a half weeks ago, when this started, did you anticipate this outcome? >> ghonim: when i went on the streets on... on tuesday, on the 25th, i was like, "whoa, it's going to happen," because the only barrier to people uprising and revolution is the psychological barrier of fear. all these regimes rely on fear. they want everyone to be scared. if you manage to break the psychological barrier, you're going to definitely be able to do the revolution. ( chanting ) >> smith: that wall of fear fell in the last few weeks,

they think it's about people who have no principles, who have no real understanding of government, who are ready to do anything to get along gilbert sullivan ridiculed it. a little rest of society offenders who might well be underground and never would be missed like so-and-so who are of the compromising kind. compromise is not about surrendering your principles or your objectives. it is about understanding how government works. in that if you offend somebody, they are going to come back. you've got to go to them and say, for the good of the american people, we need to do this, this and this. look at what's happening in congress today with the reform of wall street, financial reform. they may be getting together. that's the way you have lasting achievement. otherwise, you will have conflict sooner or later. and with what happened in the 1850s, came out of this situation with the mexican war and the southerners felt they had a right to bring their slaves, their property. and property is defended, supported in the constitution. and the northerners said, we don't want it there. and it was

people who speak from here. not through the latest polling but from here. >> michael reagan, thank you for a wonderful new book on the 100th anniversary of your father's birth "the reagan revolution." >> thank you. >> that was "after words" in which tores are interviewed by journalists, public policymakers, legislators and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10:00 pm on saturday, 12:00 and 9:00 pm on sunday and 12:00 am on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" on the bic tv and topics lists on the top right hand page. >> next eric alterman, columnist for the nation and english and journalism professor at brooklyn college and cuny graduate school. he claims president obama has been unable to deliver on his campaign pledges. mr. alterman points to the american political system as the main obstacle in preventing passage of a more progressive agenda. eric alterman discusses his book at busboys and poets in washingto

has introduced basically started russian democracy who has carried on with perestroika who has a city didn't name he very much needed economic reforms and of course his legacy remains very strong in that regard good a lot of people still believe that he did not take the right path he allowed too much influence from the united states into the country that he was not quite sufficient in fulfilling and carrying out the economic reforms bringing forcing a lot of people out of work and heightening the suicide rate. of course it's still at the end of four years after his death the going majority of people are beginning to take a more benevolent view of russia's first president and the number of his critics actually dwindles as your spots he never doubted he would live to celebrate his country of birth day but instead his widow has to fight back tears while opening an exhibition time to what have been his eightieth jubilee in nearly four years since boris yeltsin's death the agony of loss has given way to quiet remember and when he really liked family gatherings birthdays we usually celebrat

i have a friend of mine who's a little bit older than me who said that back in the day, you know, he was doing his bess a-- business and sometimes that sort of broke the moment a little bit turning a record over. but i like it and i like the idea. i love it. tavis: have you heard amos lee remixed to your point and actually liked it? >> no, i want to. i would love for people to remix some songs of mine. i've been waiting for that. i'm sure i'd like it. i don't do it as much anymore, i used to go on youtube and watch people cover the songs because it's like, sometimes for me it's like, when you sit around too much and you are too dwelling on what you're doing, it's refreshing to go on and listen to other people take on your songs and sing them. it revives the joy in them for me. tavis: what's funny about your point of going on youtube, you go on youtube right now, this thing is just dropping and there are already folks on youtube covering your stuff already. how's that possible? the record is just dropping. >> it's a different age. they probably have my record before i had it. tavis: y

who would he be? >> we needed to protect -- perfect the process so that once the board asked us for that process, we could actually have something in place that was well tested that we could provide to them. >> mayor newsom would be sworn in as lieutenant governor in early january. so the board of supervisors had barely two months after the november election to select an interim mayor to complete gavin newsom's term. but how would the board do this? san francisco's charter guided -- offered little guidance. >> although it was obvious we would appoint an interim mayor, there was no time line for the two to occur. we looked to outside counsel for answers. they researched those questions. while they researched the legal angle, we began the research on the parliamentary level. at the beginning of the calendar year 2010, we started to craft a generic process for a successor for mayor. being a parliamentarian of the board, i have been working on the process itself. i have been working with two one and parli

come into the world so to my mind it is a little more complicated to say who is a feminist or who is not work even what is a feminist two men? sometimes i feel uneasy saying i am a feminist when i talk to a group of working-class guys who want to know what am i trying to offer them? i have tried to be a good husband or a good father and yet they are falling behind. we're in a situation where drug being tactics and strategies and alliances are more difficult when it was just against a series of boggs we could all come together. and now the difference is about class and race and politics and religion are coming forward. >> we need to end it here. thank you stephanie coontz and everybody for coming and rebecca for the introduction in. we have "a strange stirring" and "the feminine mystique" for sale. maybe you will sign both? [laughter] i don't know. >> host: i could not sign her book. that is way too much. [laughter] >> thank you very much. have a good evening. >> mr. gingrich can you tell us about your latest release standard text writing project? >> guest: sa if botha book on ronald

there is a woman who has five kids. she is a nurse. one beautiful spring day she is sitting on the stoop, and she is reading of friends hair, and the police say, do believe -- she is braiding of friends hair, and the police say, and you realize there is a no loitering sign, and she offered to get off, and they arrest her. they bring her before the judge, and they give her a $25,000 bail. she is never given an attorney, and she sits in jail for eight days. she has a relative take care of her five kids. eventually, she comes before the judge. the judge says, we will give you a couple hundred dollars as a fine, if you plead guilty, and we will call it a day. she says ok. she pleads guilty, and she thinks to herself, i will never pay the fine, and she gets the guy who also pleaded guilty, and they have a big party. they thing, this is all over with, and a couple minutes -- a couple years later she applies for public housing, and she is rejected because she has a criminal record. she had been loitering that day, and she is not eligible for

sigh -- netherlands that people who cycle to work have more than people who don't. also the environment there are a lot of things you can capitalize because you don't have to invest on electric cars or transit or whatever to reduce the carbon dioxide, because the emissions of bicycle is zero. there is a huge problem in the u.s. by traffic noise. a lot of people are not aware of it but the effects for people being constantly having traffic noise are enormously. also, in the netherlands productivity loss because the effect that, for instance, in amsterdam, so many people cycle means that there will be a lot less congestion. when you have ever visited amsterdam, see all of these people cycle and who think what would happen if all of these trips would have to be made by car, then there would be no more amsterdam economy because no one would be able to move about. there would be one giant traffic jam all day. so the bike is the grease in the amsterdam economy. you have to build less highways, you have to build less parking garage. you put the bike -- use very little spac

anybody who needed treatment got treatment. they had words for people who are poor. i've never seen a doctor or nurse turned away some of the that is sick and needed care, whether they could pay or not. guest: thank you, and i know -- erieerie program program well. i went to their awards at a ceremony and i sat next to tom ridge, a republican. the program is wonderful it is all the people who come in and they get a modest -- older people come in and they get a modest stipend to spend time with at-risk kids. the start in the head start program and they are there with a senior citizen who reads to them, who cares about them, who nurtures them and is there day after day, week after week, up to two years working with the kids. that is what is building the fabric of the society. that is what these programs are. thanks, barbara. host: edward, a democrat in houston, texas. caller: i agree with everything you are saying. my issue is, even though i may be a democrat, i feel that both parties need to be concerned at who was making the statements. all the rhetoric, this talk, p

with us today, trevor hunnicut, who started the program off, who say member of the board of drorves the society. lamont bishop is a stalwart member -- where are you? in the back. he's a represent of senator mark leno's office. b.j. jones from public utilities commission is here. stewart. from the public library. and pete fitzsimmons and tannish col -- hollins and camille dawkins. camille is over here. without camille and tannish rkt , none of this happens. so let's give them a round of applause for their wonderful effort. the society's primary mission is to enlighten, to inform, to inspire and to empower. we achieve that mission in a variety of ways. almost always in partnership with others. through our current partnership that trevor spoke to with the finance -- kinsey foundation shall the san francisco public library, and the california council of the humanities, we are now hosting an incredible exhibition of art and artifacts from the kinsey collection, the kron -- that chronicles the story of people of frick desnent america. if you haven't done so you owe it to yourself and particul

i think what happened with gaddafi's presence before, who is a werner and who is eastern and who is a southerner? my family lived in baghrad for 60 years. my wife lives in tripoli. ali is from the south. who is from where? we don't have a nation now. we have divisions that can be played up but we do have a national spirit. and the younger people have a since of that, more than me or my others i think there are half a million libyan who did not give a huge car or hoot about who their tribe is and will not be played up this way. so i think we have a nation of now thinking along those lines, libyans are living a great moment. they are living a sense of capturing and recapturing their honor and there's nothing not world that would make them want to lose that. i think that the sacrifices may be coming and i would not wish it on my citizens to pay more. it is really any death that happens or more is more than libya can bear. but the moment of truth has come and, yes, there may be blood gushing forth again, but we, the people of libya, i'm certain, shall rejoice soon. >> ali, last words? >>

it is my honor today to honor two amazing people who have been doing tremendous work in the community. i know that what is amazing about these kinds of presentations is that you get to see the tremendous talent that the city and county of san francisco has. not only in one district but throughout the 11 districts, and it is my honor to recognize the work of two individuals -- steve williams and felicia -- and alicia garza, and i know that steve could not be here -- [applause] let me say a little bit about both of them. they truly are in great company. alicia is someone who has been co-director of the people organized to implement women's rights power which is an organization that builds to people by bringing the boys, strategy, and vision of low- income communities of color to the forefront. she is someone who in her role in the movement for racial and economic justice has truly made a difference. she has always provided dependable, incisive, appropriate, and helpful contributions to whatever she decides to work on, and this certificate of honor, we recognize her for making progressiv

best of who we are and who we aspire to be. in the 1970's, john adams and a handful of unpaid attorneys and law students valued some old desks and said up an environmental law firm in new york city. for 36 years, john sat at the same desk. but the group he co-founded, the natural resources defense council, grew well beyond it. our first obligation is to the environment, john once said. if people want to support the environment, we will support their efforts. if not, we will play hardball. with more than 1 million members, they have won landmark cases and help gain landmark laws to protect our water and air and in varmint and keep our climate sit. if the planet has a lawyer, is john adams. as the girl, marguerite and johnson endured trauma and abuse that led her to stop speaking. but as a performer and, ultimately, as a writer, a poet, maya angelou found her voice. it is a voice that has spoken to millions, including my mother, which is why my sister is named maya. by holding on even amid cruelty and loss and then expanding to a

for young people who may not have access to the youth services they need. or to our grandparents who may not have access to the prescription drugs or senior services that they need. we have come a long way but we have a long way to go. i just want to thank you in this year of 2011 are coming together as a community for the work we have done, the work we are doing, and the work we will continue to do. [speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause] i would like to introduce my asian brothers and sisters on the board of supervisors, if you could come up and say a few words. supervisor eric mar, carmen chu, an hour newsstand first korean-american adviser, -- supervisor jane kim. >> one of the most happy experiences growing up as a chinese-american was always getting days lece red envelopes. usually, there is money in here, but i think that might be illegal, coming from mayor lee. it is an honor to serve with the three other asian-pacific islander members of the board of supervisors. i know that our

even the judges in santa clara county who were giving the colloquies, and the judges who would turn to defendants and say, i would like to get this resolved today, which basically means to plead guilty or no contest, they talked grudgingly. >> watch out if you ask someone out for a drink. i know in your study one of the things you found was there was a tremendous amount of pressure that came from the judges. can you talk briefly about that? >> sure. does this still work? >> one of the things we found that was very disturbing in our study was that nearly three out of four offices reported they had been pressured by county commissioners to cut costs. a good example of fat was recently reported -- good example of that is that it was recently appreported sacramento was planning to cut a third of their budget, yet their caseloads are already at twice the number of the national standards permit, so you have got that kind of economic pressure. there is also another type of pressure that comes from the lack of professional independence, the way we structure our public defense, especially our c

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yeltsin's ballots but look back at the life of the first president of problem solving russia a leader who mourn huge changes but whose legacy still divides many in the country today. and on into the expelling of russian diplomats over accusations of force irish passport was being used in spying. dublin is accusing the russian secret service of stealing the real irish identities been ordered to cover up its secret operations in the united states find out more leaders in the pool room. international news live from moscow this is all see with me here thanks for joining us and our top story tonight unrest continues in egypt as a massive rally in cairo demands president hosni mubarak step down mubarak now says he won't stand for reelection polls june september but egyptians may not want to wait that long for an end to that but to his regime so far three hundred people have been reported killed and over three thousand injured since the uprising began over a week ago policy in cairo has been following the latest developments words. throughout the day tuesday the state television was broadcasting

i was growing up with my mother who had a mental illness. it was very hard, it was like walking on eggshells constantly. you did not know what to say at certain times. there was a lot of anger issues, trying to help and not knowing what to do. for whatever reason, which will never know, it has left a complete whole, this is like something i cannot describe the. i will always miss it. we don't really talk about it in. we have never been in groups about it. we do the best we can. when the opportunity became available to come and see us, i felt that the assumption that i had needed to do. i was able to help people. back i made it and i got through the class. this was kind of stressful. working out what you would do in that case. that was a little stressful but this was a good experience and this has helped me to understand what exactly was going on with my mother on a personal level. the other cases, or people can take to help them. this is a healing process. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is our presentation we are very thankful for the kindnes

you know who is against collective -- who was against collective bgain for public employees? franklin roosevelt. it is not like the private sector where you have management pushing back. not a fair fight. in the state, the union's controlling the legislature. it is not bargaining. they got what ever they wanted. one of the arguments against the government is if he had not given away tax breaks he would have had a surplus because scsin is not in as bad shape as illinois and the jersey and california. >> everybody understands that the pension andeahenit are not sustainable. and also they are unfair. all the governor is asking -- with this riots -- not riots, t e motrations are about -- is asking the public employee union to pay half of what the private sector people pay in contributing to health and pensions. half. and what happens? thtehe in madison kansas school for three days to demonstrate and to drag students out to demonstrations. >> it is not actually trha it is half of what most of us pay -- >> half of what the average is in wisconsin. as opped to 12%. >> charles was ri

applause for all those guys who built the pyramid who got us to this summit, please. [applause] >> in that line of succession, please join me in developing and making the family of the stonehams family. peter mcgowan, the in the past steward of the team. [applause] finally, a word of thanks to our partner investors, sponsors, among the investors i must say, we missed two giant investors, carmen and sue burns, who are watching and enjoying, we hope. thanks to our media partners, and thanks to you amazing san francisco giants fans. in northern california, in this city because of all over the world, here is to you giants fans. [applause] >> a final word of thanks to this amazing, diverse, remarkable community where the san francisco giants have the privilege of being a part. thank you, san francisco, for all of what you do. [applause] >> today is a day to celebrate. today is also a day to recommit. off season started yesterday, so we are going to celebrate today. we have already started working for 2011. we have work to do. thank you and onward! [applause] >> thank you,