they are like i don't vote anyway so this doesn't really matter it doesn't really matter i'm still going to be here regardless and it's a little pieces like what kind of training are these police officers having, what is the protocol, what kind of interactions are interaction are even allowed to have as citizens? even if i'm not speeding -- you have the right to be smart and one of the things i was telling my friend as i always walk with my constitution. i am not just this face you see in the media. i know my rights in real life and so i think that another part of our conversation as we have the right to play smart and know what we do. >> on that note, what is an individual obligated to do, what are they obligated to do and how should an individual act and what are some of the things your

clients have done that the right thing and that are the wrong thing? >> i was listening to the previous speaker and after the questions find the ticket and moved on. [applause] the time to get smart is after you leave them. in the state of georgia if you are dressed to driving within 15 miles you can pay the fine and it doesn't count towards your license so the fight i was about to put on its about money for them but i'm not going to fight it. you don't find them on the side

of the road. i want to piggyback on a few things that she said also. our policymakers appointed the chiefs. so they get rid of their elected officials and number two we elect sharers so you have a way to actually influence them. i will talk about one little thing that we did that i thought was great. he was killed in the boot camp in florida and i'm proud of the one thing that happened in the case but there was an e-mail that went public where the prosecutor knew the guy that was headed by the state police and he sent a little e-mail saying we are going to work this out and take care of you while. you can force action in some situations. for the head to resign over the

case was major and i will never forget the day that he called for the resignation and he was gone because what happened in that case. compare that to the local sheriff who didn't give up power he continues to fight. so there is a way to get the solution for all of it. one thing that i will say it is when you have issues with the department never fight on the side of the road. you cannot beat them in the controlled environment. don't even try. yes sir, no sir. i'm not going to sit here and have small talk. but also you never know. i've had times i was speaking during over 90 and talk to the

trooper out of the ticket and i had other times back in georgia again they have a courtesy that the people in law enforcement don't write tickets to them. i didn't know that until i laid my license out and my wallet and they said we like to look out for our law enforcement people and that included me. so you be nice and don't -- nobody likes a smart but so be careful so be careful about that. so often it's like when he was talking about the case how mad he was one time on the side of the road on the new jersey turnpike when he got stopped. all of us are mad when we got stopped for whatever industry you have to keep your cool.

it's important. some of the worst is the black alabama state trooper. we are on the road a lot and some of us travel by car. there's a lot of potential for interactions with comes all shapes and sizes. >> when you think about dream defenders into the work with individuals what are some of the things that you teach and what is your own personal relationship flex >> kristen kristin actually bought a stack of these cards from the aclu and these are awesome. dream defenders participate in what is known as direct action, civil disobedience. and so our folks are often prepared to be arrested. we feel that folks should know their rights so i would encourage them to go to the website and check this out and

figure out. or you can kindly get some after the panel. we try to make sure that they are prepared for anything but also knowing that you're right doesn't always protect you. we know for a fact that michael brown, may he rest in power could have recited the constitution to the officer and he still may not be there with us today. so is empowering but it isn't the end all and be all solution. i will touch briefly on how you respond to some officers. i was pulled over speeding by a state trooper back to law school to the course and the officer asked asked while i was speeding and i said to get to criminal law or something like that and he said we need a lot of people on our side to help us administer justice. knowing full well i never had any intention of being a prosecutor i was like you're

right and i have to look forward to that to serve the state of florida. here you are coming here is my license. i don't understand why i'm being pulled over by complying with you and he lived to fight another day. one day you can maybe fuel justice. we know that isn't often the case but we have to fight with what we have in the best manner that we can. i think they are willing to go that way. i'm sure you've seen them plastered on the other shots across the country. we will lay our lives on the line for others because some of the others are not able in heaven for the privilege to be able to sacrifice in this manner. many sacrificed previously and we are going to do our part continuing to advance the fight.

>> thank you for the sacrifices that you make. >> was driving today talking montgomery and i was in a rental car and the state trooper pulled me over and in my view i had a degree with honors in harvard law school and he said i want you to step back into my vehicle. and i couldn't for the life of me remember if he could ask me to do that with no probable cause. in other words,, people of the over free speeding tickets and he had all the right to ask me to sit in the back of the vehicle i felt was beyond the pale, yet i couldn't remember where i did not know whether i could refuse this request.

to do something i didn't do or if it would be better for me to sit here i'm thinking to myself it is early in the morning. you are supposed to be a smart brother. you're supposed to know something. you've got this degree. what do i play wax i decided to sit in the back of the car. got out of my car, fine. he shuts shut the door and of course i can't open the door. he would have to let me out if i'm getting out of the back of his car and he proceeds to lecture me about why and how he is writing this ticket and what

i can do to fight this ticket and i don't think that he expected me to interact with them the way that i did. and i ultimately invited him to my speech in montgomery which he refused to attend. and then i asked him if he knew about some of the wonderful civil rights leaders that have worked at this very highway and how he is in service of them. he didn't appreciate that much that i said it in a very nice way because i felt like i have had to at least get him back a little bit. so i took my ticket and i went on. but i see that story to say that even if you think that your educated or know something, you can be asked to do things were put in situations individually by individuals of so-called authority, police officers etc. and you may not know what to do or how to do it.

does anyone have any comments about that? >> you get to these individually. i love bringing them into the deposition. it's not racial. one of our associates did an incredible job breaking down the drug in jacksonville one time. he busted out of the room and he thought he had the right to leave and his lawyer had to kindly get him and bring him back in for three hours. >> i want to move to the macro

or the policy area and the perfect person to help us move in that direction as the congressman bobby scott so i would like to invite bobby scott of the podium to bring remarks and after that we will kick into the macro or the policy discussion. congressman bobby scott. [applause] thank you for helping us in a lot of different areas and the prevention and early intervention approach to the client to be true crime rather than waiting for people to mess up and get caught into a bidding war of how much time they are going to serve. i want to thank you for coming to testify. i've known darrell for a long time, national bar association peter and of course high-profile clients. it's a pleasure to be here and

with my own fraternity getting young people on the right track has been a theme for almost a hundred years into the national association of journalists i i want to thank all of you for bringing us together so we can discuss the activities behind knowing your rights. one of the problems that we have because it kind of came to light in ferguson is that the police didn't fall out of the sky. they were hired in a democratic process and if people didn't vote, then you had a disconnect between the police and the law enforcement and the community. people have to exercise their vote and they have that as one of their themes to make sure a vote with people is a hopeless people has been the theme for many years and i think the members here including the president and former president

of the fraternities to the extent that we can focus on making sure that we participate in the democratic process and make sure that the right people are elected that will go a long way in solving these problems so thank you for all that you do using your celebrity her celebrity status to help a number of different ways. thank you very much. [applause] first of all i was in ferguson for two weeks and then i went back for another two weeks and we had a pension and social justice revival. we all have stories to tell that what young people don't understand is why is this happening to them.

these are the thoughts against them that they feel are warranted so in order to organize successfully you have to understand the context of the fight. voting is an essential part of the participatory democracy but one must ask the question in a militarized state what happens since 1990 has been giving weapons to the police department under the auspices aimed at the african-american community we have some serious questions to ask about what was going on and why did we not know that and why are we allowing it to happen and what can we do to change that? when the police departments are armed by the federal government pentagon you are moving away from the totalitarian state to the armed state police.

i'm going to say some things. i think it's very important for us to understand that we are living in a society where colored people are two thirds of the majority, would no longer the majority and what we experience whether it's the prison industrial complex or probation for profit or being killed in the street or cope with capital punishment, those means of social control is a means of maintaining white supremacy in the two thirds colored world. and so, we need to begin to work as we are living in an age of the southern strategy and these are all issues that we should be very aware of. we are dealing with these issues today of power, domination and

control and young people are feeling very powerless. the young people don't understand what they have done to generate this and they are very upset. it's very important. it's more than police training. they are trained to profile. they are trained in those massive weapons of construction for example in california when the school opened, the security guards had ak-47s. we need to come out of the fog and be honest about where we are

today we can organize the policy and how we deal with stand your ground. [applause] >> let's talk about the media and what has been the per trail and what message does that send as well as in the age of camera phones in social media, how can the media be used as a way to combat police brutality and if so what is the most effective way to get information to the media as well? pull the microphone a little closer to you. >> i think that without a doubt, first the thing that needs to be explained in terms of the media

is that we are not all created equal. there are bad reporters and editors just like there are bad doctors and nurses and bad police officers and unfortunately in this country it kind of runs the gamut from the little towns that have poor media operations to the really big media companies that do a better job. unfortunately for us i think the narrative of the community have been highlighted perhaps more than the success of the community. the thing that jumps out at me from reading about all these cases and watching the video

committees her in this situations with the police is that these cops are terrified. they are absolutely terrified of young black boys, men and girls. this is true. but they are terrified of us and i wonder, i am scratching my head trying to figure out when does that start when they see us as the enemy. in the barber shop this morning we were passing cell phones around and everybody was looking at the case in south carolina. have you seen this? he pulls over at the gas station and the cop shoots him simply because he was doing what he was told? it is crazy these sort of things are happening. just mind boggling but to answer

your question about the role of the media in managing life in these united states or in ferguson missouri if cnn wasn't on the ground, "the new york times," "washington post," la times imagine how the case would have gotten swept under the rug just another black boys shot down in the street. if these reporters were not out there with their cell phone or camera or radio microphones or newspapers pads covering the story -- the civil rights movement when you talk about the genesis and the momentum that was the civil rights movement, it didn't gain steam until they saw on tv the fire hoses and the

german shepherds being released on these innocent poor black folks and in a lot of ways this is kind of what we are seeing right now. this movement of protection is what i would like to call it. this movement of protection of the civility of us having and regaining and continuing to live with dignity and the society which is obsessed with guns as ruby said it's going to take all of us that the media is going to play a key role in this. i think that what you see as citizens and people that are not in the media when you hear of injustice, take up the telephone and file for e-mail. make it your business to have three or four reporters names in your context so that you can

text message them. in some newspapers into digital journalism the cool thing about the digital journalism even though it was eating a bunch of our newspaper jobs, at the end of the stories on the net, the reporters will put their e-mail addresses and you have access to that and so it's very important that, you know we establish the communities within the media so that we can help get the word out. >> in a way you're saying there's an opportunity or responsibility as a citizenry. >> major media didn't show up until a few days later. we know that because the major media is run by some of the same folks that put in the policies

that continue to hold us down. on the other end is an opportunity. the fact of the matter is people on the ground in ferguson amplified the voice for social media industry are not listening to the voices of the affected communities, we are not listening to anybody. i would highlight the day and age we can pull out the cell phone and camera phone in the document what happened. we can pull the true story of what's going on before cnn decides it is important enough for them to show up and we can amplify the voices of the youths were using these tools. so i just wanted to add that. >> the example that you see forever in the michael brown case with prosecutors around the country they all have sophisticated public information officers participate in how the

betrayal and how they want to deal with certain situations. for example, michael brown told the prosecutor that decided he wasn't going to charge. number two, he wasn't going to reveal any of the evidence that he had in the case. and so two important things happened. number one, we found in our practice that is very important at times and in some cases to align with the fbi and the department of justice and in doing so, similar to what you had in trayvon and michael brown. i was sitting in a meeting with two fbi agents in the st. louis field office and the very next day they had 48 agents on the ground doing their job and if you bought it and know that this happened they followed up the kendrick johnson case.

do you believe that is the case because of the individuals that are in power now. would the response be different if it was a different administration? who >> to start with president obama and number two with the attorney general holder obviously it is quite clear that washington had taken the interest of the case and they would be domicile in the country had some call into some interaction from washington from the executive suite in washington. so it's meant the world and use cases because like i said one day i am in st. louis with two agents in the meeting. and they had the ability and the next day there were 40 agents.

i am not saying 40 agents in the hood is a good idea but it gets us back to justice quicker. the dynamics of -- i was glad they got smart where the fbi decided to go to the community college and let people talk privately if they want to talk about whatever they want to talk about in ferguson related to michael brown versus when they come to knock on your door and whether or not you're going to talk to them so i'm glad that i want to say one other thing about the media because one of the issues we were confronted with it was clear they wanted it to die down. you don't want to get attention for the wrong reason. when you saw the autopsy come out and the diagram that came out is the one we wanted to come out and we used our resources to direct a story that ended up leading page one in "the new york times" monday morning and

set the agenda for the country for that day. so, as you do this, the lawyers are equipped with things other people are not equipped with. if we are in the case we have access to things and use it within the rules that the best benefit our our client in vb that our client story needed to be told in a way that it was told and will be. >> we have about 20, 25 minutes left. i want to get to you all out there. let's try to make all of our comments as concise as possible. >> i do want to make a comment to mr. ever. he said something about they don't know us and i think the key piece we forget about it is building relationships with our law-enforcement officers and officials in terms of the media if that is how they get to know us but they don't know us as individuals is something we did in florida was called bridging the gap conversation where we had the law-enforcement officers

together to talk about issues and what we found out is that there was this disconnect socially and they didn't understand some of the things that were happening and this is the reason that they were scared. so in terms of the direct action piece, get to know your law-enforcement officers. have conversations with them and attacked that piece of it. >> if we are talking about community-based policing and part of the response that we hear all the time from the police departments that have lack of diversity and community based on in the community based on leasing they say we would love to hire folks in the community but nobody ever applies. is there something we can do to hold them to task either insist on the community-based or the officers as a part of the requirement or creating an atmosphere where they would be receptive and want to join

forces. the forces. does anyone have a comment on that? >> racial profiling is systemic and it violates civil rights and so getting to know the police doesn't eradicate these issues. what irritates oregon citizens actions, understanding what's going on in organizing to defeat it. so i might know the police over here but that doesn't mean that is a system that evil or systemic injustice disappears. we've got to be very honest we are dealing with systemic issues and they are not personal defects of individual cops. because racial profiling is all over the country. and finally, about the media, we've been here before. during the lynching when black people were coming allies as the means of justifying. in the 1990s, there began a campaign in the country to

propagandize the negative image of black people in the ronald reagan came up with [inaudible] by the time we got to where we are today, the world thinks that we come from a culture of violence and deadbeat fathers and so therefore we constitute a danger to society and most especially to the security of white people and so that's why we can be killed and nobody bats an eye. there are reasons we have to begin to move beyond the personal emotion and get very, very pragmatic and clear about what we are dealing with. at least we would sacrifice our just going to another 100 years of lynching.

[applause] >> if you have a question -- lineup behind that microphone there and i want to be very clear a question, please. i think that it makes a difference whether we know our local law-enforcement and they get to know the people and get worked out. i can't emphasize it enough. i had an experience in my neighborhood rapist cop that they knew was riding around with a rookie that didn't quite know the neighborhood. because the cops knew me, i was walking, he stopped and parked the car and we talked. he brought together officer and introduced him to the neighborhood versus riding around in the car. that means the world when it comes to policing. >> my name is ron and i was a

city council councilman in north new jersey for eight years. my question is some on the panel were several of you could address talking about the moral solutions. the appointment of federal monitors over these towns that are exhibiting police brutality. and secondly, the use and creation of civilian or citizen review boards with subpoena power. in in that in the city it took us six years but finally we were working with the agency and myself leading as a councilperson finally got the federal government to sit in on the police brutality issues dating back to the riots and the rebellion of 67. finally after 47 years, we got the federal appointment that just got named in july and second the citizen review board there are several across the nation but they usually do not work because they do not have the power. if someone could talk about

those issues in terms of being practical, pragmatic real solutions to break up the institution isn't black or white, it is blue and it's the institution of the blue that makes all those who participate in that a part of the same countermeasures. >> i would take part of it. i am on the citizen review board and what you see is when you start to see the internal affairs or the prophet trying on the mortality it doesn't travel well. reverend sharpton made a great comment the other day. in florida we had republican governors who appointed special prosecutors. in missouri we have a democratic governor that refuses to step in on the point of the special prosecutor. it's the norm and a lot of times politicians some people think nationally they get to see the whole broad landscape.

we see them not stepping up and not doing the right thing where you have a local police officer charged by the local prosecutor's office knowing that every case that comes out of that apartment is prosecuted by the prosecutor's office. >> i am all for living with dignity and so are my forefathers. i write for phenomenal woman magazine published in the cleveland area. to that end during the civil rights movement movement the students that participated in the settings both campaigns they were actually trained on how to respond in those situations. so, my question is is it time to provide training to our community on this modern-day racial profiling civil rights issue because when our children are sitting in the back of the car and mom is arrested on the side of the road and -- this is

the question. how are our children supposed to know how to respond because i'm watching them trying to run towards mom and i'm watching it on tv saying get back in the car because i don't want to see what they broadcast on television nightly anymore. >> i work with an organization called the dream defenders this past summer. we conducted a sit in of governor rick scott's office. we were immersed in the act of civil disobedience into training and organizing the youth and community members around it however we are only in the state of florida this moment. from the dream founders perspective we would love for these to spring up across the country because we don't need to be the leaders for every community. they need their own and so if anybody needs the dream defenders support we would love to be there. >> do they make public their information about how to go about approaching being

arrested, etc.? is that on your website? >> we utilize the aclu but we do have to get on the website, dream defenders.org if you want to get started on organizing other campaigns please e-mail us and we would love to support you and your efforts to lead the community. >> the members of families who have experienced the murder of their loved ones and we are working with them so that they can become organizers in their own communities. and trained young people and themselves how to respond in his urgent crisis that we are facing. >> good afternoon. i am a member of the fraternity. my question or comment goes to the young lady -- what is your name again?

we have an organization called project alpha of which most [inaudible] our chapter has incorporated a legal component to that, in which lawyers and attorneys coming to speak with the high school students. the last time this occurred in colombia, i was so impressed by the amount of questions into the depth of the questions that the students had to the one attorney who was there. we were planning on doing it again. we are talking about solutions and how we can possibly cut down on the arrest and it begins with that teenager and we are addressing it and it could be not just by the turn of these organization, but every other

organization that goes into a high school. >> i am very familiar with project a-alpha. research shows that officers are less likely to arrest someone that they know so it does break down that concept of the folks operating in the broken system. so i would commend you on all the work that we are doing. >> we have one final question and then i will welcome someone to bring the closing remarks. >> my name is cheryl blankenship and i'm with the spirit house in atlanta also. my question is this. several of you have talked about constitutional rights. we have distributed it to our interns were other things like that. my concern is about this very conservative supreme court that we have that's changing constitutional rights, and i would appreciate it if you all want to speak to the confusing

laws that are happening that have to do with the elimination of the right to remain silent so if police officers question you don't have that right any more. anymore. presume instead of being presumed innocent, you are now presumed guilty. and this issue when people come with search warrants to the door because a lot of the cases we found, police have just walked in without warrants and have shot people indiscriminately and then later said wrong address. >> question please. >> the question is how do we educate the people about the changes going on in the supreme court? you can't refer to that book anymore because they are changing so quickly. how do we let people know, how do we tell our young brothers and sisters when you get out of the car you don't have to say this or do you have to say this? who >> i think that it first starts

with us making sure that our children are better educated. i think a better educated citizen is able to respond to the situations better. so my answer would be a stronger, better, solid education in general. >> i want to go down the line and ask for closing remarks from each panelist. please keep them concise. what are the last things you want folks to hear from you? we will start with you and then come down this way. >> number one, you need to tell your story. if something happens you have the social media tell your story. that's what i did and got 40,000 shares. you have to then decide if you're going to take action on that this attack and complain about it or do something about it. i decided to do something about my situation. i ended up with a record i shouldn't have had as an innocent person. a. a lot of people don't know they

still have an arrest record. we started a petition online. i would encourage you all pleased to sign the petition. i've been meeting with legislators, talking with the department of justice. we are trying to change legislation. we are trying to introduce the new builds in the houses and then make a difference. john f. kennedy said that every one, one person can make a difference. and everyone should try. those are my three words to you guys. >> organized, think and organize and to bring it to everything that you do everything has a context. hindsight what is this problem and how does that impact was going on today. and foresight, strategies to solve the issues so that's what i would say come and build the movement predicated on reality. spec i think the biggest vacuum

in the black community today is an information vacuum, and the beauty to me of the civil rights era is we have meaningful conversations with one another about things that mattered in our lives, education in terms of how not to get beat down and how to register to vote and all that. we still need to have all those conversations. more than ever we have to have those conversations. spread that information out there. go to the aclu website. it's very easy to find and book. it says in big giant letters what to do if you stop by the police. what to do. can you videotape or photograph the police? it is in very plain language. share that with your friends and relatives, children so we can protect ourselves. spec i would like to say don't get desensitized by the media.

sometimes a random educated folks are like you know, it is only the trayvon margins and the michael brown. as you can see it happens to the educated folks as well. so i don't want you to be disconnected from the issue and i would've would challenge you to do local things in your community. i personally believe that having relationships are critical. they can get to know one law-enforcement officer. >> we need to organize. the system isn't broken. it was designed to act exactly the way that it is acting. the system has been implemented to dehumanize us for hundreds of years. so unless the the organize and we all get agitated and angry we

will continue to get the same treatment. >> people don't pick on people who can beat them. education takes you out of that situation. thank you. >> i will see this in closing for myself. and closing for myself. when i went down to ferguson, my heart was heavy and i started looking at the grand jury was looking at. on the one level they could bring back a charge and on the other hand, it would be negligent manslaughter or a homicide charge. you break that down in front my legal background you've got something like a negligent homicide and start to hear the words that talk about creating a careless willful ignorance of creating a situation where probable death or extreme harm

can occur. i realized that statute i am just as responsible for the death of michael brown junior as officer wilson because many of us have colluded in being willfully ignorant and carelessly absent even though we know there's an institutional atmosphere that will create harm of two people in the communities -- poor people in the communities get we do nothing. so i should be charged, you should and we should be charged. stop eating carelessly ignorant and willfully involved then we are all at fault. i would like to welcome the general president told them to, and to close this out. [applause]

>> and good afternoon. i would like to think the panelists for your insight on this issue and i had an opportunity as well to attend michael brown's funeral. real quick, i personally was affected by the fact that this young man was shot. because as the president of the national organization one of the first things my members would say is are we going to have a statement? i don't want to make just another statement. they did make a contribution to the funeral where one of several individuals made the constitution because i wanted the family to know that it was a situation they didn't ask for. now they are just another set of parents who are on a tour to let people know that their son was

killed unjustly so that's why we were here today and i was affected by that someone wanted to give a small part and i had an opportunity to meet with the family and in the case that your son's death will not be in vain. i would like to think thank the national association of black journalists were cosponsoring this and the dream defenders for cosponsoring this because we know that it takes more than just sitting in a workshop to talk about the issues so that when we go back to their respective states and cities it is about doing at our local communities. i'm from new orleans louisiana and one of the first things i learned is number 100 you don't speed. because i forgot the folks saying when i was caught speaking i was pulled over. second, don't agitate. you're not into position to be in power when you're being

pulled over by a police officer. you are in the position of why are you being pulled over in the first place. yes being from louisiana i learned three things. yes sir, no sir and i don't understand sir. i am not going to educate -- i understand that i want to make sure that you are giving me the right answers or questions so i can let you know i don't understand, i do understand, or here is my credit card. so that's what i've learned growing up in new orleans louisiana. but we are here today because we know we have to take this information back. we have to engage the communities back in the respective location and we know that this here is another important vote. when president of comic is out in office, who only going to be voting for? i don't see anyone black coming in behind. and we may be voting for a woman. who knows.

the fact is presidential, is going to be leaving office. so, are we prepared for what's next? that's why we are here to push the program called a vote plus people is a hopeless people, but we have a charge. first of all, we vote. every voter, every election. that is our charge but i think you for being here and for being engaged in this important conversation. it's not going to stop because when we go back to the communities we will continue to speak, but more importantly we must vote and distressed we must vote and i would like to add every time and in every weather condition because we are sometimes afraid of the rain lets get out of the rain that can get for under allah, get back in the car and go to work. that's what we have to do. thank you for being here and i will turn it back over to the moderator. thank you.

>> thank you everyone. i appreciate you being here. >> i will be at the park hosting a party for you if you want to come to the event and i will tell them about it personally. [applause]

for senator and presidential candidate rick santorum spoke at this year's value voter summit organized by the family research count. the topic was religious freedom. this is 20 minutes. ♪ >> thank you.

thank you very much for the great work that you do at the national organization for marriage and all of you for being here. this is my ninth speech at the value voter summit. that's because there have only been nine summits. [laughter] i told him backstage i would expect an attendant spin for ten years. [laughter] but i come here because as brian said, together we've been out there fighting the battles on these fronts and we've been successful in many respects more than anyone expected on some issues particularly on the life issue that we try to see some dynamic issues of america coming together your position of you position of all of the dignity of human life. i can tell you that important issue for me that i've been out there speaking about for a long

time and i've been taking podiums but i've been living. i want to give you regards from from care and in ourselves seven children and regards to our little girl who threw the grace of god in your prayers is now six and a half-years-old. [applause] i've taken these podiums, literally thousands of them up to talk about life. but she has given caring given care and anxiety gift of not just talking about life, but living an example of blessings, and frankly the crosses that come with the acceptance of the dignity of all of human life. it is a wonderful opportunity that i have to witness that and in fact, karen and i just

finished a book that will be coming out in february. i think it will be a very raw witness to the life and family of someone, high profile family with a special needs little girl and the name of the book i hope you have the opportunity to see is the bella's gift and accepting life in all of its forms and respecting it for what it is and what it can be. we've been out here fighting the battle now at the value voter summit for nine years and i think we all realize and have heard speeches last nine years and many before about the clash that's going on. i like to talk about the difference between the american revolution and french revolution. of which we do send is one that

believes in god given rights and the dignity of human life and life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is the foundational principle upon which america stands and made us the most prosperous nation in the world and there's others in western western civilization that dissented from another resolution that was a secular resolution to be beefed in rights being given to you by the state. we replaced the suffering came with the sovereign state. the state is the one that gives us rights. ladies and gentlemen, the clash is front and center in america today and we are seeing it like we have never seen it today. you just heard from kelly and the assault on the attack on america unprecedented but not unexpected. if you look through not some rose glasses or a contorted view of the struggle that is taking place in america today, it is

very to see where we are going. many people have criticized me in the past for going out on this omission is a submission is saying this will never be a problem in america. something that everyone said it's premature. why are you even talking about this? this will never be an issue in america. a federal marriage amendment. this can't possibly have been here if you look clearly through the prism of the struggle that is at hand it is easy to see why i introduced the workplace religious freedom act 12 years ago to protect the very people that we are now skiing in the court cases for coffee latte. it's easy to see where we are

going if you see what the fight is and that's why it's important to elect leaders and have leaders in the movement of which we frankly do not have many of particularly in the establishment to understand the struggle that is in america today. when we lose these freedoms that i talked about everything else .-full-stop to call because the government has gotten more interested and bigger. it's how you run your business and who you do business with and how. the economic freedom was set as was everything else. so, ladies and gentlemen, we know very well that this class of civilizations if you will, this very president in america today. when i heard the president say

at the united nations that there is no clash of civilizations at stake and that this is all hogwash from those who don't see the world the way that he sees the world i would suggest to you that's that it's because he sees the world as a descendent of the french revolution and doesn't quite see the lines. ..

>> unless we have clear minded leaders who can look at that class and look into the future and say, here is where we are going -- here is what is next. because i have seen this before. back in 2004, 2003 -- as brian mentioned, i introduced the sierra accountability act. why is that? because i said back then that iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. and they said oh, no, no. do you understand shiah and islam and the leaders of iran, they say not just to the western press but to their own people.

and it's easy to see the path that they are on and the decisions that they will make. and they will be to arm and have the ability to project nuclear weapons. there is no doubt that that is what they are doing and that that is their path. yet we have a president who is in disneyland. and he is looking through at these issues and seeing a country developing advanced uranium refinement and producing weapons -- excuse me. producing rockets to fire weapons. the only weapons they would use to fire our nuclear weapons, throughout asia and beyond. and the program up until recently that was to weaponize

this nuclear material. and so ladies and gentlemen, when i thought president bush back in 2005 and 2006 about defining this war to the american public and explaining to the american public what is at stake and who the enemy is, i did so because i believed then as i believe now that this is an ex-essential fight and it has been for a long time. radical islam in one form or another has been around for a long time and it's orders are very bloody. and ladies and gentlemen, we don't have borders anymore. it comes to the technology that is available to those who want to do harm, we have all sorts of things to protect power and fear and to terrorize, whether it it

is a simple film clip of a beheading or a bomb going off in an unexpected place. there are no borders that protect us. and the borders that we have are not secure to protect us. and we need leaders. we need to be a movement that is sure and that is not divided. we see so much division within the republican ranks in the conservative ranks, about the direction to take on all of these issues and clashes. the clash of civilization, where as you heard by and talk about the republican establishment, saying no, we need to stop talking about these things. and i don't know about you, but i had never been involved in a race where you played defense on an issue and you put points on

the word. but that is what we decided to do. to simply play defense. to ignore these and to put our heads in the sand and hope that the issues go away. when in fact by every survey that has ever been done, the folks that have extreme conditions on these issues are our opponents. yet we refuse, as brian said, a billion dollars in advertising and not a single mention of these issues. and the same is true when it comes to the issues overseas. ladies and gentlemen, i know that there are people who think that america should just pack up and pay attention to our own problems and ignore the problems around the world and somehow this is constitutionally provided. our constitution provides limited government. and it doesn't necessarily

provide for uniform small government. in fact, there are areas in which our government should be quite robust but limited to certain areas where government is, in fact, the only place where this responsibility lies. that, of course, is national defense. do not confuse small and unlimited. sometimes it means limited to certain areas but robust and areas to protect our freedom. and that is what i argue for and that is what republicans have always argued for her. understanding how all three legs of the school week together ande understand essentially how government works, and small government, when it comes to areas which impose upon our

freedom, particularly religious liberty. people always ask us about is the game plan or the struggle and what do i do. and i hear this all the time. what do i do? and if you realize that you look at the last 40 years in the united states and you look at survey after survey of people who consider themselves progressive values, there are twice as many conservative values people in the country than there are liberal, yet we have been losing ground for the past 30 or or years. how does that happen? well, it happens because they are willing to fight and they are willing to sacrifice and they are willing not to give up. if you look at the current

conservative movement and the republican party, there are issues that we haven't even lost a and we are talking about giving up. and we are not even willing to fight the fight because we think that history is moving in a different way. and we are the determiners of history. not history is the determiner of history. [applause] [applause] >> we are not look to history to judge us, we have something also we need to pay attention to when it comes to judging a. and it's not history. [applause] and so why do we lose? it's because we don't have enough ground, and many of you out here in the audience are

willing to stand up and to come back and fight. we say that we won the american revolution not because we had the most powerful army or weapons and not because of any of those things. we won because of the last line of the declaration of independence that we mutually pledge to to each other. our lives and our fortunes and our sacred honor. if we are going to win this fight here at home to protect our religious liberty, to protect the right to life and the institution and the glue that holds the family together, marriage, and our economic liberty, then we have to be willing to make those sacrifices and willing to join together and make a difference. when i left to campaign in 2012 in april, i've formed an

organization called patriot voices and i formed it for one reason, to provide an avenue for people to get involved and to try to make a difference. because ultimately that difference was made at the ballot box and also made at the state legislatures and the congress and the courts, and we have to fight them all. but we also have to fight within the family. how many of your children have the name values you do. and how many of you have seen that slip away. and how can we let that happen and still hope for a good and healthy america. how many of us, you know, most popular textbooks textbook was written by a marxist anti-american and is now being taught in your schools? and what are we doing to protect our children in our classrooms? they are fighting in schools and in hollywood and kelly is in the

film called one generation away that talks about how we are losing our religious liberty in america. i'm fighting in my business and within my house and within school. and the chance of america, coming out on top, as we have seen in the last 30 or 40 years is not good. what do we do? the answer to that is something. and you're here, and i know that i am talking to the choir in many respects. but you have an obligation and responsibility to sing out in their own community and so how is it that business has gone

from a place of traditional values took place now that has codes of conduct and education in major corporations that you don't share these all use, you have to go in or reeducation about those values. how did that happen? we let it happen. so how do we let it happen remap well, you can say it with us, it was the court. and they come back and fight. if we are serious, i talk to a lot of people and they tell me, i'm really worried and i'm scared about the future and what is happening here and i see things falling apart. quit being scared and start being activists and making things happen in america. [applause] [applause]

in the first part of doing that is to elect leaders who are clear minded and who have looked at these problems for a long time and who have come down on the right side and i'm talking about leaders of our party and leaders of our movement and our government. i know that there is always a rush. but it is important to see how rooted these leaders are. because i know that we are being fooled by many. we come here to washington to be the new great leaders and turn out to be just very high profile followers. and we need leaders and we need to hold them accountable. we need to understand where they are going by understanding where they have been.

ladies and gentlemen, we have an opportunity in this election to do something and to get excited at the senate and to do it in a big margin. if we do not, we have 24 seats that are held by republicans. the chance of us picking up seats in 2016 are pretty close to zero. so we either go all out this time with the people that we know who are going to be with us, and i mean go all out even in places where may not look possible. this could be a year where you just never know. we could win and put the effort in people that you trust and do it again in the primaries for all of the races that you're going to be dealing with. go make sure that you get behind people that have a track record

and the energy and the in use esm to fight the battle in washington dc that we desperately need. thank you so much and god bless you. [applause] >> on our next "washington journal", ron kessler discusses recent security breaches at the white house and what the secret service should be doing to protect the first family. then they report on the 2014 congressional primary season with the brookings institution. after that, laurie abraham talks about her recent interview with soup for justice ruth bader ginsburg. plus, your facebook comments and tweets. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern every morning on c-span. >> the campaign 2014 debate coverage continues wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. on c-span. live coverage of the minnesota governor's day.

between mark dayton and jeff johnson and independence party candidate pamela nicolette. live coverage of the oklahoma governors debate between state representative joe gorman and mary fallin. also on thursday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span2, the nebraska governors debate between democrats and republicans. saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. coverage between both candidates. more than 100 debates for the control of congress. >> a panel discussed the representation of business and the federal government. this is one hour.

>> thank you. one thing that wasn't mentioned, i wasn't going to do this. it was the kind of thing that would make my parents cringe. once present company is present company and i do have a book on the history of latinos in america, which is available online or in a bookstore near you, it is the 500 year legacy that shape the nation and is very germane to what we are talking about today. after all of these years i can finally do a commercial. so i hope that you will buy it because it makes an excellent gift. [applause] >> as you heard in the introduction, the panel has its work cut out for it this morning as we discussed the representation of latinos in so many sectors of our society. we talk about where we are at and why the situation is where it is and what we need to do about it.

the panel stands on the assumption that the latinos must must expand their decision-making voice in every important sector. there are more than 50 million of us now in our country of more than 300 million people. when you move from a tiny minority to one sixth of anything, in this case a country, it's no longer a question of how those people over there are doing, whether they are getting nowhere, but whether the full country can continue to be the affluent productive place than it has been for generations. if the aspirations of a sixth of the population are not met. if those 50 million people remain concentrated more than other americans, they find cheap houses and cheap schools that yield cheap college educations and a lot of debt and not much opportunity, that is going to

leave us with lower than average family incomes, which is where we are at now to start the cycle all over again. and so if that is the next with a generation plays out, this is not going to continue to be a rich country and it is as simple as that. in the next 35 years as we move from more than 50 million people to 130 million people and a third of the hold, it is not kindness or charity or pity that will force america to open the opportunity structure of the united states, but rockhard self-interest and we are finally able to say to the rest of the country that we really are all in this together. and if we don't prosper, you don't prosper.

but there is something else at work but i think that we have to wrestle with. paternal foreignness, even though we have been here since before there was a united states when fortune seekers splashed ashore on the coast and began jamestown, decades later when a boatload of grumpy protestants stepped onto plymouth rock, some were party long-established cities. when some stake their claims in the great plains come in the missions became a giant missions of san diego and san francisco are already settled spanish-speaking counts. so here we are. picking your strawberries and cabbages and apples and killing your pigs and chickens and blame your roof shingles, changing your oil, and changing lots of

diapers herriot your impotence and your grandparents were with you at the very beginning of your life and close to the very end. and yes, we remain somehow strangers and the most familiar strangers possible. our stories and consonants and aspirations. heroes and heroines, they live in the ghetto of the imagination for most americans, unable to penetrate the core of american life, and us, we are always having to explain ourselves. we are asking for a favor and for consideration we have not learned. a gift given only reluctantly to people who were forced to check a box on some human resources sheet. we know that the battles are

complicated and the struggle is real and we are not asking for anything unreasonable or anything unearned. please remember that you can join our conversation on twitter and we will be entertaining questions from the audience doing the discussion. there will be roving mics in the audience and if you have a question, please raise your hand and my fading eyesight in my advanced age, i will try to help you. we will bring the microphone here. let me introduce our panel is. the director of the office of personnel management, may 2013. president obama appointed her to lead the u.s. office of personnel management and the federal agency responsible for attracting and retaining innovative and diverse talent to the workforce. the first latina to head this agency, please welcome catherine.

[applause] >> next we have read a marine now, is one of the few performers on planet earth to have received an oscar. [applause] and she is solidifying her reputation by getting the presidential medal of freedom. ladies and gentlemen, our own national treasure, rita morena. and she is here with us with the newly formed corporate directors association. currently sitting on the board of levi strauss and company and she has also been with toyota for 30 years and is group vice president of toyota's hispanic dismissed strategy for north america, their highest ranking latina. please welcome her.

[applause] >> next we have the chief executor officer of the doctors hospital at renaissance. she is responsible for overall operations, as well as the development of the strategic plan an institution of a corporate mission. [applause] >> finally, we have maria, president and ceo of her company and she has dedicated her career to empowering and engaging latinos in the political process and this is a tough year to be doing any of those things. please welcome maria teresa. [applause] and catherine, let me start with you. what do the numbers currently look like and can you talk to us about what you are doing at opium to address this issue? >> the good news is that we are

growing larger and we are on her way. and so right now the representation of latinos in the federal government should set about 8.3%. more disturbing is the fact that about 4.1% of the total leadership is lacking now. so that means that we have tremendous opportunities and it is a challenge. but we have the right leadership in government today to really make that happen. from the political to the civilian workforce, we have dedicated individuals and we are trying to make a difference everyday. as the director of personnel management, i am pleased that we have set forth a path that will not just change numbers but will institutionalize the steps that are needed to increase the number of latinos in the federal workforce. we are calling this program ready. it's probably an easier way to

remember all of the components, but let me tell you about it so you remember it as well. the first one is recruitment. what are we doing to increase the numbers of latinos who are interested in and applying for the workforce. we are basing this on data and being very targeted and we are going to school, college, universities and high schools, to talk to young people with mid-level executives and senior executives about the opportunities that exist between the federal government. we are taking a look at our hiring processes as well. one thing we will include over the course of the next five years is usa jobs out of. i know a lot of people understand that it's very complicated. and we are changing now, we are creating usa jobs stock of 2.0, we are working to make it

friendlier and making it responsive. we are changing the information on the application process and we are doing this based on what we are hearing from users themselves and we have just instituted a focus group for those that will help us and we are using social media as part of the focus as well. we are also taking a look at those individuals who are on board and how do we keep them? how do we make sure that they don't feel isolated or unengaged. the issues of engagement are very important and we have created a new dashboard that goes out to the senior leaders and the government to inform them about diversity in their own workforces. finally, we are thinking about the whole issue of diversity inclusion and how we make sure

that all of our employees, including those that are members, how do we make sure that they feel included in the decisions that happen every day no matter how big or small the decisions are, they need to be included. honey, i would say that in developing partnerships across the board in this country, certainly colleges and universities and nonprofits like this, making sure that organizations are also engaged in this effort. finally, i am using the most important tool that we have how we work with latinos and latinas to make sure that they have the opportunity for that purpose driven mission. we cannot compete with the error, but we can compete on the

dedication and the purpose driven mission that are federal employees have. it may be small now, but with the work with the office of personnel management, we are working hard to institutionalize the changes that will happen and continue to have been well after i leave government. >> we have a little bit of time left. a plus percent, and are there opportunities? a lot of people don't even think of government service on their coming out of schools. >> i understand it. they actually believe as young people that all government jobs are in washington, but 85% of all jobs across the state. so my job and the recruiters

jobs in the recruiters in the various departments, they are very targeted in talking about the opportunities that exist in government today. going to this, going to other schools, high schools and community colleges where we can reach latino students rivalry are thinking about their careers. >> thank you. i am sure that you have seen a lot of changes and that is probably not enough. are we looking at a glass half full or empty? or could we not have imagined this day when you are earning her way and having her business to . >> yes, it has changed quite a bit. the formal complaint has changed

and it's a wonderful phrase that the door is ajar. it has opened considerably. but i have to tell you that it is a long way from what i have experienced as a young actress in hollywood [inaudible] and all of those ladies who were educated almost always, who were illiterate who were explicitly easy, sexually speaking. those were all the kind of ladies that we talked about for far too many years babies that would say [inaudible] [laughter] and it's funny now.

but a lot of that has changed really considerably. and i think that now what we need to do is become more of our own producers and writers and directors. [applause] and i think that we have become part of this finally. and yes, we are where all of those wonderful things are. and i think it is really important. the chap is that it becomes our own situation and that if you are not careful -- it's about

hispanics for hispanics and we have to be very careful to stay away from now. but right now i think that we really need writers and producers and directors. that is the problem. how does that -- i mean, i don't even know how to tell you how we can be held in this exceptional way with the people that keep on making noise. and those have been made in positions to help those people who have serious show business connections in that manner. because i think it can be very difficult. >> a big commercial release. you talk about the ghetto. but part of the problem, while we are expected chana television

, in other peoples stories, other people are not expected to look at our stories and find connections and universality and associations. they say that that is not me, that is not my life, therefore that is not for me. >> the big problem is a lot of understanding of who we are. and i think that what you see in films nowadays as well as well as televisions, you don't see a real representative. they would be not only latino but more asians. do we ever is the asians? very rarely. when we see them, for some reason they [inaudible]

so i think that to make people -- i mean, our heritage and our history is so rich with music and dance and also filled with the most amazing things and nobody seems to know this about us. we are still in the minds of too many entertainers. but we are so much more. i remember many years ago -- do i have a moment? >> yes we have a moment. [applause] >> i don't know, i am a latina. [laughter] >> don't take advantage. [laughter] >> i remember meeting ronald reagan when he was president and

there were some promised promising successful people, one who was an admiral who is puerto rican and no one had even heard of someone like this. all of the people that i was with in that group were extremely accomplished people in reagan was a very judgmental person. but we liked him very much. we started to leave and i thought, you know, i have to say something and i thought about this. i thought, what is she going to say. and i simply said to him something that i'm still saying because it's killing me. i just want to admire you with this represents many of us in this country. there are just seven of us but many more like us.

and he was very gracious and all of that. but it was such a mindset. >> i was just thinking about how much opportunity there isn't u.s. navy that it is in the puerto rican navy, which has always been small. [laughter] but thank you. thank you for the story. >> corporate america may be one of the places where the toughest challenges lie in the numbers are terrible. lots of customers but not a lot of bosses. how do you work to improve that situation? how to the captains of industry change their view of who should be sitting around a boardroom table? let me just say that any consumer brand in this country that is not currently involved with the market is missing a huge opportunity and is in danger of becoming irrelevant.

54 million latinos represent 70% of u.s. population and by 2015 projected to represent one out of three americans. [applause] >> the purchasing power is projected to be $1.5 trillion next year and $1.7 trillion by 2017. research indicates that overall hispanic consumer spending will increase 74% between the years 2012 and 2022 versus 51% for non-hispanic. the per capita income is steadily increasing and in 2012, 69% of hispanic high school graduates and rolled directly

into college versus 67% of their white counterparts. and the average age of 27 years versus 37 years for everyone else combined in 41 years for the white population. so when i look at these demographics, one thing becomes very clear. just as u.s. companies are looking at the potential growth of china and india and brazil and other emerging market and adding international board members, they should also be looking at the growth potential of the u.s. and latino market and adding board members who can bring culturally relevant perspectives to their boardroom. and yet the number of hispanics

is abysmal. and it is not because there are qualified latinos, because we all know that there are. it is simply because many companies do not have the desire or the will to add them to their board. so what is being done about this underrepresentation? well, there is corporate responsibility that continues to be a very strong advocate of hispanic corporate board representation and in addition with this full support, a number of latino corporate directors decided two years ago to form a hispanic corporate director membership association led by them and then ended his call but latino corporate directors association. the association from the very beginning has been in the phases

of working with this underrepresentation with what we hope will be a positive and fruitful collaboration with corporate america. i am the chair of the board and i'm proud to tell you that over the last year we have recruited 35 hispanic corporate director members. [applause] and many of them are prominent latinos that you all know. another important effort underway is the public advocacy of our elected hispanic leaders. senator bob menendez, including two congressmen that we know and love. all of them have been vocal about the underrepresentation of hispanics on corporate boards and another important voice is that of the u.s. securities and exchange commission, luis

aguilar, who supported the sec regulation requiring u.s. public traded companies as they assess both candidates, how diversity is a part of the process, and how they assess the effectiveness of their policy on diversity. but clearly we need more leadership and op-ed and shareholders in consumer voice says actively advocating for hispanic corporate board members. >> thank you, pat. [applause] >> you are on the frontlines for providing health care to the latino community and you are the only man on the panel. [laughter] we know that there are hundreds of critical trials taking place to develop drugs and cures for

any number of diseases and ailments. i'm wondering if what they are looking for a flex their needs of the united states. the terrible diabetes and hypertension abnormalities that particularly inflict the community and also the clinical trials themselves and they very rarely include latinos. how does that affect the way that uses are attacked in a way that health care is delivered. >> i want to thank everyone for having this event. it's a very important panel and the question we ask ourselves is when we look at the clinical trial research, we are a largely hispanic community. we represent the nation and we are delivering almost 800 with a

record going to 900 and our one hospital alone. we are quickly getting younger. but when we look at clinical trials, we were a little bit disappointed and the reason we started looking into that was because when we started looking consistently at some of the medications and we were always having to modify, you would see diabetics that won't work in the same way. we had to create a partnership and we work with them on how we could be able to control this and the better paced and a lot of it was because we had to start modifying beds. and this includes what was going on and this includes treating

conditions of stomach cancer, any spectrum of conditions, we had to change this as we looked into that issue. and we learn that while hispanics are growing 17% of the u.s. population, we are less than 1% of the participants in trials. and that is really important because if you're not participating in clinical trials with how medications work and how they interact with the panel, then anything less than 1% can sometimes be dismissed as not really that condition. and if you are not at the table in engineering this, then it really became a concern to us when you look at the fact that hispanics today are twice as likely to be diagnosed with stomach cancer and liver cancer and twice as likely to have been diagnosed with diabetes as well.

and so that is a serious condition that we represent now and the latinos are very well represented in the conditions. but they are not represented in the trials. we started doing research about what happened and i don't think that there's any real intent but research includes large communities and doesn't have a lot of minority populations. so we have been working very did -- diligently. we are starting to work with research center and we have created partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry to educate the community is. in order to be a hero and health care, all you have to do is sign up for a clinical trial. and we need hispanics to stand up and be counted in the development of pharmaceutical industries.

but if there is a cultural problem, and when you say to americans, inc. of an average american and they don't think of us, it's a problem but it's not something that will kill you or shorten your life. but these kinds of findings are shocking because they involve the compound that we put in our bodies to make us well and instead of making us well they could make us sick. the pharmaceutical industry should be sent on the idea of the clinical trials that have to represent a broad swath and women have had these problems in other treatments and it's shocking that this has not been responded to more quickly for that kind of thing. cultural problems we can fix. if you put medicine in your body, that's tough. >> they have been working with

us. but i think it really comes with the expectations that we have to create. there are two things that hard. we have a drugs market that we know have the ability to do that. so there are researchers and we have do incentivize like hospitals working to create one to be able to get them ready and get those files just as fast as others and we have the demand when drugs go to market on a demographic that represents some, as we sit here today talking about how we need to make sure that hispanics are represented in life-saving diseases, we also are mirroring something that is happening in new zealand, which you have a researcher who actually found that heart medication and women was not working for them either

and they found that the women were not allowed to be tested in our population. we have talked about this and we have to make sure that in the future going forward, that we demand the clinical trial research panel to ensure that they can help all americans. [applause] >> it's getting to be that time again. i'm glad you're here because i am sure that you are very busy. we are mobilizing those latino voters to come out. to turn out this for years and with great success. but it always seems like you guys are reinventing the wheel and that 2014 doesn't stand on the shoulders of 2010 which stands on the shoulders of 2006 and on and on. so why is that reign and where

are the latinos? >> thank you so much. i want to take the opportunity to talk about two women who have been incredibly important to this journey and they are sitting on the stage with us. one is rita morena, who has not only been a treasure in hollywood, but an incredible activist and a mentor as well. and i think it talks about the importance of this. the other individual i would like to recognize if katherine. she was working behind the scenes, promoting latinos and recognizing the importance and the need to have this community engagement to our young people. i say this because often times the latino community right now today, you feel a little stock and we don't recognize that

people are working behind the scenes and the difference is that they make. you mentioned that today we are not meeting the needs of the community by voters. we recognize that and we respond by that by creating a coalition in conjunction and over 85 organizations that have come on board in seven days to meet this need. so we have to stop following this vote in the effort of registering. it is the responsibility of every person in this room. we no longer have to worry about marching and knocking on doors. not only can we do that, but let me let you in on a secret. there's something called the web. right now sitting here in conjunction with 85 organizations.

>> [inaudible] comcast, i see these as an example. they have said that we are going to register voters together. we have around 300 registered voters every day online and that doesn't include the effort on the field. imagine if you can actually get corporate america and all of us here, the churches, the media, it to recognize that we have more individuals and more clinical trials, every single industry is represented goes back to government and representation. and we have 800,000 every single month. and that is a congressional district heard that the only way that we are going to change is if we show up at the polls in

one of the reasons that we have these critical trials is because they are also based on this. the government runs at. if we are not participating at the polls or the senseless, we be neglected. this is also based on the census everything leads to government in small or short warm and until we try to recognize as a community that are number one initiative is to organize each other and it's fairly easy to do now, we are always going to be left behind. and it gets to a point that it's no longer anyone's fault but our own. so i hope that you guys will join latinos 2014.com. they give you big crib sheet. how many of you know what that

is? thank you. someone is being honest. it's a cheat sheet. so you can go online and we provide you with the graphics and everything that you need to do in order to mobilize online and on the ground. but we are not making the numbers. in the 2012 election everyone is patting each other on the back because we're working hard and both campaigns and all the things combined -- we didn't even meet the 800,000 of the opportunity every day. not living up to our potential but not because it's hard but because sometimes we feel like government doesn't make progress or respect us if we are not participating. and i want to thank you again, rita and catherine, for believing long before we did. but we need every person in this room and friends and family to really realize that this has to be a collective priority.

[applause] >> where are the microphones? >> there is the microphone. her questions, or short and arrogantly phrased questions. we have a microphone back there. >> good morning. >> gray-haired. >> oh, okay. the latinos are here. some company corporations including the federal government a kind of reluctant to all of us. how do they do that?

and you say that there are 8% and i just wonder what levels are you talking about. administrators? mid-levels, where are those numbers coming from? >> it is governmentwide, the 4.1% is at the management level until it goes up to 15 and then the next level includes the 4.1. >> okay, 4.1%. >> sometimes i have applied and

honestly, hundreds of times. and sometimes they say yes, you all if i. but at the end they take over my position. i understand that with all due respect, but i just want to understand the rationale of placing veterans on top of it. and therefore they lead us out from the bottom. >> okay, that's a good point. there are questions from many americans about this. >> i would be the first to say that it i stand very tall and very supportive for veterans preference, which does not eliminate the opportunity for

other individuals to apply and to be hired. it gives them a preference to be in a group of individuals who can be considered for a job. and, you know, we can look back and i could spend a lot of time talking about the a person or the 4% and i'm not that kind of person. i want to look over. how do we add how do i make a difference? and one of the ways to the gentleman's question is how do i include usa job saga of. how we make sure that the process of the application is working and then after that, after the application process that i talked about, how do i include back. the next thing to take a look at the election and how do people get on that certification must as we do that as well. the next thing that i am looking

at is the hiring managers looking at that certified list and that's really important because all that is really important. it's not just one single answer for why regret this. i have to take a look at the applicants in the application process and the screening and the certification and the actual hiring an engaging. all of that is happening right now. can't speak to what happened in the past, but i could can speak to what is going on in future. my role. what is your role? we need to talk about this and we need to be talking about it ourselves. and we need to be talking about the role you play and how important it is an encouraging young people and people of all experience to join in. there are the corporate communities and the skills are becoming more targeted and stem

skills are very important in the corporate community and those that think that we have to deal with this, we don't have to be stopped by. so as we take a look at going forward about what we are changing, we are looking at everything that is implicated in how we have better talent, stronger talent, to the federal workforce, making sure that the latinos are part of that. ..