i will speak to you about something a little less scary than what julian sanchez described. the state of u.s. trade policy is closer to the libertarian model, libertarian ideals than any other public policy. that is not because the government is not encouraging in trade policy or particularly libertarian but government encroaches a lot more and these other spheres of public lives. we're long way from the libertarian ideals in trade policy and that would be free trade. the free flow of goods and services across border without tariffs, quantitative

restrictions discriminatory regulations, free flow of investment across borders in and out of the country into any industry and penny and all industries the free flow of labor in and out of the country. the moral case for free trade is compelling and people are entitled to the fruits of their labor, entitled to dispose of their property as they wish. government interfering in those decisions, trying to tilt the balance by subsidizing domestic producers so their product are cheaper or taxing foreign producers, that is where the and fairness is and it messes up incentives. it compels people to make political decisions instead of economic ones, instead of investing in r&d, production facilities, making a better mousetrap, companies are more inclined to invest in politics. even companies that don't want

anything to do with washington and having to spend money in washington because their competitors are here asking for things and demanding things so it creates this problem. producers don't know what to produce. don't know how to satisfy consumer demands. so i will get off the high horse. the mission of the trade center at cato our goal is to education and public policymakers about the benefits of free trade and the cost of protection. the goal is not to achieve free trade or would have lost my job along time ago. where do we stand with respect to the goals eliminating people to the benefit of free trade, this question is is the public more aware of benefits than they were last year or five years ago or 20 years ago? the evidence is mixed, you look

at poll results, many see in american public that is grudgingly accepting of the idea of the united states needs to be engaged in the global economy but you also see reticence, reluctance, skepticism about the impact of trade on jobs in particular. let's look at the political dialogue, still fairly partisan. republicans tend to favor freer trade representing business interests, not necessarily free trade but pro trade, pro export labor and anti corporate interests, the 14 years i have been at cabo prospects for trade liberalization are greater than at any time in that span and that is ironic considering the president presiding over the state of affairs is one who

never made a case for trade liberalization, and i made a defensive case, we have to engage in these trade deals. china will write all the rules and it is something we have to do raptors and something beneficial that we should do. it is a way to pitch trade. let me digress from one minute and give you 150 years of trade policy democrats weren't always the party of protection the other way around from the civil war until 1934 democrats were the party of free trade, republicans were the party of protection, the tariff is that trust, big business interests didn't want competition so they liked it. between 1934 and nearly 90s pushed on a bipartisan basis,

bipartisan consensus and trade was a good thing. after nafta democrat started opposing trade, when george w. bush was president at the beginning it seemed unlikely the trade agenda, at internal consistent going on in the united states but after 9/11 it was a new impetus for globalization to show solidarity and the majority republicans control congress, and didn't want to incorporate the demands of the democrats which word environmental provisions. and donna bipartisan basis all the subsequent trade agreements in the early 2,000s were rarely partisan, it was fairly

partisan. when obama -- when democrats took control of congress in 2007 there were three pending agreements in the bush administration with colombia, panama and south korea which were taken off track by nancy pelosi not given fast-track treatments. the climate prevails, when president obama assumed office recapitulated to the climate, didn't attempt to push trade agreement that all and for several years these agreements would follow. in 2010 when the republicans took the house president obama decided to get these agreements through. he announced we are ramping up efforts in the trans-pacific partnership negotiations. to negotiate the deal, never

made the case for why we should we doing this. the rhetoric was very defensive on trade. last year trade promotion authority legislation was introduced on a bipartisan basis but harry reid said don't even think about bringing this to the floor and they didn't. la -- we are at the stage where we are trying to negotiate, get trade promotion authority for the president, there is language being written in senate finance ways and means, by the end of the month something will come out. i think it is a good idea. and entering into foreign treaties, it is a compact, congress is making its objectives known. and we will vote yes or no with

no chance to filibuster. and the executive power grab, it is giving away its responsibility and trade promotion authority, foreign negotiators will not put their best offers on the table, the deal they negotiate will stand congressional scrutiny. there's a lot of opposition to the trade agenda the trans pacific partnership negotiations and also the trans-atlantic negotiation going on. i think i am inclined to support it because it is more economically free because there's a lot of protection

baked into them. some tariffs are phased over a long period, the auto industry wants 2.5% import tariff on automobiles the auto industry wants to phase that out over 25 years for 0.1% per year. there are provisions for intellectual property provisions, and the monopoly. do we need some? it do we need more than we have under u.s. law? and pushing for investor rights for foreign investors to go outside the u.s. judicial system if there has been expropriation treated unfairly and their asset values declined. likewise u.s. companies have access to third-party tribunal system as well. i don't think it is necessary. i will evaluate these agreements by whether or not they are liberalizing.

those who want to nit trade in the bud by denying fast-track trade promotion authority had it wrong. the other issue i want to bring to your attention is the export/import bank that was supposed tos last year in september, it was reauthorize to temporarily through june 30th, it is an export credit agency which allegedly finances exports sales that private sector banks would be unwilling to touch. if that is what it does they're putting taxpayer resources at risk. the vendors of the bank say they are making money for the treasury, there is no risk. that is like driving home drunk and rationalizing the next day i made it home safely last night, i can do it again tomorrow. taxpayer dollars are at risk.

this has not been a big part of that debate. there are costs. americans love exports, imports are bad, and we love exports. exports are so good the x m bank, a wheat underwrite exports, reauthorize our charter. there are costs to other companies in the same industries that don't yet -- subsidies are added disadvantage. the best example, delta has been raising the roof about subsidies to boeing. boeing's customers like air

india or ethiopia, subsidies from u.s. taxpayers are subsidizing the competition of u.s. carriers and delta has made a big deal about it but there are $50 billion of subsidies over the last seven years in manufacturing. each of the manufacturing beneficiaries as a dancing customer and these customers are put at a disadvantage the way it dealt the is. i am hoping the bank is not reauthorize, its life is through june 30th and that is something we standing for. we wrote about it in one of the papers the 140th congress. i will stop there. thank you. [applause] >> we have time for 0 some q&a. there's only one rule and that is to express your question in the form of a question. otherwise we are ready to go.

>> i have a question to follow up on the import export bank. they believe they want the bank reauthorize it because of green technology. they want the republicans are going to change it so weapons can be included, the things we ensure. and then people tell me they don't want that because we have those going to afghanistan, we need people and don't have enough money for the of va to take care of people we need to take care of. my question is your statement about what export import made me happy because finally somebody just said that other companies are hurting by doing this. the issue is to get explain to the general public.

i don't think congress really gets it. >> excellent question. i wrote a paper about those costs a few months ago and distributed up here but people are having a hard time understanding it. i am going to revise it a middle bit and make it more accessible. what i find to be the most interesting twist in this debate is the support the reauthorization is getting. they spilled tons of zinc and shouted from the rooftops about corporate welfare and supporting it and the only reason i imagine supporting it is proponents of getting rid of the bank come from the right, the tea party and the tea party, we must be against it. that motivates lot of support for reauthorization among progressives. >> in the back.

>> i have a question about the procession but do you think other crazies are possible. can you identify any indicators that will show it out of position? >> i am reminded of an economic forecaster, a given number, give a date, but never give both. >> i am 99% sure we will have another financial crisis. i wish i knew when that would be. i would short it all and make some money but i don't know where it is going to be, there are several sectors of the economy. as a general rule of thumb when you have long stretches of time when they -- posed inflation rate of interest is really big

and paying people to make money and vast parts of the public to take money somebody is going to do something dumb with it so we had six years, negative real interest rate policy. that to me is distorted property markets and distorted equity markets and the bond market so when we see that unravel it is a question of when. i thought the housing market was going to be in 2004 so i was off by a year-and-a-half. can't say when it will be but the next five years we are going to start to see property markets equity markets level off, go down in some areas, there were some positive the banks are undercapitalized but better capitalized than they were. the risk in the mortgage market is pretty big but not as bad as it was. there were other areas. i don't think the sovereign debt

crisis is anywhere near being solved so that is a big overhang. i don't think we have done double the fundamentals, you rarely get a financial crisis to develop expansion and asset prices and we have seen both of that in this case, and the companies made to remains to be seen. >> recessions happen, economists haven't figured them out. whether you want to call them they are complicated, economists cannot foresee when they are going to happen if you go to january of 2008 when the cbo introduced its budget projection it did not see the recession coming that had started in december of 2007. in january of 2008 there was a rosy future of actually rising

growth, 2%, 3%, economists have no idea to project future economic growth, the forecasting record is terrible because we don't totally understand how the economy works. and changes in energy markets, the upshot is we ought to be prudent with the federal budget, get deficits and debt down now while we had a chance, the economy is growing now, now is a good time to make these reforms we need to make, but what if we get into a deep recession one of we have another major and costly war? it will put the country in a terrible situation because we are starting off from a high level of debt so we ought to be prudent, don't see much of that on either side of the aisle in

washington. >> nothing to add, i am wondering about your talk with contingent liabilities the u.s. government had it is increasing its deficit every year and doesn't seem to care, the federal government has the markings of sub prime, the reason why they can continue to do it is people keep lending the money. is all based on psychology because other people the investor class thinking investors with government money that is fine to lend the money. it strikes me as the week psychology, and -- do you envision any situation where the investor class will stop lending

money to the u.s. government that such lower interference? >> a lot of the fundamentalists are worried about what you raise about psychology and the thing that concerns me about that and we learned this repeatedly is the psychology situation can change quite quickly. it will all the sudden, great confidence, we all know despite that maybe they won't. that is only one example, certainly you are in a situation where so much of the financial system, we saw this play out in europe but it is built on things like treasury debt, if there's any problem in that sector it the financial system itself will crater. there is deep concern there, i don't think we have addressed it in any way, some of the attraction of cheap liabilities are easier for politicians to spend money that way. you make promises, many of the

rules for instance, the accounting rules, many programs are mentioned as i talked in my discussion, premiums don't cover the administrative costs, salaries were not reflected in the premiums they charge. i would end by saying the problem is the government engage is enron style accounting, hiding liabilities of the balance sheet. when they're back on the balance sheet, it is not ready. >> time for one more quick question. >> any hope for a freer flow of labor from this? i have not heard about emigration from any of you. >> immigration later. >> to i think the prospect of

good? not really. i refer you to the work at cato, has written quite a lot. the republicans are not all that willing to embrace the idea but something we must continue to push forward. >> i will end on an optimistic note and emphasize his work but many republicans are starting to see the political calculus that being anti-immigrant doesn't necessarily work. i am not optimistic in the short run but optimistic in the long run. most of us recognize our parents or grandparents contributed to this country resonates with most people. as an economist i do think part of this reflects a labor market.

people are more secure in their own jobs and less secured about competition in their jobs. >> there you have it. [applause] >> policy priorities for 115th congress, essays from everyone on the panel. i encourage you to take one out. thank you for coming, i appreciate it. [inaudible conversations] >> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress not only 43 republicans and 15 new democrats in the house and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, there

are 108 women in congress including the first african-american republican in the house and the first veteran in the senate. keep track in congressionalchronicle@c-span. org with lots of useful information including results and statistics about the session. un c-span, c-span2, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> david brooks, a columnist for the new york times on writing an article for the times and the awards he gives out at the end of the year, the sydney award. >> and obscure literary magazines. and the idea is between christmas and new year's, the idea is that is a good week to

step back and not read instance of tweets, newspaper articles but to step back and have time to read something deeper and longer and to celebrate those longer pieces. i do believe magazine's change history. the republic which until recent destruction was the most influential american political magazine of the 20th century really did change history, created progressivism created a voice for modern liberalism. conservatism barely existed before the "national review," gave it a voice. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span q&a. >> former green party presidential candidate jill stein announced an exploratory committee for the 2016 presidential election saying should we use the opportunity to reach out to those neglected by the democratic and republican parties. and specializing on internal medicine and an advocate for

health and environmental issues. this is 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you dennis, the media, and whether they here for, what we're really dedicated to and working toward. this is the wonderful time to be doing that, and thank you to you all for being here today because this is an amazing historic moment. there is a movement for democracy and justice that is sweeping plan that and people are rising - azdiè c1pa the d bothpbeeping plan that and people of

getting us out. the fight is building against predatory mass incarceration that holds one in three african-american men hostage to our vast prison state. workers are fighting for a living wage and the right to a union. students demanding an end to college debt that has crippled the generation. hardworking immigrants are standing up for a few main path to citizenship, not simply a three year deferral of deportation. front line and indigenous communities are leading the resistance to toxic fossil fuels that threaten to disrupt civilization as we know it in our lifetime. the list goes on because this

movement is alive and well in our communities and marks the coming of age of a new generation so it is time for a generational shift in our national generation. we have had enough of rule by the economic police with their cult of cutthroat competition and their religion of greed. we have had enough of corporate capitalism that put profits ahead of people planet and peace. these deranged values have dominated media, politics and the economy for decades and is now clear for all to see where they lead. extreme inequality, economic despair, racism and endless war and climate catastrophe. it is time for a new way forward with a new society, a new economy, a new energy and food

system and a new era of racial justice. revealed politics is collapsing and political vacuum is begging to be filled. that vacuum was plainly seen in the 2014 midterm election this. those elections were not a victory for republicans as they have been misrepresented but actually a rejection of democrats. the record low voter turnout reflected profound disillusionment with both parties. so 2016 provides an incredible opportunity to fill that political vacuum and surge forward. the voices of resistance and transformation deserve to be heard loud and clear. that is why i am announcing today the formation of an exploratory committee for the

2016 presidential election. [cheers and applause] >> we will use this exploratory campaign to reach out to young people workers, unemployed under employed, communities of color, reach out to women and seniors, indigenous nations, all have been neglected, abandoned or the trade by democratic and republican parties. [applause] >> we offer a campaign in service of the justice they deserved. we are the only national party

that is not poisoned by corporate money. the calm one. in 2012 we emerge as the nation's leading progressive party, challenging the status quo and now we will build on that. will lift up the bold solutions the american people are calling for. 20 million living wage jobs and emergency green deal to enrich our communities, not corporations, to rein in climate change and make a need for oil obsolete. [applause] >> we call for health care as a human right. not subsidize profit center for predatory insurance companies in obamacare but a medicare for all system to provide quality care

for everyone while saving trillions of dollars simply by streamlining the private health insurance bureaucracy. we call for quality free public education as a human rights and an end to run away school privatization and closings, high-stakes testing and student loan debt. [applause] >> we call emergency transition to a green economy powered by 100% wind, water and sun by 2030. [applause] >> we call for a welcoming have to citizenship for immigrant residents and an end to the predatory trade deal and political intervention that created the surge of mass migration to start with.

[applause] >> we call for an end to the racist war on drugs, the pipeline, militarized police, surveillance and prison state and radical reduction of america's prison population. [applause] >> finally, we call for a foreign policy based on human rights international law and diplomacy rather than global, military and economic domination. [applause] >> as we test waters we can plan the campaign of a lifetime to match this moment of historic possibility. in closing i invite you to visit jill2016.com, connect with us,

volunteer, make a donation and in spanish -- [speaking spanish] this is the time to come together solutions are in our hands, justice is in our hands, democracy is in our hands. together we can create a world that works for all of us, and ensure people, planet and peace will prevail. it is in our hands. [applause]

[crowd chanting] >> a few quick note to the full we begin the question and answer period. i want to repeat the website that launched this morning, jill2016.com, also an adviser to they where blotters or other instant parties, an exclusive story by abc news just hit this morning, just posted about an hour ago and feel free to grab it and share. for the question and answer period we will be holding a hand-held microphone. this room is small we are live on c-span tv and folks in their living rooms won't here you unless you speak in to this. you will get to speak but wait until you have in front of you. with that i would like to open up for questions and answers from jill or any of the other panelists who were here today.

>> i am a journalist in d.c.. i would like to ask what you learned from your campaign in 2012 a very active campaign. what you might learn about politics that goes on in washington things that even surprise you but also how that might impact your 2016 campaign, what you might do differently. >> thank you. my run in 2012 came after a series of runs at the local and state level and i have to say what was surprising was there was really nothing surprising about politics and the kind of backbiting game as it is played in the mainstream world of politics. what was surprising to me was

how all already people are in our communities to rise up and fight for something different. that amazed me and in 2012 we were only beginning to build a national infrastructure to be able to run a campaign, communication, social media, web sites, donor lists, the whole thing. that is what is really different this time around. people have not for gotten the incredible need for a different voice for at different choice. as we enter this extra for it -- exploratory period we're reaching out to those communities, to see is this the right time for us to step up and work together? i am hoping that it is. [applause] >> thank you green party d.c.. of course you are laying out the

issues excellent. i have a question about something, the united nations. i am the oldest person here and i remember when the un was formed, what the salvation it was for the planet earth. we thought we had a place where something called justice in the public and all that sort of thing. over the past several administrations vote you and is mentioned west and unless. we are against palestine joining the un, the u.n. is not a recourse, it is something to the historical, we don't needed. i want you to put it on your list of issues why the u.n. is a way to restore some kind of justice and legal determination.

i don't care whether it is haiti or yemen, go to the u.n.. >> thank you for your wonderful foundation, founder of the green party in b.c. and i will just say that i completely agree that instead of this sort of shoot first foreign policy that we have, diplomacy international law and human rights needs to be at the forefront and the un has become a mixed bag. we have seen that in the climate proceedings in the un where it has become kind of a front for lobbyists, corporate lobbyists and the climate conferences have become climate summits for energy lobbyists. we have work to do with the u.n.. the u.n. needs to be reformed and democratized and we need to get the big, powerful corporate

countries out of -- we need to get out of suppressing democracy in the u.n.. >> other questions? kelly campbell, green tv, green parties around the world have been very successful. in germany there in the majority of state legislatures. on sunday the election will put them in another, the ninth or tenth state legislature governing in there, australia, across the world. a key success has been the positive green new deal, solar jobs, when the jobs, rail jobs walk ability, pedestrian friendly. the important economic effects you can speak to, that is my question please talk more if you would and tell us about the positive health solutions for a green party, green new deal with the obesity epidemic killing

americans, diabetes across the nation. >> thank you for making that point. what is good for the planet is good for the economy and good for our health which is why the green new deal is a win/win. studies of shown this was a study out of stanford marc jacobson two years ago looked at the state of new york as a case study and found going 100% wind water and sun by 2013 was going to pay for itself simply in health savings alone. we sort of take air pollution for granted and water pollution and things like that, we take it for granted and assume these are god-given conditions, we all live with heart disease and respiratory disease and the other consequences, these are natural parts of human society but they are not. they are not supposed to be god-given conditions that strike us from birth on, not just

diseases of aging fed hit children as much as anyone else. you're point is of very good one. there are so many benefits to greening our economy, to halting climate change and making wars for oil obsolete and providing jobs right now that are essential. we can make unemployment the thing of the past, we can put everyone to work and the good news especially there is conservation and efficiency, simply saving energy by weatherizing homes and businesses and schools all that pays for itself and about three years in terms of just the energy savings. there are so many savings that kicks in that this is the wind on all counts. when people ask how you are going to pay for it, and essentially it pays for itself and we are paying to the teeth

by not moving forward right now in a wave that could also solve the climate crisis by timely intervention, thank you. [applause] >> nice to see you again. i am not 2016 baltimore mayoral candidate and green party nomination. regarding the war on drugs, what do you think about decriminalizing drugs like was done in portugal and creating safe spaces and the war against drug addicts and how do you propose to do that? >> let me answer that broadly because that is the wonderful and deeply involved question but in general we need to move from criminalizing the use of substances to treating it as a public health issue. there is no doubt that that needs to be our overarching approach. criminalizing people who have addiction problems only makes them worth and they go out and

are confronting joblessness and hopelessness based on being former prisoners so our current system basically compound the door on drugs, makes it worse and we can fix this now. is an absolute crime that people are in jail for using drugs that are less harmful than nicotine and alcohol. so the whole drug war is completely baseless, soundless, immoral, racist, and it needs to be transformed into a public health agenda and people who are currently serving time on account of using recreational substances who have not been involved in violent crime should have their sentences commuted.

[applause] >> i am a public-school teacher in philadelphia. i was pleased to hear you mention education during your talk. could you talk about what your vision of education would look like? public-school teachers are attack on a regular basis by the current administration. i would like to hear more about your vision. >> thank you. think you for standing up for public schools. we need an education system that teaches the whole student, the whole person for a lifetime learning, the demeaning of education into high-stakes standardized testing is a betrayal of the mission of education which should be about developing the whole person lifetime learning and developing our capacity for democracy. democracy fundamentally depends on education and on our ability

to make informed choices and to inform ourselves. we need strong public schools. we should not be privatizing our schools. [applause] >> we need community-based schools but they shouldn't have to be privatized in order to be community-based. parents and teachers and students all need a role, creating charters and taking sort of cherry picking the students who have more supportive families, who can work harder, pass a test they get cherry pick out and public schools get left with the challenged kids. my other visionaries sort of thought about the big fishing in education is that kids need to come to school prepared to learn. if they are coming malnourished,

coming sick, beset by violence if they are homeless, if they are jobless, that is an education problem. and dealing with poverty. >> we have two or three more questions, and have this gentleman over here. >> good morning. i would like to know what is the prison reform going to do? >> there is a lot to be done for prison reform. we have to stop shipping people into prisons. entire populations, one of every three african-american men. there is the racist prison

system stake that is forcing people who are economically disadvantaged in that direction, people who don't have jobs sometimes turn to dealing in drugs in order to survive and that is just a fact. that shouldn't be -- we have hope in communities and forced professions in order to survive. we need to deal with the mandatory minimums petter throwing people into jail long term. jail needs to be about rehabilitation, not vengeance. we need to prepare people to move back into society. the term is restored of justice that says a lot about what should be the vision of our

prison system. should not be about retribution and revenge, but rehabilitation and reconnecting people with their communities and preventing people from the start from being torn from their families and their communities going down pathways of violence and crime. we need to provide people with hopeful and sustainable path way forward. >> with people fighting for national health system based on health and not profit. the affordable care act further empowers the medical industry accomplish switch is in the way of us getting that type of system. do you have the courage to take on that privatized medical

industrial complex and how do you think people will respond when you speak about medicare for all types of health system? >> you know what this is about. none of us can do this alone. the imperative for this campaign is to bring that struggle which you and so many other physicians and everyday people are pushing forward to create a health care system that is accountable to was, about our right to health care not generating more profits for pharmaceutical health-insurance companies. [applause] >> we have a sick care system not health care system. allows all kinds of things did go on that make us sick whereas the vast majority of chronic illnesses are actually preventable and are inflicted upon us by social and nutritional and topped the

logical conditions and social conditions as well. we can do the right thing and we have got a wonderful crew to be fighting this battle and kudos to you and popular resistance, and economic human-rights campaign and many others in this audience listening today who have been a part of the struggle. polls continued to show that this is what most americans want and it is just for lack of a voice in the process and the fear campaign that tells us we don't dare stand up for what is actually within arm's reach, what we can achieve what will make our lives better and make as healthier and give us a more secure economy. that is always within our reach and standing up for our health in my view is part of standing up for our economic health and social health and the health of our democracy and as we come to

gather, a national campaign, national presidential campaign is a great way to build these coalitions as you are doing and popular resistance. this gives that social movements another voice in the political arena and that is where we get traction. if you look at what is happening in peter russo things lee began to really change for the better when that social movement also became a political movement and that political movement had a meteoric rise from 3% five years ago to being the majority party and having but prime minister of peter russo in that party. we are seeing the same thing happening in spain, in the u.k. the green party is experiencing a fast upsurge. in the u.s. for better or for worse it is not likely things are going to change. the predators are at the wheel,

and the steering wheel and they have no intention of giving it up. they are going to keep driving public support into our directions so we have an exciting future. i encourage everybody to go to the web site jules2016.com, way in, let's make this the campaign of a lifetime in this moment of historic transformation thank you so much. [applause] >> we had two other people on this stack, but we will make some quick and grab a public forum, dr. stein will be unavailable for individual interviews with individual media, state around after the next week to questions which will finish our q&a and they will be brief. >> very brief i promise. >> the u.s. senate candidate --

as you know if the green party supports statehood for dc. what will you do to promote our goal nationally and internationally? >> i missed a couple words. was that for statehood? yes. washington d.c. is a very important place. this is the seat of power and where so many battles are fought. i will be here. i am in an exploratory campaign right now. if things go well lie in tent would be to be here fighting that fight with you and clarifying this is everybody's fight. is a national disgrace that our national capital is a colony of the two birdy corporate state.

>> final question. >> the economic human rights campaign. i want to know what you will do to bring young people that disillusioned with the two party system into the fold and make the more welcome and understanding of democracy? >> thank you. that is the question of the hour and something we can only do it together. that is part of what we are doing in this exploratory phase calling on people out there who want to see this happen. want to see a choice and a future for young people who don't have jobs, swathed with that and don't have a climate future to look forward to, dealing with all the insecurities in the economy right now. is time to mobilize because to not mobilizes to ensure that we are going over the cliff especially for young people on whose shoulders all these

burdens are hardest. we need to have young people at the helm leading the charge sell my hope is during the exploratory campaign we will get organized, stand up, see who is going to be counted and have a campaign like we have never seen. [applause] >> it is in our hands. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> the formal question and answer session is now concluded. those members of the media who want individual interviews with jill stein or any of the activists assembled here in support of the exploratory committee, we will help you with those interviews. everybody else, thank you very much for coming. [inaudible conversations]

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>> the c-span cities to work takes booktv and american history tv on the road travelling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to corpus christi, texas. >> the special collections library in corpus christi, dr. garcia, this is the flagship collection we have here. he made it his life to help local and beyond mexican-americans learn to be more severely active and to get the benefits that they have coming to them as veterans which are sometimes very difficult for them to obtain. these items represent the case of felix longoria an incident that occurred early in the

history of the forum private longoria served the united states during world war ii and was killed by a japanese sniper toward the end of the war. his widow arrange to have his funeral conducted by the only funeral home in her home town of three rivers texas near corpus christi. they were willing to conduct the funeral but they not willing to allow his body to remain in their funeral home overnight for fear of ending the white citizens of the area. she appealed to dr. garcia and conducted a letter-writing campaign to people in positions of influence. the response came from london and johnson who had recently been elected senator. he states his belief that it is wrong for a fallen soldier to be discriminated against after death. he offered burial in the arlington national cemetery and

that is where private longoria was laid to rest. >> watch our events from corpus christi today at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3. ..