>> bill moyers: how did they?hall ganz: well, there was a lot of this heart work, a lot of the narrative, the storytelling, a lot of the celebratory, a lot of the nurturing of the heart. i mean, you know, it took us five years to run a grape boycott. and we had to reinvent that thing every year. and every year, you're going back in and saying, "okay, we got to start again." but you find in each other, in the solidarity, in the myths, if you wish, that feed you, the capacity to keep going. >> bill moyers: i remember what you wrote once that you had learned in mississippi during the summer of 1964. you said, all the inequalities between blacks and whites were driven by a deeper inequality, the inequality of power. that seems to me the fundamental reality of american life today. >> marshall ganz: yeah, i think the political inequality and the economic inequality and a kind of cultural inequality that sort of all reinforce one another is an enormous problem, obviously. i mean, that's sort of what we're trying to deal

>> bill moyers: was there a time you had to do that, when you had to suspend disbelief and see that the inevitable was not a necessity, that it was a probability? >> marshall ganz: boy, i you know -- well, first of all, thinking i can get into harvard in the first place from bakersfield, leaving harvard to go work in mississippi is -- >> bill moyers: you left before you finished your studies? >> marshall ganz: yeah, i had a year to go.

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>> bill moyers: hello, and welcome to this special edition frontline. i'm bill moyers. we want to tell you the story of two american families whose lives embody what's happened to the hopes and dreams of millions of americans over the past 20 years. it's a story that begins in milwaukee, back in 1991, when we first met the stanleys and the neumanns, families my mother, rest her soul, would have called "the salt of the earth." >> i want my kids to... >> grow up to be good kids. >> yeah, i want good children. >> i can tell you've been down south a long time. you're saying, "yes, ma'am." >> moyers: hard workers, caring parents, faithful church-goers trying to secure a foothold in the middle class. but as we came back to visit them over the years, we watched their children grow and their fortunes change. >> now i'm putting longer hours in, you're getting money, but it's not that much, and you say, "what's the use?" >> moyers: we saw their work lives upended by the powerful economic and political forces that were altering the american landscape. >> here's my paycheck. $9,646

[speaker not understood], a film of the 1974 bill moyer's interview of harry bridges and lots of other great things. so, again, monday september 2nd from 11 to 5. labor fest runs from july 5th to labor day, which signifies bloody thursday and from the 1934 strike and it's been running since 1994. there are labor fests in many places in the world which include in japan in tokyo, [speaker not understood], in turkey at istanbul and [speaker not understood], the first one just happened in cape town, south africa, as well as ben sayerx and bolivia. so we're proud to be participating in this ~. i'm grateful to ilbe for including us in their celebration and recognition of their 150th anniversary. so, hope to see many of you there on monday, labor day. another event is also happening labor day weekend or actually a couple days right after labor day. well, this one is september 3rd through sixth at south beach harbor. it is a -- an event put on by the bay area association of disabled sailors in combination with the south beach yacht club hosting the 2013 north american combined access class cha

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caller: bill moyer did an expose. it has been around since reagan. it is a secret organization. it has anynk business in our government. i want to expose and i want to know who belongs to it. host: i think you can go to their website. we are talking about the president's priorities, what do you think the top priority should be? tweet coming in -- another tweet -- a couple of our callers this morning has already brought up some of the budget and debt ceiling issues facing the country. this story from "the christian ," --ce monitor the story goes on to talk about the white house's game plan to push for an increase in the nation's debt limit without attached policy changes. the president said he will not sign spending bills that did not treat defense and nondefense equally. democrats say mr. bouma -- mr. obama -- shutting down the government is a small price to pay for killing the president's signature bill. that is this week's christian science monitor. we are talking about all of these issues on the president's plate. we want to hear what you think the top priority should the. ca

shorty tweets and -- why not bill moyers, amy goodman, cindy sheehan, bernie sanders.ho says rush limbaugh single-handedly rested the monopoly of the media from the left. what a complete waste of time this topic is great we are living under tyranny. even usingritical the term medal of freedom. some of the award winners from president bill clinton era -- colin powell, thurgood marshall, cesar chavez it is time to hear from william in thomasville, georgia. republican line. caller: good morning. host: who would you nominate? caller: my fellow crew members of the uss scope and andy uss -- and the uss sturgeon. those crewmen did a fabulous job attacking americans freedom they in and day out. host: what are those ships that you just mentioned? caller: those are nuclear powered submarines that patrol the north atlantic. host: are you still assigned to that? caller: no, i have since left the military under honorable terms as did nearly all of my crewmembers. they did a wonderful job, and we loved doing it. host: what is it about that crew that you think would merit a president

bill moyer wrote about the importance of the media. they said give us the book. our car was filled with books so we got a copy of the book and i handed it to the order guard. he -- one of them started reading it and another one started writing in pencil everything i was saying and another was typing into the computer. tell us what you're going to stay. i said i thought i'd start with the last column. that's about the health care plight in the united states. she was dreaming your health care system and you didn't detain her. i'm talking about some of the virtues of your health care system. they didn't find this humorous. this is about and maybe i could take the book because the title of the column the last column in the book and i thought well i would read it to them. i said health care reform needs an action hero. imagine the scene america 2009, 18,000 people at tiger one year. who is taking them out? to investigate president obama might be tempted to colin jack bauer the fictional rogue intelligence agent from the hit tv series 24 who invariably employs torture