a house of god. they try to break the will of the civil rights movement. e bomb that september morning might have shaken the walls of that church, that they could not shake a will of the people who often gathered seeking the divine right of equality. it was a memory of the children addie mae, cynthia, carole, and denise that inspired leaders as dr. king and rosa parks and john lewis hum along with the countless others who continue their pursuit of justice through peace. as a march for equality, they demonstrated to the world that they would not forget the four little girls that were taken that day and it would not be intimidated. the congressional gold medal, one of america's highest civilian awards is given to those who had a great impact on american history and culture. addie mae, cynthia, carole, and denise are most deserving of that honor. thank you. [applause] >> the honorable mr. shelby. >> senator reed, senator mcconnell, speaker boehner, & kantor -- congressman kantor, congresswoman pelosi, i was in alabama 50 years ago 60 miles from birmingham. we

that gave me this idea that we need to start a movement, it needs to be a movement of public defenders who get it so we started building gideon's promise by creating young defenders from across the south to join this 3 year program to get training and support and started from 15 lawyers from 2 offices from atlanta to new orleans, jay was in or class. today we have over 200 lawyers from over 30 offices across 13 states. we have a program for leaders, a program for trainers. a program for our graduates, all from don's film have come through the program. that's why i did it. i really believe the public defenders can walk through a room across systems and remind people of these ideals that gideon was all about that quite frankly everyone in the system has forgotten. [ applause ] >> so judge. tell us about what is some of the concrete stechs steps that we can take in terms of training lawyers? it's great that you are working with individual lawyers, but how do you create a movement? how do you reach the 15,000 public defenders. you have to also republican there remember there are contract a

-- it was -- she was lead a movement with men and women at the time when women didn't need movements. she was in the late 19th century didn't need social movement with men in them. women would be in clubs and different things. here she was the leader of this whole deal and went prison. the movement in the end, became the movement. in fact the chapter in new orleans is the chapter that mother moore came out of. some you may know queen mother moore. there's a continuity then that and the history of black nationalism going all the way up to an interest in africa and internationalism. the congresses and six pack through congress was the last one we had. and the rest of them. you ought to think about gender. when i was thinking about nelson mandela the other day,whinny mandela would not have done the years he was in prison. you would have never heard of nelson. [applause] it was whinny that put herself on the line. half the time she was out there in detention out there by herself where they put her. the rest of the time she kept his image befor

because of theat current of people like john lewis, it will remain a nonviolent movementwhat we are seeing in syria, what linda and i saw in belfast when a bomb went off, we are not experiencing that today. commitment to peaceful settling of our grievances. peaceful resistance. standing up and fighting and going to jail, but not resorting to violence. that is a legacy that we ought to thank everyone who produce a paid it in this movement. thank you. [applause] and gentlemen majority leader of the united states house of representatives, eric cantor. [applause] >> it is a great honor to be here today. it was a great honor to accompany my colleagues and friend steny hoyer, the democratic whip, at the snvitation of representative and the alabama delegation to go on that emigrant ship -- pilgrimage to retrace the steps of the euros of the civil rights movement -- of the heroes of the civil rights movement. we commemorate the lives of addiefour little girls -- mae, denise, carole, and cynthia. it is a strong reminder of the horror endured by those who fought so hard in the civi

she dedicated her life to working in a civil rights movement. the key point is you return it with love which is a profound concept. there was someone else at the march that day. he came down from kent ohio in his little vw bug. they sat out on the mall and listened to the activities. he held an umbrella. the sun was intense. edwin markham with the king got to a certain part in his speech where he said what i think are the most important for words, not i have a dream, but on aren't suffering is redemptive. harold later told me he felt the surge of electricity go through his body. it was as if he had been touched by the most profound thing in his life. you remember back to the story his father used to tell him about his grandfather who was the landowner in alabama. one day he was sitting on his oars on his own property. he was shot dead by a white farmer who was jealous and angry that a black man could possibly own anything. and win his father told him the story about how his father -- his grandfather were shot down in cold blood he essentially tol

luck two years ago was the birth of a grassroots movement organized against the system as a whole and that's why occupy wall street pose such a threat to be establishment occupy didn't die it signified a monumental shift in consciousness and that's not something that simply goes away . just like. everybody else did you know the premise is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. rule. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the close work speaks ill of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen right hand full of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. and rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing the young girl ready to join the movement then welcome. but. the war is probably the most complex and difficult human to. all of us are still locked up.

are we in the midst of a moment or a movement? >> i hope it's a moment.ter degree of offense of the many injustices of the great nation at this time. whether it's voter i.d., racial profiling and sometimes unfair police tactics and all across the board. we are up against a right-wing resurgence in this nation and we have to recognize that there's an element there that wants to repeal the 20th century and turn the nation back to the 1890s and we've got a duty and responsibility to educate, inspire and motivate people to push back and resist this yesterday vision of america, and i think we have to replace it with a future vision. >> we understand the genius of the civil rights movement was not just marching in protests and sitting at lunch counters. we want these laws repealed and we want there to be a greater sense of justice in our community and the second step of voter registration is voter education. i sort of get that, but the first two points you talk about are not just about us, but it's about how the government responds to us. how do we create the k

and a movement of low-wage workers and it's so critical that people see it in the context under which happening. >> reporter: for proof of that just look at the 11 other protests taking place outside walmart nationwide on thursday. john with al jazeera valley stream long island. >> reporter: and still in the united states investigators in the state of california say wildfires in and around yosemite national park were started by an illegal camp fire. they say the blaze was sparked by a hunter who let the flames grow out of control. firefighters have now contained 80% of the blaze and been recorded as the fourth largest in the west coast history. the 2013 american football season kicked off with the usual razzle-dazzle but there is an under tone surrounding the sport after the national football league settled a large lawsuit out of court and they were accused of hiding evidence regarding brain damage and we have more. >> reporter: the final touches in the final hours before the 2013 football season kicks off in colorado. and it has been anything but a smooth off season for the national

occupy wall street was a movement born in new york in a short time protesters were occupying public spaces all across the country and even the world mass arrest of the eviction of the camps r t was there and the corporate media was not joining me now to get some insight on the movement on the two year anniversary i'm joined by our to correspond from only known l.a. honest us a church in new york and breaking a separate user manual about the right here and. thank you everyone for joining me and jumped right in here. i want to start with you in new york on the anniversary talk about the demonstrations happening today well i mean today was largely you know a birthday party was a celebration of what started two years ago we saw people gathering early on in the morning park where it all started two years ago and then events continued all throughout the day actually just now minutes ago outside our office at least a thousand people marched the group of occupiers still chanting on the streets today calling for stopping and frisking wall street calling for taxing the one percent curiously all of t

this is an important moment in the emergence of that feminist movement in the 1960's. a number of them or not. the minimum wage was far behind the standard that there were calling for by that point it was ten years later. the value declined the movement afoot to try no raise the minimum wage. some people tried the propose a $15 minimum wage which is roughly equivalent to what they're calling for. the important thing i want to leave you with is the context today, particularly in terms of the recent supreme court decisions this past summer. in two cases the supreme court to 53 cases the supreme court directly ruled on the legacy of the march on washington. employment discrimination. in all three cases the supreme court upheld the moral value of racial equality we believe that everyone has the right to be treated equally regardless of their race. these are consistent beliefs with the u.s. constitution, and in in every case the supreme court turned around and eliminated the enforcement measures that were deemed necessary to uphold that moral commitment. and in many ways we c

a celestial office. everything we thought about the messiah was young, because it didn't fit what jesus said and did. it's the reinterpretation of the messiah that turned this movement started by a jewish nationalist revolutionary peasant into a messiah. >> when we come back, i want to ask you what your research, what your study leads you to as a conclusion as to how the gospels are best to be read and understood. okay. we're back in a moment with reza aslan. >> and welcome back everyone to talk to al jazeera. we are with reza aslan he is the author of "zealot: the life and times of jesus of nazareth". let me start there. who was he? >> he was a jew. and that may seem like a very obvious thing to say. everybody agrees that jesus was a jew. the most literalist funnel christian believes jesus was a jew, maybe a blond haired blue eyed, but a jew. everything he said and did has to be understood in its jewish context. his teachings were jewish teachings. his thoughts his desires the way he thought about himself the scriptures that he believed in, the god that he worshipped. the religion he understood was judaism and nothing else. that is a profoundly important statement.

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tonight a number of people in the community who are previous awardees of the hero award and the number of people in the chamber are the grand ladies and grand gentlemen of the civil rights movement here in san francisco. we have with us tonight eileen hernandez, [ applause ] >> we are fortunate to have spinola jackson with us tonight. [ applause ] >> who has commissioner noted looks like a million dollars before taxes. and we are honored to have doris ward with us tonight. [ applause ] >> and i can't emphasize enough how critical and how influential and how just fundamental these three people have been and are to the work of civil rights and human rights in san francisco. [ applause ] i would also like to recognize someone who is very special to us, the commissioners, forward hrc commissioner who was present at the 1963 march on washington. she is here with her husband. flees join us in honoring frankie jill e t and maxwell. >> before we go to this year's nominees and awardees, i would like to recognize the nominees for this year's awards who were ultimately not selected but who because of their tr work were nominated by their contemporaries, their contemporaries in the communit

i can't say there was a grass root movement but when you look at that movement to warehouse people in mental hospitals, and shall initiatives. the state was looking to break down these very discriminatory patterns that focused on certain communities. there is a moment of that. but it was caught up in the fear of crime. i am old enough to remember in the 70s as the homicide rate continued to go up. and something has to be done but we throw it under the bus for risk prevention and poverty is -- and race are to be changed by proactive measure. >> let me take a question from the audience, professor simon, money system often taps the relatives assets. and then the relatives are motivated to help locate the fugitives. what would motivate them to rat out of fugitives. in other words what the question is getting at, sometimes having to post bail can cause the community around the accused to get involved in their life and take an active role of the charges. or if you have a situation of a fugitive to get involved? >> i like the idea of community engagement and to lower the risk and that someon

marx and lenin but from there from nationalism and that it was over he meant he was conscious movements were a reaction or comments led movements were a reaction to western imperialism to. western involvement by so that by propping up right wing dictatorships and bombing and intervening we were creating more communist then he was suppressing same thing has been happening in the so-called war on terror that the that the us intervention is creating it's this backlash effect it's it's creating the very enemy that we're trying to trying to suppress that you have these extremist islamist groups that are taking back to taking advantage of this national reaction that people have to a foreign intervention and those wishing to and help siders coming in and trying to run things and so you know the you know the fact is i've been going into the middle east for more than thirty years and the it's clear that the more the united states militarized is the region the less and less secure we're becoming ok richard you want to react to that intervention interventions is probably one of the clearest indicator it'

these major problems that we're all concerned about then i think that's a different understanding than maybe the occupy movement brought us to as far as what all this stuff means to share and a for a lot of people that the subject of economics is not the easiest to understand yet ironically it's one of the most important subjects to understand as it crosses paths with with nearly every decision that's made how challenging challenging was it for you to tell a story about the economy in a way that was compelling that can gauge a lot of people. well. i have no economic background and i'm not particularly political person when i started making this film so it was important to me that the film be not only true but also entertaining and my wife is a schoolteacher she hates politics and economics too and she loves this movie and not just because her husband made it either but because she says it's for the first time she really gets it when you see the movie it not only talks about income inequality but it connects the dots for how it affects our economy in a democracy in a way that i think makes it sort of does have a

legislation they have not yet passed but many respected to paris next year as well so we're seeing a movement against g m o's and we think this will result in their elimination from the food supply by the food companies who will see it as a marketing liability well that's good to hear that's for sure that's one thing but can i ask you another thing this companies like monsanto for example who produce to shameless they're certainly also aware of the repercussions and dangers what do you think are the motives for them. if there any more to it than just a simple case of corporate greed well i first want to confirm what you said i spoke to a former monsanto scientist and he confirmed what we already knew that when rats were damaged by monsanto scored in an industry study instead of withdrawing the corn they rewrote the study to hide the evidence similarly told me that three of my sandoz safety study testers for both growth hormone which is injected into cows to increase milk supply they tested the milk and found so much i g f one a cancer promoting hormone in the milk at the three month santa sci

legislation they have not yet passed but many respected to pass next year as well so we're seeing a movement against g m o's and we think this will result in their elimination from the food supply by the food companies who will see it as a marketing liability well that's good to hear that's for sure that's one thing but can i ask you another thing this companies like monsanto for example who produce to shameless they're certainly also aware of the repercussions and dangers what do you think are the motives for them. is there any more to it than just a simple case of corporate greed well i first want to confirm what you said i spoke to a former monsanto scientist and he confirmed what we already knew that when rats were damaged by monsanto scored in an industry study instead of withdrawing the corn they rewrote the study to hide the evidence similarly told me that three of monsanto's safety study testers for both growth hormone which is injected into cows to increase milk supply they tested the milk and found so much i g f one a cancer promoting hormone in the milk at the three month center s

legislation they have not yet passed but many respected to pass next year as well so we're seeing a movement against g m o's and we think this will result in the elimination from the food supply by the food companies who will see it as a marketing liability well that's good to hear that's for sure that's one thing but can i ask you another thing this companies like monsanto for example who produce to shameless they're certainly also aware of the repercussions and dangers what do you think are the motives for that. if there any more to it than just a simple case of corporate greed well i first want to confirm what you said i spoke to a former monsanto scientist and he confirmed what we already knew that when rats were damaged by monsanto scored in an industry study instead of withdrawing the corn they rewrote the study to hide the evidence similarly told me that three of my sandoz safety study testers for both growth hormone which is injected into cows to increase milk supply they tested the milk and found so much i g f one a cancer promoting hormone in the milk at the three month center scie

she dedicated her life to working in a civil rights movement. the key point is you return it with love which is a profound concept. there was someone else at the march that day. he came down from kent ohio in his little vw bug. they sat out on the mall and listened to the activities. he held an umbrella. the sun was intense. edwin markham with the king got to a certain part in his speech where he said what i think are the most important for words, not i have a dream, but on aren't suffering is redemptive. harold later told me he felt the surge of electricity go through his body. it was as if he had been touched by the most profound thing in his life. you remember back to the story his father used to tell him about his grandfather who was the landowner in alabama. one day he was sitting on his oars on his own property. he was shot dead by a white farmer who was jealous and angry that a black man could possibly own anything. and win his father told him the story about how his father -- his grandfather were shot down in cold blood he essentially tol