adc came out to try to respond to this. this shows the power of social media to get these kind of stories out there and bring issues to the public eye that might not have been brought before. we can think about how social media works and apply it to adc development's for the future. we are going to share of four main ideas that have to do with social networking that we will structure our discussion around. the idea of wanted to throw at you is that in social networking, everybody is connected to everybody else with facebook and twitter. there is a leveling effect in terms of how information flows. i can become a broadcaster. in the old days, major organizations like adc were the broadcasters through mailings and phone trees and things like that. in the new media era, we are all gatekeepers and we are all circulating information and ideas. this is a new media kind of logic and that's it is what drove us to find out about the story. i think the adc response so far has reflected an old media way of thinking. adc so far was bui

adc has a reputation, it's got a brand. once members join, i mean, yes, from our end we can do a little bit more to reach out, restrategize on how we're going to reach the membership, but once we do reach the membership base, the onus is on them to tell us what they want to do. our legal department, for example, addresses issues that arise from a survey given at the end of every month, and it's those policy items we work on. it's truly a grassroots organization where the agenda is set by the members, and that's important. once we reach those members, every one of them is different from the somalis, lebanese, so we have to work and tailor our messaging, but the services are there. and we do have a free legal department, too, which offs -- >> a resource that might be helpful is upwardly global, and they take people and they'll actually translate it to american accreditation. >> finally, we are in the forms of developing a business professional council which we'll be discussing, hopefully, in an e-mail in a couple weeks. thank

[laughter] and really what adc is utilizing is a social network. facebook, twittered, just to use the under generation, and you want to talk generation of the family working at adc and it just shows there's going to be different mindsets and different ideas but we have a full-time staff person doing our social networking and social media. very important. >> some don't even print fly years anymore. unless you really want but really it's social networks, facebook, our advertising money now facebook advertising where you could be so it's definitely something -- >> my question wasn't just adc, in general any recommendations? >> arab american professionals. >> i think the question we have to ask is if there is so much out there and so many different voices how are we going to make ourselves or our cause or identity relevant to the generation why, and it really is engaging. live in to so many panels in the last two months analyzing the youth, but like the last panel someone tried to say representing the youth and by 46i would love to be a youth but i no

>> certainly. >> i grew up in a household when i was young that was adc members and so on, and i think any arab-american in this country is incredibly sympathetic because it is a defacto organization that represents arab-americans and at no greater time has it been important and present and particularly after september 11th. but, i accept what you have to say but the press release put out was also unacceptable. it did not make clear the situation and used this language about adc not taking the position to promote any particular side of a dispute, but the dispute is something that's a small conflict i have with my wife about what kind of car we are going to buy. the situation with regard to basic human rights and political freedoms and the use of incredible brutality against largely civilian peaceful protesters and at the beginning the completely civilian protesters that's not a dispute. so it's incumbent upon the organization to be unequivocal support for basic principles of civil liberties, political freedom and human rights, and the press release didn't do that i'm afraid to say. [ap

he was married to the former president of adc. dr. maksoud is the ultimate arab cheer, leader, supporter, and fan. he's been receiverring the arab community for close to 50 years, and we're delighted and glad to have him with us this morning. our second panel is going to be professor samer shehata. i'm sorry. translate the arabic into that is sometimes difficult to translate that. thank you though. as a professor of arab politics and school of foreign services of georgetown university center for the contemporary art studies teaching courses on arab middle east politics, u.s. foreign policy towards the middle east, and other subjects. before coming to georgetown, samer was a fellow at the columbia university, one year of the districter of the graduate studies at new york university center for middle east centers. his work was a period and wide variety of academic, publications incoming international journal of the middle east studies, current history, middle east policy, boston globe, and other weeklies. foreign policy and other public

no slam to adc. ica dissonance to what the arab-americans believe. i see dissidents to at the arab people believe. i don't need to beg money. i would don't want a idea money. i want democracy in my land, among our people. and all the values and all the statements and all the statements of a.i.d. that you can pronounce here, $1.5 billion, $3 billion to israel and the occupation continues, is hollow. it is hollow. i don't need your money. i need your principles for support. i thought obama would come and do something different. it turns out he's just another bush, vis-À-vis israel and palestine. okay the question. how many water wells has the a.i.d. repaired in gaza? that were destroyed by israel? and why would they be allowed to be destroyed in the first place? these are the questions that i don't even want to ask. i'm just sharing that out loud. i believe that i reflect the sense of this audience. [applause] >> how many water wells, was that the question? i don't have the data but i would be happy to share them with you. afterwards. >> question pleas

i think it's a transformative moment, and that means for those of you in the audience and for the adc, it is an opportunity in which at a time in which we are not confronting national security trauma or emergency in which we are not reacting. at this moment in time, proactively, what can we create? i'm very hopeful and optimistic about the possibility of creating a much more strategic and intelligent response and the infrastructure that we need to engage the community and work with them as partners opposed to suspects. >> thank you, and in closing, i would like to say at adc, there's an array of issues that we will continue working on and the fight for our civil rights and justices has not stopped, and it will continue, but it will continue with open dialogue, and we will butt heads and disagree with government agencies and may disagree with each other, but there are times where this relationship is needed, and more often than not, it is needed. >> okay, i'm going to throw in a closing comments because it highlights what i'm challenging you to do. a lot of the first people to come to

originally abc, cbs, nbc in the late 1960's adc pacelli it's a major urban areas getting box handed to them by cbs which has affiliate's everywhere it was having all the talk shows the beverly hillbillies, green acres not exactly liberal urban shows. what happened is abc secured okay we've got to make money how are we going to do this? scan the advertisers and tell them our viewers are more important than theirs and because there's little critters and executives and ad agency people they said that sounds great. the most liberal age group in the country. 18 to 34 come 18 to 49 and that's why they didn't allow the program liberal and that's why they lie and say the market demands are liberalism this is what shuts down conservatives, this is everybody's critiqued has said yes tv is liberal and then a case of the tv is liberal. you don't like it, turn the channel. only one problem there's nothing to turn the channel to the same people control channels and number two, they are not really marketing to you. they don't care about you even if we did turn the channel for the most part conservati

but from the pakistani standpoint, adc china as their all weather friend which will bail them out.the truth is in every war with india they haven't bail them out. they stood on the sidelines. they are an important partner for pakistan in terms of military equipment, in terms of the nuclear technology and capability that tony just talked about. but i think they're more complicated allied and the pakistanis want us to believe they are. and there's also another ally they have which is the saudis and the gulf states. and they are the arab spring is moving the gulf states closer to the pakistanis as a source of reliable military manpower in the event of more our brains and more internal problems in the gulf. pakistan has alternatives to us. it likes to exaggerate the size of those alternatives that they do have alternatives. >> if i may just make a point. i think there's another side of this from a purely military one, and it is simply trade logistics arrest. there's been a lot of talk about that. at first, pakistan is not a particularly attractive economic structure for china. it is no

for more than 35 years, adc has been the leading non-governmental organization involved with the brac process. we represent over 250 communities that have dealt with or are dealing with the impacts of brac. who are involved with the past round in her current involvement in the proper disposal process we bring a vast experience with working with local state governments, the federal, and the private sector on the impacts of federal property transfer. as the subcommittee considers legislation to dispose of excess federal property, we hope the lessons learned in the brac process and in particular the affect on the role of communities and states should be given consideration. committee and state have been a central part since its inception in the early 1980s. in fact, when the major reasons we ended up with brac was to mitigate the concerned regarding the transparency of the overall process. while decisions related to brac and impact of committees and states have been challenging, the brock process remains politically viable because of the independence of the process and commitment to tran