throughout the show use the twitter hashtag, ajam stream. >> love lynn has worked on native american voting rights since the 1960s. in our google plus hangout sarah frankenstein. , and hans, manager of the election law reform initiative. welcome everyone to the th thanks for being here. >> several counties and the montana secretary of state's office for equal voting rights, what printed the lawsuit? >> my native american constituent. who came home in a flag draped coffin. we can fight and die for our country, and equally, we engage in the military at higher percentages than any segment of society. but when we can't come home we do not have the same access to voting. i thought that was inherently and morally and ethically unfair. i reached out to the secretary of state and asked her to have a meeting on this issue. for 89 days she declined. for 89 days i had the chairman of the blackfoot write her. she declined. but if montana is just to this side of tea party. once again we were sty mi stymied and i thought that was wrong and so i filed a lawsuit. >> that was a year ago? >> a year ag

impri imprisoning, would just , ajam stream as the thirst hose of the show. a child in pr massachusetts is going to be tried as an adult. >> should he face adult justice? one quarter of a million juveniles go through the adult criminal justice system each year. advocates note that juveniles who end up in prison have much higher recidivism to remain in youth facilities. victim rights advocates however argue that it's the magnitude of the crime to make it more difficult to put minors through adult courts should minors ever be treated as adults. to talk this through we are joined by liz ryan, president of the campaign for youth justice, to end the incarceration of youth for adult crimes. google hangout is glen martin who was convicted of armed robbery and served six years. a youth are advocate. welcome to all of you. liz i want to start with you. give us a snapshot of the 250,000 juveniles who go through system and how the numbers shake out. >> as you said, about a quarter of a million young people are tried in adult criminal court every single year. many of the

the online community, of course, shapes the show with all of their contributions, using the hash tag ajam stream. >> it deserves funding families and children need support to be successful in order to thrive. however, here is a personal stroer, pretty depress depress from tiger, my great and uncle fausterred for so long we called them cousins but they were considered too old to adopt. the entire family suffered, and those two kids were never adopted, and, in fact, fairly are older minority kids ever adopted, quote, out of the system. it's something we will talk about. beginning to. >> i am surprised that there is a lot of inconsistency. >> it's fascinating. >> joining us to help address this topic is rick burnthal. he and his wife were foster parents who cared for over 25 children. they are still in touch with some of them today. >> on skype is chris beam, a foster parent and author of 2 the end of june, the intimate life of american foster care and in our google quest hang out, we are joined by a foster chile who is an advocate. welcome to the stream. >> rick, you and your wife stepped i

tweet us at ajam. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at your top stories. president obama is praising the affordable care act for helping uninsured americans. and he said it is not a failure. mr. obama gave his peach in boston. the massachusetts health plan was the template for the health law. kathleen sebelius was grilled for three hours on capitol hill, she said that the problems would be fixed. i spoke with david merrit about the policy of the affordable care act. >> it was a full throated defense of the affordable care act, and she did a necessary job to go out and try and confront some of the critics and explain what is happening. i found two things somewhat curious, one, she actually said that the website had never crashed which in fact, it had. it even crashed this morning. the second one was that she was apologizing, which she certainly needed to do, and the president did an adequate job of that as well, then she shifted the blame to the contractors. when you're apologizing, you're usually apologizing for something you're responsible for. but she pu