that we as human beings can help other human beings make their circumstances better, depend themselves and maintain human dignity in the face of onslaughts that come from every angle. we are blessed to do this work. we should never be ashamed to be public defenders. we should always be proud of what it is that we do for people and in fact, what they return to us. we are made better by the work that we do and may god bless all of your efforts. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, jose. the event today is also sponsored by the california attorneys for criminal justice. i also want to especially thank the rosenberg foundation and executive director tim solard who provided a grant to make this possible so thank you so much the rosenberg foundation and of course i want to thank all the volunteers who worked so hard to make this event happen today. now i'm very excited to introduce our keynote speaker. our keynote speaker is and was the first "lady lawyer" in california. it's true. because when she decided that she wanted to become a lawyer, there was one problem, the law in california didn't

let's face it -- we should know, especially in san francisco, that as human beings, we are not really comfortable with sex. some of us do not even know who we are, right? from day to day, right? you know, i mean, sex is a very complicated issue. the idea that sexual behavior and people's aberrations with it or problems with it or confusions should send them to present for life sentences. in wisconsin, they have the same thing in iowa and illinois -- actually have built prisons just for sex offenders. can you imagine? the entire prison are sex offenders, mostly young men. that is what they are. young men who are confused about their sexuality. as my son was or your son was. i'm going to continue with this, just some of the suggestions we have had. get rid of the word "officer." you have police officers -- isn't that enough? we have, like, 2 million of them. it should be social workers, correctional workers. parole workers. get rid of parole officers and probation officers all together. i call them resource centers so that when somebody comes out of jail or prison, that it would not mat

i hope and wish that we are treated at airports in this country as human beings, as american citizens. thank you for your time today. supervisor avalos: thank you. we very much appreciate it. >> i am john crew from the american civil liberties union of california. i will be happy to answer questions. this is an important topic. if we run out of time, i am happy to provide information later. i served as the police practices project director for 15 years. i served on the task force appointed by the police commission to draft san francisco intelligence policies. it is important for you to understand how it came about. it came about because the human rights commission held a similar hearing 20 years ago about similar issues. the board of supervisors endorsed it. the police. attention. they formed a task force that included a self -- myself and top levels of the police reported. we sat down and rewrote the sfpd policies. we are proud of the effort. it has served san francisco well for 20 years. chief casey sat in on the meetings with us. he asked why they were endorsing the changes because

as to be almost incomprehensible. i'm talking about global violence against women and children. this represents one of the largest global problems facing humanity today. supporting -- at according to amnesty international, one of three women worldwide will be beaten, coursed into sex, with rape in some countries reaching 70%. these devastate the lives of women and men everywhere around the globe. how does this affect you? what relevance does this have today as we sit enjoying lunch at the women's day event? it affects you more than you think. bear with me as i share some statistics. i had the privilege of speaking at the united nations a few weeks ago, a humbling experience. the u.n. has been a leader in establishing the human rights of women. women. in 1979 that established the

the army said today the new photos depict actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the u.s. army, end of quote. >>> when we come back here tonight, we'll go to japan, still dealing with twin disasters, and now a food scare along with it. >>> and later, the end of the journey for a young american, who went to japan to teach english. >>> back now, returning to our non-stop coverage of this ongoing disaster in japan, which again is playing out along two basic prongs, both of them awful. a towering humanitarian disaster, and a continuing nuclear disaster now spreading to the area of food safety. we have both covered tonight. we have two reports, beginning with chief science correspondent, robert bazell, in tokyo. bob. >> reporter: brian, in another setback in the efforts to contain the crippled reactors, engineers have discovered that some of the pumps are damaged beyond repair. they won't be able to restart them any time soon. smoke coming first from reactor 3 and later number 2 forced some workers to evacuate. despite those setbacks, officials

they didn't see us as human beings, but just as whores, just as flesh that they could use. that's all. >> ( translated ): we serviced between eight and 15 men a day. there were 22 girls in a three- bedroom apartment, and each girl got beaten up at least once a day. sometimes turkish policemen used our services. one girl ran away and went to the police for help, but she was taken back to her pimp. >> narrator: to offer some hope, the traffickers suggest to the women that they can work their way to freedom by paying back their purchase price. >> ( translated ): debt bondage represents the money that a girl is told she has to work off. that amount is easily inflated if the pimp wants. that way, the debt never goes away and she continues to work without ever receiving a penny. >> ( translated ): he said, "you'll be paid $500 a month." but the girls told me, "he never pays $500 a month. he always finds a reason to fine you." for example, if a client asks you to do something and you refuse, and the client complains to the pimp, he'd charge you for a month or two, and you'd end up

at least a little bit you guys have to at least a little bit we've forgotten how to interact as human beings with other people and it's become less important i i have got these important lessons in the york observer article i'm sorry i don't need to go there right now we're going to fly no it's ok and i use twitter and facebook and all these things i think the article was in a total i mean i don't know that it's i mean it also brings cocaine in addition to twitter right but these people would rather stay doing drugs all night which is like sort of like addict behavior so maybe if you pulled some people used to it and facebook and google but didn't use cocaine you might find it there still i don't know i don't use cocaine i use a lot of social networking sites and i work way too much and don't really go out so unfortunately i could relate way too closely to this article and i think that's all the time we have heard tonight show but thank you so much for tuning in and please make sure to come back one monday when alone i will be back and she's going to be interviewing joshua gray's one of the

if we, as human beings, allow this kind of atrocity to happen to our sisters and brothers anywhere in the world, it will eventually impact all of us. it's already impact all of us-- even if we pretend we don't know it in our consciousness, do you know? i remember, in the reagan years, when there were ny, many homeless people on the street-- and i was already involved with nuclear disarmament; working all these issues-- and i just couldn't deal with homeless people. it was like, "i can't take it in." and my friend kept saying to me, "i want you to come to this shelter; i want you..." i kept saying, "i don't want to, because once this door opens, i know..." but i got progressively depressed, because every time i would walk past a homeless person, i'd have to shut some part of myself off, so my energy was getting... and then one day, i finally went to the shelter, and i met the women, and i sat with the women, and you know what? i felt pain-- but i felt alive, because i was in connection with them; and my energy came back, and my... and that's what i would say to people. you know, yes, i

so every piece of us, every piece of society, every piece of us as human beings is somehow engaged in this. everyone contributes i think. >> you seem to be speaking primarily of tears of cancer in the morning about prevented. it seems to be an increasing amount of search went on. vitamin d is a popular issue right now. could either one of you comment on your outlook towards the preventive efforts that are being made, and any optimism there? >> yes, i have several comments about the. there's a large section in the book that just with prevention so make no mistake that, in fact, one of the most historically, in fact, one of the most seminal moments in the war on cancer is when this idea of fighting a war, a cure batter began to fade away, people began to really research focus on prevention. that continues today. my thoughts on prevention women. i'm not going to talk about them at great length. i'm going to say, i'm going to make two comments. one common is that it remains shocking to me that the most preventable carcinogen is still at large. who we are fighting, it's compensated battle

a place where they do not believe that they were treated with the dignity they deserve as human beings? >> very good question. and with kofi annan we were discussing... >> rose: today? >> no, but about a week ago whether from north africa it will go across the sahara to south of the sahara, to countries south of the sahara. and we didn't have an answer. but there is certainly a lot of interest in what is happening in north africa and the middle east. in the rest of africa and i suppose elsewhere as well. >> rose: and what's going to be the model for the future and will it vary from place to place to place? >> yes, it will vary. the point i would like to make on this is a lot of reforms are going to be necessary in this country. a lot of changes are going to be necessary in this country. one of them that is not talked about is how to correct the distorted manner which the first wave of reforms after the end of the cold war were implemented. after all, egypt has been implementing reforms and changing things and they have created a great free market. but that free market has been horrible

seven other people who rely on this, not only for economic purposes but just being able to be served as a human being in receiving health care, i ask that you show your support for all of us. we are part of your community. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker? >> i am an organizer with power. i want to thank supervisor mirkarimi for holding this hearing and supervisor kim for coming out and supporting the community events and all of you for taking the city initiative and your own hands. i think this context right now around health-care is critical because increasingly health care is looked at as a business. yes, this is a question of our health and finances, but fundamentally, there is a moral question. we all know the reality that across the country lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people don't go to the doctor because of the discrimination we face, and countless studies have shown the correlation between breast cancer and lesbians was because they were not getting medical care until so late in the not aware they were getting cancer and could not the treatment. the

human beings, too. is that a problem for anybody that's trying not to consider them as human beings? it might be. but i think it was the correct thing to do and i'm extremely proud of the movie. the way it's made, what it says and what it's doing. >> you know, there are concerns about... >> are you proud of the movie? it tells a story you wanted to tell and hope that it would become when you wrote the book and then saw it evolved into a screenplay? >> i'm proud of julian for his integrity and dignity and the fact that he really fought. everything seems simple now but this movie to be made in israel, in palestine, with a mixed crew where everybody was not sure they wanted to work with each other, brought it everywhere, talked about it and for the first time i saw something in arab's eyes when we went to tunisia, to qatar, to abu dhabi, dubai, and showed the movie. and they've never seen an israeli or a jewish person so when they saw julian, they was best ambassador for israel because we never thought that somebody can tell our story this way with a lot of empathy and dignity and respect. >> rose:

became less about completing this record and this project and more about completing your self as a human beingas a very dark time. this was not all music business stuff, there was personal tragedy. the depression carrying over from the loss of my father. looking at the world, this place can be a very dark place. if you confront it in a corporate situation and you see it firsthand and you know that this is not a conspiracy theory. you know this is how people do this. for me, this is too much to bear. life in general, this is a small example of it. i did not see any light. it really took me step in back. i did a song which documented it. and i was told, you like to perform music. i said, yes, i do. you cannot do that if you are dead. i became very human, very aware of my mortality. very aware of the responsibility i have to the people i am connected to. tavis: i love the conclusion that you are arrived at. i celebrate your community. your lyrical content is off the chain. i am glad for a lot of reasons that you did not follow through when you were tempted to take your own life. i was just readin

to stop this is not respect you call this respect this terrorist on my terrace turned all the human being as a lot of disasters human beings that much worse things and. even in. the so very few people did it a bit more people benefit. when majority of the human beings in the world were silence was it and this is the problem people must understand that in just a situation he has only two camps either you for it or against being silenced has been for it no one has to you know the labor life of religion of resistance but everyone is obligated to stop being silence. yes my name is daniel smith this is julian assange we're here to make a short presentation about that we can fix project. the first. in the fourth grade to get information out about the real world. through him war on. anger. secrecy because you are going to be a democracy. if i ever put in you saw as this danger he would hunt me down and kill. this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the question because it has become more about this old james bond. then all of the actual information. thank you. so old people around the won't.

>> it does matter -- as human beings, as the president has said, his policy is, first of all, there should be no violence in these changes that are going on in the middle east. he has to protect the basic human rights, and in the end, there has to be a process, both political and economic for the people in these christophe some opportunity of real change. >> but nobody can force him out unless we lead the way. >> well, that is a statement that may or may not be true right now. i don't think you know that, i don't think i know it. and the world doesn't -- >> let me ask you, if we look at the map of the broader middle east here, we've talked about tripoli and libya, but as you look across the map, and particularly the persian gulf states, there's a lot of anger at this administration. the saudis in bahrain and the uae, where you've got sunny sunni governments, where they say we're not going allow a shy eat government to take over. this is a sectarian president in the middle east. do they understand the limits? and the limits are the realities of our oil interest and stability in that part of

mood because we don't trust the driver so we have to be within the horsemeat circle so you as a human being you tell me how could you be i mean it's just stupid here is human rights with rebels professing their readiness to fight gadhafi is regime to the bitter end no wonder news reports a caring predictions of in an uncivil war yet as the rebels inability to mount a fully fledged defensive becomes more apparent so is the imbalance nature of the coverage media me call good after delusional but in their assessment of the events and leaving they don't show a full grasp of the street either. many people think that being one correspondent takes over courage and hard work but actually a fun it's much easier and quicker more enjoyable than routine journalistic assignments especially when they were sitting sideways so accommodating the problem hearing and being got the is that some reporters became not only part of the story but in its main driving force and instead of hoping that full blown confrontation and block showed their courage it almost calling for it ok sort of like an artsy ghazi