i think it was justice brandeis who said it better than anyone. in democracy, the highest office is the office of citizen. and it's actually true. [speaker not understood] in many ways, sometimes amateurs. we're limited in what i could best describe an age of amateurs. i say that in a very enlightened sense. they are getting small. small is getting big. hierarchy as we know it is [speaker not understood]. you think about the institutions that have served us so well over the last half century. they are dramatically changing. you see it certainly in media. you've seen it in the financial service industry now increasingly serving the music industry. and you see it in city government. you are a big participant in that dramatic evolution or what i would argue, the dramatic punctuation point in terms of the world we live in. i don't think it's cyclical. i think something dramatic is taking shape here as it relates to particularly the impact of technology is having on the world we're living in. we're living in a fish bowl. the whole idea of holding back

angela attended brandeis, an east coast school that didn't help her feelings of alienation and she joined the communist party usa and first rose to national prominence when she went head to head with governor ronald reagan in california when the board of regents fired her from her first position as professor for her membership in the communist party. she was soon after, the concentration of events in these people's live in the 70s was remarkable, charged with murder and kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with an attempted jailbreak in the marine county court house in northern california. you went underground to me they capture, she was captured and spent 18 months in prison before her trial which was covered the world over. i will read you one more piece from that. this was when she gets captured. re-entering the motel in the late afternoon and gillette noted dark suited men milling about the lobby. she kept down the now familiar feeling of panic that spread through her. she was probably imagining things she told herself. the stress of life as a fugitive had taken its toll. every whi

the attended brandeis and another east coast mostly white school which didn't help the feelings of alienation. she joined the communist party usa and rose to national prominence when she went head-to-head with governor ronald reagan in california when the border regions fired her from her position ask professor for her membership in the communist party. she was then very soon after. back in the 70's was remarkable she was charged with murder and kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with an attempt to jailbreak in the marlene county courthouse in the northern california. she went underground to avoid capture and she was captured and spent 18 months in prison before her trial which was covered the world over. so i will just feed you one more piece from that. this is when she gets captured. entering the motel in the late afternoon, angela noted in passing a dark suit and men in the lobby. she took down the now familiar feeling of panic that spread through her. she was probably imagining things, she told herself. the stress of life as a fugitive had taken its toll and every white man in a suit

divide in wealth between whites and blacks one that's one hundred fifty two thousand dollars wide brandeis university just released a study showing that the wealth gap between african-americans and whites has tripled in twenty five years some years ago. this study was that average high school graduate made the same as average joe white black college graduate so when i read the at the new stated mandates that he was this nothing surprising to me the study was based on seventeen hundred households of working age between one thousand nine hundred eighty four and two thousand and nine in just twenty five years the wealth gap between white and black families tripled from eighty five thousand dollars to a staggering two hundred thirty six thousand five hundred dollars after american a washing machine you know the schools deteriorate they've seen the housing markets are deteriorating so black solution that blacks moving out of these are all made. in the u. . west one percent of households own thirty seven percent of all wealth giving towns like this one in fairfax virginia a new definition of wha

cook political report, and tom shapiro, director of the institute of assets and social policy at brandeisniversity, and heather mcgee, advicer of public policy and demos.com. and ed ppakskey, because he brings doughnuts and is our favorite mayor. >> yes. >> and we are talking about everything across the board and every single thing is going to be cut and not with any reason, but just because we manufactured a crisis. amy? >> yes, we are good alt manufacturing the crisis. >> why? why? >> i appreciate when the president came out to say, there is a silent caucus of reasonable people up here. actually, there aren't. there are not reasonable people. >> they are not just silent, they are just not there. >> they are gone. they used to exist ten years ago and there were democrats who would vote who were moderates, and there were republicans who were moderate and over the last few years starting in 2006 and then going through the redistricting of 2011, they are gone. 96% of democrats sit in districts that barack obama won. 94% of the republicans sit in districts that mitt romney won. there is zero

divide in wealth between white and black one that's one hundred fifty two thousand dollars wide brandeis university just released a study showing that the wealth gap between african-americans and whites has tripled in twenty five years and some years ago. this study was that average white house school graduate made the same as average white black college graduates so when i read the of the new stated that he was just nothing surprising to me the study was based on seven thousand nine hundred households of working age between one nine hundred eighty four and two thousand and nine in just twenty five years the wealth gap between white and black families tripled from eighty five thousand dollars to a staggering two hundred thirty six thousand five hundred dollars after american a washing machine you know the school is a cheery they've seen the housing market so the so black solution that blacks moving out of these are all maybe. in the u.s. one percent of households own thirty seven percent of all wealth giving towns like this one in fairfax virginia a new definition of what it means to be

journalism at brandeis university and the co-director of the florida center for investigative reporting a journalist in the truest sense of the word he is the recipient of the john jay college frank guggenheim excellence in criminal justice reporting award as well as the molly prize in the international data journalism award his new book the terror factory inside the f.b.i.'s manufactured war on terrorism reveals the truth behind the f.b.i.'s counterterrorism informant program is a must read for anyone interested in learning about the dark side of the war on terror to earn some walk of thanks for having me thanks for joining us on extraordinary book. what. what how did you get started with this first of all what led you to looking into the f.b.i. as you called it a manufactured war and terrorism. in fact let me start with that why manufactured terrorism well you know as i discussed in the book there have been actual terrorists who have tried to strike the united states such as. who delivered a bomb to times square that fortunate didn't go off and the f.b.i. didn't know anything about hi

justice brandeis said the most important office is the office of citizen. we have forgotten hour collective responsibility to engage. i don't want things done to me that with me. i imagine when you are a customer you feel the same way than why not at the counter in government? you allow us to do things to you. now with you. i don't understand that. i just call for the evolution of thinking. turnaround it is bottom-up not top down not machine. >> host: hierarchal thinking you are suggesting were collective action. >> guest: yes. organic. will hold the mindset and it transcends the ideology that is out there. you can find aspects of this but it is not about the squishy middle but the open way and a different way of thinking. and i think technology drives us down the path. >> to $64,000 question question, nothing with today's inflation had you get that money out of politics? how does technology help take the money out of politics? >> guest: television, offtrack but, we spent 2.$2 million to saturate the los angeles market per week just the los angeles market.

according to a study by brandeis university says that the gap has tripled from 30,000 to 206,000 in 2009 disparity in homeownership. the study points out that decades of segregation including unequal access to credit, it is no surprise that the rate of homeownership is 28% higher for whites than others. we often see that the policies have made black people poorer, and we have never seen a revolution in our era to stop that gap. >>> and we know that 33,000 additional troops were not sent in as said in january by nato forces. they reported a 7% drop in attacks, but when questioned about the figure, they said there was a mistake, and in fact, attacks by taliban did not decline last year. >>> and we know that a number of people were produced to publish articles to discount a pro democracy leader. conservative pundit was under contract for nearly $400,000 between 2008 and 2011 to lead the effort which involved him paying a series of writers sums of money to write pieces that appeared in red state, the washington times and the "huffington post," but none of them were printed without any opinio

and the dodgers agreed from massachusetts at amherst and she also put her doctoral coursework at brandeisuniversity. and last but not least you already know kellan who is associate director of the lgbt research and communications project here at cap. and kellan has a masters in public health, nasa public health and global public health policy and a master of arts in international development from george washington university. he received his undergraduate degree with high honors from swarthmore college. and i do believe that this is the most well educated and experienced them that i've ever had the budget to moderate. so thank you all for being here with us. we just learn from these presentations that discrimination, the travel along the fault lines of social and economic and inequality can system marginalizes lgbt people and people wer who are living wh hiv and aids. as a result, these populations expect severe disparities. thought want to turn to you first, jeff, and ask you to unpack this a little bit for us. can you talk to us about the other discriminatory social determinant of healt

degree from the university of massachusetts amherst and also completed her doctoral coursework at brandeis come university. last but not least, you already know kellan baker, the lgbt project here at cap and has a masters in public health and global public health policy master versus international development from george washington university and received his undergraduate degree with high honors and i do believe this is the most well-educated i have ever had the privilege to moderate. thank you for being here with us. we just learned from these presentations that discrimination that travels along the fault of social and economic inequality consistently marginalizes lgbt people and people living with hiv and aids. as a result, they have severe disparity. i want to turn to you and ask you to unpack this for us. can you talked to us about to determine if the public racism and violence against women in poverty and how they multiply disparities we saw earlier? >> first thing to suspend history the history from the beginning. we saw this terrifying epidemic, bob and the country responded with t

work on developing a domain episode of payment if he could comment on not work as a partnership at brandeis. >> one in the program we are working on is going well and we have announced 48 episodes that will be central to that program. the episode based in program is moving well. on the other side we are making good progress in developing a career. i can't give you a lot of insight other than to say we are moving forward and i believe will benefit tool. >> thank you. we have time for one or two more questions in the room a close to. question on the front row. >> i., jennifer lavelle with american medical news. one thing i haven't heard yet is the patient voice. you talk a lot about physician accountability. what about the patient accountability and proven quality and lowering costs? i see people who are overweight, patients who are taking medication. i'm just kind of wondering, where does the role of educating the patient -- a mention patient navigation, but it wonderfully could hear more about that particularly from dr. smith. >> well, first of all, almost all patients are increasingly able

the perhaps way overused expression from i think 1916 from justice brandeis about sunshine being thebest disinfectant. is that issue still possible to televise the proceedings of the court? >> we take the position -- my position is, i think the member of the other justices, that we are a teaching institution. .. you can't get exactly the dynamic from the transcript says. so if you were making debate points you could score a tremendous number of points by taking the affirmative position whether we should of cameras in the courtroom. it's not an unreasonable position. we feel number one that our institution works. and in my own view, there would be considerable reluctance to introduce a dynamic where i would have the instinct that one of my colleagues asked the question because we are on television. i just don't want that in insidious dynamic intervening between me and my colleagues when we only have a half an hour. so we think that in our courtroom cameras would be inconsistent with the tradition. i say we and i think i speak for a majority. sometimes in the trial court's the cameras,