i see myself as a citizen. i do not have a paper that says i am an american citizen, and many of the dreamers do not either, but what we have done is asked to keep -- exercising peopleship by holding accountable even though we do not have the right to vote. it comes down to a responsibility of contributing and a responsibility for the common good of not only immigrant communities but the rest of our community in america. i think it is about understanding citizenship is beyond having the right to vote. it is about engagement, being part of the political process, and what you have seen with the dreamers is it does not matter if we do not get to elect honest members or senators, we have elect congress members or senators, we have gone to their offices and say this is my story. for us, we have been redefining citizenship and what it means to us, and we believe we are americans even though we do not have the papers to show that we are and we were not born in this country. as we think about the impact of potential im

if you are becoming a citizen or if you become a citizen, you're going to have a lot more fuller rights. for one thing, you get to vote in san francisco. you get to vote in america. and that voting right is so precious. and we saw just a month ago or less than a month ago how we revisited how valuable that voting rights is, and all the sacrifices that heroes of this country had to protect that right for everybody. we want everybody to enjoy that because that gets you a voice and all the things we initially talked about. we want citizens to have a proper rich orientation and training classes that will conduct -- that will be conducted through this initiative, nonpartisan voting, the rights to vote, the right to be educated around every ballot measure that we have, whether it costs you more money or it doesn't cost you anything, or how do we improve muni, whether it costs you more or doesn't cost you anything. how do we do all of that in a much more involved way? education, outreach, more engaging new citizens to mentor and help other eligible immigrants navigate the citizenship applicati

i became a citizen in april of this year. i am very proud of this. (applause) >> to prepare for citizenship takes, of course, a lot of work. you really need to relax through that process because it is, of course, very stressful. and i'll say who helped me most through this process was jewish family and children services. for a few months before my citizenship interview, i took classes with jewish family and children services through the instructor, which is me. [laughter] >> i'm very grateful. thank you, everybody. (applause) >> i'm very proud to be here and i'm happy to have left armenia so that i can take advantage of being an american citizen. (applause) >> something magical happens here in san francisco under mayor lee's leadership. before he begins the question and answer session, we have a few thank yous that we would like to make to our community and philanthropic partners for helping to make this initiative and this lunch possible. we'd also like to recognize tessa rivero callejo. (applause) >> [speaker not understood] who is a wizard with th

citizens the u.s. makes no excuse for openly killing its own without any proof of guilt but hey it's not like they haven't tried to hide it in two thousand and ten the senate introduced the terrorist expatriation act which would have granted the state department the power to revoke citizenship from persons of interest. sounds familiar and remember of the national defense authorization act definition of an associated force to terrorism anyone could be a person of interest and a history looks back at the blanket internment of japanese citizens or the sweeping surveillance of muslims when it comes to when it undermining citizenship the guise of national security always reigns supreme. this time in. hope i live with us again. so. we're the. five months six months away the s.r.o. stands for single room occupancy and for instance if you turn around. right here this is an s.r.o. this is an s.r.o. . sometimes are called manor sometimes are called hotel but really what they are where housing of poor people peop

there are no regrets on citizens united. i'm not sure about what might happen if guns comes up again but, i would be very surprised if they backtracked on the district of columbia gun decision. they won't probably backtrack on the fundamental holding that it is an individual right. >> there is a question of what that means. >> right. i think it will be very interesting to see what they say on questions that are coming about gun regulation. and what kind of scrutiny the court should give to gun regulations. so, no, i think this is, this court, not many regrets yet. >> what surprised you the most that you uncovered as you were -- you've got a few interesting tidbits here. >> you should tell me what they are. >> what surprised you the most? some back stories? take citizens united, for instance, how, as the case was reargued as we know. >> right. >> didn't seem to be all that significant on the first round. in fact it was on nobody's list as one of the major cases of that term. so what happened there if. >> i think that was very

citizens the u.s. makes no excuse for openly killing its own without any proof of guilt but hey it's not like they haven't tried to hide it in two thousand and ten the senate introduced the terrorist expatriation act which would have granted the state department the power to revoke citizenship from persons of interest. sounds familiar and remember one of the national defense authorization act definition of an associated force to terrorism anyone can be a person of interest and a history looks back at the blanket interminable japanese citizens or the sweeping surveillance of muslims when it comes to when it undermining citizenship the guise of national security always reigns supreme. i've seen the per session of the cross many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail stones people keep on going i don't expect anything just one i told myself i keep on going as long as my heart told me to that's all i wanted that the moment. i have sinned so my choose cd i'm carrying these sayings on my

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his book is citizen bill and you hosted your own show on current t.v. yeah now when you go back i had time in my life really did and it was for me a great education as you know when you have these gas and you preparing your i mean somebody like it yeah and you never think in a topic i'm talking about artificial intelligence or sensors or genome x. and these are not the usual discussions we're having in sacramento do you have anything to do digitally because of desirable contract expired at the time of sale so it worked out kind of even though it might last interview i got to tell you one full hour with willie mays going back through life fifty fifty one two fabulous side the time of my life i was last year john mann i'm a course you know ido his heart still in new york as i discovered in that well interview when he played stickball in the streets in them giants would play afternoon games in the cold rooms willie would finish then go up to harlem and play stickball with his we talked about that from last twenty minutes not basically a child exactly he st

whether you're a citizen of the world or a citizen of the united states or non-citizen, we have the responsibility to change society. we must allow people to speak. there is a sort of hidden agenda to appropriate funds to benefit a few interest groups. that's the way they want to victimize us. we ask can you work 10 months from now, 12 months from now, 12 years from now? we are giving them a hope and we are educating them and nourishing them said they can have a good opportunity and productivity. that is called emigrant production. when you take the opportunity away from them, they take away your money. they know your family income. what we have to do is we have to have a responsibility to improve our society and not label us as inferior. >> i think you bring up a good point which is why i am here. why am i not afraid and at home hiding and not participating? i could be deported. immigration came to my house looking for me to try to deport me in 2006. that is why my family is in deportation process but i live with my family and they found them. because i understand that this it is is also about fe

his book is citizen bill and you hosted your own show on current t.v. yeah gore now is there when you go but i had the time of my life really did and it was for me a great education is you know when you have these gas and you preparing your i mean somebody like it yeah and you never know if they can on a topic i'm talking about artificial intelligence or sensors or gentle mics and these are not the usual discussions we're having in sacramento do you have anything to do digitally because of his contract expired at the time of sale so it worked out kind of the way my last interview i got to tell you one full hour with willie mays going back through life fifty fifty one two fabulous side the time of my life i was a blast man i'm a course you know either his heart still in new york as i discovered in that well interview when he played stickball in the streets in them giants would play afternoon games in the cold rounds willie would finish then go to harlem and play stickball with kids we talked about that from us twenty minutes and others that we had joe ex

citizens the u.s. makes no excuse for openly killing its own without any proof of guilt but hey it's not like they haven't tried to hide it in two thousand and ten the senate introduced the terrorist expatriation act which would have granted the state department the power to revoke citizenship from persons of interest. sounds familiar and remember one of the national defense authorization act definition of an associated force to terrorism anyone can be a person of interest and a history looks back at the blanket interminably japanese citizens or the sweeping surveillance of muslims when it comes to when it undermining citizenship the guise of national security always supreme. download. location so. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from the old celebration of well it just doesn't do so now with your mobile device so you can watch your tea any time anywhere on the. length of. the. music. well i'm john berman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture t

. >> citizens advisory report that is an information item. >> and as always mr. flanagan. >> good morning commissioners my name is joseph i'm the c ac vice chair. there are 3 items on the agenda this morning the c ac took action on at our april meeting. we had 4 items on the june agenda that are on yourselves today. items 4 and 6 were passed and that was unanimously by the c ac. item 7 joint outreach strategy for the s f t p passed at the c ac by a vote of 9 to one. the c ac questioned the cost effects of outreach programs staff responded that the stakeholders were interested in all funds for the project and were unsure which revenues they prefer but for disrespect they didn't not want to be taxed to generate an additional of revenue. item 8 preferred option to replace the existing bridge over the street this passed by a margin. and the c ac concerns were based on the community interaction with process and whether to prefer option was the best option for the residents living in the area. this conclusions my report and thank you very much >> thank you. mr. flanaga

citizens. and seizures the purpose of this rally organizers say is to spread awareness and spur political action against unconstitutional spying by the us government press freedom not advocates that we spoke with say that these protests are crucial because mainstream media is not adequately covering the n.s.a. leaks and their importance to everyday citizens i believe that the fourth amendment is being breached by only the government but by the police with search and seizure with the n.s.a. leaks and everything that's been coming out even though they say that there's laws that make everything they do legal it seems like legal gymnastics to me i voted for obama twice i donated twice but i'm tired of the expansion of these programs that seem to violate our rights it really frighten me that the director of national intelligence lied to congress and i haven't really been any repercussions we're living in the midst of the of the largest. you know an unreasonable search and seizure system we've ever s

people hear citizens united.ow it allows unlimited political corporate funds, but they don't know how it came about, can you fill us in? >> it's not just political action committees. it's political spending. it's electioneering. it allows organizations that were previously prohibited on spending money. >> john: but they can give directly to campaigns. >> what citizens united did do is allow political spending right out of the coffers which is very hard to track is other money that is spent politically and a freeded up a lot of that have money and it's impossible to track. >> john: and we have hillary clinton hate to thank for this. >> citizens united, an extremist right wing organization called " "hillary the movie." it was a take down of hillary clinton. the entire intent was to cast the campaign finance laws that were passed in the 90s. >> cenk: they didn't do it for art, really? >> citizens united group had a long history of doing political politically motivated commercials. they were the group behind the will

that's what our website citizen coke that's k o c h not c o c o says and.backslash kickstarter you'll go directly to the kickstarter website you can see our trailer you can see the video we made for kickstarter you can learn about the pledges because if you do make a pledge you will get an award or a reward and there are all sorts of cool rewards up there you can also go directly to kickstarter dot com their website and type in the title system koch and look we would love to hear from folks we want to hear the comments we'd love to get their support and we'd love your help in spreading the word thank you so much tia lessin co-director of citizen coprophagia time thanks so much. every war we remember those men who gave the orders to invade to occupy and to kill and import remember that these wars would not be possible without the foot soldiers carrying out the orders you see without them the military machine falls apart and it's precisely for this reason that one military man is decided to turn in his gun his name is brandon toy and he's a former u.s. soldie

no society is how you treat the most prosperous citizens. you are just about how you treat the reason our society i think that this speaks to where we are and he was born in new mexico. i remember seeing him on television and i tried to book them. i was a producer at the time and i try to book him on the show because he was speaking in a way -- his voice was such an important part of the dialogue. he said the united states didn't have a right to come into the country and arrest those having to do with 9/11. but he did talk about those with taxi drivers and the rounding up of those for questioning in the opening of the guantÁnamo prison in cuba and he was sort of helping big corporate media outlets, "the washington post", "new york times" conyers on top of the nation and npr. he was so accepted that he was invited by the pentagon to give a lecture inside the pentagon at a luncheon about the state of islam and the world. just to give you an idea of how bad intelligence wise. among the sandwiches they serve, he had bacon on it. so no wonder it

that's where our website citizen coke that's k o c h not c o c o says and.backslash kickstarter you'll go directly to the kickstarter website you can see our trailer you can see the video we made for kickstarter you can learn about the pledges because if you do make a pledge you will get an award or a reward and there are all sorts of cool rewards up there you can also go directly to kickstarter dot com their website and type in the title system coke and look we would love to hear from folks who want to hear the comments we'd love to get their support and we'd love your help in spreading the word thank you so much tia lessin co-director of citizen co-producer time thanks so much. every war we remember those men who gave the orders to invade occupy and to kill and import remember that these wars would not be possible without the foot soldiers carrying out the orders you see without them the military machine falls apart and it's precisely for this reason that one military man is decided to turn in his gun his name is brandon toy and he's a former u.s. soldier

it very well might be able to decide that any citizen could step forward and represent the interests of the state and the people in that state -- >> well, that would be -- i'm sorry, are you finished? >> yes, your honor. >> ok. that may be true in terms of who they want to represent, but a state can't authorize anyone to proceed in federal court, because that would leave the definition under article iii of the federal constitution as to who can bring -- who has standing to bring claims up to each state. and i don't think we've ever allowed anything like that. >> but, your honor, i guess the point i want to make is that there is no question the state has standing, the state itself has standing to represent its own interests in the validity of its own enactments. and if the state's public officials decline to do that, it is within the state's authority surely, i would submit, to identify, if not all -- any citizen or at least supporter of the measure, certainly those, that that very clear and identifiable group of citizens >> well, the chief -- the chief justice and justice kagan have

also the officer of citizen complaints last year was the winner of the brfrd ward. additionally our mission court reporter was this year's recipient of the president's award of dispute resolution of northern california. finally i'd like to share a few statistics we got in 2012 and how we resolved those complaints

that, marty, we run into what you wrote about recently, "informed citizen disorder," icd. now for the benefit of my viewers who haven't read this, tell me what you mean by "informed citizen disorder." >> ever since i was in junior high school, i was taught that to be a good citizen meant you needed to know what was going on in your country and in your world. you should read the paper. you should pay attention to the news. that's part of your responsibility of being an american. and the problem, especially in recent years, is the more informed i am, the more despondent i am, because day after day, there is news which drives me crazy and i want to see the public rise up in outrage and say, no, you can't do that, banks. you can't do that, corporations. you can't do that, polluters. you have to stop and pay attention to the laws, or we're going to change the laws. that every time that doesn't happen, and i keep learning each day the same thing, something bad happened and nothing was done about it. that's the news. the more that that's the case, the sadder one is when you consu

citizen? what has happened? >> my mother, when i was a sophomore in college, was pulled over for a minor traffic citation. she was arrested and i believe she was -- she was then arrested and then i.c.e. on uninvolved and she was taken to a detention center. unfortunately for us at the time i was not aware of all of the different things -- >> i want to clarify something. she was arrested. she's returned to colombia. is that correct? >> she was taken to a detention center. then a couple months later. >> and you are over the age of 21. >> not at the time. >> but today you are? >> yes. >> why can't you apply for her to come heavyset. >> her visa was approved in the u.s. and then when she went to the embassy, she was denied. >> the know why she was denied? >> they said that the ten-year ban for leaving the country was a part of that. >> did you file a waiver? >> my father -- >> just yes or no. >> yes, he had. >> they have not approved that yet? >> no. >> there is a way for your mom to come if you file a waiver and al

no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime but upon entering the white house u.s. president barack obama seems to have had a change of heart my assessment and my team's assessment. was that. they help us prevent terrorist attacks government lies surrounding the n.s.a.'s programs has raised questions about the possibility of additional untruths being told in the name of national security i have been crystal clear about my position on iran possessing a nuclear weapon that that is a red line for us the fact is u.s. intelligence officials and the united nations have concluded that iran is not currently building a nuclear weapon but that hasn't stopped washington sanctions if we're throwing accusations that are not true that cloud the domestic debate the political debate and also send negative signals to the other side we make it much more likely that diplomacy can succeed and we end up going into a war that was of avoidable. in the case of syria's civil war the french and others had already. concluded that he's using the sarin gas in small quantiti

citizen. she never knew any different. she led a virtuous life with good grades, hard work, community involvement, active in church, a wonderful, loving family -- exactly the kind of person you and i would want to be, a fellow citizen. she was polite and persuasive. she just had one question for us. what country am i supposed to go back to? this is the only country i have ever known. while there is an obvious openness with respect to children who have done nothing wrong, those same equities in my judgment do not apply in the same regard to the remainder of the 11 million undocumented immigrants. they may or may not have other equities to argue. let me say this as plainly as i can. attempts to group the entire 11 million into one homogeneous group in an effort to secure a political remedy will only wind up hurting the most vulnerable. to earn the trust and respect of our fellow citizens we must ensure there are sufficient anti-fraud measures and screening mechanisms so those who seek the benefi

and how you can stop it i'm joined now by laurie wallach director of global trade watch a public citizen thank you so much for coming on laurie. so you're an expert on trade policy how is the tepee different than let's say nafta. its scope is much more behind the borders so there's very little real trade of physical things crossing borders rather it's something like granting a trade agreement but really it's kind of diplomatic legislating so you have trade negotiators who think of their constituency as just the big u.s. businesses who are looking to bust up regulations in other countries or by companies to other countries and they are negotiating changes to all the laws behind our borders u.s. domestic laws that will affect every day the way congress is now involved the other agencies that are involved or not involved so it's really like slow motion coup d'état via trade agreements sounds terrifying loria a troubling aspect is the secrecy like you just mentioned very little people are in the loop six hundred corporate advisors though why can't we simply get a for your request demand to s