naturally civil society should grew up bottom up. but if we wait for it to grow from the grassroots like in western europe say or in north america where civil society really brought a mob but that process took several centuries and we don't have the time for this natural growth in the mobile that's why we are trying in a sense to apply more than technology and accelerated growth look we don't like eating food produced by growth exhilarating technologies genetically modified products do we still in this case is very important that they should be genetically modified in a proper way of course so that some really autonomy us and independence structures of civil society could emerge they shouldn't be artificial organizations controlled by the state governments or any governments create anything they would not control that well the state is not supposed to create these structures what the state should do is create conditions for these structures to emerge in the regions that. is this you mean concerned this is our main task and we're abso

about moving towards a more civil society. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. first. hello and welcome to spotlight the show on our take on the. prisoner. with human rights act this time it's taking place in the caucasus region of russia it's aimed at. contact between human rights activists at first. but what else. we will hear about it from the head of the presidential council oddly human rights . movement the council meeting out of moscow allows those involved to take a closer look at local problems because of complains of misunderstandings because as he says locals often speak with their hearts and officials with the red tape and regulations that's why he calls finding a common language crucial first dialogue especially in such an unstable region as the russian caucus which. also thinks doll is the only possible way to finding common ground because as he puts it when people talk they don't shoot. thank you very much for being with us.

but prior to that meeting that we met with there is representatives of civil society in the urals. world also it is possible to invite several people to moscow for a meeting with the council members that they're working on the status so that was always you can bring a whole full of people bringing several hundred people for a meeting with a total of only forty council members and it would be strange to see what sort of chile and you couldn't hear them all in moscow either can you issue to them i mean certainly besides there is another very important point in the way president medvedev is in the crown land using a very different from the way he's say in your concern for the really i had the opportunity to make this comparison to the cuban work but i don't know yet how our meeting in stabber apollo is going to be well of course i hope it will be the same way with it but i know that in a year concerned berg we had a lot more time for a free conversation with the president we're going to ensuring our meetings in moscow in the b. c. of this because if you have him also you know the krem

year of the civil war in 1861. he examines the revolutionary fervor that ran through the nation prior to the start of the war and the momentum that led to the early clashes, april 12th, 2011, marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the civil war. this is just over an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much, steve. i am a great lover of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center. i also wanted to remind you that we have an exhibit upstairs in posterity hall between signers hall and the main exhibit area on lincoln that i hope you'll get to take a look at sometime in the coming weeks. it's obligatory for a person sitting in this chair to praise the author and to praise his book and ethically i think anyone who agrees to perform my role as interlocutor has to genuinely believe that. and that other occasions in which i've done this, i have done this. but this really is an occasion in which i want to go a little bit over the top because i do think adam is a very special that historian and this is

i am serving as the foreperson of the 2010-2011 san francisco civil grand jury. despite the supervisor's wonderful remarks about the work of the jury, i think there are a number of people who do not know exactly what we do. i thought i would give you a brief description of that. the california state constitution mandates that every county have a civil grand jury. therefore, there are 58 grand juries in california of varying sizes. the grand jury in san francisco is comprised of 19 members. i am pleased today that there are several members of the 2010-2011 grandeur with us, and i will ask those members to rise to be briefly recognized. thank you. [applause] i agree. the members of the grand jury report regard for the citizens of san francisco. the purpose of the grand jury is to serve as oversight to the operation of city government. as such, we appoint investigative committees around various topics and then prepare reports each year. this year, we completed seven investigative reports, and in addition, five continuity reports, all of which will be hurt by this bo

about moving towards a more civil society. for the. we've got it's. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. and. hello yes the ultimate truth squad like the interview show on our team on the innoventions my guest is. president medvedev is holding another meeting with human rights act this time it's taking place in the caucasus region of russia it's aimed at creating closer tongue sex between fellow for human rights activists and at first so selfish but what else is on the agenda how the needs will hear about it from the head of the presidential council oddly human rights we fail to. move the council meeting out of moscow allows those involved to take a closer look at local programs because it also complains of misunderstandings because as he says locals often speak with their hearts officials with the red tape and regulations that's why he calls finding a common language crucial first published in a dialect especially in such a stable region as the russian told us it's almost matter i also think style is the only poss

the civil grandeur report, we think the members who submitted the documents. my concerns are on the architecture would issues. one is that there was no sound this report. there has not been a carbon footprint analysis on the project after renovations of the garden units. there is no analysis of the direct transit options. they have eliminated any preservation alternative in this project under item four. they said for a variety of policy reasons, the other options submitted to them were seen as in feasible. that does not mean that they studied it any more than taking the piece of paper and sticking it in a drawer. that does not mean our public policy people are reviewing this issue and products efficiently. when you actually state the response on discouraging short- term investments speculation, that has already occurred in parkmerced. since ownership, they have sold off units, land, they have decimated the community. there was a wet lawsuit. how do you analyze the impact on the social and financial impact of the community? sfu bought over 1000 units for housin

there's a civil society to civil society dynamic in each of the three categories you have of countriesbut i would encourage the subcommittee to keep in mind as we tend add times to focus on the tyrannies and democratic countries at risk. we have to remember there's still a lot of countries that we could cashes -- characterize or freedom house characterizes as problems on the economic social side. it's understandable why we focus on cuba and venezuela, but we have to watch for guatemala, paragua. that's something to keep in mind. again, this is from an ngo perspective is though the instruments are there to help people help themselves, ultimately the people of those countries have to be the actors and have to make the decisions, but, again, the united states has a lot we can offer beyond trade agreements, beyond rhetoric. there's strewments here where you have to have the political will to do it and deploy those, and that in the end becomes the ultimate question. >> well, thank you all very much. we have taken a lot of your time. you've been very generous. this has been very insightful.

, in an effort to continue that legacy, he pushed far beyond what kennedy did on civil rights. even at the expense of the democratic party in the south, he did think it was the right thing to do, and he had a lot of criticism over vietnam and other things, but on civil rights, he is a landmark figure. >> going back to the influence question, i think about the four little girls in alabama, the civil rights workers that were slain, i'm just wondering, would the president having these relationships with the people that worked with them, if he was somehow influenced seen the reaction of the people who worked for him? >> that is interesting. one case of this came with bill clinton. when he was a teenager in little rock -- little rock, ark., that is when they had that little rock nine. that stayed with him for the rest of his life. he felt he could not believe the a very and the white community, and the threats that were made -- the angry and the white community, the threats that were made. he had members of the integrated school in the white house and at the ceremony, and became goo

after internships at the american civil liberties union and other civil rights organizations. supervisor elsbernd: you throw out the civil rights division in the department of justice. they're typically the entity that sometimes challenges district lines. did you have any exposure to work like that? >> this was specifically in the department of education. so we dealt more with issues involving k-12 and higher education. after coming to san francisco in 1999, i started working in a small civil rights firm in oakland, and that transferred to a seckel civil rights from the representing plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases, wages, and accommodation that is. a family of five for housing is not granted the housing, either because of the size of their family or because they are a person of color, same-sex couple, things along those lines, as an example. ultimately, i decided to leave the practice of law to go to sf state, because i recognize that yes or more of a consensus- builder and an advocate in that regard than i was comfortable in working in a very different perspecti

voters and members of the post civil rights generation of the political process with particular focus on the two thousand elections and one of the if he was really one of the first bush to chronicle a rising generation obama i believe it can you define for our viewers the hip hop generation and the impact that this generation is having on america today from two thousand and eight well even before then through then and into now. well yes they have a generation it's also it's used often interchangeably that term with the post civil rights generation so those are those americans born after who were born after the civil rights movement began so approximately one nine hundred sixty four to somewhere in the mid eighty's is usually the cut off that's used and so it's really that generation who as i as i've written about before actually live began to live the dream that people like martin luther king spoke of and were fighting for you know the first generation to have no recollection of the quote unquote bad old days of legalized segregation and so that's that's considered the definition of t

i said civil rights. by the legislation you proposed in michigan that was just overturned. i didn't say anything about blacks and minorities, you did. you talked about the 64 civil rights act. you consider yourself a civil rights leader? >> i think so. >> you were involved in the 60s? you were 15 years old. were you involved in the civil rights movement in the 60s? >> i was involved in california. i was involved in the first fair housing, passing of the first fair housing law, run for fair housing act. >> when was that? >> in 1962. >> all right. and were you involved with dr. king and others in civil rights movement in the 60s? >> no, sir, i was not. >> when did you become -- >> wait, wait, let me answer your question. >> when did you become a civil rights leader in your judgment? >> when i realize that many of those on your side of the aisle misappropriate that term and perverted it so it belonged to only certain people. >> when is that. >> when i was on the board of regence. i found that the university

>> en méxico, decisión sin precedentes envió a tribunales civiles a los que violan los derechos humanosl sospechoso está tras las rejas después de asesinar a un menor >> señor padre santo. >> el presidente chávez recibe la el rezo >> la idea de retirar la ecibe custodia legal a los padres con hijos obesos. >> noticiero telemundo con josé díaz-balart >> muy buenas noches comenzamos en méxico en donde la corte suprema de justicia tomó la histórica justicia de juzgar a los militares civiles. >> llega en un momento en donde los militares han abandonado los cuarteles y en medio de un reclamo de la población que acusa exceso de partes de miembros. raúl torres estuvo en cuernavaca y raúl nos cuenta más. >> la decisión de la suprema cor corte de justicia es considerada como histórica, por eso estamos en cuernavaca, morelos por militares que secuestraron y asesinaron a un joven, si son juzgados por una corte civil. como los podrían condenar una corte militar. vamos a ver la historia. >> en la primera manifestación no eran más de 20 en la segunda ya fueron 50 pero en la tercera ya eran cientos de

war or civil war battles, civil war generals, civil war soldiers. and then over here we read books on literary works, on art, on music, on all those -- on theater, on culture. and then there are some books that have a few chapters on the politics and a few chapters over here on the culture but we have to realize that culture and politics always interpenetrate. and too many historian overlook that. i think too many on both side of the divide, the cultural historians and the political historians neglect that. when we look at history, we realize how vividly culture and politics are not separate. they interpenetrate, and very often it's the cultural outsiders, the outliers who lead the way and then politics follow. sometimes the cultural outliers are forces of destruction. the recent prime example is al-qaeda, a tiny cultural group, splinter group that has guided much of western politics for the last decade. right now the jury is still out about the ultimate political outcome of another strong cultural force, the social networking behind the arab spring

there's a similar war, civil war called the frand in france. they fought a very bloody civil war. the king defeated the foes. both of those cases, it's very remarkable that charles ii and louie xiv pardon their opponents and go back and live happily ever after. if this would have been china, they would have killed off every member of the lineage to make sure the rope of dissent was broken. i do think that, you know, the early presence of law in european development really did make some difference in terms of the kind of authoritarian government that you could actually create. of course, until the horrible governments, you know, totalitarian governments of the 20th century were as a result of modernization you undermine all of the authority of the traditional forms of law. so this is the book. i mean well it's not the book. it's a smart part of the book. but i guess what i've learned in the 20 years since the end of the history is that, you know, the whole process by which we get to modern liberal democracy which i do believe is really the only realistic alternative for modern soci

government went deep into the red during the civil war. the union had to borrow and spend all sorts of money that it didn't have in order to fight and win that war. moral of the story, debt itself is not inherently evil, debt matters, but the country matters a whole lot more. lincoln was prepared to find a way to pay the bill so this nation would not perish from the earth. another lesson from then that could just as easily apply today, countries at war need to raise revenue in order to pay for those wars. one of the enormous advantages the north had over the south during the civil war, one of the reasons they were ultimately able to prevail, is because they had more money. where did they get that money? you guessed it, tax revenues. abraham lincoln imposed the country's first federal income tax in 1861 in order to help pay for the war effort, a novel sort of concept, right? new taxes to pay for a new war. the fact that we haven't imposed any new taxes over the past decade means that we are essentially using a pre-19th century model to pay

an lack of american civilization.t's not there. when you begin to draw the line of confrontation, they all are in the huntington -- all coming out of islam. islam, as he said, has bloody borders, so in some sense it takes off from that point that what really are we talking about here, and what i'm trying to get out in this book is that islam or islamism, that version of islam, remains within the mentality that is a civilizational mentality, and it doesn't fit with the procedural groups. they are in their own view because of the law and how they see the cos moes, and the international system says, well, okay, but don't -- don't bring that into our diplomacy, and this is the way we see things. >> host: let me ask you a few questions just to harp on the edges of that and start by asking about efforts to modernize states and political cultures in the arab world that we associate with the so-called arab renaissance or the association of the bath party. they really wanted to create modern state institutions that were not de

civil society is a potent force. as has been reference before, there are a lot of fun on all engagements between private american citizens and private groups with counterparts in the hemisphere. there is a phenomenal interaction. when it comes to the political side, there is a small group that does this. i do not want to sound self- serving, but there is a very small community that does this in this country in terms of the our reach to civil society that strengthens them in terms of their ability to organize an advocate. it does not matter if it is education or water or gender equality, violence against women -- a number of things, but there is a very small group that does that. espy the reality is that those who do this -- we have thunders, and those are predominately the united states government. this is just a reality we exist in. in terms of what the chairman and you have made comments to, it is a matter of making sure that that support continues to be there. it is the moral persuasion, and the very real reality

commission on civil rights. but then you explained answer but i see a few of my colleagues here, there have been several have been agitating to abolish the u.s. commission on civil rights. apparently because american civil rights is passÉ and they want to replace it with a human rights commission. so if you wouldn't mind explaining what is it that is so attractive to so called progressives about human rights? i will suggest one or ask one, you know, civil rights law actually has some limits, but there are no limits to what you can dream up in the human rights realm. >> and i'm also highly alarmed by the effort to rename and think some civil rights to human rights, as you hint. civil rights, we conceive of as a bunch of categories having to do with minorities or others in potentially oppressed groups. not a member of the group, it's poppy not a civil rights issue. human rights is meant to encompass that those rights of health, labor, and many others. once been is eager to bring in the literature and the pronounce

war and seated civil-rights. john brown also connecticut as stowe so you see overlaps year. author of walt whitman, a cultural biography, e-book with a straightforward title, walt whitman. he's the author of believe the american renaissance the imagination and the age of emmerson and nels will and i found that that word subversives came up quite a bit in his analysis of ongoing tom's cabin and its impact and to david is the author of fifa fiction the religious literature in america. when you see the books we begin to understand how much -- how often he may have run into stowe in his other work. the latest book we're talking about tonight is "mightier than the sword" come on call tom's cabin and the battle for america which is as i mentioned will be released june 14th, stowe's 200th birthday. also released by oxford university press will be in the modern version of the splendid addition of an uncle tom's cabin, an absolutely gorgeous document you have to wait until then to get so please strangled the link david re

texas governor rick perry is pushing ahead with the execution of a mexican man who was denied his civil rights so the question remains in our nation to kill or not to kill plus should prison inmates in arizona be subject to shoe melting heat as part of their sentence if you're a show and so for the white collar criminals suffer in the same way and are we becoming one nation under. the tales of how atheists use independence day promote their anti-religious message and in the process all of the same religious tract. death row is closed for business new state law policy in the death penalty took effect last week saving fifteen inmates from execution since two thousand there's been a moratorium on the death penalty in illinois after then governor george ryan called the system haunted by the demon of error because of how many times death row inmates convictions have been overturned illinois is now the fourth state to kill the death penalty in the last two years over thirty four states around the nation still use of the united states ranked fifth in the world in two thousand and nine and the

we do a lot of civil litigation. we are the venue of choice in most cases where people may choose to -- or have the right to file in any california county. and that will no longer be true. and i think economically san francisco is home to 14,000 attorneys and they will surely suffer. >> belva: well, i want to thank you, judge feinstein, for joining us. >> thank you. >> belva: josh, you also follow this story. the judicial council met and made some decisions. what were they? >> well, judge feinstein's fears came to pass almost exactly as she said. the judicial council voted unanimously to go with the budget it had planned on. they rejected calls to cut the bureaucracy deeper in order to spare the trial courts. the spending on the computerized case management system that she talked about is suspended for one year, but the council is considering going back to it in subsequent years. all of those deep cuts she talked about are going to happen. >> belva: okay, josh, thanks. thanks to every one of you here at the table for

if there was intelligence and a civilization outside it then we would call that civilization extraterrestrial but the term is used quite differently by the public to refer to phenomena we suppose that hibs. here on earth that i do not believe in when i know for a fact that it didn't happen i think it's kind of public and like a point it's interesting that the u.s.s.r. was the only country in its day to host a grand experiment general staff and issued an order to various hamlets under the defense ministries command to report any unidentified flying objects they were called unidentified atmosphere phenomena. the program was called the net it was divided into two parts the defense ministries and that look at what might be traces of new types of weaponry you haven't and it's the so-called a n n and a phenomena previously unknown to human kind for more than twenty eight people across one sector of the earth's territory even move them out as we are literally stationed outside the us is on a certain point all those people who monitor the skies from your photos every single day they detected approxim

he was not interested in the civil rights issue. it's only after he became president and rather later in his presidency in 1963 where he started to take notice of this tremendous bubbling up of the civil rights movement. you know, by the protesters in the streets. and being a world war ii veteran, he was very much admiral -- admiring physical courage. he saw the physical courage of the demonstrators. this impressed him a great deal. by the time his president -- he was assassinated, of course, he was much different kind of president dealing with civil rights than he was initially. that was cut short. >> host: you know, one the things that so intrigued me about your book was the biography. because you have -- i mean you had to have -- many of them in the white house and lots of african-americans who worked for presidents. >> guest: right. >> host: who then wrote books. talk about the books and the findings. expwhrg you are right. that was fascinating. one thinged i wanted to mention also was to give credit where credit is due to the a

in the region country club civility sure isn't fun it's peace of the fittest or at least well sure convince the swiss your children let me hold you to let me know it's come golden egg which a coach. called him back here's a recap of the top stories on our t.v. russia gets out of france's weapons of fives and they get the rebels saying of violates the un office of the argo meanwhile the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the gadhafi family and then an explosive interview with guards knew the libyan leader's son claims the court is biased. research problem and agrees on how to put into effect a new us terribly packaging something balance in the streets in protest or that the government is ready to sell agrees assets to the lenders to say stay afloat but many feel it's the people themselves that are put on sale. three men are jail for twenty five years each for taking part in an f.b.i. sting for the fake paucity of synagogues and the like the cross for us all raised about us tactics for fighting homegrown terror. that's peter lavelle and his cross talk guests debate wh

i'll tell you how the right is stealing the language of civil rights to attack affirmative action. stay with us. new newtons fruit thins. real cranberries and delicious cranberry citrus oat... ♪ or real blueberries... ♪ ...and luscious blueberry brown sugar. the goodness of whole grains... and a thin crispy crunch. new newtons fruit thins, one unique cookie. >>> the shutdown on the minnesota state government is in its fifth day. now minnesota governor mark dayton is sitting down with republicans, but he's warning them, they're going to have to give a little. >> i've said for weeks now, you know, i'm willing to compromise, meet halfway. so, know, hanging tough at the plate of intrance gens is not leadership. >> the issue that they're, quote, hanging tough on is tax cuts for people making over a million a year. in other words, they're shutting down the government to the sake of 7,700 people, just 0.03% of the state. while republicans are protecting the rich, dayton is going to bat for the rest of the state. he's fighting for those who don't fall into the 0.03%. because across the cou

south sudan has suffered decades of civil war. a two million have died. next week, it will finally be independent. will it also be peaceful? what are the prospects for the future? i addressed that question a short time ago to the u.s. envoy to sudan who joined us from the state >> . back in january, the president said that the referendum in south sudan was inspiring. it does not seem very inspiring today, does it? >> it still is because on july 9th i expect the south to become a fully independent country and this is an achievement most of all for the sudanese people and national unity. there has been some very serious obstacles along the way but this is still a major achievement. >> the u.s. ambassador recently called what was happening in the border region or find. >> we have had two serious crises in the past few weeks. one was the military takeover in -- second, the fighting going on in the state of -- these are serious matters. the first is under control but the one in the south continues to be of major concern. >> some of the issues have been kicked

south sudan has suffered decades of civil war. a two million have died. next week, it will finally be independent. will it also be peaceful? what are the prospects for the future? i addressed that question a short time ago to the u.s. envoy to sudan who joined us from the state >> . back in january, the president said that the referendum in south sudan was inspiring. it does not seem very inspiring today, does it? >> it still is because on july 9th i expect the south to become a fully independent country and this is an achievement most of all for the sudanese people and national unity. there has been some very serious obstacles along the way but this is still a major achievement. >> the u.s. ambassador recently called what was happening in the border region or find. >> we have had two serious crises in the past few weeks. one was the military takeover in -- second, the fighting going on in the state of -- these are serious matters. the first is under control but the one in the south continues to be of major concern. >> some of the issues have been kicked

because there's a civil case. people like to dismiss civil cases. oh, it's just about the money.s just about dollars. well, that's the way i ithis country we deal with disputes between two individuals. when two people are fighting, they go to court in a civil case and it is resolved very often by paying money damages. >> and finally and briefly, there could be a criminal case in france where another woman has accused strauss-kahn of sexual assault. >> that's going to have to be another case that dominique strauss-kahn's defense team looks at when they're looking at all of the legal issues here. it's not just about what's happening in the united states. it's not just about the criminal and civil. it's also about whwh's happening in france. so he's going to have to balance all of these legal issues at once. which is tricky. >> and his political career, or what's left of it. >> absolutely. >> dan, thanks very much. >>> and thank you for watching abc news. we hope you tune in for "good morning america" and tomorrow night be sure to watch our "primetime nightline" celebrity

colvin giving 10 minutes of her very long and illustrious life in terms of work for civil rights.t 10 minutes. then, bryonn bain, whose life is not as long but illustrious nonetheless, will give 10 minutes also with some trauma at the head of it. and then we