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members of code pink will meet where the budget will keep center stage. >> even in the big depression, people kept their libraries open. it's important to keep libraries open. >> the story of the city. this is the evolution of oakland. >> reporter: five years ago, they fought to keep libraries open. they hope this crisis will fade into the past. >> the city is trying to close a $58 million short fall for the fiscal year that starts in july. >>> more facebook changes on the way. the economy did not grow as much as we thought it should have. for more on that, let's turn to nicole lapin, good morning. >> good morning to you, scott. happy friday. futures are a little bit higher this morning. investors shrugging off the evidence you noted, slowing economic growth as reports didn't show the u.s. grew as much as we had hoped or thought. asian markets were higher overnight. europe is positive. we have data to zero in on. consumer sentiment and pending home sales. we are looking at it based on the data we received. the dow rose eight points yesterday. the nasdaq added 21 points. also this morn

military aid so let's talk about why joining me to discuss it is medea benjamin co-founder of both code pink and international human rights organization global exchange and from our studio in new york jeff berkowitz former bush liaison to the jewish community i want to thank you both for joining me tonight now jeff i'm going to start with you because i just don't know where the criticisms come from but we keep hearing that obama doesn't really have a good relationship with israel that it's been rocky and now we're hearing calls that because he suggested he go back to one thousand sixty seven border lines that he is a tray or but if you know i haven't seen anything really change we're still giving israel three billion dollars in aid every single year i haven't seen any change in our policies so where do those critiques come from. i think it mostly comes from the language that the president uses and the real betrayal that i would argue happened yesterday was a betrayal by obama of the american people american people were expecting his speech about how he was finally going to engage in response

members of code pink spent the day making signs for this evening's oakland city council meeting, where the budget will take center stage. >> even in 1929, the big depression, people kept their libraries open. it's so important for us to keep libraries open. >> the story of a city. just, this is like the evolution of oakland. >> reporter: five years ago, oakland avoided a plan to close one third of its libraries. now champions of the african-american museum hope this current financial crisis too will fade into the past. joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >> now, under all three of the mayor's plans, the libraries would undergo a reorganization next year. the council will make its final decision on a budget at the end of june. >>> new tonight at 6:00, state corrections officials are about to change a key part of how they monitor sex offenders. so right now parole agents spend about 44% of their workweek reviewing satellite printouts from ankle bracelets and just 12% working in the field. an internal report on contained by the associated press indicates that starting next month, the compa

in 2009 david created a web site for code pink and global exchange to market a company investing in wind energy in iran and another web site for cindy sheehan's counterrecruitment effort. thank you, david. >> thank you. and thank you for having me and for putting this on. and it's great to speak here with both john and bruce, both of whom i have learned a lot from. and i, like many of you perhaps, agree with every word that's been said thus far in this room, but that is at least somewhat remarkable in that on most issues that are debated in our public/political discourse, bruce and i couldn't be further from agreement. and, of course, most of the issues that we talk about in our communications systems, such as it is, tend to be those where the democrats and republicans have some distance between themselves, and they tend to be fairly minor, and they tend to be domestic, and they tend to absolutely ignore the issue of the placement of power within our government, the question of presidents accumulating ever greater powers is just not up for discussion. and the questions of where our money

we had someone from code pink, we had nader and danny, steve who many of you may have known. who were some of the other people? my -- i had only three hours of sleep last night. >> we had an immigration rights lawyer near new york and very active with -- and kathy kelly of voices for creative nonviolence. >> right. right. so it was a really important confrontation with this very funny u.s. guy in the u.s. mission to the u.n. who kept, who told us he had unitarian parents, and he really thought that so much of what we said was right and how much he really agreed with us. so we kept, you know, thanking him for his solidarity but pointed out the terrible things that the u.s. government is doing, threatening war against iran and sanks and so forth. anyway, i think that this is really when we organize these statements, i have some copies here, and the war threats and sanks program against iran -- sanctions program against iran, support the struggle for democracy inside iran, when we do this kind of thing, we really are aiming at a lot of different audiences at the same time. so, f