>> i just want to -- >> something that desmond just touched on. nearly 6 million americans cannot vote because of a current or past felony conviction. after the break, does not having a vote make you more likely to re-offender. but first check this out . . . >> al jazzera america presents... documentaries from around the world that inform... >> they were bombarded with shells... >> inspire... >> we can deal with our conflicts... >> and touch our soles... >> it was my dream to get a high school diploma. >> award winning film makers create create unique perspectives. >> everybody's different here... >> just gotta tell ya, it was just a very magical moment... >> al jazzera america presents... on al jazeera america ♪ >>> it is time to fundamentally reconsider laws that permanently disenfranchise people. these restrictions are not only unnecessary and unjust, they are also counterproductive. by perpetuating the stigma and isolation imposed on formerly isolated individuals these laws will increase the chances that they will recommit crimes. >> nicole, w

desmond you are doing innovating things what is working? all it starts with shifting the label of ex-felon or ex-con. we refuse for use those terms anymore and we refer to those individuals a as returning citizen. research shows when you label somebody ex-connor ex-felon that contributes to the likelihood of recidivism. so we should start first by finding a different or more positive term to use when talking about individuals who have been formerly incarcerated. that's step one. step two is that we have to find ways to lift the values or individuals that are released from prison, one of the main institution that his we have been working with have been churches or congregations, faith congress games. because we believe that they play a vital role in being able to welcome an individual back in to their community and they could also stand on faith principles of forgiveness, respiration and redemption. and so i think that with those two we could be well on our way. >> horace, is it in society's best interest to take an active role in to helping

so, i want to reiterate what desmond said.ally does go against the self interest of the country if we make it harder for these individuals who are indeed coming back into the community to reintegrate and actually become productive members of their community. >> horace, from your perspective, do people have to choose? do they have to decide whether to be for victims' rights or whether to support reintegrating ex cons? >> the reintegration of ex cons, as i have said, is a choice that the individual makes. there is no state law and certainly no federal law that says wal-mart can't hire ex cons. what economists tell us is, if you then require wal-mart to hire those kinds of people, they will go out of their way to find out how to minimize the number of people that they can hire regardless of whether people are qualified, regardless of whether people have demonstrated that they are sorry or are ready to repent or reintegrate into society. every single time an berman dan berman daemployer mandate s, if ex cons to the category, we wo

. >> in 2010 desmond merriweather was given 24 hours ha life. the father of fully, whose son played on the team, awoke from a medically induced coma, and had lions. >> i was, "hold on, we are not worried about the team, we are worried about you." he didn't want to hear it. he was, "i know i'll be okay. but we are going to the state championships", i thought he was crazy, he was not worried about his health, he was worried about the kids. >> let's go get it. the families are hear to watch us put on a show. let's go. >> penny hardaway honoured his friend's request. no foul, no foul. >> did you think you would be a middle school coach? >> no, not at all. i didn't think i would be a middle school coach. it happened. i thank god for putting me in this situation. i enjoy it. if you don't invest in the community, these kids will be the robbers, the kids, driving drunk, doing something negative that we hate seeing on the new, we can do something about it. all they want is love. i knew he would do it. his heart is so big. people just - they can't imagine

desmond meade he joins us from tallahassee. thank you for being with us.t by telling us your story, how you lost the right to vote and now what you're doing about it. >> amy, thank you for having me on today. back in 2005, i found myself standing in front of railroad tracks in south florida. at the time i was homeless, unemployed, recently released from prison, addicted to drugs and alcohol. i see no hope. i did not have a future. so i thought. i was waiting on the train to come so i could jump in front of it in and buy life. fortunately, the train did not come and i crossed those tracks. i checked myself into a rehabilitation program, treatment program and after graduating from that, i went to a homeless shelter. while living there, i enrolled at one of the local colleges. miami-dade college. i enrolled in the paralegal program. after successfully completing that program, i continued on. i received my bachelors. today, i am now three months away from graduating from law school at florida international university college of law. >> congratulations. will yo

kemp 2nd half kemp ally-oop dunk 48-45 stanford less than 3 minutes left 59-58 stanford washington's desmondwn the corner jumper to give the huskies the lead 60- 59 less than 10 seconds left stanford down 2 chasson randle. to josh huestis for the dunk but randle is called for a charge! here is the replay looks like a good call simmons was outside the retricted area final: 64-60 washington stanford: 15-8, 6-5 jeter to retire after 2014 new york yankees shortstop derek jeter says he will retire after this season. jeter posted a letter on his facebook account today saying that 2014 will be his last year of playing professional baseball. the 39-year-old yankees captain world series champion missed much of last season because of injuries. he will turn 40 in june. have a good editor buddy see [ male announcer ] we installed an aged febreze clip in this tax to prove that it's still fre on day 30. [ byron ] what do you guys thi of the smell fres i forg we were in a taxi. thiss a febreze vent clip. it's 30 days o. w! no way [ male announcer ] febreze keeps your car fresh for up to 30 days without fad

it was desmond tutu, one of the great leaders of that fight, who issued this call saying if you couldwhat happened in africa from famine and drought as climate change spreads, you would know why we ask you to take up this tool again and try, try to weaken the political power of these oil giants. we can't bankrupt exxon, but we can begin to politically bankrupt them. and we have to. we can no longer solve this problem one lightbulb at a time. as desmond tutu pointed out, the entire continent of africa only brings about one thing percent of the world's fossil fuel. about 1% of the world's fossil fuel. it is a systemic problem. it will change when we can we weaken theer -- power of these companies. >> the civil disobedience in washington in march, what are the plans for it? >> i'm not in charge. these are students doing this themselves. xl dissent. i think the message they're coming to washington to bring his, democrats don't take you for granted that they will always vote for you. young people voted for barack obama and record numbers. in 2000 eight when asked what their lead issue was,

desmond is coming off a huge come pain, 20 home run, 80 rbis. look who is throwing, the boss man himself, matt williams says he hates not being able to pick up a bat or a ball. matt williams out there mixing it up with the players. coming up at 11:00 and game on overtime, we've got a lot to look forward to. wall-to-wall spring training. for now back to you in the studios. dave owens live in vierra for wusa9 sports. >>> u.s.a. athletes captured more medals in sochi. the american men's hockey team back on the ice today with no emotional hangover at all. the u.s. rodded them 5-1 to advance to the quarter finals. more than half of the goals came from phil who became the first american to score a hat trick at the olympics since the salt lake city games 12 years ago. two of the three goals came in the first four and a half minutes of the game. the americas made history on the ice today. the ice dancing team won the short dance portion setting a new record with their 78.89. the highest score ever recorded in short dance. their arrives, the canadian tea

these words about you and your work from bill clinton and bono and alicia keys and peter gabriel and desmondu, everybody loves what you have written. and why did you, in this point in your life, want to write and not a biography? what did you want to say? >> your member when my father passed away. tavis: i remember. but your mother still here. >> alive and cooking. take christ, you never my mom to clubs or she will shake the hell out of you. tavis: at 87 in the clubs? she walks so fast. come on, come on, come on. i'm, like, mom, slowdown. and she is, like, i don't have time. she loves music so much. when i decided to write this book, it was right after the funeral of my father because there are so much stuff going on in my head. everybody i meet, i'd be talking about my father. talk yourself a camera and sit in front of it and talk like you are talking to your father. so i started doing that. so then it was to write a book about my journey from africa all the way to america. and that comes in handy because we have to transcribe it and translate it. then suddenly i'm, like, this is the moment

a few begin trickling in today, like ian desmond. here he is shagging a few rocks with infielders.stic campaign. 20 home runs and 80 rbi's. also here is danny espenoza who will have to fight to stay on this club. he is in a scrum for the starting position at second base. he is suffering through a nightmare season last year. he batted 158. all right, finally we had a wedding here this afternoon. this couple decided to take over the stadium and get hitched. they say guys are always trying to make it to third base. i think this guy made it all the way home. congratulations to john and jenny. that was some pretty cool stuff. that's going to do it. we have much more coming up tomorrow. and also game on overtime. for now, we're here. back to you guys in the studio. >> all right, thanks, dave, he adds the face of the franchise is a full go for spring training, but will be closely monitored following his knee surgery. now we're going to move up to durham, north carolina, the site of maryland's last trip to cameron indoor stadium as a member of the acc. never a dull moment between the terps

well, it was mandela's great accomplice, desmond tutu, who helped launch this new divestment effort. he said in this great video, he said, if you could see what climate change is doing to africa, the famine, the drought, you'd know why we'd ask you to pick up this tool again. africa is suffering unbelievable damage. africa burns less than one percent of the planet's fossil fuel. even if they turned off every engine and every light bulb and every other thing in africa, it wouldn't make any difference. we need to take responsibility. and the people at institutions like universities, they need to provide some leadership. those are the places where we've learned about, you know, the danger that we're in. >> you're up against a wall of apathy, hostile opposition, money, power, and time, as you say. >> i find as i travel around, that most people understand that we're in a serious fix. 80% of american counties have had some kind of climate disaster in the last two or three years. two years ago, the new york city subway system filled with salt water, you know? sandy was the lowest barometric

. jump at the mention of a police jump at the mention of a police studying how the government has desmond merriweather requires by hema finally arrives and she so that you are not at risk to >> one of the big messages thats being brought down from governments and organizations up here is get a trade job, basically you're good to do manual labor, and you're good to do that kind of thing. it frustrates me and makes me angry that inuit organizations and government representatives up here approach mining as the savior of the economy and social economy up here. >> qajaaq ellswoth is a young iniut activist from iqaluit, the capital of nunavut. this city of six, and a half thousand has doubled in violence is far more common jumpy like that? >> because of everything that jumpy like that? so that just got me thinking watching. thousand has doubled in honest, okay. population in the last decade. there's an acute housing shortage here. it's not unusual for more than one family to share a home. >> i grew up when several sections of the town didn't even exist. like i know of some elders who were born

desmond tutu.and bred in soweto, it means something. do mostly people own their homes or do they rent? >> mostly people own their homes. >> things start to get a little better. can you build up? >> you can build up. >> look at the streets here and you see what that kind of pride does. it may not be a rich area, but it's immaculate. squared away. an emerging middle class coming up, rather than fleeing to elsewhere. >> you know where you're going, right? >> yeah, i know where i'm going. >> next exit? smoky delicious meat over flame. under the overpass, all sorts of mystery meats for sale. the taxi man's lunch. we order some brisket, some sausage, some heart. beautiful thing. meat, a cutting board, a knife. >> you chose well. these guys are good. ♪ >> here, spread over thousands of square feet, the remnants of white colonial rule. what's left from the descendants of bible thumping dutch settlers who came here to farm, to ranch, to build their own world on top of an existing one. the boer's, as they we

desmond connors. late in the game, chase and r randall called for the charge.-8. >>> in the then cobbs to solomon. bears up 9 at the break, then the devonte lacey show, firing away from long range. eight threes in the game, 35 at last check, trailing 37-56. all 15 of his points come in the second half. right now tied at 69 with less than 30 seconds left. what a finish tonight for jim bayman. number one syracuse jeopardy of losing their first game. down one in pittsburgh. goodbye, game over, drive home safely. wait a second, wait a second. did it count? did he beat the clock? he got it off in time, and the qs now 24-0 escaping pitt with a dramatic victory, 58-56. >>> yankee great derek jeter has announced that 2014 will be his final season in major league baseball. he's retiring after this year. ace fans do not have fond memories of jeter. he made one of the greatest plays of his career game. giambi would not slide and the flip by jeter to jorge posada. making plays like that for 19 seasons hampered by injuries the past few years, five-time world series champs,

. >> desmond tutu. >> if you don't do what the arch asks you, he says you're not going to go to heavenbut the two of them, if you think about the conflicts that are going on in the world and you realize the greatest sort of resource, honor, the most precious thing we have and rarest is leadership. and that's what we're missing. you look in the arab spring and you look in syria now and you're you're seeing oh, my god, who's going to lead these people out of this mess and where will that grace come from. and that's really -- for the song, that's what we wanted to write this love song because we thought everyone. knows about mandela the statesman but this other side, this morrow man tick side we thought. it's the only place he lost in his life was in his marriage. he won everything else. >> what would your mother have made of you at the oscars? >> she only heard me sing once on a stage. and just before she passed away. wow, i don't know. i think she would laugh. she laughed a lot the first time. i would hope she would laugh a lot this time. we're playing which is nice. we're going to play

has now said that they'll review their relationship with uganda to desmond tutu comparing it to nazi germany? >> the most important element is that each society should be given the opportunity and the respect to manage its affairs in the broad lines, taking into account the culture, the practices, the beliefs of their people. >> you say that this will not affect any health care delivered to any ugandans. if the a gay person tries to get access to health care, they will be given the absolute same treatment. >> the answer is definitely yes. nobody will be discriminated from public health care simply because of his or her sexual orientation. >> but let's talk about hiv/aids. obviously uganda has come such a long way in that area. there are concerns from aids charities that this could have a huge impact on gay men accessing services for hiv/aids. they will not be honest about their experiences because of the suf ening of this law. >> in the real practice there is no fundamental change that's going to take place as far as medical treatment of ugandans is concerned. gay people, whether pro

after the incident, the video is released by metro transit and general manager kevin desmond hears theoutcry. >> you look at what's happening to the victim and you say something's got to be changed. that's just not going to be acceptable. we've had that observe and report for years in our contract. and this incident clearly shows that we need to change that. >> and changes are made. the controversial observe and report policy is eliminated. a new security firm is hired. and according to metro transit, the guards are better trained to handle situations like this one. as for the kids involved in aisha's attack, six are arrested. the main aggressor who, like aisha is 15 years old at the time of the attack, pleads guilty to assault and is sentenced to up to nine months in juvenile detention. two more teens younger than 18 plead guilty to fourth degree assault and are sentenced to 30 days detention. and three men, all adults over the age of 18, plead guilty to theft, admitting to stealing aisha's belongings, including her cell phone and ipod. two are sentenced to six months in work release

♪ ♪ >> pelley: ...jennifer hudson, and lectures by activists, including nobel peace prize winner desmond to what happens when kielburger takes the stage. ( cheers and applause ) >> kielburger: we day isn't just a day; we day is a movement, a movement that happens all year long. >> pelley: kielburger is joined on stage every we day by his older brother marc, who manages the financial side of free the children. >> marc kielburger: ...just like you coming together and taking action. >> pelley: when we see in the stadium all those faces of all those kids, how did they get there? >> craig kielburger: you can't buy a ticket to we day. any kid can earn their way in for whatever cause they care about-- half local, half global. and they're there. these are kids who have done, you know, bake sales and car washes and volunteered at retirement homes and local support lines, and they've started their own charities, and when they leave, they bring that inspiration. we day is just the beginning. >> i need the one with the chocolate chips. >> pelley: we followed that bake sale money back to st. ann's sc

have no gun, but i was so terrified of him hurting me, i was like -- >> the robber is 26-year-old desmondlet that hits him goes through his arm but he's able to make a full recovery. he's convicted of second degree robbery and sentenced to five years probation. as for smith, the franklin county sheriff's office concludes that she acted in self-defense and no charges are filed in the shooting. and while it took nerve to defend herself in the heat of the moment, it's months before she actually gets up the courage to watch the robbery on videotape. >> when i first saw it, it was weird. it just brought back bad villains for me. >> for added security, the owner of the gas station installs a new bulletproof partition in front of the counter to protect employees. smith does not want to be known for shooting someone, but she is proud that she defended herself. >> i was not going to let him hurt me. i would have did whatever i had to do. i was so terrified that he was going to hurt me. and that's why i shot him. >>> april 4th, 1997, seattle, washington. armed with a sword, a mentally standoff with

death leads one to infer this is a pattern of behavior for assad's forces but most chilling of all, desmond desilva stated that the amayberry yaited bodies revealed in these thickets are -- quote -- "reminiscens ent of those found still alive this the nazi death camps after world war ii. yesterday in a hearing of the committee on armed services, i asked the director of national intelligence, james clapper, whether these photographs which depicts ghastly crimes against humanity are authentic. the director said he has -- quote -- "no reason to doubt their you authenticity." the united nations is now doing its own assessment of these images and all of shus fully support -- us should fully support that. it's important to have the broadest possible validation of these images and i'm confident the u.n. team will validate them. after all, does anyone seriously believe the assad regime does not have the means, motive and opportunity to murder 11,000 people in its prisons? indeed, this kind of inhuman cruelty is a pattern of behavior within the syrian government. according to a detailed u.n. report

looks when it's too bad that too has an s on the issue at this i said the problem is if and that the desmond able to put the government that doesn't mean that sad at the end that government should be free of these and a club option that charges. especially. and that we cannot expect the addictions to solve the issue but as i deem that a sikh obvious need me to rely on the ballot box but the problem is that the box itself is not and that we love democracy democracy doesn't work just based on the books to god and that's the problem that a problem and often lead us to send another. the prime minister believes that as long as he's got the mature team. then we can do ask you why. but as you know he's supposed to be the prime minister told the whole country and that's a pity because the nation continues off balance. i haven't even bought the clothing but so far he hasn't acted like that and doesn't show up and at school and he will add a little bit so that he would do differently. the reason i do agree that there's too much power being concentrated in the hands of the prime minister. in. the gener

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