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,

words about you and your work from bill clinton and bono and alicia keys and peter gabriel and desmond tutuerybody 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 to t

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

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 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

♪ >> pelley: ...jennifer hudson, and lectures by activists, including nobel peace prize winner desmond tutuhat 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 school