so please welcome duvergne gaines and hold your questions until the end. we'll have time for more q&a. >> thank you, kathy. hello, welcome. on to the next session. thank you for sticking it out with us. yes, we are indeed right now talking about ballot measures and stopping the war on women and what's on deck in 2012 with respect to these measures. ballot measures present an interesting opportunity for us. they're used by our opponents to create division and we capitalize upon that to unite our movement and fight back and win. there's a lot going on. we have a distinguished panel here to talk about anti-union initiatives, anti-choice and personhood initiatives. i'm going to briefly speak about voter identification measures and amendments that have been passed, in addition to anti-marriage equality and anti-lgbt initiatives across the country. we are -- it's been an interesting last two years with respect to voter identification, which is i think a good way to perhaps kick off this plenary session. last fall i was in mississippi working side by side with me

so please welcome duvergne gaines, and hold your questions to the in.will have time for more q&a. >> thank you, kathy. hello, welcome. [applause] >> on to the next plenary session. thank you for sticking it out with us. yes, we are indeed right now talking about ballot measures and stopping the war on women. and what's on deck in 2012, with respect to these measures. ballot measures present an interesting opportunity for us. their use by our opponents to create division, and we capitalized on that, unite our movement, and fight back and win. there's a lot going on. we have a distinguished panel here to talk about antiunion initiatives, anti-choice and personhood initiatives. i'm going to briefly speak about voter identification measures, and amendments that have been passed, in addition to anti-marriage equality and anti-lgbt initiative across the country. we are -- it's been interesting last two years with respect to voter identification which is i think a good way to perhaps take off this plenary session. last fall i was in mississippi working side-by