they were upset with nelson mandela and others. every time i looked around for what made us the most upset, it was the people who were most impressed. tavis: when you use to the communist word, -- used the communist word, you said you were hanging on. when one is a free black man, to your point, you express yourself when you want to. there is a price to pay for that. people pushed back and challenge you in a variety of ways. i know how i feel as your friend when i hear people say things about you. not a you need help from me but i always have your back. >> i need all the help i can get. >> i know who -- tavis: ino people who are dismisses of -- i know people who are dismisses of view. what did you do for your friend paul robeson? he got maltreated in every imaginable way. he is your mentor. >> it was the way in which he treated his mistreatment. the way he handled all of those things they threw at him. i saw this man as uniquely courageous. there were no romantic trappings. i looked at him and i listened to him. each day that i hea

mandela was in jail and havel was in jail. they wouldn't allow mandela writing and clearly the letters from ulga, from havel to his first wife to talk about picking up on the theme of individual denying a lie, just tremendous stuff. >> i think we take for granted that the soviet union and the iron curtain ended up on the edge of history. and ronald reagan once said and, said it was going to happen. but it wasn't necessarily destined to be. the first half of my life wasn't, we didn't think could go anywhere. individuals like this that over time by sticking with it, helped to bring it about. >> bret: that is it for the panel. stay tuned for a new holiday ad overseas. if you have high blood pressure, like me, and get a cold... ...you need a cold medicine with a heart. only coricidin hbp has a heart, right here. it's the only cold and flu brand that won't raise your blood pressure. coricidin hbp. powerful cold medicine with a heart. insurance ... but afraid you can't afford it? well, look how much insurance many people can get thr

than -- near mandela parkway. the first time in more than five weeks. >> reporter: it is kind of a triangle plot of land. it is under lock and key you can see behind us, we are on the outside of the camp they have it locked at all entrances. earlier, they did let us in. we have video of that to show you. there are more than a dozen tents inside, maybe 16 and a dozen people. the occupiers tell us it is private property. they have formed a tactical action committee for occupy oakland that is who behind the new camp. inside the camp they have conflict mediators and strict no drugs and alcohol policy they tell us. they are surviving on donated food and clothes inside. the occupier who spoke with us said they are looking to give the homeless food and shelter for winter. >> right there in front of the city's face and showing them they are not caring. what we have to do now is push forward and worry about ourselves and get each other involved and help each other out, because it seems like the city not going to do it >> r

mandela was in jail and havel was in jail.nk how they wouldn't allow mandela writing and clearly the letters from ulga, from havel to his first wife to talk about picking up on the theme of individual denying a lie, just tremendous stuff. >> i think we take for granted that the soviet union and the iron curtain ended up on the edge of history. and ronald reagan once said and, said it was going to happen. but it wasn't necessarily destined to be. the first half of my life wasn't, we didn't think could go anywhere. individuals like this that over time by sticking with it, helped to bring it about. >> bret: that is it for the panel. stay tuned for a new holiday ad overseas. >> bret: finally tonight, if you have grown tired of the same holiday ads airing again and again, you are not alone. in fact, we are not alone, apparently in the u.s. now a christmas ad is apparently airing in tehran. it may have iranians in the same spot, frustrated. but this ad must have been cut in recent weeks. >> come on, we are going to be laid. [ laught

than -- near mandela parkway. the first time in more than five weeks. >> reporter: it is kind of a triangle plot of land. it is under lock and key you can see behind us, we are on the outside of the camp they have it locked at all entrances. earlier, they did let us in. we have video of that to show you. there are more than a dozen tents inside, maybe 16 and a dozen people. the occupiers tell us it is private property. they have formed a tactical action committee for occupy oakland that is who behind the new camp. inside the camp they have conflict mediators and strict no drugs and alcohol policy they tell us. they are surviving on donated food and clothes inside. the occupier who spoke with us said they are looking to give the homeless food and shelter for winter. >> right there in front of the city's face and showing them they are not caring. what we have to do now is push forward and worry about ourselves and get each other involved and help each other out, because it seems like the city not going to do it >> r

this is being called the cypress triangle on mandela parkway in west oakland. the big occupy encampment at frank ogawa plaza in front of city hall, that was raided november 14th. since then smaller encampments have popped up. those were quickly dismantled. i spoke with a man named john this morning who says he's the medic here. he thinks it has potential. >> have something worth saying and didn't say it well, you need a place to do that and a way to do it. and they're strength -- they believe it's a global movement, probably the first one ever. >> has anyone bothered you or asked you to leave? >> no, but this is only two days. but this is a good spot. >> reporter: he says it's been really quiet out here. no one officially asking them to go. but the question is whether anyone even knows they're here. they say that they're trying to figure out who really owns this land, but for now they say they're staying put. that's the latest from here, reporting live in west oakland, i'm christie smith, jon and marla, back to you. >> kind of out of the way. a strange place to

according to one occupy website it's called the cypress triangle on mandela parkway. it's tied to the larger occupy movement over financial inequality. it was mid november when oakland police cleared out the big encampment at ogawa plaza. handful of smaller encampments popped up over various parts of the city. according to another occupy website, they'll be meeting this evening at ogawa plaza, 5:00 as they've done in the past. one option they're exploring is taking over a building as a social center for occupy oakland next month, january 28th, for things like communities, activities and sleeping space, is what they're saying. after a lot of bang and forth with the city and police about what would be allowed at ogawa plaza, they ultimately came up with what they said, assemblying was fine. reporting live in oakland, i'm christie smith, jon and marla, back to you. >> christie, we'll check in with you in another half hour. >>> governor jerry brown taking time to weigh in on the recent port shutdowns by occupy protesters. he says he believes mayor jean quan is aware of ho

for obama and p mandela.'t lie to you, both times i felt it was historical. >> you feel obama is as capable of being great? >> he's capable of it. i wish the democrats would put action to what they tell people. >> this is a contentious one for you. i imagine you have strong views, what do you feel of the gun policy in america? >> i don't think by any means anyone should have a semiautomatic or automatic weapon for anything. i'll start with that. you know? i think that i obviously come from, i have had an experience in my life where the wrong circumstances a gun could be used in a very tragic way. i also understand people's feelings about wanting to have their right to protect themselves. i find it interesting that the right to bear arms has nothing to do with owning a gun. >> you said something interesting about gay marriage. i never had a fancy getting married. the more i lived in the u.s. and friends being gay or lesbian and watching them struggle you can only get married if you have the right kind of love.

it is on mandela parkway near peralta street. the whole area is completely fenced in, which is one of the catch-22s of this location. on one hand they say they are not being hassled by police officers. on the other hand they don't have the visibility that an "occupy" encampment calls for. about 12 tents moved in yesterday. and they encouraged others to join in very yeah their website, occupy -- via their website, occupy california. oakland had been "occupy" camp- free for more than a month after police cleared another camp in west oakland in november. and the person that i spoke with here at this camp described this new camp as the diehards of the "occupy" movement. here he talks about the pros and cons. >> it's available. we're not getting hassled -- yet -- at all. but that's also a downside. one of the guys first actually came here and said, john, the cops are driving by. they are leaving me alone. i don't want to do this. >> reporter: he didn't want to do it because there wasn't enough visibility for the cause. now, what you'r

>> mandela. >> mandela?group and mandela called and invited me to his home. so i had lunch with mandela and dinner with declerk. i'm a little jewish boy from brooklyn, what the hell am i doing here? and to be in the -- 'cause i believe mandela was probably the greatest political social figure of the 20th century and had he taken a different approach coming up, you had civil war in south africa, but he came out of jail, had two of his guards attend his inauguration as president. >> wow. >> and declerk told me, he called mandela the day before he got out of jail and invited him to come to johannesburg and address the legislature. and he politely declined and said woe walk out of the jail in cape town and just walk among the people and declerk, he said he went up ten fold in declerk's mind that night. >> wow. >>> it would be mandela. >> let ask you the flip side of that question, a subject -- i don't like to bring up subjects that raise neighbor the -- >> go ahead, john. >> look -- >> that's what you do for a l

took power to represent its workers in and had a lot of disputes with mandela and the a.n.c. over issues central to workers like privatization but the union movement was respected within that political broader. contex and so that's where you think that you can see the difference between the type of people that make up the occupy movement and unions mean firm for the most part by movement originally started with a very young group of people a lot of whom are college educated just don't have a job right that can go and camp out in a park versus some of these union workers and these poor guys from yesterday who maybe need to put food on the table that night for dinner sure there's a big difference so i can't really talk for the movement here i didn't go to occupy wall street in new york when it was going on at the park but i've been here in d.c. a big fierce and square a lot been to the other one freedom plaza there's all kinds of different people there's union people that are there that is you know college kids are hippies there's anarchists with all kinds people united around

oakland it went up yesterday there are more than a dozen tents in an empty lot in the 2000 block near mandela parkway. oakland has been without an occupy camp more than five weeks. >>> governor brown says the port of oakland is too important to the state's economy and he will do what he can to help keep it open in the event of future demonstrations. during a news conference yesterday the governor talked about a number of issue, including the occupy oakland movement in the city where he used to be mayor and still lives. he called the protests a scream against the inequality of society but would not criticize mayor quan's handling of the protests. >>> police in fremont hope two drivers will come forward in a pedestrian hit-and-run that killed a military veteran. witnesses say a newer silver toyota rav 4 hit the 56-year-old man while he was the street monday night. investigators believe he was not in the crosswalk. a honda accord then hit him after he was on the ground. >> if there is somebody out there that saw something, get in touch . i guess that's the right thing to do. >> i know there are

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. >>> last night dozens of officers moved in on the fenced in camp along mandela parkway. they took down the small tent city and it came as quickly as the owner asked them to in on them -- move in on them. >> it became a nuisance. there was a little bit of marijuana smoking i am assuming because we can smell it here. >> a handful of defiant demonstrators returned late last night. it is not clear how oakland police will respond. >>> meantime mayor jean quan has faced tremendous criticism and now she is the focus of a front page article in the new york times. it talks about her struggles and mentions her tense relationship with oakland police as well as the recall campaign to remove her from office. >>> a deadly accident happened in livermore following a police chase. it happened late last night. a man on a motorcycle and a man was pinned under a van. the man had been racing at speeds over 100 miles per hour. the man in the van suffered injuries from the crash. >>> they are looking for a woman they say is a wanted felon. he can a is wanted on two warrants, one for auto theft

king or mandela, i served and i would serve him faithfully and with great instruction.se) my life with dr. king and with malcolm x and stokely carmichael and the left has not been for naught. i've come to certain realizations that he needs to understand that he needs to hear and if he's heard it and then dismisses it that's one scenario. but if you've never heard it, how do you know what to act upon. >> rose: has he ever reached out to you. >> never. (audience reacts) >> rose: have you sought access? >> yes. i remember i said to him once during the campaign when i was busy raising money for him he came to talk to the business community here in new york and he met for the first me all the wall street people and i was in the audience and at the end of his dialogue, parsons was the host, he said all he neededo say... >> rose: dk parsons? >> yeah, dick parsons, and he said all he needed to say to the bankers and at the end going back to the green room to greet him his first words out of his mouth, he said "when are you going to cut me some slack?" and it was a very aggressi

refused, i was the epa representative which is a white house initiative at the beginning of nelson mandela's administration. my job was work with the environmental leadership in south africa to help them transition from apartheid to democracy. gore refers to al gore who was the vice president. the vice president some of these nations had a commission to look at a variety of issues. >> that is correct. a very high-level commission. every six months we met in the united states or south africa. i was able to get a commission to authorize an independent investigation of the poisoning. when i tried to implement the decree of commission, every obstacle was placed in my way. investigation never took place. when i continue to push and refuse to stop talking about what i heard, i was removed from the commission. i was booted out of the office into another program i could not get the story at of my mind. in terms of the stories i had heard about what was happening to the community. i was able to get a couple girlfriends were medical doctors to travel with me on our own resources to travel to south afr

nelson mandela was called a terrorist, too. homeland security will still be there, and they are the ones that have made life more difficult for anyone from the middle east who lives in the united states, and other people, too, because they think they are puritae. i think we need to look at how to bring about peace. even nixon knew you did not send the general to end the war in vietnam, especially when you're not winning. you send a diplomat with great skills, and i think we need to do that. i think we need to make sure your resolution gets looked up by congress woman barbirolli who is the only one in congress that has consistently voted to end the war and send no more troops and no more appropriations. i support your resolution, and hope you will spread it widely. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is roger scott appeared i. i am also an army veteran. many people join me in tandem -- commending you for bringing this resolution forward, and certainly we hope the majority of the board of sup

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nelson mandela once said, we ask ourselves, who in my to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous. notice how you feel when i say that. actually, who are you not to be? you are a child of god. playing small does not serve the world. there is nothing in light about shrinking who you are so that other people will feel less insecure about you. as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others the permission to let their own shined. my store help me find my own light and the bright myself from what was varied -- from what was buried beneath the pain and tragedy of my childhood. once i move through it and found my way to the other side, i began to reach out instead of hide from it. i came from an italian catholic family of six. my father was a hard-working plumbing and heating contractor, my mother was a housewife and mom. we lived upscale middle-class neighborhood. i went to private catholic school. i was a cheerleader with lots of friends, and i did the captain of the football team. it was seen to be the perfect family. even our pediatrician used to say, what an amazing family

they were taken in custody late today when they refused to leave a house on tenth street near mandela parkway. someone from fannie mae called mrichlts it owner the property. occupiers say they want the home turned into low income housing. just yesterday police cleared an occupy oakland tent city in a vacant lot few block away from location. one occup occupier arrested. 14 were cited in that case. >>> after more than a decade there had been an arrest in the murder of a pinole woman. 21-year-old alice similar body found in the nevada desert in 1999. tonight her former boyfriend raymond long is facing charges. police initially considered him a person of interest but he was never charged until new evidence was uncovered. and for alice family this long wait for justice is almost ove over. >> i had a very emotional conversation with allison's father today. he his waited 12 years for this to happen and i am very happy and our investigators are very happy that we were able to bring him that news today. that could could county district attorney's office was going to be filing this case. >>repo

they were taken in custody late today when they refused to leave a house on tenth street near mandela parkway. someone from fannie mae called mrichlts it owner the property. occupiers say they want the home turned into low income housing. just yesterday police cleared an occupy oakland tent city in a vacant lot few block away from location. one occup occupier arrested. 14 were cited in that case. >>> after more than a decade there had been an arrest in the murder of a pinole woman. 21-year-old alice similar body found in the nevada desert in 1999. tonight her former boyfriend raymond long is facing charges. police initially considered him a person of interest but he was never charged until new evidence was uncovered. and for alice family this long wait for justice is almost ove over. >> i had a very emotional conversation with allison's father today. he his waited 12 years for this to happen and i am very happy and our investigators are very happy that we were able to bring him that news today. that could could county district attorney's office was going to be filing this case. >>repo