know who i am i can do that with no disclosure whatsoever this is a huge step backwards for the marchese it's a step forward for oligarchy or a handful of extraordinarily wealthy individuals and large corporations have a major major major influence over all political life after the obama administration came in with his big hopes of changing everything getting serious about energy getting serious about global warming in certain ways has been as disappointing as president bush was. there's a great deal of in tipis the distrust even anger toward liberals and i don't think it's misplaced it was the democratic party under bill clinton that deregulated the banking system allowed our commercial banks to become hedge funds and precipitated the meltdown that we are now undergoing. this was done consciously bill clinton understood that if he did corporate bidding he would get over money can buy the one nine hundred ninety s. the democratic party late ninety's and fund raising parity with the republican party and by the time barack obama ran for president they got more. when have the american peopl

throughout the 1980s we organized marcheses and rallies in los angeles to protest apartheid.edom on the line. when i was arrested for protesting the apartheid regime in front of the south africa consulate d.c. it 1986 i called for i divestment and helped to make the call for divestment a national movement sweeping from state to state and city to city. i did this by authoring assembly bill 134 to record $12 billion from pension funds in california plus fort fying california's opposition to the apartheid regime. the divestment movement grew and at one point there were over 40 state legislature considers a divestment bill. in 1987, the los angeles free south africa movement, which i chaired welcome president oliver, the president of the africa national congress, in standing room only gathering at trinity baptist church, it was during the time i learned about or met other important freedom fighters. for me 1990 was a particularly memorable year. in february when we learned of the news of mandela's release. from 17 years in prison, the member of the los angeles free south africa m