always buy organic and the clean 15, which are foods that you can kind of skip the organic because they have a stronger protective, like a ban ban na which has such a big peel, keeps those pesticides out, so if you're working on an economy of scale, you know, go with organic with the ones that have the highest levels of pesticides. our website has a link to those tips so i can show you where that would be. and now we're going to pop into the living room and talk about flame retardants which are an important issue for any firefighters who are working in the field because it's those burns that are going to create exposures, so as folks in the home are thinking about that, once they found that frequent hand washing can reduce the actual levels of these flame retardants because we touch them, they get on our hands, they're in household dusts and make their way into our bodies, so washing them off our hands can reduce exposures, using a vak coupe with a hepa filter and a big move that could come down the pike is going down to legacy fabrics like wool and fabric that don't require the use of

each one has a sponsor unit, a charter organization. under this proposed policy change, the charter organizations and sometimes they're churches, civic groups, they're schools. these charter organizations will have the ability to set membership policy. so it seems likely that some charter organizations perhaps the mormon church or the catholic church might continue to prohibit gays and participating but it looks to us that the majority of charter organization civic groups, more mainstream christian nominations will be welcoming gays with open arms because as we've seen at the local level a ban on gay members can be very devastating and you look at all of the reasons there was a change over the last six months, one of the things we were able to do was to amplify the voices of scout leaders using an awesome online tool called change.org to help them gather the million plus signatures you mentioned in the intro and make the bsa national board understand how big of an impact the ban is having at the local level. >> john: you do get a lot of

so the consolidation is the same with organics. now, you know, i have to admit i shop at whole foods because we all -- that's all there is for most products. but you have to be very careful, because what whole foods has done in the last five years or so is they sell a lot of conventional brands. so they used to -- these are brands that used to be organic sometimes, sometimes not, and people buy those brands -- i know i've gone in and kind of talked to people in line, they somehow think if they're being sold at whole foods that it's a better quality product. even though they can go down to the grocery store and probably get that product for a cheaper price, you know, whether it's morton's salt or some other product. and so whole foods really is not part of, um, growing a local food, a regional food system where farmers can get a fair price in selling to the system. back there. >> first of all, i want to thank you for the great work that you do. you mentioned the biotech industry, and i think you could probably add a majority of the

if you're talking about organic, it's very difficult to get organic products that are meeting standardsas you can imagine how this is happening in places like china. so what we are advocating and the reason that i wrote "foodopoly" is that we need to do more. it is great for the local foods movement, we have our farm and we love people coming out, but we don't envision that our farm or all of the small farmers market in the area are ever going to be able to really feed the entire population. because you have to be able to distribute these products. the distribution has a stranglehold. so we need to have antitrust laws added to our agenda. and it's beyond the fun things that we all enjoy. we believe there are things even with this dysfunctional congress, we need to jumpstart the conversation about these issues. we live in a system that's supposed to be based on competition. all public policies promote and allow deregulation. deregulation and consolidation. so i believe we have an unbroken system and that we can make a difference with these issues. there are labeling initiatives in many s

they want to organize.f activist workers, students, and clergy members have joined forces in the community to make sure that thousands of employees get a chance to be heard. now some of the workers say the supervisors hold anti-union meetings. the workers just want to hear from the pro union side so they can have a fair vote. that's all they want to do is vote. the naacp has been involved for months on this issue. 70% of the workers at the canton plant are african-american. representative bennie tom addressed the issue back in june. >> in america, being able to decide whether or not you want representation is a fundamental a political principle of human rights, civil rights and democracy. >> this same week those same civil rights organizers held another news conference, of all places, they're serious, they went all the way to detroit. the detroit auto show. that's where they got up when it got under way. actor danny glover spoke. he is actively campaigning for the nissan workers rights. organizers are plann

[laughter] >> it's truly a great organization. capacity, we work a lot with different neighborhood associations, different merchant associations. and far and away the lower haight merchants association is one of the best we had the pleasure to work with. that holds for always, but this past year was a really remarkable year for the organization. they dealt with some challenges, notably the water and fire, some public safety concerns. and they also had some success he. they have art walks really successful art walks four times a year. but then there's always another street fair happening. it's really, you know, we can celebrate their achievements, but it's really the spirit with which they do their work, the passion and the creativity and the sense of community and bringing people to the table to figure out what's best for everybody that really lets them stand above the rest. so, bring up the award recipients. congratulate to the lower haight neighborhood association on their 2012 award. (applause) ♪ >> i just want to say a few qui

the one thing that we have here that no other organization has is everybody is on the same page. the ownership through the front office to the manager and the coaching staff and to the players. it flows up and down and it's all because of one man and how he's driven these guys together and bochy i can't say enough and you're getting your due and it is long over due. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. sit down. sit down. thank you. thanks a lot brian. he's got me emotional now. first of all i wanted to let you know we does try to spare you the torture of 2010 by clinching this division a little bit earlier. now with the six elimination games we wanted to take the torture to another level, and these guys did a great job, but what makes this team so special really was their unselfish play, and they showed you that there's no heights you can't rise to when you have did it and without self interest. these guys did it. nobody came in my office complaining or ask questions. they did whatever they could to help the team win and for them i thank all of them for buying into what we were t

and as you might know, our organization has been in the neighborhood for 30 years providing services to the homeless community and also affordable housing. you've heard a lot of community support today. our perspective as an organization who does this kind of work may be a little bit different, again, because of some of the impacts it has on the communities that we work with. we were involved in the process with the developer [speaker not understood] inclusionary requirement through the land dedication. and, so, we continue to support that option allowing lower income residents to be able to stay in the neighborhood. and also we look forward to continuing to work with the mayor's office of housing to clarify guidelines and procedures to make land dedication viable for future developments, to counter gentrification and also ensure that our community receives its fair share of affordable housing that's equivalent to other inclusionary requirements. i also just wanted to say briefly, we do operate two affordable housing sites in the neighborhood. and we also encountered some opposition

the earlier organization also had done a similar thing so basically when we were organized we room a membership-based library so the members of that organization purchase shares and they made those available to their families and so forth. when the public library movement came into being that horse they were using resources from the community and public monies to support those libraries. membership libraries are still supported by members so we consider ourselves an independent member supported library open to the public. so that means all of our funding, like public libraries, basically comes from our own resources. we are fortunate that the people that started this institution years and years ago thought to steward it as well and so we do have an endowment which we rely on but most of our financial means comes from the members themselves and they purchase a membership. so while we are open to the public, people can come in and utilizes and enjoy the , come to programs but if they want to actually arra will book, then they would purchase a membership fee. that is really our financia

youron't you call organization a socialist organization?st: i think you might be conflating the organizations that i am writing about -- the democracy initiative, this coalition of progressive groups -- with my on publication, "mother jones," i don't know anyone would call it socialist. the funding for this project, the campaign itself, comes from them. the policies they are supporting -- they i not calling for health care reform or a massive expansion of government, necessarily. they want tighter regulations of money in politics, date and what more opportunities for folks to get on the voting -- they want more opportunities for forced to get on the voting rolls, and they want to reform the use of the filibuster in the senate. is a planow if there for a massive expansion of government in there, even though it these organizations have supported policies in the past that would call for more government spending. guest: the state and national debate is a very good one. filibuster reform is a fight in the senate and that can play out in the begi

they are certainly well organized.ll of the different organized crime groups, tribal groups that have been doing this for years, those groups are starting to come together. so the movement of jihad and now calling themselves sig inaatories in blood. it will attract more trouble because the more success they have that is a recruiting tool for them. that is where jihadists will come because they think they are winning the fight. >> you wrote today and i want to get your reaction. the administration needs to better understand the specific threats posed by aqim and other al qaeda affiliated groups. if we don't deal with these groups and terrorists swiftly and effectively they will only pose an increasing threat in the future. the obama administration today very, very quick to say that this was preplanned and organized and a terrorist attack immediately. are they doing a good job handling this one? >> well, you know it is too early to tell. this is a difficult one. i am not going to say that when you have a group like this

again i want to thank the tenant organizations and apartment association

as somebody who organizes with [speaker not understood] in the mission and can only stay in the mission because of the my control [speaker not understood], they respect the neighborhood and are a vital part of the community. many of us who live and work in the mission, long-time merchants working on mission street and valencia street commercial corridors have rents tripled, as you heard, as building owners see more up scape restaurants and boutiques coming in, and want to clear the space out for higher rents. as these family owned businesses are evicted and lose their livelihood, they're having a difficulty paying for rent or mortgages and are being pushed into [speaker not understood]. these take away places that low-income people in the mission can shop and eat. the corridor becomes only for those who have more money. so, adding 100 plus condos to that stretch of the mission will exacerbate the issue for many of these small businesses and the people that live in the community. unless we see a very robust community benefits agreement, that will establish a fund to assist small business

mobility part of their common sense of how to organize their own organization.this whole program cost about $130 million. about one-quarter of it was paid by the employers, two-thirds is paid by the local authorities, and the employers have also cost for their own organization. what are the benefits? the benefits are, in the organization, cutting costs. you do not have the cost of the parking lot. you can have less office space the case you have many people working from home. also quite interesting, in the netherlands, it is even a way to attract young talent because young talent nowadays does not want to work from 9:00 until 5:00, 6:00. they want to choose themselves when they work and where they work. with the home working, they can decide themselves when, where, and how they work, and most important as they do their work. it does not matter when. especially young talent wants to have that freedom for themselves. the city could be an attractive employer and get the best ones for your office. it is also good for the health of the employees. by having held the e

international labor organization chief god writer says the first thing is to build a program to reach every country is committed this is perhaps the most difficult. road to welcome to the show good morning here thank you very much for being with us as well and i want to start with the g. twenty agenda russia has recently taken over the presidency of the g. twenty and employment is one of the most important topics since matter of fact moscow wants to include the poignant topic into the agenda of the next g. twenty meeting well actually the subject has been discussed in cannes in seoul in wherever so is there anything new to be said to said on this subject. my quick answer to you is. the same way so much new to be said but there's a great deal that needs to be done and i think this is the this is the point you're quite right to say that since. two thousand and nine the g twenty has put employment and jobs issues at the center of its work and indeed the ilo has been involved in the g. twenty is work but the problem is that we still face a dramatic crisis of jobs in the world around the w

everything from the national organization for women, gay and lesbian rights organization, the national association of evangelicals, which was a very important organization. i've done research in over 50 archival collections. and i have used about 200 different collections to amass the research for the book. going into the research, if anything surprising it was actually the extent to which the family was essential political metaphor of an icon of liberalism. i went into it expecting that i would find family being central to a post-1960s conservative politics. but what surprised me was how central the family was to liberal politics as well. that was something i had not anticipated. the power and strength and compelling nature of that within liberalism of the middle decades of the 20th century. whether we are still in a pattern about political debate of the family is an interesting question. this past election in 2012 revealed that the so-called culture wars are still present and still have a compelling grip on at least part of the electorate in the united states. study since the electio

and there are many many different organizations that are in a position to do this to you and nobody is in a position to tell them stop now. and you can describe yourself as a libertarian and this of course way suggest that people have the right to their own. money and that this money should be anonymous to a great degree what about the strand that we're moving away from anonymous cast of being every single transaction on the web. you're trying to get to this with your organization do you feel they can successfully do an end run around this trance or trance every every single transaction being being being registered with the central database number one and number two i don't hear you mentioning bitcoin and yet bitcoin same sipping a huge part of the solution or maybe i'm missing something is bitcoin part of all of what you're doing you know we will accept donations in bitcoin. personally i think it's got a ways to go to reliably when fungible currency or think it's. it's somewhat subjective seven somewhat subject to manipulation but it is actually reaching a point where i think it's an

physician organizations working for hospitals, where the organizations will interact with medicare. contracting with it as an accountable care organization for payments rather than somehow twisting medicare fee-for-service to a prism to be evaluating individual physicians for the quality and efficiency of the care they're giving medicare patients. so in a sense, i think that we need an organizational interface intermediary between the practicing physician and the medicare program. >> by organization, what do you mean? >>, i mean, it could be a medical group a multispecialty group, it could be, as i mentioned an accountable care organization where at least physicians and, you know, according to the law has to be primary care physicians at the core of it. whether it's a physician organization, independent practice association, a group practice, or could be a hospital. with either employment relationships with physicians, or contract yule relationship with physicians. we are an individual by agree i'm going to be part of the accountable care organization. i'm going accept some of the r

organization. it has put many religious organizations in conflict with each other because on the one hand, they absolutely depend on women as participants. who turns out that the temple, who turns out that the church, who turns up at the synagogue? at the same time as religious organization has been loads to allow women to wield influence in that religious organization. if you listen to indian feminists talk about nationalism , you will hear a lot of these concerns. if you listen to african american women talk about churches in the united states, you'll hear concerns. you will hear concerns from sisters in islam, a really wonderful group in malaysia talking how to reinterpret the koran so women's integrity is more full-fledged. so it's not really an answer to your question, but it does mean we have a much bigger agenda that if we take religion seriously is to watch a women engage with religion, both state and has organized process and what kind of gender analysis, what the gender analysis show you

they are certainly well-organized. call them all different organized crime groups who have been doing this for years, they are all starting to come together. the movement of jahaad, ansahr dean. this is where jihadists will come because they think they are winning the fight. >> you wrote today, the administration needs to better understand the specific threats poised by aqim and other al qaeda affiliated groups. if we don't deal with them they will pose a threat. the obama administration to say this was a terrorist attack immediately. are they doing a good job handling this one? >> it is too early to tell. this is a difficult one. i'm not going to say that. when you have a group like this that is clearly well-organized, i think it was pre-planned, that had this much success with this many hostages. this is as hard a problem as it gets on the ground to unwind. the outcomes of these are not always great. that said, what we don't have is an overarching policy. this is what many of us have been talking about. mali is the f

i want to take a few moments to thank all of the organizers tonight. and also, to make sure that we recognize those sponsors who is been quite quite generous with their support for this arab heritage month celebration here in city hall they are p g and e. eleven narrow and bar two. many many of the media outreach worked throughout the community to make sure that people were in union square at the celebrations and if he is activities. (applause). yes mis. >> i was fortunate enough to join the opening of the festival at the castro theater and i can't thank them enough for making us all aware of that work as well and,phd has been a kind sponsor with the coffee which we all know keeps us awake and ice -- which keeps us well well fed. yes, please give it up. and we all know the work that takes place, here to allow all of us to enjoy the city like this could not be wad without a very strong organizing work of our planning committee and so to all of you i want to say thank you again again and particularly again to shad dee alcarra. who's-who really has been a

now, it is not a perfect organization.e been complicit in the excesses of college hazing and have sometimes squandered rather than mobilized our political and economic resources. but perfection is not the standard. commitment is. i make no claim that this organization is better than any other. but i believe the commitments of the more than 200,000 college and graduate members, of making our selves and our community and our nation better is a story worth noting. today is delta sigma theta's 100th birthday. happy birthday, sorors. that's our show for today. thank you to julianne malvo, to nancy, kaitlin, tracy, and thank you to you at home for watching. i'll see you again next saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. i will be in washington, d.c. to cover the second inauguration of president barack obama. coming up, "weekend" with alex witt. plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have

uc sub organizations in different directions. understanding those networks gives us tools to undermine them. i have heard is said and me criticized we need to dig deeper and put ourselves in issues of some organizations but not to understand how they're able to exploit the drone strikes to recruit but how they operate to undermine them and so we can undermine them. the last thing i will say, this is the model not just applicable and they had close relationships with omar who reportedly intervened on -- intervened on his behalf. so that does look like a close operational relationship. but going forward on the future of afghanistan i could not agree more about the money issue. i published a paper called russian roulette that is a comparison of the last days of the russian occupation in the '80s of where we are today. i don't think from sustainability we have done better. it is depressing but in a lot of ways you could make a strong argument that he was a more creative leader than cars i. with amigo going forward? especially with fa