to establish a modern development, but not at the cost of regional development or the cost of social justice. and that's why in the government program, we have at least 12 measures. social measures. for example, the number of families that benefit from what we call poverty from $150,000 to $150,000. we raise the amount to 100. of all the social actions of our aim at the very delicate and to segment of society, because we feel we need to do things urgently and now in order to alleviate the suffering of these people. so -- the other question is -- the free trade agreement -- is economics for, there is a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of respect for the tunisa revolution. we have and the government have dignitaries and prime ministers and presidents of states and ministers of foreign affairs visiting tunisia on a daily basis. almost 30% of the prime minister is reffing these people and these people come to tunisia to congratulate the people or offer help. in the past ten months, tunisia has received more visitors and dignitaries in its history than in the past 50 years and we have a lot of support

the egyptian slogan was bread and social justice. i haven't heard anything about social justice. i've heard there will be an attempt in a keynesian mode to establish 100,000 jobs in tunisia, but i heard none of that with regard to egypt. so, for example, will under your program and leadership unions be able to be independent and have the right to strike? and what kinds of social justice measures will you have for the 40% of people who are living on the margins at or below poverty? because i think that was a very important part of the revolutions in tunisia, egypt, and elsewhere. thank you. >> that's good. nour questions now. maybe this time we'll switch the order since there are more questions. great to start here. >> a very egyptian kind of a joke. creating jobs in infrastructure, i thought i said that looking at three streams of programs, one of which is this 50 to 100 projects, $1 billion each. the second the smes and the third is the infrastructure. we're actually looking at infrastructure as a stream in its own right. you're absolutely right. i think this is where we will pr

nun has been targeted for social justice activities.margaret mcbride was excommunicated for permitting an abortion to be performed in order to save a woman's life in 2009. she was later reinstated. critics have drawn a contrast between the churches harsh treatment of nuns and past attempts to cover up widespread sexual abuse of children by male clergy members. health care in the so-called war on women have become key issues in the 22 presidential race. the catholic church has strongly opposed obama's rule requiring health insurance coverage for contraception, accusing obama of infringing on religious liberty despite an exemption for religious institutions freed some have supported the rule but the leadership conference of religious which represents most catholic nuns in the u.s., declined to join us on the program but did release a statement last week saying they were stunned by the vatican's report. on wednesday, the issue the second statements and the national board would meet to discuss implementation of the vatican's plan in "and at

we believe that social justice should hire more teachers and paraprofessionals. we reject the imposition of any layoffs to our members throughout the district and demand rescinding of all layoff notice immediately. [cheers and applause] >> and this is for you guys. >> good evening sisters and brothers and the labor union members and citizens who have joined us tonight. some things cannot be passed over in silence. some things have to be named. and a number of speakers have named them tonight. we heard the name michelle ree and the superintendent said no, what are you talking about? what does michelle ree recommend? she recommends using the fiscal crisis and the rounds of layoffs that are hurting teachers and paraprofessionals and school communities from new york to california and says use this opportunity to bust the unions. and what a shame it is. we have five commissioners who join the rambings of michelle ree and those who want to destroy the public school system in this country. so let's name what has happened tonight and two weeks ago. well, we don't know wh

our tradition is social justice.t seem as loud to me. >> we talk about catholics and they are not a monolithic voting bloc. there are a lot of catholics who think the church has been far tore vocal on issues that don't matter and not nearly enough on those that do. the fact that there are multiple letters being sent is probably a step in the right direction for those catholics. >> you will see issues where they'll be forcefully on the left. immigration. that is something where they go to the mat and coordinate. >> the tremendous tradition of dorothy day and the social justice movement has been obscures of late as a result of the compact forged between the evangelical piety in concert with the kind of catholicism that will pays attention to big institutions. because one of the things you finds sympathy with is a big institution like the catholic church which is unwieldy and the u.s. senate. those voices that puncture still out there for social justice like the catholic bishops represented their best is at least a vang

art and i have been friends and colleagues in the battle for social justice for many years. i do not know how your hair stays the same color while mine gets white. thank you, art. your truly one of the great labor leaders of our time. i appreciate your very generous introduction. brothers and sisters, it is a great pleasure for me to join you this morning, to join mayor lee, all of my brothers and sisters, trade unionists, officials, for remembering one of the great leaders of our time. i want to thank and congratulate eva for organizing this event. [applause] 12 years she has been doing this. let me just say that i have been too many cesar chavez events around the country. this is certainly one of the premier events i have never been to. thank you and congratulations. i also want to recognize eva martinez. [applause] father-son shows, -- father sanchez and our own olga from the local union. [applause] let me say that we are so proud of olga. she has been in the trenches fighting so that janitors in san francisco are treated as first class citizens, to make sure they are hon

the labor union rights, part of a broad struggle for economic and social justice. now, we have a new generation coming up. so much of our media suggests that the galleries in, rain in the cold, the only reasons there were occupying is because they don't have jobs. somehow the economic system did not work out perfectly for them. welcome a much steeper than that. they recognize that the democracy of this republic is a stake. that we have a power in this country concentrated not in the 1% of one-tenth of 1%. so powerful that would dominate all of our economic off of some much of our media and so much of our politics. and these young people are willing to go out and put their bodies on the month. jefferson and madison intended to say no. we refuse to except the future designed by corporate power. , struck by this. i know that. [inaudible] i think it will confront both political parties at their national convention this summer. i think that is appropriate. [applause] occupy in new york. i suggest that the best thing about occupier is where you start to occupy wall stree

social justice is concerned with equal justice, not just in the court, but in all aspects of society.s concept demands that people have equal rights and opportunity. everyone, from the poorest person on the margins of society to the wealthiest, deserves an even playing field. every race, every color, every culture. what happened in 1955 is not unlike what is exploding out of the headlines today. it was a young person's death that started the uprising in tunisia. it is young people on the front lines in egypt. slowly but surely, the young people in sudan are following suit and rising up against an oppressive government. it was a young girl who stood still when she was ordered to give up her seat to a white woman, violently taken from the bus, pushed into a police car, ridiculed on her way to the station, and shot inside a jail cell until she was bailed out hours later -- shut inside a jail cell until she was bailed out hours later. hers is a powerful story, along with that of a man who was racially profiled and accused of a crime he did not commit. i would like to invite ronald, who ga

. >> hollande will play at social justice in upcoming campaigning. -- played up social justice and an upcoming campaign. >> there are three debates before the final vote. the candidate agreed to one debate. >> for more on the impact of this election on europe in germany, we're joined by our correspondent. terry, what would a win for the socialists mean and fort angela merkel's management of the eurozone debt crisis? >> angela merkel has made it clear she supports the incumbent in this election, nicolas sarkozy. a socialist when would definitely be a disappointment for her. her spokesman on monday made it clear the chancellor would continue to support sarkozy through the runoff election may 6. but he said that she will not been making any campaign appearances with him, and most importantly, she will cooperate with whoever happens to be the french president. now, obviously francois hollande is expected to become the french president's. he has a more than 10-point lead, i think. germany is concerned, particularly about european policy. the to expect -- they do expect him to push for econ

regiousnew >> well, the vatican in its document actually commended the kinds of activities, apostolic, social justice activities, that the sisters are carrying out. it recognizes those. it says you must... but that's not enough. that's not if fullness of the catholic faith. we are also engaged in primary justice in the defense of life, for example, from conception to natural death in the issues of abortion and euthanasia and the church expects its consecrated publicly... public witnesses to be ful on board and to be advancing the catholic view of the right to life. so that's just one point where it's not that they're being criticized for all the great work that they do, that's recognized. they're being asked to be fully in the church. >> woodruff: jeannine fletcher, are the two things incompatible? >> i'm sorry, i'm not sure of "the two things"? >> woodruff: i'm sorry. on the one hand we heard ms. bethell talk about the issue of life, contraception and abortion and euthanasia were the points she brought up but is that teach compatible with the other teachers you were... teaching you were describing t

every social welfare program, social justice program is up! there are places that are on the radio saying, you know, you can get food stamps here, so what you do -- >> bill, we don't want -- you going to throw kids out? >> bill: no, i'm not throwing any kids out. but -- >> we got more seniors with medicare, social security, how about the veterans? a lot of the veterans come back and guess what? they get disability, bill. >> bill: juan, you can make that argument 30 years ago in the vietnam war. >> i'm just saying. >> bill: 40 years ago. >> this is who is benefiting bed you're sitting here and you can't call this some society entitlement president. >> bill: of course he is. >> you would say he was a compassionate conservative. you would say this government should be compassionate. we don't want to be -- >> bill: i'm not questioning president obama's compassion. i'm questioning his efficiency, juan. look, mary katherine, here is the deal, it is compassion to want the poor to have a decent life. that's compassionate. i'm not objecting to that. bu

while acknowledging the group promotes social justice, the report faulted the sisters for being silent on other issues dealg with the right to life, including abortion and euthanasia. members of the conference were also chastised for publicly challenging the catholic bishops on certain occasions. we have an analysis now of the vatican's charges and their consequences from david gibson, national reporter for religion news service, a longtime vatican observer and author of the book, "the rule of benedict." he joins us from new york. david, welcome. >> good to be here, bob. >> what stood out for you in this report, this challenge? >> well, bob, i think it was really significant that this announcement came the day before pope benedict celebrated the 17th anniversary of his election as pope. back seven years ago in 2005 when he was elected, so many people thought he'd be the german enforcer when he became pope, and that really hadn't proved to be the case for most of his seven years on the throne of st. peter's. and many are wondering if this signals a new crackdown overall from the vatican

sorry charity is no substitute for social justice and this this is precisely what charter is offer and he's offering a real economic and social program as an alternative and since his party role in the parliamentary elections he hasn't been able to meet with all sorts of influential people including for foreign officials in brussels is diplomats and more crucially representatives of international organizations including the international monetary fund and has been able to negotiate a generous learn for egypt and he also is very much seen in egypt as the savior of the economy as the engineer behind the run a source project involving a thousand scientists and people from the business industry in general and that's why and i can't stress that in a graph that the muslim brotherhood major test will be to sort out the extreme economic situation in the country we've seen one in new york you think they're after the cask. well you know it's a it's a bit of a i disagree completely with that they're up to the task and i don't think that the primary goal is even economic i mean it's basically they

it is young people who led the way of our social justice movement is struggling. -- historically. we also have the u.s. student association that are members of the leadership conference and youth movements of the national action network, naacp, and others need to be coordinated in a nationwide campaign to assist us specifically with this election and these issues at the state and local level. we pledged to make that happen. >> we will be right back with some final thoughts after this. [applause] >> this is all the time we have for this year's leadership conference. some final thoughts from our guests before we go. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. i am humbled and honored to be part of this wonderful event. i would like to ask you, reverend sharpton, you have to promise us -- and i know you will -- help us to fight strong laws that can eradicate racial profiling in this country. we need that because for the first time, i have to share what happened to amadou, my three grandchildren that are seven years old, triplets. and are living a room,madou's picture is there. they ask me, gran

development where we achieve prosperity but not at the cost of original development or the cost of social justice. and that's why in the government program we have, i didn't go into detail, but we have at least 12 measures, social measures. we have increased, for example, the number of families that benefit from what we call the poverty benefit. we raised the amount from 72 dinars to 100 dinars. there are whole packages of social action that are very delicate and good segments of the society. because we feel we need to the do things urgently and do it now in the wake of the suffering of these people. the other question is regarding -- the freel trade agreeme agreement, economics there is a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of respect for the tunisia revolution. we in the tunisian government have dignitaries and prime ministers and presidents of states and ministers of foreign affairs visiting tunisia on a daily basis. almost 30% of the prime minister time is receiving these people, and these people come to tunisia in order to congratulate the tunisian people for what they did and also offer help. proba

every social welfare program, social justice program is up! there are places that are on the radio saying, you know, you can get food stamps here, so what you do -- >> bill, we don't want -- you going to throw kids out? >> bill: no, i'm not throwing any kids out. but -- >> we got more seniors with medicare, social security, how about the veterans? a lot of the veterans come back and guess what? they get disability, bill. >> bill: juan, you can make that argument 30 years ago in the vietnam war. >> i'm just saying. >> bill: 40 years ago. >> this is who is benefiting bed you're sitting here and you can't call this some society entitlement president. >> bill: of course he is. >> you would say he was a compassionate conservative. you would say this government should be compassionate. we don't want to be -- >> bill: i'm not questioning president obama's compassion. i'm questioning his efficiency, juan. look, mary katherine, here is the deal, it is compassion to want the poor to have a decent life. that's compassionate. i'm not objecting to that. bu

fourthly, they're seen at non-corrupt and embodying social justice. the antithesis of the regime and they're allowed to organize. and the secular liberal alternative isn't there. first of all, they are carry a stigma because they're secular. they're not allowed to organize. when the time comes and they're able to, the young generation is able to use social media and the internet, they're able to organize around a principle of opposition, but they're not in a position where they've had the time to create in a sense an identity, an agenda, a platform to think about how do we now present ourselves and our identity to the public? they have all the disadvantages in the early going and the islamists have all the advantages. there's one very interesting change in everything that's happened, if we use the word awakening. and that is, this was a region that was characterized, since i'm in an academic setting. i'll use the jargon. not a participatory political cull chulture. one of the reasons i'm feeling unaez about where thing are. people in this part world t

we demand social and justice. we want to see some action on this.[applause] >> i am here for my wife and. she could not make it that called me and i felt like i had to come and say a few words for miss martha. my daughter is only in pre-k. i have to admit, what i see right now is like, i have these people here. helping me out so i do not have to do all that stuff. it is hard when i get the news that miss martha got the pink slip, it is kind of hard. hopefully you guys can do something to help miss martha. i am new at this what i see she does for the kids is incredible. hopefully you can do something for her. thank you. [applause] >> my name is rebecca bradley and then my mate -- i am a spanish teacher. i have spent most of my adult life teaching in spain. i started working here last year. when i started at cleveland elementary, i was told by several teachers that it was a revolving door. fortunately, this year we had a more stable staff and an inspired staff. sadly, one of our brightest stars has received a pink slip. we love her and she loves cleav

i hope the district will have a plan that can achieve real social justice. >> any comments or questions from the board? >> i want to thank you for bringing this forward. >> much of the practice we are currently practicing is restated in this policy. sometimes people will interpret this a little bit differently. there is a question about who has the authority, and although there are very few staff members who fall in this category, it is important to know if we have three or two or four or five people in our school district, because when people ask me, when this discussion took place, i could not tell them whether we have one or 500, now that we have done some research, we realize there are a few people that fall under this category, but it is also an option when we need somebody the has specific skills we may not be able to find currently living in san francisco, so thank you for listening to rosus. roll call please. [calling votes] >> seven ayes. >> the next item is item j, request to speak involving general matters. i have lots of speakers, and i am going to let you know right now thi

i want to commend the community for standing up for social justice, so we have a lot of work ahead of us, and i may be a lame duck but not a dead duck. negotiating with partners, hoping we eliminate as many layoffs as possible, because this is one community, and we need to stand up for one another. it has been an honor and a privilege. thank you very much. [applause] >> hi, i am the president of the school board. today is a sad day for our school district to know superintendent garcia will be leaving after the school year. it seems like we just started this journey. what we have seen is positive growth in students. we have increased access to rigorous curriculum. this includes requriement for high school graduation, so we could say we have much to celebrate, but the board wants to continue the positive direction. there is no one single school board member that feels we are finished. we want to continue to support our goals and initiatives, so we made a decision to invite one person who has played a centra l role in achievements, so we are going to invite this person to take it to the

moral core that grounded his work and police -- and belief in the righteousness of the cause, social justice, and the belief that there is nothing you cannot accomplish when you are united and working together. those lessons are just as relevant today. today, many of the things that cesar fought for are in danger. today, we are facing difficult situations as a society. today, in the richest and most powerful country in the world, we are seeing such income inequality that we have never seen before. today, we have more millionaires and more poor people than in the middle class at any time in our history before. the unions have always been the ticket to the middle class for working people. they are under attack like never before. look at wisconsin, ohio, indiana. look at the state of california where again the corporations are trying to take away the voice of working people. they are doing that because they believe if they are to control the wealth of the country and the ballot box that they must do away with independent political forces. the labor movement is the largest, best resource, indepe