so he would say yes i'm with you for social justice but i may not be with you to the extent that you want t do you know change society fast using techniques of social engineering or crazy scientific behavioral changes in which i don't particularly have much trust or i think there might be a dq mind -- dehumanizing downside. >> i have a question about if you read human rights in histo history. i mean natural rights of history he's clearly at that point got to follow the church. i'm not sure whether what you are saying that he was impressed to learn something from featured and if so could you tell us something about what it was when she was formed and whether was the same thing as something else when he shifted away from it? >> my sense is that part of it was that nietzsche offered a compelling diagnosis of you know what strauss at that point was persuaded of as a decline of classical intellectual culture in germany but in the european world more generally and the rise of what one could crudely called math or popular culture with the accompanying kind of degradation of society. and so t

so we are front and center in the fight for social justice and i might add for quite a few decades. maybe that part of it is unfortunate, the decade part. so we feel the resolution is one that calls for finding common ground between uesf and fusd is something we can support and as young lee mentioned, there is grounds for feeling optimistic that we may be moving forward. so we are glad that we're in that state of affairs at this point but we still think it's a very good thing for city hall to engage and take a stand for a resolution of this contract as soon as possible. teachers and paraprofessionals have been waiting for new contracts since last spring. and it's not unusual for city hall to step in and i think maybe mr. lee mentioned that the 2005-2006 negotiations, the mayor and city hall helped us come to resolution and, by the way, that was after the second strike vote. so you may be aware in the uesf constitution and bylaws it takes two strike votes. we're not at that point yet. second strike vote may or may not happen, hopefully not, but in 2006 it did. hundreds and hundreds o

current regime, and the spirit of the revolution that was supposed to bring about dignity and social justice is becoming a far, far vision. >> you heard professor fahmy , she mentioned the benchmark ma . did we see one in egypt? >> we saw a profound social change in the spring of the 2011 up risings. in the case of egypt in particular. you did have a spontaneous grouping of protesters. many of them islamists who gathered outs of the tahrir square, it was closed by the military, all of them protesting that mubarak had charges against him dismissed. this is not something that you would see in pre 2011. public opinion matters far more than it ever did before. >> is that setting the barlow? in the face of the verdict you saw people complaining about them and that's a sign of something good in egypt? >> you have president assisi today very concerned with the mood of the public opinion. he has tried to shape opinion opiniopublic opinion to align with his own agenda, that is security-based and economic reform. these have come out of a frustration from the egypt people, kind of a demand that they wa

in terms of social justice, we realise that we have to think of h.i.v. as a social justice issue, the right to health care and sex education, the right to prevention programs that fit individual communities, instead of a one-stop shop in making sure that we hold elected officials and health departments responsible for the type of getting. >> before the black, you called out gilliad, the company responsible for developing the drug. what has worked in the past, aides drugs have come down. can't we expect that truvada would do the same. >> it's come down a lot in the developing world. the same drug that you are talking about costs less than $500 in an african nation for a year. it really is outrageous that we pay this sum. gilliad has made the money, it has its research. they could charge $1 a pill, and it would be okay. it's kind of the state of our affairs that we are not really pressing on them. to lower the price. and rather they'd like to see communities. >> anyone that watched the programme can conclude that we are not home, that truvada is not the an

activists in berkeley sing for social justice. he organized the fund raiser for michael brown's family. >> not everybody is a leader. everybody's part is important. we need to stand together in solidarity to get anything done. >> after weeks of ongoing protests across the nation against police violence. people are divided. protestors and shoppers, argued about how to restore calm today. in an open letter to the bay area, the president of three police unions, shared concerns about officer safety. saying the legitimate expression of views has devofld into vilification and violence against the natipublic servants. nancy armstrong temple is raising her voice against a broken criminal justice system. >> i have been pulled out of the car driving home late. >> this mother raising money for michael brown's family hurts. >> she is hoping her efforts will help one family pursue justice. >> i think we are in a world divided. with a lot of challenges. and -- that each of of is responsible for standing up for black lives. >> tonight's event ra

and the trio's unwavering commitment to social justice is the nativetive to "peter, paul, and mary 50ears of music and life." we'll look at the trio singing one of the anthems of the civil rights movement -- use guessed it, "blowing in the wind." ♪ answer my friend is blowing in the ♪ ♪ the answer my friend is blowing in the wind ♪ >> i don't care how many times i hear that, how many different ways or versions of it i hear, talking about the trio -- >> yes -- >> -- it never gets old to my ears. does it get old to you when you're asked to perform it? >> not only does it not get old, not only is it -- when you hear -- just listen to this -- we're going to sing a couple lines, and you're going to hear mary's voice in our hearts. >> even show she be absent. >> yeah. ♪ ♪ and how many roads must a man walk down before ythey call him a man ♪ ♪ how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand ♪ ♪ yes and how many times must the cannon balls fly before they're forever banned ♪ ♪ the answer my friend the answer my friend is blowing in the wind ♪ ♪ the answer is blowing in the

and we are here to support the turf campaign and we believe in social justice and we believe that tobacco is a social justice is issue that mainly targets low income people people of color, and most importantly our youth and they are most vulnerable to the negative health impacts of tobacco use, we say that we want to make a change in our community, but we are rarely see any action, where this is our first step to the action to make change, thank you. >> my name is (inaudible) and i am a member of bling and i am here to represent as a member or someone who lives in the san francisco community you know i spend most of my time and all of the stores and all of the homeless people, spending the rest of their lives, by that store and just buying, cigarette and just you know, putting their lives just being to waste, like if you imagine that if this policy passed it will encourage the people to bring in a better life for themselves and also to, for this, for the mission, for example, to for the students, and all of the people and communities to really, to have a better life and better future for

kept on saying social justice, and 5% of the nation's population gathered in a city square one night, demanding justice with no violence. 100 years after the revolution in russia. all of a sudden, social justice, but in a democratic sense, they did not get that delivered to them and the only party that can deliver to them and the only partner that would be is labor. this is part of the real agenda battle between me and netanyahu. these are not the only issues. >> i want to come to this in a minute. but i do want answer to this question of who you listen to in israel. >> i will not tell you. >> why not? >> because, some of the people don't want to be exposed. it's legitimate. believe me, i hinted and i said we're talking to many people. and i hope to be able to present a nice group of people who have devoted their life to the defense of the state of israel who are going to be with me and my part. >> i will probably try one more time later when you are tired. >> i'm not going to chicken out. >> that is not the exact expression but you are close. [ laughter ] you can really, really thri

social justice, and 5% of the nation's population gathered in a city square one night, demanding justiceears after the revolution hnÑ in russia. all of a sudden, social justice, but in a democratic sense, they did not get that delivered to them and the only party that can deliver to them and the only partner that would be is labor. this is part of the real agenda battle between me and netanyahu. these are not the only issues. >> i want to come to this in a minute. but i do want answer to this o8"stion of who you listen to in israel. >> i will not tell you. >> why not? >> because, some of the people don't want to be exposed. it's legitimate. believe me, i hinted and i said we're talking to many people. and i hope to be able to present a nice group of people who have o3=z devoted their life to the e!)zsy defense of the state of israel who are going to be with me and my part.yb >> i will probably try one more time later when you are tired. >> i'm not going to chicken out. >> that is not the exact expression but you are close.fq you can really, really thrill the people watching on c-span if

so forceful was he for advocacy for children in other countries, for fairness and social justice, that he became a subject of the salvadoran death squads. they tried to search him down in the united states because he was such a fierce champion for fairness in their country as ell. and so here we are. two committed people. if you ask them what the secret of their success would be and , w they've achieved so much they will be modest. well, sometimes. but what they will both tell you separately is that, and what -- the guidance they give the rest of us, just stick with it. just keep on working. just make sure that the other side, whoever that might be, knows you're not going to go away, because you have a goal that is responsible, you have an urgency for the people and you will make sure that you make the difference. and in many ways we all live in a nation shaped, defined and strengthened by george miller and henry waxman. their keen vision, abiding determination, courageous leadership have put them in the ranks of the greatest legislators in our history. when they leave this house, we c

it was a lovely evening and met many educators and teaching for social justice is a learned art quite frankly. thank you for invite meg

it was a lovely evening and met many educators and teaching for social justice is a learned art quite frankly. thank you for invite meg to that. resources will be meeting -- having an event this friday -- i am wondering if our student advisory council is also involved in that this friday? >> i do not think so. >> thank you very much. yes. did someone else have another comment to add? announcements. go ahead. >> i just wanted to do a couple of congrats. the 19th annual fundraiser last night. it was a great event and commissioner haney and incoming commissioner walton were both there and i was really glad to see them. it's just an amazing group of young people that performed last night. and then on saturday, an organization called pac to stem did a great event at the ywca in bay view that had young people from stanford and berkeley come and present to our young people on stem education and some of the stem careers that they can go into. it was really powerful to see these young men and women of color speaking to your young people as role-models and i really wanted to appreciate mr. toll

it is a movement for social justice in america no doubt. joining us now, political analyst and president of the robert f kennedy center for justice and human rights. good to have both of you with us tonight. carrie, poverty plays a big role in this social injustice and income inequality in america. how do we remedy that in the midst of this conversation? >> well you know, poverty is a big part of us and we, especially for african-americans, their chance of living in poverty is multiple times that of white americans, but it is both in poverty and also in law enforcement and social justice across the board. for instance, right now, ten times as many white-americans as blacks use drugs, and yet, rather five times as many whites as blacks use drugs and yet a black american is ten times more likely to be in prison for drugs than a while-american. we see this across the board. >> michael, how does the president's response to these protests measure up in your opinion? >> very poorly. look, i love the president. i'm sorry a huge supporter of his but

the sudden, the nation woke up and demanded not security, they demanded social justice, and they kept on saying theal justice, and 5% of nation's population gathered in a city square one night demanding justice with no violence. russia.revolution in all of a sudden, social justice, but in a democratic cents, and they did not get that delivered to them, and the only partner -- se, they democratic sen did not get that delivered to them, and the only partner that would is labor. these are not the only issues. >> i want to come to this in a minute, but i do want an answer to this question of who you listen to in israel. tell you.not >> why not? -- believe me, we are talking to many people. and i hope to be able to present a nice group of people who have devoted their life to the defense of the state of israel who are going to be with me and the party. >> i will probably try one more time later when you are tired. >> i am not going to chicken out. [laughter] >> that is not the exact expression, but you are close. [laughter] c-span -- hing on aside.s put that the real expression is somethin

and develop community organizing leadsers to categorize social change in san francisco, promote social justice and advocate for issues for social poverty and homelessness. we are all organizizers, chop also runs community scholars program, an 8 month internship program to promote [inaudible] through chop she worked almost every day on a campaign including most recently the fair chance act authored by my office and supervisor cohen and the registration project. she came to our meetings supporting policy measures that would make a difference in the tenderloin. she was born in san francisco on july 21, 1969 to edgar [inaudible] and raised by her grandparents. she grew up closely with her two siblings, trino and lucia. she worked in the tenderloin. she was an amazing mother, daughter, sister, friends and someone who cared deeply about her neighbors and residents. she passed at the age of 45 to unknown causes. the community housing partnership family in our district are grieving her loss and the gap in leadership. friends remember her as loving, outside going, caring, down to earth, and never witho

>> soldiers for social justice. the e-mails i saw from them.p removed from the ku klux klan. always heeded the phoniness of hollywood. always despised them because i know they are phony, liberals don't care about blacks or hispanics and have low opinions of the sand i am glad those e-mails revealed that. >> the executives -- charles: the lack of executives, the hypocrisy. liz: joking with the obama administration. charles: can these guys hold themselves up as being so much more superior than the rest of us ugly americans? we are dumb, we don't travel, we don't know things, they are so well-rounded and accepting of everybody. >> they will when americans stop going to the movies. charles: all these movies, inside iraq movies, very few made money, they kept churning them out. they were not really blockbusters. led american sniper, one of the best things i've seen in a long time, opens a christmas day, very american, a hero and was now. before one period particularly george bush was in office and every movie was sort of anti war, we shouldn't be in

. >>> protesters sang out for social justice. group played music to play money for the my will cay -- my will cal od brown we love our sons and daughters foundation. it was named after the unarmed black teenager shot and killed by a police officer. >> people in hillsboro are on high alert after a mountain lion killed a deer in a family neighborhood. they heard screeching coming from their home on el cerrito avenue. when officers checked it out they found a deer caucus. jay we heard a large thump on our roof and then we heard the loud screechy screech. it was shattering. >> it was a mauling of sorts and we could hear something was in pearl. >> animal control and wildlife officials have been notified and they are looking into it. >> a sea of blue is expected for one of the officers in new york city. >> and gas prices plummeting to historic lows. what you can expect the next time you fill up. >> and a popular bay area restaurant is closing its doors. the rich history of ming and how it changed customers' lives over the >> thousands

a night of music with lyrics calls for social justice. earlier a protest in the city focused on awareness of the issues between police and people of color. >> black lives matter! >> reporter: a couple dozen demonstrators calling for an end to police brutality marched into a bustling union square today. after holding a moment of silence, the names of more than 30 black people killed by police were read. >> alan bloomford. black lives matter! oscar grant. black lives matter! >> reporter: to draw attention to their cause protesters are hoping tot their message out to as many people as they can, and they picked a good day to do it. the place was packed with shoppers and tourists. >> this is the time to celebrate and be with our families, also remember that our nation is at war right now. there's a genocide being committed against black people every day, including the day after christmas, including christmas. >> reporter: the use of the word genocide sparked a debate among bystanders. >> genocide is adolf hitler, rwanda. >> reporter: which end

different congregations come together to make a statement for social justice. hello. >>> this sunday faith based groups are showing support in a nationwide movement against social injustice, and happening now, michael brown's father is speaking at church in san francisco during the national black solidarity sunday. cornell bernard is live at third baptist church in western edition. cornell. >> the program just getting underway at the third baptist church. it's party of "black lives matter sunday" majors day of healing and a call for justice. the speaker is michael down, sr., whose son was killed by a police officer in ferguson, missouri. brown arrived a short time ago, and will be speaking about his personal experience tonight. earlier today churches around the bay area gathered to pray and heal. ♪ ♪ >> san francisco naacp president amos brown told the congregation to be strong. in the wake of protests from ferguson to the bay area, over the police killings of unarmed black men, brown is calling for the san francisco police department for sensitivity training fo

and when it came to social justice issue, the phrase radical feminism was also used to describe americancis' vatican has issued its first report and the message to them is, you are zoing the lord's work. joining me now sf sister simone campbell, executive director of network, the national catholic social justice group and author of "a nun on the bus." sister, thank you very much for joining me tonight. i want to read you some of your reviews from the vatican saying that american nuns are selflessly tending to the spiritual moral education, physical and social needs of countless individuals, especially the poor and marginalized. you know what, that's exactly what i thought you were doing. >> that's what we thought we were supposed to be doing. we just had this hiccup in the middle that was hyper have it call of us, and i think it was mostly about church accomplishes got in the way of their seeing the actual work that we're doing. >> it doesn't seem surprising coming from a pope who years as a cardinal shared many of your views and joined in similar kinds of actions. >> absolutely. and is

latest polls the economic issues that are of a main concern to them followed by security and social justicessues. they will carefully look at who they will vote for. it is interesting that recent olls are actually suggesting, and one poll is saying 60% would not like to see the current prime minister again having a fourth term as prime minister. it would be the fourth term. so these elections have become quite interesting. a lot of things can happen. >> that is right. what do we expect in terms of foreign policy from the government in the months ahead and including towards syria. there was an apparent attack. >> we might see a tougher line by the outgoing government since he has used the security issue as the main topic during election campaigns. the timing of the air strikes allegedly by the israeli air force were a part of this agenda and also in the past we have seen those allegations that have repeatedly accused them of such involvement. and they do believe any such strike has been planned for some time there was intelligence. what israel said is that it will not accept any transfer of

. >> -- and social justice organizations met this morning here at the house of justice. we met with a number of us in the room, with many, many others who were on the phone, and we met today because of the urgency of the moment. the urgency of the moment is a reawakening about the cause of justice in this nation. the urgency of the moment is underscored certainly by the untimely, unfortunate killing of eric garner by new york police officer and the travesty of justice by the staten island grand jury not to hold that officer accountable. this reawakening is underscored by the killing of michael brown in ferguson, missouri, and the decision again by a state grand jury which refused to indict officer daryn wilson. that reawakening is further underscored by the case of marlene pinoch, a 51-year-old grandmother and great grandmother in los angeles, california, who was brutally beaten by california highway patrolmen. it is further underscored by the tragedy of the killing of a 12-year-old boy, tamir rice, in cleveland, ohio, by cleveland police officers, and further underscore

. >>> protesters sang out for social justice. the group played music to play money for the my will cay -- my will cal od brown we love our sons and daughters foundation. it was named after the unarmed black teenager shot and killed by a police officer. >> people in hillsboro are on high alert after a mountain lion killed a deer in a family neighborhood. they heard screeching coming from their home on el cerrito avenue. when officers checked it out they found a deer caucus. jay we heard a large thump on our roof and then we heard the loud screechy screech. it was shattering. >> it was a mauling of sorts and we could hear something was in pearl. >> animal control and wildlife officials have been notified and they are looking into it. >> a sea of blue is expected for one of the officers in new york city. >> and gas prices plummeting to historic lows. what you can expect the next time you fill up. >> and a popular bay area restaurant is closing its doors. the rich history of ming and how it changed customers' lives over the >> thousa

. >>> protesters sang out for social justice. the group played music to play money for the my wi cay -- my will cal od brown we love our sons and daughters foundation. it was named after the unarmed black teenager shot and killed by a police officer. >> people in hillsboro are on high alert after a mountain lion killed a deer in a family neighborhood. they heard screeching coming from their home on el cerrito avenue. when officers checked it out they found a deer caucus. jay we heard a large thump on our roof and then we heard the loud screechy screech. it was shattering. >> it was a mauling of sorts and we could hear something was in pearl. >> animal control and wildlife officials have been notified and they are looking into it. >> a sea of blue is expected for one of the officers in new york city. >> and gas prices plummeting to historic lows. what you can expect the next time you fill up. >> and a popular bay area restaurant is closing its doors. the rich history of ming and how it changed customers' >>> this is abc7 news. >>

in music and life," which chronicles the decades at the epicenter of music and the fight for social justice in this country. we're glad you can join us. a conversation about the life and legacy of peter, paul, and mary coming up right now. ♪

it may lower prices, environmentalists and social justice groups say the reason it looks to permanent forms dash even if it means higher prices in the short term, energy efficiency and renewable resources have to be front and center. the goal is to reduce reliance on a single energy source and lessen the environmental impact. switching to gas was supposed to offer big savings. market forces are tightening wallets over new england. >> thank got i have a job. i try to do my best to keep up >>> while the price of oil and gas dropped, one economist said energy in the u.s.a. is unaffordable for more and more americans. according to roger colton, americans will be charged $39 billion more than they can electricity. >> there are certain attributes that can be associated with a household's home energy bill, the size of the household, the size of the housing unit, the location of the housing unit. so we have developed a mathematical model relating all of those so that we can, on a county by county base for the country determine what home energy bills are, and the extent to which those bills ex

hundred people are inside the third baptist church, listening to a dozen speakers talking about social justice and recent events involving police, but of course, the featured speaker is michael brown, sr. he has yet to speak tonight. he arrived a short time ago. had no comments. but his son, of course, mike brown, jr., was the unarmed teenager shot bay ferguson, missouri, police officer. reverend amos brown, who organized the event on this national black lives matter sunday, says racism is an obstacle that needs to be acknowledged in society. >> i hope that we'll be humble enough this time to admit we have a problem of racism being at the core of our values in this country, but get some recovery and be the nation that we envisioned it to be. reporter: about a dozen police officers from the san francisco police force have been in the area, providing security for tonight's event. michael brown expected to speak in the next hour. we'll have his full comments tonight on kofy tv 20 at 9:00 p.m. and abc7 news at 11:00. >> police arrested 45 people in oakland last night when the nationwide millions m

the pastors are passionate about social justice and true inclusiveness.hat meant welcoming lgbtq people. >> they were with the marriage equality and lgbt equality for a long time. even when it was not popular. even when it was not safe. but they knew it was the right thing to do. >> this church was the leader a leader in that whole process in terms of sensitizing people. >> pastors dennis and christine began officiating at civil union ceremonies. first outside the church, then two couples requested church services. >> the congregation was clear that we were now an inclusive congregation and so many people were joining the church and you could see that people are starting to ask this person, i wonder if they're gay or straight. when the union ceremony piece came up that was the straw that broke the camel's back. >> when i thought about inclusion at first it was just, let everybody come. i was okay with that. but then when they had the first marriage i thought, well, will they be doing that? so i had to embrace everything what inclusion meant. >> i think th

him is that he's been an important part of a broad coalition of people, a broad coalition of social justiceons, and the issue herein is that the garner case and certainly the brown case have struck a chord not just with civil rights and social justice organizations but with the thousands of people of all races and backgrounds who are in the streets protesting in new york and all across the country. this conversation with as much about them and their reaction as it is about anyone else's. >> i'm wondering with the msnbc piece of this. he has a daily show on msnbc, and obviously the channel has supported him, defended him having that position. but do you think that's okay? do you think someone like you, do you think someone with your point of view should have a program to balance him out? >> balancing the man out or however you want to put it is just about us taking responsibility. ask me this and correct me if i'm wrong, i'll leave the studio now, when have you seen an african-american male in the black community say let's clean up our neighborhoods, you all? the same intensity you're seeing