the group is spearheaded by teresa spence, leader of a small native band in northern ontario. she is 22 days into a hunger strike on victoria ireland -- victoria island just across from the canadian parliament. other groups are demanding better living conditions for canada's aboriginal and they're angry at the government of prime minister steven harper which they accused of trying to revoke their land and sovereignty rights. >> in swirling snow late last month, they converged on canada's parliament in what became the largest gathering so far in the idle more movement. began with four aboriginal women and a twitter-tag. it has grown into nationwide protests like this flash mob in toronto that brought thousands to a city center intersection. more than anything else, a hunger strike by three suspense galvanize the group. now into her fourth week, she is demanding meetings with prime minister steven harper and a representative of the british crown which negotiated treaties with aboriginal when it was a british colony. the chief rose to prominence when there was a food and housing

as you mentioned chief spence decided to go on a hunger strike because she felt like this was one way that she wanted to bring attention for her people in particular in the article that i wrote i talk about some of the conditions that the people of office got deal with in particular we're talking about a really really remote area with deep deep poverty that really shouldn't be a reality in such a rich nation like canada and she spence did this as part of a broader movement of i don't know more which has really caught the imagination of people native people in particular in canada and in the united states at a time when we don't usually see a lot of activism you know the winter holiday of two thousand and twelve wasn't supposed to be a time when people were really going to come out into into this space but we've seen native people in canada and the united states really come out and represent themselves in public spaces like parks and malls and that's what i was going to ask you i mean and what is it about i don't know more that's really not only caught the attention but really caught t

spence. we heard a lot about craig j. spence here in this town. i'm not sure the rest of the country did because it was a washington times story about his "escapades." where did you meet craig j. spence and who was he? >> guest: craig j. spence, when i met him in 1966, was a remarkable character. he was a young reporter for wcbs in new york city. and he was bright and funny and dapper. he affected the airs of a dandy in one moment and gen. macarthur the next. he was very well read. he was cultured. he was just the most entertaining character. lots of friends. things were always happening. a great vivid character. lots of energy. we met, as a matter of fact, in leonard bernstein's apartment. his wife, felicia montealegre at the time, was making anti-war christmas cards, which sounds silly now, of course, but people went to great lengths to be against the war in those days. it was a kind of harmless escapade. we were there covering it, and, of course, we were jockeying for position to interview everybody he and i tangled immediately and started shou

. >> this is the movement inspired by it theresa spence.eir campaign has left canada recently and demonstrations to block rail lines and border crossings. they want to complete self- government for nations groups. like the occupied movement that started in the u.s., it is making meeting with the government a challenge. >> they express a generalized anger and frustration. perfectly understandable, completely justified. for progress to be made in the political process, it takes a leader with specific demands that can be examined or not. >> not all of the representatives went to the meeting. some agreeing with theresa spence, the agenda was too vague. protesters in the streets. instead of going to the parliament building, as was planned, the protesters have stopped outside the canadian prime minister's office. there are moving to surround the building to make sure their demands are heard inside. so far, this grass-roots movement has not achieved the change it wants. they have brought their issues into the center of political debate. they may b

as you mentioned chief spence decided to go on a hunger strike because she felt like this was one way that she wanted to bring attention for her people in particular in the article that i wrote.

idle more organizers have called for a global day of action on january 11, the same day that spence is slated to meet with harper in the one month anniversary of her hunger strike. >> two major health care unions have announced a merger after previously teaming up with the health giant kaiser permanente a. the 85,000 member california nurses association will join the 10,000-member national union of healthcare workers for a new union entirely of workers in the health sector. both unions have waged strikes against kaiser in the last two years. the move is expected to stoke tensions with the two million- member service employees international union, with plans already in place to recruit the seiu's kaiser permanente workers in california. the seiu defeated the any h.w. in a bitterly contested vote among kaiser permanente california workers in 2011, but the national labor relations board called for an election after finding that the seiu had colluded with kaiser permanente to influence the outcome. then the tories 10 supermax prison in illinois is officially closed its doors on the transfe

spence: it's painted here. you can see that there's red paint over most of the interior except up along the rim. there's a little bit up there, too. it's going to be very delicate, very fragile. and i'll try and reassemble it and see if there's any sort of a design on it, or if it's just a solid red. we've been picking up pottery from all over the fields. and in examining the pottery, we saw that a high proportion of it was foreign to the city. and we knew from the work of others that it came from the oaxacan area. it turns out that actually it was produced here. the people moved here, but they continued to make pottery in their home tradition. keach: the pottery indicates that this compound may have been occupied by traders from far-off monte alban, an indication of a complex economy here. bill sanders. one of the aspects of culture that is extraordinarily variable is the economy. economy means the ownership of property and the production and distribution of goods. there are cultures and economies in which eve

spence remains a liquid diet only hunger strike. the chief executive of the tennessee-based company specializing in weapons training has had his gun permit revoked after posting a rant threatening violence should the federal government impose new gun control laws. in his post, james yeager of the firm tactical response vowed to "start killing people" if gun laws are passed. >> i am telling you if that happens, it will spark a civil war and i will be glad to fire the first shot. i am not putting up with it. you should not put up with it. i need all you patriots to think about what you're going to do. pack a backpack was some food, they're ready to fight. i'm not putting up with this. i'm not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. i am not letting anybody take my guns for the if it goes 1 inch further, i am going to start killing people critics in response, tennessee officials have suspended his weapons permit, citing the risk of public harm. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and

russia has been a dominant force in the current styles not only defeat of spence up to thirteen. carries on. to. the sports show as we continue. to end we remember those house in days and set to come roaring. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. the government no longer represents the people and the people are going to take stuff from. the way i. want. to. brighten move. from place to. don't. welcome back to part two of the sport show what now the biggest sporting event of an action packed twenty twelve was the london olympics despite all the debates before the games and inspired great britain finished third overall the country's best result for over a century promoting a feel good factor among britons and visitors alike robert thought i knew i was in london to psych up the atmosphere we can secure. a transport housing infrastructure supporting cu

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terry spence who's part of the police trade union if you like the police federation of northern ireland let the cat out of the bag and said a new and paramilitary organization that was behind a lot of these protests and it's one of the smaller ones so we're talking about small numbers here big numbers up on saturday i thought that smacks. of the smaller protests that are turning to violence or fifty one hundred two hundred two hundred fifty so we're talking about very small isolated communities of pockets that i'm very much these guys are kind of on their own it's hard to see it go away quickly but it's also hard to see where the protesters are actually going to hire it's going to scale up beyond the small numbers it has and is it very hard to know now what the belfast city council should do because it's going to self in a big problem isn't it because if it does reverse its decision on the pressure it's then of course going to upset the unison and then we're going to see different protests on the street it can't result reverse the decision on the meeting as we speak in belfast city hall

second half, joel smith goes inside to wide open reggie spence. huskies increase their lead to 13.rge mason goes on an 11-2 run. johnny williams, hits the three. deficit cut to 4. northeastern ends the game on a 22-6 run of its own. smith canning the 3 here. george mason loses 71-51. >>> pro bowl is wrapped up from honolulu. 62-35. and leading the way for the nfc squad defensively, in tackles, lorenzo alexander. >> love to hear it. thanks, scott. >>> up next, gary has your full forecast, including a warning for drivers heading off to work tomorrow morning. the news at 10 will be right back. >>> tourists travel here to d.c. from all over the world and this is normally the slow time of year for tourism. but a new ad campaign is designed to remind people how much fun d.c. can be. as beth parker shows us, the ads are raising some eyebrows. >> ha ha ha. >> oh. what kind of ad is this? >> very inappropriate. >> is this a joke? >> what are they selling? >> reporter: what they're selling is d.c. but not the d.c. that is this and this and this. this is a sassy new ad campaign from destinati

. >> spence is back. >> here is a look at what was a rather expansive air of rainfall slung to this, light rain towards tracy area but there will be more overnight and tomorrow. the accu-weather forecast calls for lingering showers tomorrow, spare the air day tomorrow, declining air quality. just a slight chance of showers over the weekend. cooler air coming in. high temperatures saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, only into mid-50s. that is across the region. but we'll start to warm up a little bit next week. so warm showers, maybe a wet commute in the morning. >> larry is not looking ahead to the forecast here because he will be in new orleans. >> yes. >> what is the new orleans forecast? >> under the dome. >> yes. >> outside, they have weather. i may be indoors but anyway. coming up 49ers quarterback finding out how much attention is received when you make the super bowl. plus, nba reserves name today will david lee and >>> comin kaepernick had a kos dose of what happens when you lead your team to the super bowl. this is what it's going to be like in new orleans. a group of reporte

spence yes, good news on the sierra. >> frigid is not an overstatement.e is a look at live doppler 7 hd. cold conditions we've had overnight, here is a look at early morning low temperatures readings. temperatures dropping to 26 degrees. 28 in napa. 27 in fairfield. 28 in livermore, and numerous locations hit lows into low 0s so it was frigid around the bay area. looks like another cold night, maybe not quite this cold. talking about snowó%pne pack. here is video. taking a measure of our snow pack today this, is at echo summit. good news is that all across the state snow pack is well above the normal levels. at this time, last year, we'll only at 19% of the normal level snow pack state wide. you can see we're at 134%, which is above average. and in various location as above average snow pack levels. there is no snow pack deficit right now. >> spencer. >> and there is more still to come on abc 7 news at 6:00 no why the online game make jer having a tough time scoring. >> governor brown's plan he claims will improve >>> governor is about to announce one of

. >>> a great shot behind me, spence. >>> a great shot. >> it is a cool shot.. light rain scattered -- not just scattered across blanketing much of the bay area right now. rainfall totals despite the dryness of january so far are above average where this time of the year across the bay area snow pack is just about at its normal levels for this time of year compared to a year ago when we were at a third of the normal ellensburgs. mainly up ever 50s to low 60s. the accuweather seven-day forecast. we will start to dry out late tomorrow and tenned dry weather through friday. slight chance of showers on saturday. dry and cool sunday and monday. milder weather ahead on tuesday and wednesday. >> looking good. >> looks great. thank you very much. >> sports director larry beil is here. nothing sadder than a sports guy with so little to talk about. >> i know. i know. it is. warriors in the middle of a great game. >> really. >> with the oklahoma city thunder. >> best record nba. >> and the 49ers getting back on the practice field as they prep for the super bowl. prep for

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first nations in canada is continuing to draw support amid a hunger strike by native chief theresa spence. she is on the 25th day of her strike in a teepee outside ottawa's's parliament where she has been demanding a meeting with prime minister stephen harper. thursday she rejected a proposal by first nations leaders to meet with harper, saying her failing health required action within 72 hours. protests in canada began over a controversial budget bill but have expanded into a mass movement 01/04/13 01/04/13 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> the honorable john boehner from the state of ohio, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly collected speaker of the house of representatives. >> a new congress is sworn in, the most diverse in the nation's history, but not the most aggressive. who is in and who is out, with john nichols. then a debate on fracking. >> energy self-sufficient and can ensure -- >> coming from an area that is tougher from the legacy of industrial pollution, there are all saying, dear governor cuomo, we ne

in canada, the first nations chief theresa spence has ended her six-week long fasts following a pledge by key political figures to sign on to her demands. she has gone without food since december 11 in protest of a budget bill weakening in fermenta protections and indigenous rights. fraction helped draw global attention to the idle no more movement, which has seen indigenous-lit protest actions across canada for several months. she spent -- she decided to end her fast after leaders of the assembly of first nations and two canadian opposition parties agreed to a series of principles safeguarding indigenous rights. she has been hospitalized to help her recover. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting live from park city tv in utah, home of the sundance film festival. egyptian youth activists have called for large rallies today to mark the second anniversary of the start of the revolution that ended hosni mubarak's three-decade reign. inspired by the uprising in tunisia, tens of thousands o

first nations in canada is continuing to draw support amid a hunger strike by native chief theresa spence. she is on the 25th day of her strike in a teepee outside ottawa's's parliament where she has been demanding a meeting with prime minister stephen harper. thursday she rejected a proposal by first nations leaders to meet with harper, saying her failing health required action within 72 hours. protests in canada began over a controversial budget bill but have expanded into a mass movement for political transformation, indigenous rights, and environmental justice. hundreds of bangladeshi garment workers, most women, have staged a hunger strike in the capital dhaka to demand safer working additions and better pay. a factory fire at a bangladeshi plant that made goods for wal- mart killed at least 111 workers in november, marking the country's worst industrial accident. the head of the national garment workers federation, amirul haq amin, condemned the retail giant and demanded rights for workers. >> they are responsible. we lost 112. unfortunately until today, management -- >> the white h

he is a nnoirish character and i wanted to tell a spence -- suspense story. there's a very tight internal structure the book. at it kind of a slice of history, looking at a moment. it starts with nixon's rise to national popularity, being put on the ticket during the spring of 1952. follows the conventions of the summer. these convention one of the hat set of conventions where things were actually determined at conventions. television is starting to take over conventions but there's actual serious decision making, and i go into the scandal in september that becomes the basis for why nixon has to give this speech, and then obviously the speech itself is the culmination of the book or, at least, a high point of the book, because the book then also falls out the election itself, which, as some of you probably know, was a landslide election for the republican party in 1952. it's clearly aphonies formative election where the pep -- republicans seized the presidency which it had not had for quit some time. nixon begins as a nervous, what i call an inside dopester,

i just want to show you one more issue, which has spence's today.d kingdom, legions, generations of britons from the middle class have bought their underwear from spences. presumably partly of where we're going potentially with the uk economy. >> it's rarely you can get underwear into a hit on european clothes. >> it's the space for the uk. >> as i learn from you, simon. >> indeed all my socks, even now, i order them online. >> really? you get them shipped and the exchange rate instead of going to walmart -- >> i can't seem to -- >> yeah. >>> we can't go two long without mentioning the battle over herb herballife. >> melissa, ever sill bill ackman made his three-hour long case why he's short of herb alive, there's been some speculation he may have exited part of his position. i talk to him last night. this morning he told me we stand by everything we said, we haven't covered a share, and we look forward to the company's rebuttal. the profits of this, of course, will go to charity, about you in the wake of his coms, plenty of others have come out, in

>> reporter: you know, it was spenceful. i mean, there wasn't a -- suspenseful.mean, there wasn't a lot of drama going on in terms of exciting plays. if you look at the game, stanford jumped right out to a big lead. they scored twice on their first two possessions and had almost half of their total yards in the first two possessions combined. after that, there was a punt fest. there was 13 punts in the game. i give credit to stanford. went right down on the first possession, 80 yards, a touchdown, a great catch, a great run. they came right back and scored again on another long drive and after that, it was up to their defense and the defense won the game for them in the second half. it was only a 3-0 game in the second half. stanford scored the only three points of the second half if you can believe that. stanford has done it this way. andrew luck is now playing for the indianapolis colts. they aren't going to score 35, 40. they are gonna have to rely on their defense and that's what any did yesterday. they held ball of wisconsin, it was voted top in the nation -

is it your spence sense that president obama and his administration may not care enough to do somethingurders on 9/11? >> my primary concern they have no plan. if they have a plan, they really need to re-look at metrics of how it is working. we have large aid donors who are more willing to accommodate the terrorists than our demands for justice. we have basically the move of al-qaeda's base from afghanistan to 5,000 miles closer to the united states across northern africa and on europe's doorstep is profoundly important strategic change and the administration has nothing to say about it. that is deeply troubling. >> gregg: what do you expect, if anything, that is meaningful, that is, from hillary clinton or will it be subterfuge. >> she learned the art of the filibuster. there will be some long questions and maybe some long responses. i hope that we get some sense for why did the state department have realtime information that went against what the administration had to say for weeks after this profound event. why have we run into these difficulties with the investigation? what needs to

diane black will reintroduce the spence bill which was aimed at defunding planned parenhood. i mean in the current environment what do you think about where this goes from here? i don't think this particular story is going to get a lot of play in a lot of places. >> no, it's not. it's one of these sort of sleeper things where right now, given where the debt ceiling is and all the rest and the confirmation battles are coming down the pike we won't see this as a front and center issue right now but i would expect that there are going to be republicans in the house and some in the senate that will push for another effort to defund planned parenthood. martha: we may hear about it in the context of the fiscal fight, a lot of people are pushing for conservatives to be much more specific as far as listing the places where they do think money could be cut from the programs and they haven't been specific enough. perhaps it will take shape in that form. we will see. thank you so much. >> great to be here stphaofplt we are talkin. bill: new gun legislation. former congresswoman gabriell

beverly spence from twitter says she's modestly optimistic. she can't believe the g.o.p. blow the u.s. and global economy. john, redford, michigan, independent line, optimistic. caller: how are you doing. i'm very optimistic. i will tell you why. because the political climate is changing. the tea party and republicans will go to the wayside of dinosaurs. people are starting to see the and billionaires can puff all they want it the media. come the election in 2014 there will be more democrats and progressives and it is time to let go of the past. all the old presidents and all that crap. host: but if you get more progressives how does that make you more optimistic? caller: because the masses and people that want to work and work hard. they are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. it is time to leave the old ones behind. host: do you think the progressive specifically in congress are accomplishing that? caller: yes, they are. they are laying the foundation and i see nothing but a good future, finally, finally, after 30 years of reagan we are moving forward. host: the

there's a lot of spence and sku skullduggery. >> skullduggery?of time. it's very good. >> leila has a friend whose dad lives in england, stationed there right now. she actually has dvds of this entire season. >> oh, yes, i've heard of those people. >> and it was off the air in the u.s. for a while. so much hype and anticipation was built around it. it really worked. up 96%. >> were they expecting it to be this huge? >> i think after the second golden globe -- they weren't last year. i think after -- >> 8 million, that's impressive. >> yeah. >> i'm always late to the party. i watched homeland -- >> me, too. >> by the way, at the golden globes last year i got to interview them in the winner's room. i studied about the film. i was like, hey, whatever. they came back this year and i was like stalking them. i couldn't even get through the interview. >> we're going to keep you away from them this year. >> i know. >> i like this bonus take. >> let's get serious now. >> banana slicer. >> because everyone has run out of knives. >> it's a little ridiculous

i don't have the spence -- experience of those on the committee. if i'm in the military and i'm sexual assaulted how do i report that? is there a 911 in the military? what generates the report? >> there's a hot line in the military. you can tell someone in your chain of the command. you can go to the security forces, gouk to the base hospital or clinic and ask for help there. anywhere in that network is connected to the reporting mechanism that starts the activity moving forward. the problem is not that they don't know where to talk to, it is they don't feel comfortable reporting. sometimes they are concerned about getting in trouble or someone holding accountable for reporting. some are concerned about their family and friends finding out or their spouse finding out. some of them are embarrassed and some feel guilty about the incident. all of these things come together where people don't feel comfortable stepping forward. it is something we have to work constantly. i don't have an easy answer, congresswoman. >> do we have in the military, the ther

i don't have the spence -- experience of those on the committee. i'm'm in the military and sexual assaulted how do i report that? is there a 911 in the military? what generates the report? >> there's a hot line in the military. you can tell someone in your chain of the command. you can go to the security forces, going to to the base hospital or clinic and ask for help there. anywhere in that network is connected to the reporting mechanism that starts the activity moving forward. the problem is not that they don't know where to talk to, it is they don't feel comfortable reporting. sometimes they are concerned about getting in trouble or someone holding accountable for reporting. some are concerned about their family and friends finding out or their spouse finding out. some of them are embarrassed and some feel guilty about the incident. all of these things come together where people don't feel comfortable stepping forward. it is something we have to work constantly. congresswoman.n easy answer, >> do we have in the military, the there something spec