excuse me, the liberation movement at the same time hartley had a sustained movement on the left whichis a coherent critiqued of american society and more less an alternative to the american society. part of the reason for that is there hasn't been one big burning issue that people on the left can rally around. to the rights of labor to african-americans and women in the 1960's. since then we haven't just had one big issue. now it's the politics and certainly before people left, and perhaps the emphasis on the economic inequality will become that big issue but it's a little late to know. when did you get interested in the american left? >> why was teenager and i got there was in the entire war movement. in college in the late 1960's. that is a personal book and some more than the other books i've written because. i did organize an entire war demonstration. my chapter with students for democrats at harvard didn't take over the. i had to decide if i wanted to write about it but whenever you are a part of a socialist meant, you have less ideas about how we doing, what are we doing right,

not since the feminist movementin' 1970 -- excuse me -- the liberation movement around the same time,0s, early 80s, have we had a sustained movement on the left which is putting forth a coherent critique of american sew society and a coe current alternative to american society, and at least until very recently with economic inequality, part of this is there's not been really one big issue. one burning issue, that people on the left can rally around, which there always was before. from slavery to the monopolization of the economy, to the rights of labor in 1930s to lethe rights of african-americans and women in the 1960s. since then we haven't had this one big issue which people can rally around, and the politics generally and certainly for people on the left, you need that one big cause, and perhaps the recent emphasis on economic inequality will become that big issue but it's a little early to know whether it will have the same power. >> host: professor, when did you get interested in the american left? >> guest: well, when i was a teenager, when i got involved in the antiwar movemen

in libya moammar gadhafi have now returned in the thousands to the northern mali and they have set up a new reconfigured liberation movement known as the the wad of national liberation for they have been making for mendis gains against the mali and military forces in the north of the country and as a result of that it has caused needs and destabilization in the security apparatus of the country that is worked out precipitated last weeks our coup d'etat in but moscow and of course they are both are pro cool at amtrak we are limits operating right now inside the country so the turning around of this delegation from the regional economic community of west african states is clearly a setback for west africa as well as a setback for the western countries which have a considerable amount of aid that is delivered i think mali and also military cooperation agreements between mali the united states and other countries as it relates to our anti-terrorism our projects so we strategically then not only does actually not an end to the international community and what happens there. yes there is a counterterrorism program that the unite

leader in fact a group of nationalists who just walked out of the rally saying they couldn't agree with liberals the whole protest movement really began in december after the problem and free voter i mean accusations of ballot fraud it led to a massive social campaign for a transparent presidential election and indeed. unprecedented steps were made in that sense i'm talking about the web cameras a stalled here to over an eighty thousand polling stations they fed a live videos on to the web nearly a million observers who monitored how the elections weren't on at these polling stations as well but the opposition says that many of the. violations they accuse you of occurred during campaigning but it is fair to say that society split on the outcome of the presidential election we've seen mass rallies both in support and a guest is result in fact a few members of the opposition were detained at a previous protests rally one we didn't want to leave after the time agreed with the authorities ended and also some members of the opposition are facing accusations of provoking the afterwards which sort of undermines the peaceful natu

another who's been in exile, why not have a conversation about what happened in terms of the black liberation movement and what was going on and what we have to do to move forward and why people take those stands, why those things happen, and have truth in reconciliation hearings and move forward. >> okay, last two questions up front. >> i know this brother's been there for awhile. >> which one? >> that one. okay, we'll add one more. >> i'm a temple university student, double media, film media arts and african-american studies. my intentions are to tell stories that people, maybe they don't want to hear or are too hard to hear. do you have any advice for somebody like myself? >> yeah, be passionate about the stories. link up with your classmates and other folks in the community or maybe people that you can link up that want to tell similar stories and understand that they will get made if you make them. the hollywood is just a bank now, make the film, and bring it to them. make your story, and if you can't do it as an independent feature film for a few thousands dollars, use a web series, make money f

why can't we have a conversation about what was happening in terms of the black liberation movement and what was going on and we need to move forward why people would take those stands, why those what happened and have truth and reconciliation hearings and move forward. >> the last two questions up front. >> we will add one more. >> good morning. i am a double major in african-american studies. my intentions are to tell people maybe what they don't want to hear or are too hard to hear to read to you have any advice for someone like myself? >> be passionate about those stories, and to link up with your classmates and other folks in the community or the chief that you can link up that want to tell similar stories and understand they will get me if you make them. hollywood is just a bank now and they want people to do all the work and bring it to them so i am urging the film makers to tell their stories if you can't tell that as an independent feature film let you can manage for $4,000 tell it as a web series and attract money from that and use kickstart and all these other things in order

the oakland corridor that he writes about. proposition 14 was a movement, ostensibly, by liberals that he points out how overwhelmingly these counties vote forward johnson in 1964. this is a movement by liberals. and it's caught up both in the stigma that people have about black people as neighbors, the rhetoric of rights and individualism, the lies that people tell about fighting deregulation, the rhetoric of not being racist, being caught up in this idea that we're not racist, this isn't racism, and the structures of inequality that shape this area. like transportation structures that make it difficult, if not impossible for people to just find employment in this expanding suburban industrial corridor. all of those issues self points to as being tied together in what brings about the urban cries is in this section of the bay area. one of the biggest aspects of this that i found most fascinating was that the homeowners -- sorry, the home property coalitions that are fighting to remove fair housing are also doing it in the interests of stopping regulation. we want to kill open housing because open housing is a form of regulation tha

why can't we have a conversation about what was happening in terms of the black liberation movement and what was going on and what we need to do to move forward, why those things would happen, truth and reconciliation hearings and move forward. >> last two questions of front. [talking over each other] >> i am a temple university double major in african-american studies. my intentions are to tell stories they don't want to hear or are too hard to hear. any advice for somebody like myself? >> be passionate about those stories and wind up with your classmates and other folks in the community who want to tell similar stories and understand that they will get made if you make them. hollywood is just a bank and you want people to bring it to them. they tell their stories. they scrape together and tell folks -- tell it as a web series and attract money and use kickstart and all these other things to get those stories out there. don't wait for some executive in hollywood whose release scared because they are ruled by fear. the comic book movies, daring stories, interesting stories and let's do

the opposition movement? >> [unintelligible] mr. putin and mr. medvedev have produced legislation for liberalization of the political environment and restoration of elections of regional governments. we continue to press to allow them to build up an exit strategy. if the political course that mr. putin produces continues to take place, i believe that in four years or five years, a revolution would happen. >> back to london. >> thanks very much. international monitors from europe have said in the last few minutes that there were irregularities in the election and was clearly skewed toward vladimir putin. we will go to them in the next few minutes. to china, the premier has cut china's economic growth target. speaking 3000 delegates in beijing, he also addressed land rights and military spending. he and other senior figures will need to stand down to make way for new generation in the fall. >> his annual report, he has been stressing the need for sustainable economic development during what are difficult times. he spoke about the need to increase domestic demand. in order to do that, he says that his

the group of nationalists knocked out of this march accusing the liberal course of the oppositional driving the momentum of the protest movement into a dead end the movement really started in december after the fall and then she'll actually i made accusations on ballot fraud it led to a massive social campaign for a transparent presidential election and indeed unprecedented steps were made to ensure that i'm talking about the what the cameras installed over ninety thousand polling stations nearly a million observers were monitoring the vote at these polling stations as well but the opposition says that violations happened during the voting and during campaigning although society is split on the results of the presidential poll we've seen mass rallies both in support and against its results several members of the opposition from the activists were detained during the previous rally they didn't want to leave after the time agreed with the authorities ended and in fact we're we've got. reports that the same people tried holding an unsanctioned more toward square the seams where i guess sort of again shows how divided the oppositi

themselves in and he tries to make the case this is about welfare, right, because liberals kind of put it in black people's heads or put forward a welfare rights movement that that's what kepts clamped down into this inescapable rut in cities. that's not the type of g about. liberal spending primarily on the power of democratic controlled municipalities in influenced by unions, municipal unions. they have really strong social safety net programs, a lot of these new deal programs, right, to deal with questions of poverty, housing, education, social service, health and that come about in the second third of the 20th century, one argument is that they were spending too much. they were spending too much money. they were spng it is too much money on social programs, but also too much money on labor, right? in short, city workers in northeastern and midwestern cities lived too good. they had it too good. their pensions were too high and salaries were too high and the productivity was not competitive with a free market. the argument that what caused the crisis was liberal spending is also something to consider, right, cities outspent themselves and unions had

the liberals who want government in our lives. are you a liberal or a small government conservative? check. >> the reality is that 500,000 people have joined the movementsrepublicans, strong democrats, strong independents and they've come together and put together a 12 step program to reform congress. >> stephen: like aa? >> that's right. a lot of similarities. they have to hand themselves over to a higher power. >> exactly. >> stephen: is that you? >> [ laughter ] one of ideas is if they don't pass a budget they don't get paid. we had a hearing on that today in the senate. >> stephen: what? >> if you didn't do your job you wouldn't get paid. >> stephen: don't even joke about that. [ laughter ] >> if they don't pass a budget they don't get paid. >> stephen: that's a slippery slope, sir. if they don't pass the budget they don't get paid. what is next you don't get to vote for military intervention unless you yourself have served in the military. >> that's not a bad idea. i like that. make it a 13-step program. >> stephen: here is my problem with you no label guys. labels are handy, okay? if i have a label, i know whether to agree with you or reject your

the case that this is about welfare. that because liberals kind of put it in black people's heads, or put forward a welfare rights movement, that that's what kept african-americans kind of clamped down into this inescapable rut in cities. that's not the type of liberalism that i'm talking about. liberal spending primarily on the power of democratic municipalities, democratic controlled municipalities, in which there is heavily influenced -- heavily influenced by unions, municipality unions. they had really strong social safety net programs. a lot of these new deal programs to deal with questions of poverty, housing, education, social service, health and welfare, right, all these things that come about in cities, in the first -- or second third of the 20th century, one argument for the cause of cities' decline is that they were spending too much. they were spending too much money. they were just spending too much money. too much money on social programs. but also, too much money on labor. in short, city workers in northeastern and midwestern cities, they lived too good. they had it too good. their pensions were too high, t

the existence of religious freedom or liberal democracy. looking at the past, looking at the beginnings, the formations of the salafi movement in egypt, for example, 1912 and 1926 the establishment of the first salafi organizations in egypt. the establishment of the muslim brotherhood in 1928. whether at that time the lack of religious freedom was important, whether it played a role in the formation of modern islamism, and whether thus by providing more religious freedom we will get a better situation. we find in the writings of those founders of islamism a lack of importance of that factor. true, they have many complaints regarding the west. colonialism. western interference. there are many there. when he views democracy, he views it rather in the negative and not as something he would complain about as to one of the reasons he would form his organization. so looking at the past might be something to consider about this statement. the second, however, assumption is also worth some consideration of ours. there is an acceptance in the statement of the claim by islamism to be an authentic representation and interpretation of islam. now that islamis

howard zinn and originally knight and six in the original progressive movement these are the things that people have been saying on the left and in liberal progressive circles for almost a hundred years this is not a new idea and every time they've tried to push it they've lost they will continue to lose there's nothing magic about the last ten years the last five years this is a general socialistic way of seeing the world that doesn't tally in america ok danny what do you think about that socialistic way of looking at the world i mean you don't have to be socialist to see inequality go ahead charles charles you know the most people that are criticizing not the socialism of the movement but it's anarchy ism the anarchists. that are part of it you know it's interesting that fox network i'm sure your favorite t.v. channel is now doing a show called sons of anarchy you know to dramatize all of this there's been no socialist goals and you know calls for justice you know if you think or calls for justice are only being raised by socialists then i wonder why you aren't a socialist because we need more justice in our society i think you're goin

the sudanese government and the liberation and justice movement signed a peace agreement last year. hearing today whether these steps, if implemented and supported, could in fact become the foundation how can we be helpful here? i think there are a lot of things we could do to help facilitate power. -- and empower the sudanese groups themselves. to a certain their democratic rights in the future. >> well, we are now starting on a second vote. this is on a 10 minute vote. we're going to try to wrap up. let me say to you endorsed how much we appreciate what you have done here. this is a tremendous example of a citizen activism. obviously, george you have lent your celebrity star to this initiative, which has its risks. but it also is critical for the ability to get people to focus. we thank you for being prepared, nevertheless, to just engaged. take eight days, go over there, and not without its risks, i might add. i was an activist before i came here to be a senator. i vowed i would stay an activist senator. i am proud to have people on this committee who feel the same way. so, i can

is making the banks be held responsible and it'll take the mass movement of people like i said i mean we're in the party for socialism in liberation we are for revolution and we believe that people can organize and that we have the right to run this government to run the way that things are run think we should run and so we believe that that's the solution we need fundamental change and that we only get people's revolution all right well we appreciate you being on the show certainly good luck to you in your campaign carolyn's in two thousand and twelve presidential candidate of the party for socialism and liberation and los angeles. all right so here's some disturbing news in the last couple of years for a dozen high tech computing devices at nasa have well they've gone missing or been lost or stolen or something this was revealed this week in congressional testimony by nasa as inspector general and among the items that have disappeared a lot of talk computer that contained the code it needed to command the international space station now of course i know what you're thinking probably funding for nasa has been cut in recent years

the sudanese government and the liberation and justice movement signed a peace agreement last year. i look forward to hearing today whether these steps, if implemented and supported, could in fact become the foundation for a more lasting resolution in darfur. at a time when there are those who want to cut the international affairs budget, i want to point to sudan and south sudan as examples of the power of diplomatic engagement. the cpa was signed because of diplomatic engagement. the birth of a new nation took place because of careful, sustained diplomatic engagement. we can and must continue to put our shoulder to this we'lwheel,n as we of knowledge the fate of these countries lies with their people and their leaders. sudan must escape its fatal cycle of conflict, not as some next chapter in the arab awakening, but because it's the only way to forge a viable political and economic future for its people. the bombing and humanitarian blockade in blue nile has to stop. south sudan has the opportunity to avoid the corruption that has too often played oil-rich countries. it has the oppo

whether the islamic tradition or in the islamist movement and then there are those that hold on to them. look, let me get to your point. are these guys completely liberal, moderate in the way that we would like to think of them here in the west? of course not. but why judge them by that lens? look it's a the united states. in the -- in 1919, the u.s. was considered a democracy, yet only was it in that year that women actually had universally the right to vote. and, you know, it took another few decades for actually african-americans to have their rights in the united states. so i would say, i would cut egypt some slack with regards to its transition and its moderation, at least in the islamist movement. you have to agree to a, b, c, d and e before i consider you a moderate or at least more moderate than the alternative is an unfair burden to impose on those parties and organizations. but, you know, i also said that they do express anti-semitism which actually is expressed by secular parties, nagsist part t nationalistic parties and that's a result of tension with the arab israeli conflict. historically condition not one rooted in the islamist movements

the sudanese government and the liberation and justice movement signed a peace agreement last year. i look forward to hearing today whether these steps, if implemented and supported, could in fact become the foundation for a more lasting resolution in darfur. at a time when there are those who want to cut the international affairs budget, i want to point to sudan and south sudan as examples of the power of diplomatic engagement. the cpa was signed because of diplomatic engagement. the birth of a new nation took place because of careful, sustained diplomatic engagement. we can and must continue to put our shoulder to this wheel, even as we of knowledge the fate of these countries lies with their people and their leaders. sudan must escape its fatal cycle of conflict, not as some next chapter in the arab awakening, but because it's the only way to forge a viable political and economic future for its people. the bombing and humanitarian blockade in blue nile has to stop. south sudan has the opportunity to avoid the corruption that has too often plague oil-rich countries. it has the oppo

the country. so that's a little puzzling. >> it would be puzzling if republicans were anything like democrats. but republicans are not anything like democrats. there is no liberal movement to that pulls democrats further and further to the left every year. democrats pretty much stayed the same or they skooch to the right every year. not a slam on democrat, just what happened over time. republicans on the other hand are sprinting to the right deliberately. even when it has bad short term consequences for the next election. republican ideas like the dream act, individual mandate in health reform, those republican ideas which democrats decided to embrace as a gesture of moderation, those ideas are now communism! they were republican ideas five mines ago but now they are communism. olympia snowe is not an exception to that. she voted to create the consumer financial protection bureau, when it came time to appoint somebody to be the head of the thing so it could run she filibustered his nomination. was there anything wrong with richard cordray? no, it was just a bad idea. that is the context. the republican party and american right doing something that the democratic party a