it was a reaeally traumatic experience and that's when i began thininking the adults don reallyly know what they're thinking. i began to question. when i was first illustrating children's books and i would go out anand i would talk to kids about the rain forest or about rivers or about endangered species, sometimes they get really upset. sometimes they wouldld cry. and i realize this isn't really being very effective. i came to realize that if i shared with them success s stors of other kids and as i'm traveling around the country, there are so many kids coming up to me and saying we saved this tract ofof land or we cleaned u our local river. these stories, these are really powerful. and i realize when kids are engaged like that, that's the gift i wanted to g give them. i wanted to show kidsds that th had power. anand i could do that simply by sharing their stories, whatat ty were doing. >> and sharing those stories effectively meant going beyond books to films that can easily be seen online.e. herr series,, "young voices for the planet," shows how young people can make a global iffere

someme people thinink it may bes few as 300,000 animals, so we might t be losing 1/6 ofof the contntinental populalation of africa''s s elephants every yey. peters: in many countries in afririca, the elephantnt is alry ecologically extininct. [gunshots, elepht trumpe] narrator: every 20 minutes, an elephant is killlled for its tusks. the reason: greed. the price of ivory has skyrocketed. raw ivory sells for as much as $3,000 per pound on the black market, but the cost for humanity is unfathomable. elephants may be gone in 10 years. ruggiero: the problem begins very simply y with demand. narrator: and china drives the demand for ivory. knights: china now is estimated to be 70% of the world's ivory market. there is a tradition of ivory carving, but also, of course, the massive growth of the chinese economy. narrator: around 300 million people make up china's middle class today. that's more than the population of the united states, and they are looking to spend their money on luxury goods. ivory has particular appeal because of its long history in china. it has been carved there for more than

christian picciolini: well, i thinink i went to bed, amy, on sunday with a sick feeling in my stomachlike most americans did. but i have to tell you, what i saw last night, with the community gathering together, was what america means to me. i saw people of all different races, all different colors, creeds, religions, gathered together to pay homage to a woman who essentially gave her life to fight something that is very un-american. and that gives me hope. that gives me hope for america, because i knknow that we want to be able to live in a country where we can get along, where we have equal j justice, , where te systems of racism and the institutions are rebooted so that they're fair for everybody. and i think that this is a turning point for america, because i think we can stop sweeping it under the rug and thinking that we don't have a problem here. it's time to face it head on and make sure that it doesn't happen again.n. amy goodman: christian, when did you become a white supremacist? christian picciolini: i was recruited at 14 years old in 1987. and i spent -- amy goodman: wher

i thinink our issue is yours participation in national organizations speaking out against the u.n.ions. the cosponsor of the bill, roger waters, you are laughing. >> well, yeah. that is funny. amy: because first there are sanctions and fines related to this -- >> the bill is sponsoring. amy: even some of the cosponsors are changing their views. new york senator gillibrand responded to a question from her constituents at a flushing town hall meeting by saying she would not support the bill in its current form and that she would not support it unless the bills authors and language specifying the punishment only extend to corporations and not to individuals. that is according to -- >> i have met her a couple of times. i was absolutely flabbergasted when i saw her name as a cosponsor. a cosponsor of this bill. that points to something. that is when peace comes across your desk you are a politician and you go, oh, aipac, it is from a fact. it is been drafted by aipac will stop just sign it and handed back and you don't even read it. they don't even read it. the disco, oh, that is it. th