workers union. >> and then seizure -- caesar chavez was a more well known united farm worker leader. >> and that's why renaming the middle school is so important to so many filipino-americans here. the search for a suspect in this hate crime investigation continues. reporting live in union city i'm alan wang, abc7 news. >>> as you may have seen a few minutes ago amanda knox opened up to diane sawyer in her first television interview about her new memwior detailing her 2007 arrest and twill for the murder of -- trial for the murder of her british roommate in italy. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you anything you haven't told police that you have said in this book? >> no. >> the italian court threw out her aquittal and she is getting sympathy from the american public. that's according to a new post poll. 65% of people who have heard of her story say they are sympathetic to her. 22% are not. 13% had no opinion. >>> well, women and girls age 15 and over will be able to buy emergency contraception without seeing a doctor or pharmacist.

workers union. >> and then seizure -- caesar chavez was a more well known united farm worker leader. >> and that's why renaming the middle school is so important to so many filipino-americans here. the search for a suspect in this hate crime investigation continues. reporting live in union city i'm alan wang, abc7 news. >>> as you may have seen a few minutes ago amanda knox opened up to diane sawyer in her first television interview about her new memwior detailing her 2007 arrest and twill for the murder of -- trial for the murder of her british roommate in italy. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you anything you haven't told police that you have said in this book? >> no. >> the italian court threw out her aquittal and she is getting sympathy from the american public. that's according to a new post poll. 65% of people who have heard of her story say they are sympathetic to her. 22% are not. 13% had no opinion. >>> well, women and girls age 15 and over will be able to buy emergency contraception without seeing a doctor or pharmacist.

workers union. >> and then seizure -- caesar chavez was a more well known united farm worker leader. >> and that's why renaming the middle school is so important to so many filipino-americans here. the search for a suspect in this hate crime investigation continues. reporting live in union city i'm alan wang, abc7 news. >>> as you may have seen a few minutes ago amanda knox opened up to diane sawyer in her first television interview about her new memwior detailing her 2007 arrest and twill for the murder of -- trial for the murder of her british roommate in italy. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you anything you haven't told police that you have said in this book? >> no. >> the italian court threw out her aquittal and she is getting sympathy from the american public. that's according to a new post poll. 65% of people who have heard of her story say they are sympathetic to her. 22% are not. 13% had no opinion. >>> well, women and girls age 15 and over will be able to buy emergency contraception without seeing a doctor or pharmacist.

saying two merged a union with chavez and other mexican farm workers to fox the -- to form the united farm workers union. >> renaming the school. is so important for so many. the search for the suspect in this hate crime investigation continues. >> the san jose sharks on the sanly club playoffs in vancouver get canucks. sharks defeated the champs in all three meetings this year and the puck drops at 7:30. the first two games of the bet of seven are in vancouver and sharks host game 3 on sunday night at h.p. pavilion and a's will rock the arena tomorrow as the warriors try to close out the nuggets. they were just short in game five in denver. the warriors fell behind by up to 22 points but they fought back. steph curry brought the warriors within five points but the nuggets held on for a win. tip-off tomorrow night is 7:30. >> the warriors left colorado in time. look what the weather conditions are. this is what drivers are facing this morning. from boulder, colorado, a may snowstorm fluffy snow coming down and it looks more like winter where residents are bracing for 5" of snow. temperatur

an example might be the united farm workers boycott, which is popular in the late 1960s to the 70s for decades thereafter. in 1971 was an article at "the new york times" estimated 17 million americans were in solidarity with the boycott. the idea of the boycott was not so much to harm the grape and lettuce growers in california, but to raise awareness about the problems of migrant laborers were facing very bad dangerous conditions, unhealthy conditions and get americans to be concerned about some thing most people when you go to grocery stores your group so that lettuce looks beautiful. you don't think about the connections between you and the person who grew in the pesticides in their children in the whole idea was to get americans to think about that and i was an example of a boycott that succeeded on the political level than the economic level. one of the things this the internet has made it easier to get together across great distances and organize boycotts and other forms of consumer movement. if you look online, you can discover hundreds of boycotts going on as we speak. every ye

americans know that they have a connection to a moral issue so an example of that might be the united farm workers boycott which is very popular beginning in the late 1960s through the 70s for many decades thereafter. in 1971, there was an article in the new york new -- "new york times" estimating more than 17 million americans agented in solidarity with the boycott, and the idea of that boycott was not to harm the grape and lettuce growers in california, but to really raise awareness of the problems that migrant workers faced, the very, very bad work conditions, the dangerous conditions, unhealthy conditions, and to get americans to be concerned about something that most people, when you go into a grocery store, your grapes or lettuce looks tbiewfl. you don't think about the connections between now and the person who grew those and the pesticides that might be harming them and their children, and the whole idea of that boy colt was to get americans to think about that, and i think that was an example of the boycott that succeeded more at the political level than the economic level. one of

from there, he signed on with the legendary cesar chavez and the united farm workers and for 16 years, struggled to unionize the men and women in the fields of california who toiled endless hours and mounting days, picking crops for next to nothing. three decades after marshall ganz had dropped out of harvard, he went back to finish his degree and earn a doctorate. a few years later, he was asked to become the architect behind the obama campaign's skillful organizing of students and volunteers. today, marshall ganz is a founder of the leading change network, a global community of organizers, educators and researchers mobilizing for democracy. you'll find more of his experience and philosophy in this book -- "why david sometimes wins." marshall ganz. it's good to meet you. >> marshall ganz: it's good to meet you, bill. >> bill moyers: stories have been a powerful part of your life. where did that come from? why stories? >> marshall ganz: first of all, i grew up in stories. my father's a rabbi. and i grew up with the exodus story as a child. and i was always puzzled by the fact that, yo

farm workers, and america. it will create jobs and save jobs in the united states. i would like to enter into the record a comp intensive study completed by economist michael clemons that has just been published. that legalclearly guest workers save jobs for americans on and off the farm. it is clerical are u.s. farmers cannot afford, and many may not survive, another policy failure like 1986. the program will provide a fair, predictable, efficient, and affordable process for agricultural jobs. farmers and farmworkers want to apply with labor and immigration laws. congress should pass the law so they can. thank you. >> mr. gaddis? ? members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify on hr 1773. my name is chris gaddis, and i am the chief human resources officer for jbs usa. i believe we have facilities in all but five of your states. jbsemarks are on behalf of usa, but also on the food manufacturers immigration coalition, a broad coalition of leading meat and poultry processors, including the north american meat association, the american meat institu

it's why all of the major agricultural producers, amazingly including the american farm bureau and united farm workers, joined together to back changes to our agricultural guest worker program. so i agree that we must talk about e-verify because it will be an important component of comprehensive immigration reform. but when we do so, we need to recognize the dangers that american workers would face if we were to make e-verify mandatory for all employers without fixing our immigration system. i think it's important whenever we talk about e-verify to talk about the real world actualities. sometimes we hear people say that e-verify will help american workers because every time an undocumented immigrant is denied a job, an unemployed american will get hired. that is a simple and appealing proposition but is probably not correct. immigrants often fill critical gaps in our own work force, even in this difficult economy. there are entire industries that rely upon undocumented immigrants because there just aren't enough americans around willing to do the work. just look at how mandatory e-verify would

it was about the entire approach to foreign policy that thatnit -- to farm policy the united states had feared we are exasperating the situation with rice and peanuts and applying it to other commodities, corn, wheat, and soybean. i cannot agree more with senator roberts. and wheatans and corn out of this. i think there's going to be a wto challenge to this. i think if history is any guide, it almost always is with the wto, that challenge will be successful. we are already paying brazil every year tens of millions of dollars because of the defeat of the cotton litigation that they had. i think this is just begging for additional litigation. so i speak in favor of the thune amendment. i think it is absolutely the right approach. >> thank you. we want to make sure -- i do want to indicate we are within sight of completing be built. i'm going to ask everyone to hang in there with us for another few minutes, and we will be at a point to have a final vote. senator roberts. >> i understand that we want to get a fair and balanced bill. i understand that units and rice peanuts andty -- rice had

they ended up committing suicide by the hundreds of thousands so you start farming communities everywhere i mean in the united states they're known for suing small farmers there's a lot of small farmers at the putting out of business because you have genetic migration into into crops that weren't supposed to be g.m.o. but they're going to cross-pollinate it and then monsanto comes in they use their government cronies to go in and shut down small farmers because. their genetics from their seeds that they did have out of slowly crept into the into the genetics of non g.m.o. seeds as well despite the u.s. senate has shot down a bell which would have given american states their sourcing to decide whether to label genetically modified products the majority of legislators believe people don't need to know whether they are eating junk foods meghan look has explains why . for years now americans have been concerned about the food in their refrigerators and more importantly the ingredients in those foods the debate over genetically modified crops isn't only playing out in the fields it's being harvested in the courtro

the hundreds and thousands want to give their side most some sort of effect farming communities everywhere i mean in the united states they're known for suing small farmers there's a lot of small farmers of that that are not of business because. genetic migration into into crops that speech tomorrow but they're getting cross-pollinate it and then monsanto comes in they use their government cronies to go in and shut down small farmers because. their genetics from their seeds that they did have have slowly crept into the into the genetics of non g.m.o. seeds well and made accusations the monsanto corporation enjoys protection homebuilt a recent report showed the u.s. government has been aggressively lobing for transfer moves across the world i'll see america correspondent maggie look has reports. for years now americans have been concerned about the food in their refrigerators and more importantly the ingredients in those foods the debate over genetically modified crops isn't only playing out in the fields it's being harvested in the courtrooms as well as within the walls of capitol hill and it turns out the u.s

farming as part of us to take security element for the country. the american company dominion among other things builds prisons in the united states in kenya it is rented seventeen thousand hectors and produces food like rice dish and bananas mostly for the capital's big supermarkets. this farm. is an investment by an american man called mr cullen by this and his family they had some money but they thought should be put towards helping him put security in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and the lease this farm for twenty five vs and number twenty five yes but he knew it. was too much what you would like. the american investor introduced himself through the church claiming that he wanted to help eradicate poverty by offering new jobs and food. and i. feel like bussing to new dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. it promised to give us work so that no one would be unemployed. there would be great changes it would build schools and it would give us part of its hottest look at that we don't know who they would be food for everyone was for us was the biggest joy. so these

in 1988, there were 220,000 dairy farms in the united states. in 2008, there were less than 35,000. at the same time, as dairy production stayed flat or even increased slightly, which right now there is a job loss. according to the senses, there are about -- census, there are about three employees perform. host: can you talk a little bit about farm jobs? area ofhat is not my expertise, but i think that what the color is speaking to is the job polarization issue. you are seeing job growth cluster at the top and, the high skilled and of the spectrum, and the low skilled end of the spectrum -- some of the jobs in the middle are becoming harder to come by. , has danny is from florida stopped looking for work at this point. good morning. caller: good morning. i'm just calling in. i live in a rural county in central florida. basically, i am 59 years old. i grew up with in agriculture- based economy in florida. .e were really hit hard here i had a four degrees a masters in business administration, and i have not been able to find a job in this area over the last six or seven years. there a

we failed in that attempt earlier this week, but we are united in the fact that a farm bill that comes out of the house and the senate and goes to the president's desk has to keep the promise that we have made to generations of kids across this country. we're going to make sure that you have enough to eat. thank you, and i yield back the floor. and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: ms. stabenow: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: i ask suspension of the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. stabenow: i ask unanimous consent that on thursday, may 23 following the cloture vote on the srinivasan nomination and notwithstanding cloture having been invoked if invoked the senate resume illegal immigration on s. 954 and the senate proceed to vote in relation to the pending sanders amendment 965, there be no second-degree amendments in order to the sanders amendment prior to the vote, the amendment be subject to a 60-vote affirmative vote threshold finally

we do online, you know, front line human rights work in -- with farm workers here in the united statesinstance, that anti-homosexuality bill in uganda which will make homosexuality punishable by the death penalty. and we work all over the world on basic justice issues. >> kerry kennedy, i know that you're going to be doing some traveling in the next 24 hours. it's nice of you to stop in on your way out of town. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> always good to see you. >>> checking the news feed this morning, the suicide watch records on cleveland kidnapping suspect ariel castro show him mostly sleeping in jail. but also walking around naked, making kool-aid and using two strings from the mat to floss his teeth. meantime we're learning castro's police record is lengthy. investigated several times for assault, domestic violence and menacing but never charged. his brothers say castro never let them in the house past the kitchen and he had the radio or tv on all the time. in a possible effort, they say, to try to hide the three women he was holding in his basement. >>> new orleans police

they have 460 farms across the united states. i looked this up.the world's biggest hog producer, almost 16 million hogs per year. aren't there some concerns about having a chinese company in charge of this american agricultural product? >> i actually don't think so because here the issue is they are not importing pork to america. they are taking our pork and exporting it to their country. so there is no issue there. now, that doesn't mean this will be a done deal because this still has to get through a very tough regular la tore environment. and who knows what the regulators will say. the committee on investment in the u.s. they have to approve this deal and there is a chance they will say no. they have nixed a couple of deals recently. >> mellody hobson. thank you. one of the interesting things in the wall street journal, one of the companies, they discovered a food additive banned in china and the u.s. but makes pigs grow bigger. you hear a number of senators like senator grass until iowa who has a lot of hog farmers there, questioning whether t

and i may be for the request that if there's any family in the united states about to lose its home or farmfamily should telegraph at once the the farm credit in ministration or the home loan corp. in washington, requesting their help. >> that was president franklin roosevelt in 1933. i think this is going to be very interesting for a lot of people listening and watching this today. david stuckler, the choices made then and the choices being made today? >> completely different. roosevelt possible steps at a time when that is -- that is 180% of gdp, to say americans from homelessness. we have studied the effects of his landmark program, the new deal, on health. what we found is comparing the states, the red and blue states that pushed it to different degrees, the blue states tended to go further with the new deal and the red states. polarization and public health issues across the u.s. it helped reduce suicides, reduce tuberculosis and ammonia. the biggest and most one of the most effective health programs on u.s. soil. >> when your politicians today say, we've got to cut obamacare and healt

farm will clear the way for establishing an underwater marine wilderness area at pt. reyes, and he defends former secretary ken salazar's action. >> he determined that the people of the united states had in fact bought and paid for thatyster farm, had given the then owner a 40 year term. when that term expired then that land and that right was to return to the people. and then that area will become our first marine wilderness area in the lower 48. >> reporter: the controversy has split the environmental community, and made strange bedfellows. california democratic senator dianne feinstein asked that lunny's lease be extended 10 years, claiming the park service acted unfairly and with bias. a group of restaurant owners and sustainable food advocates, including alice waters of chez panisse, are supporting lunny and his oysters. 85-year-old environmental activist phyllis faber is now fighting against the interior department and its allies. >> they yearn for wilderness, but do you know, there hasn't been wilderness in this park in the point reyes seashore area for probably 200 years. so i look at them as being sort of backward looking, yearning for something that can't possibly

outdoor recreation supports over 6 million jobs in our united states. and in this farm bill, we are including a new, historic agreement around conservation. the most powerful conservation work in decades. it's truly amazing what can happen when people actually sit down, mr. president, and listen to one another and work together. if farmers want to participate in title 1 commodity programs, including the current direct-payments subsidy program, they must take steps to use best conservation practices on their land when it comes to highly erodible soil and wetlands. this has been the case for many years. of course, the agriculture reform, food, and jobs act that we're debating now eliminates those subsidies. instead we're strengthening job insurance, which farmers immediate to purchase, and we're making market-oriented reforms to the commodity programs. but here's the issue: if we eliminate direct-payment subsidies, we don't want to create unintended consequences by not having that link any longer. it's important for all of us that sensitive lands be managed in the best po