unit building under the building code. essentially it means you are going from a 3 unit apartment building to a 2-unit family residence and the requirements are different. you want to check with the department of city planning because when you go from 3 units to 2 units because the department has certain planning as far as the loss of that dwelling units. that would be the process. >> thanks for having this. it's really great. >> thank you for coming. >> there seems to be an epidemic of urination and defecation everywhere. i live a few blocks from here inside a dead end alley. my property -- my landlord's property is surrounded by 3 buildings and we have a lot of homeless services right around the corner from where i live. many of these people mill around, come down into our little cul-de-sac, a convenient place to do their dirty business, all sorts of things, not just urination and defecation. my landlord's building is covered, one wall is basically a urinal, 24 hours a day, 365 a year. if it's not wet, it's drying. we're sorry. move. the walls are covered with poop. i have many, many thousands of pictures of people urina

united. united by the scents the heat the shutter. for love of another i'd say to myself, faithful in muted pain. my hope, my heart extinguishing as you stood there paralyzed each time like a still camera unable to look away. infraction. if my love were smooth and lustrous would you spit me open and fill me up again. would you kiss the scar you made of me name it and claim me like a mountain. bear witness to holiness where 2 rocks collide. if my was unpenetrable and clear would you search your whole life destroying me just to hold me to the light? i am listening you like rain that slips through fingers missing you like childhood dreams and mother's mill ik. like an earing under a bed. links of moon that pass. with years reflected in glass. the silver seams behind eyes. if you happen to find my love hidden in the openal of your memory, would you return my uncertainty? my last poem, i'd like to dedicate to all the people who have ever lost someone that they love. and as nancy said you get to a certain age and people start passing away. and it's kind of bizarre when you lose a parent and realize you are a member of some strange society where no one understands how you feel. i want to say this is something that i'd like to share. inheritance. you were stubborn until the end. i felt your spirit tremor in my hand, your fears gach. the hospital room was filled with ice witnesses that denied me the last thing imented from you to lay curled with you alone once more. to be a girl again and feel the balloon of your belly rise and fall. pat your cheeks soft as apcots. hear your breathing soothe me to sleep. that day i wrapped my arms around the shirt necessary your closet still hanging i felt them fill my grieve felt them hallow in your absence much the waling never ends inside and sometimes i think i have lost you like a hat. misplaced you in the messiness of my surroundings. you see, your stubbornness was woven into me woven into the clothes we both wore. strands that decide where we shared resistance, pushed needles. that's how i held on to you how a sewed myself to your side a seam raised into a scar at the end. thank you. [applause] . >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad. mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. this locale is the historic center of baghdad book selling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. named after the famous 10th century classic poet, al-mutanabbi, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi street starts here. our first reader will be sinan anton. >> when i was torn by war, i took a brush immersed in death, and drew a window on war's wall. i opened it, searching for something, but all i saw was another war and a mother weaving a shroud for the dead man still in her womb. there was a photograph of an iraqi boy on the front page of the "new york times". he sat on the edge of the truck, 8 or 9 years old, surrounded by his family, his father, mother , and 5 siblings were asleep. his head was buried in his hands. all the clouds of the world were waiting on the threshold of his eyes. the tall man wiped off the sweat and started digging the 7th grave. the next reader is going to be diane dupris. thank you. >> i'm going to read a few things that i wrote sitting in a hotel room in, oh, whatever year that was, 01, i guess, when we started bombing afghanistan. these are short poems on the afghan war. 1, small bones of mountain children in the snow. two, bags of rice burst open, burlap flaps in the wind. even the label, usa, is fading. three, we air drop transistor radios. can you eat them? will they keep you warm? this one is called les american, october 5, 2001. we are feral, rare as mountain wolves. our hearts are pure and stupid. we go down, pitted against our own. there's one other short thing. we gathered there frequently, old scholars, printers, book collectors, old and young writers pass through the place on any given afternoon. all kinds of activity came to the shop in the years i worked there. they were the early years of the black awareness, robert williams was active in south carolina. there was a period of time when the cot in the back of the store was a drop off for various disassembled armaments. sometimes someone we didn't know would put something under the mattress, making the cot unusable for several days. someone would come by and take the hardware away in a shopping bag and that would be it for a week or so. there was often a black photographer who would come to the shop with an empty shopping bag. when he left, he with leave in a zigzag and eventually get on a bus going south. >> i wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, which is an ogre, a monster of immemorial age. that was a special big garden, a forest, where all types of trees and flowers grew. the trees bending down gently flinging branches. our orchard grew like a crown on the sun's eyebrow. where did humbaba come from? his mother was just a cave, his father unknown. who made him a friend pretending guardian of the orchard. did those nice shrubs need fear to go begging for a garden and have humbaba in his treachery ilk. those plants and flowers were like books everyone could read, not cut and throw away. their different fantastic colors had formed our blood so our veins ran smoothly, our 7 wonders showed. then humbaba made a whirlwind of fire and snow. who crowned him king?

when i was there i heard pretty good reports that the yunus units would call in a nato airstrike on the hafter units and the historic half two units would call in a nato air strike on the units units so when you saw nato killing people that was sometimes because the rebels were settling their own scores on the nato airpower that stenson credible i'm going to imagine is the answer right now better than go the american tax argument is the extra weight if they knew in fact how we were use and manipulate their ok over to the other side khadafi easy easy he's doing the same he's going better than the rebel forces at this point of the counterrevolutionaries does he have a real base of support he does look after after the killing of yunus the rebels are now on the verge of a civil war among themselves which is a tribal vendetta of the or beta o.b.d. tribe of newness and fight. against the other at least this is a more stable writes about this artist ok the dow thing is in such a position that he is able to give one to two million. arms kalashnikovs primarily to people in the tripoli area. how could you do that if you didn't have populari

united states go to such lengths to cover up the saudi involvement? and in that, let me go back again to a period immediately before the persian gulf war. the united states had frankly been extremely duplicitous in the war between iran and iraq. we are well aware that the iran-contra scam where the united states was selling military equipment to iran and using that money to purchase military equipment to be used by the contras in their war against the sandinistas in nicaragua. what is not so well-known but is truthful is what we were doing for iraq during the same time. iraq had a nascent nuclear program that had started in the early 1980s. it was going along at a modest pace. one of the problems was that there were important pieces of equipment, which they could most readily get from the united states, but which fell under a doctrine called the duel use prohibition. that is if a of a piece of equipment that might be useful in a medical context also could be used in a military context, it was not to be sold to iraq and the a list of other countries. beginning in the mid-80s, we essentially rescinded that policy as it related to iraq and began selling them equipment, which was very useful in their nuclear program, and so by the late '80s, iraq was on the verge of having highly enriched

wilson the united states it was a result of world war two one that the united states came out as a predominant power but it was not wilson campaigned about keeping neutral there was a huge debate united states we weren't prepared and it was a tragic result of the ravages of world war one on europe that the united states did come out as a more dominant power relative to the destruction of europe after world war one but look what happened after world war one look what happened after world war two the united states' role in rebuilding other countries other former enemies was specific and peter i think i think obviously we should all learn more about history but i would say that that policymakers in the united states who thought about the importance of protecting the sovereignty of russia's neighbors who thought about the importance of nato enlargement knew well the massive contribution of the citizens of the soviet union during world war two and knew well of the ravages that stalin brought on russia's neighbors afterwards and i think that those two things made the importance of what president bush and clinton and george w. bush talked about as far as a importance of a europe whole free

units to achieve the original 50 on-site bmr units. the senior housing to the limit would remain 100% affordable. -- the senior housing unit would remain 100% affordable. we have met with representatives to discuss alternatives to the original proposal. the process and results of these meetings are outlined in the july 25 letter submitted to the commission by the mayor's office of housing. a copy of this is in your pockets. the approach agreed upon has wide support from several neighborhood and community groups including the lower h aight merchants association and the housing rights committee. as of today, 35 letters and approximately 70 emails supporting the proposals have been received from individuals and organizations in addition to a resolution adopted by the market advisory committee indicating their support of the current proposal. i will hand to the secretary 15 support letters that arrived following the distribution of the commission packets as well as the 65 emails in support of the project. commissioner olague: commissioners, i would like to indicate if you would like to see them. i need to have them back as part of the reco

united united decision here to offer his take on this is jim dean the chair of democracy for america jim welcome. hey tom thanks for having me if i could just make one slight correction the polls are open for another hour until eight o'clock central time and i just want to make sure that if any listeners out there have not voted and live in these six districts this is a great time to go out because your vote is really going to matter really should've told you before you came on the air jim we pre-record the show an hour early so ok this will play at night and by then it will polls will be closed so what i want to look like on the ground. you know it looks pretty good i get up i must say the folks here i mean our staff has been here for six weeks as well as a lot of great organizations that have been here are very very pleased with the way the field program has gone with the way they get out the vote has gone with the dollars that they've made but the fact is that these elections really really are close and every vote really does matter at college as for rather to say that i've just been saying it for the cows come home because i really don't think we're going to know until tomorrow exactly how this goes but i am very confident that we're going to get at least three of these seats i sure hope so in fact you know apropos of that here's my nightmare scenario we know i asked alan grayson you know they agree with the congressman search on my radio show a week or two ago bluntly why did you lose the election in two thousand and ten and he said because the republicans turned out sixty plus percent of their voters and the democrats only turned over forty plus percent of the voters the democratic voters figured hey we got the house we got the senate we got not only a democrat the white house but an historic democrat in the white house so you know we can just go play but baseball or something we don't need to vote and my concern is that if we win these three seats a week from now there's going to be this others much smaller like two incumbent democrats been challenged by republicans and democrats might think hey we won everything's fine once go back to you know dinner and is that why you. know it does not bad here in wisconsin you know the voters here really really spoken already you might know that these six senators are all in republican districts. one actually of the year in two thousand and eight when obama of wisconsin by i think thirteen points and yet they are out in force they have been out every single just to clue the democratic defend districts. solidly and very active and again the fuel program and getting out the vote in advance here and so i really don't think this is going to be a case where the democrats just sort of go home and say well we got it done now and one of the other recent really the most important reason is because i think they know up from seeing a scott walker become governor last year and from seeing russ feingold lose this race i think they know now no other consequences of what happens if you don't go out and vote and if you don't get involved in taking responsibility over the political process so at this stage it's really showing the way and that's part and . all of them jim david vines a student there who is also a part time indy reporter as been on our show before he told us today that he's heard reports of voters particular students being turned away because they don't have proper id because of the recently passed motor idea law in that state you heard in the like that. actually i had not i mean i've heard of a few things happening here and there tom but one of the things is that the voter i.d. law does not take effect. until later on and actually if you do not have an id and you are registered to vote you do not need to show an id when you go to the polls today you can still register today but you have to have proved residency you know if there are those tales you know i hope we i know we have election folks at their at all the polls and hopefully they've been able to take care of some of this what broader implications will this recall election have around the country again. well i think we already have the broader implications which at that people in this state the voters of this state i've already stood out remember sort of hot then of so-called democratic activity in places like the walking madison those districts aren't even part of all of this recall these are outlying districts that are and in towns and cities around the state and these are very very competitive so it's very clear that the voters have already spoken tom it's very clear that they do not like the kind of republican governors state want an honest debate about the budget not what scott walker has done and the implications going forward are they going to be happen in ohio this year where we have an opportunity to repeal governor cases s b five bill which is going to happen with already going to be on the ballot i think we're going to win that we have a chance to make some changes in a couple of other states the new jersey assembly is up this year but you've seen chris christie doing what he's doing there and i think you're going to see a little bit of wave of the one person who i really hope is watching this tonight is president barack obama because i think what he's going to see is that he's willing to stand up and fight this kind of governance fight this kind of. compromise governance and congress of on its you baggers he will see the pathway to his reelection a lot easier than it is right now very very well said jim dean panky so much for the great work you're doing with democracy for america and for the work that you're doing reporting there from and keeping the troops go in there in wisconsin thanks a lot you bet they did great thanks for having me on tom always great to have you will be watching the election returns come in tonight and give you a full breakdown of what the results mean for wisconsin and the rest of the country tomorrow night. just for. kids the good the bad in the very very stagnant closely ugly verse the good the kurds vonnegut memorial library last month a bunch of right wingers in the republican missouri school board decided to ban some books one of them was gone against slaughterhouse five why because according to the person who requested the book be banned the teachers principals were calling for the bible and you thought banning books for religious reasons didn't happen in america well the current particular war a library didn't like the decision so they donated one hundred fifty free copies of slaughterhouse five to students to raise awareness about the book and the school board's decision not only that the librarian of missouri a.c.l.u. are working to obtain the minutes of the school board meeting to prove that their decision to ban the book was based on religious reasons and thus was unconstitutional let's hope they find what they need the bad steve doocy of fox and friends bloody jump into a discussion about president obama's and wing of the economy this morning with this little gem. his message again it's very popular at these fundraisers where he says that he inherited most of this problem and so that appears to be what the campaign message is going to be three years into his presidency somewhere inside they must be doing internal polling that this is working with not only his base but with independent voters that's to potentially needs to be reelected what he really inherited from george bush was a triple a bank you read it rating and now we're down to double a plus. i'm sure president obama's real thankful for that and all the other inheritances from bush like a depression economy to field wars crumbling infrastructure tattered social safety failing educational system broken tax code massive trade imbalances. is an unhealthy addiction to oil so i could go on way to go do see you when the bush apologist award for the day and the very very ugly congressman michael burgess republican representative from texas held a town meeting yesterday instead of focusing on how to create jobs or turn the economy around were just folks focused on how to further sabotage president obama is idea impeachments purchase it is the property it would tie things up no question about that water we allow them to go unchecked the worse things are going to be for us unclear who burgess is talking about when he says us but i doubt it's the american people burgess also couldn't name one impeachable charge to bring against the president still he said it needs to be done maybe somebody should tell congress and burgess that you can't impeach a president just because they're black and living in the white house that's very true. still to come the japanese government is now being blamed for ignoring the actual path of radiation following the fukushima nuclear disaster why hide the truth i answer and why we need to get corporations out of the business of managing or injury energy needs and other commons next in my deleted. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions complete couldn't break through get through it if you had made who can you trust no one who is to move you with the local machinery see where we had it state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question morning. here take my take is our segment on the show where you have the opportunity to make yourself heard here on the big picture it's your chance to share your questions comments rants and observations so i try to address them as best i can our first comments tonight came to us via twitter julia tweeted to ask about how the media is framing the whole debt ceiling debacle what led to s. and p. downgrade in the united states from aaa to double a plus she wrote why can't the media open their mouth and blame who is really responsible republicans julia you're right on the facts here's where s. and p. had to say in their eight page report about why they dumped our credit rating for the first time in this nation's two hundred thirty plus year history they said quote we have changed our assumption because the majority of republicans in congress and cheney to resist any measure that would raise revenues a position we believe congress reinforced by passing the act but most of the mainstream media has not focused on the republican refusal to call to close loopholes for corporate jet owners or oil companies at all instead they're blaming the government spending which s. and p. did not cite as the reason for the downgrade in fact even the debt ceiling debate had nothing to do with spending it was about are paying for things that we've already bought. but you never know that from the mainstream media. standard

unit 204 and around the corner, on their way to get in line for food, we have a lovely court erred in the back and you can visit unit lo5. it is great to be here. thank you. [applause] >> and to conclude, can we give a big round of applause -- easy part of this project is now done. the hard part comes in operating it for the next three decades. so could be put it together for property management and social services staff? [applause] thank you, everyone, for coming. we are done.

unit. this created that. >> we go back to their units, my friend rented out, but has never complained about it too many people. what kind of problem could my friend get in this kind of situation? >> [inaudible] >> there are endless problems you can get into renting an illegal unit. you are an attorney. you want to talk about that? you can leave it open. >> i will leave it open. >> their problems related to the city and planning enforcement, probably related to the tenant, who has rights to implied warranty of have the ability, and all the other things that tenants are deserving -- tenant desert. is the land blurred permitted to collect rent? -- the landlord permitted to collect rent? >> [inaudible] >> that is an excellent point. we will talk about the value. let me say, if it has existed for a long time, that does not make it ok. it means they got away with it for a long time. that does not mean it is ok because it has been there 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years. that does not make it ok. >> they can come in and kick up a tenant in clear out all of the room? >> we do not inspect those on a routine basis. we only look at them if we receive a complaint. we do not kick the people out. retell the property owner, you have this problem. you have to figure out how to solv

the lower unit would have three bedrooms, the upper unit will also have three bedrooms. concerned expressed in the publicly filed d.r.'s were impacts to light air and privacy at the rear and then gorge howser who lives to the south of the subject property also brought up issues of compatibility concerns regarding the demolition of the potentially historic structure and impacts to the street to the north. concerns raised by commissioners at the may 19 hearing varied, but to summarize, there were concerns brought up about the compatibility with the street face as originally proposed. i'm going to put up an image of the building as it was originally proposed. as well, commissioners expressed some concern regarding impacts to light and air specifically to the neighbors to the north on 20th street. at the hearing, three recommendations were made by the commission and this is a generalization, there was quite a bit of discussion at the may 19 hearing. to generalize, the commissioners suggested that the sponsor consider reducing the overall height of the proposed structure. i'l

in a 340 is the ground floor unit. 342 is even floor unit, and let my contractor was working in unit 340 and had demolished the ceiling, he saw that the four was rotted and unsafe. he has provided a declaration in the packet provided to you. officially the exhibits quickly taken with my camera fun. they are not the best pictures. that is why i went to the unit, and that is what i saw. if it was only a $2.50 fix, we gladly would have done that. instead, we began demolition work hot pudding in a brand-new bathroom. when she talks about lead paint, not one service was touched. and when she moved into her unit, the wolves -- walls are as they were now where she made them that way. and the kitchen an. [chime] commissioner garcia: when you dealt with the individual -- >> i did not. commissioner garcia: was there a use of jcc? was that a unilateral decision? >> when i talked to the tenant, i told him what they needed to do. i suggested that as a resolution and that is what we agreed to do. >> it doesn't seem odd that a woman would not accept that? does that strike you as strange she felt tha

units to the whole 10-year end homeless program that we committed to. this helps to achieve 1800 units of those 3000 that we committed to building. i am sure the people that helped us write the program would be proud. these units are not just high places for people. it is also a service. services from our department of public health and from the human services agency. a collaboration that this building represents. we have a lot to celebrate because not only is it a complex thing to do, in a needy community, but it accomplishes so many other goals that the city has articulated that are really important. i look forward to many more with the tndc. there is a lot more to do. i walk in and marvel all of the amenities that we have, and units are so precious in this community. i can only thing, how many hundreds of others wanted to be in this situation? and they would want to have a mayor, board of supervisors, city and state agencies all working together in a less political setting, more in a community, social goals setting, where we can collaborate and put our money together and work with wonderful banks, like wells fargo, and others who are contributing to the financing of this building. it is not politics that ru

unit sizes and they talked about 700 square feet as being an average. i assume there is a distribution here. i do not know that there are a three-bedroom units. it would be nice if we did have distribution to allow for units that would accommodate people with children that needed more bedrooms and if that can be worked out as part of the plan. i think if it is done in the right way, it can be done without new approval but to redistribute york unit makes more to try to accommodate -- your unit to try to accommodate that. there was a question about parking also. the neighbors make a good case about it being somewhat underparked. that is the best we will do. especially on potrero hill. there is a lot of parking at mission bay that i am aware of and hopefully, there will be other structures that will be built to allow some of the employees to park and not have to look for street parking in the vicinity. another thing that was brought up was the transit on 16th street. that is critical. that is a major corridor between caltrain and light rail and bart on 16th and mission. that is unnatural for other robust transit that brings people right along there. they have every reason to believe that people coming in on

unit something that actually no one had ever heard about and we don't know anything about. so these units pulled what they consider people not necessarily charged with terrorism but somehow associated with terrorism which is very vague and it could basically mean anything they want it to mean. i lived in new york for nine eleven i experienced that. for me it's kind of. really difficult to swallow that label being put on him considering i actually do know what. terrorism is and. someone who destroyed property. with absolutely zero intention of harming i think all human being. in my mind is not here. president obama's pledge to close guantanamo on the secret overseas cia prisons calls are increasing for him to reexamine the treatment of prisoners detained as part of the so-called war on terror being held inside the united states with little public scrutiny of the bush administration open to secretive prisons and indiana and illinois newness communication management units or cmu is that are designed to severely restrict person or communication with family members the media and the outside world dozens of muslim men are still being held at the cme news as well as other person or secluding environmental and animal rights activists the government's provided little information about the special prison units a search on the bureau of prisons website yields just one document even mentioning the program only a handful of news articles have covered what's been described as a little guantanamo by some of the person hours. and april of two thousand and ten we filed a lawsuit against the bureau of prisons the attorney general eric holder. director of the bureau of prisons harley and and other high level individuals within the bureau and we are alleging that the communications management units are unconstitutional

united united states, it's just that they wanted enough deniability to hide behind that really so that khrushchev wasn't put in a position where he had to escalate. you understand? because if it was too obvious that the united states was behind this, khrushchev would have no choice for his own political reasons but to escalate probably in west berlin, and then john kennedy would have no choice for his political reasons to escalate somewhere else. so that's how this worked. it worked on so many different levels. if there's one thing i learned writing this book it's that you don't want to be a president certainly during the cold war. you are faced minute by minute with these life and death decisions, and they're incredibly difficult. i'll end by saying the point that i sort of, the moral for me is that when people write about the bay of pigs or talk about the bay of pigses, there's often so much anger involved, and there has been over history, and a lot of blame goes around. my impression was most of the people involved in this were doing it for what they thought were the right reasons. they were, basically, good people trying to do the right thing for the country. the problem was that it was a very difficult

we have had 3 of these sessions and spend a whole morning and take units by units into the auditorium. and then they are provided with the list of all of the agency who were there. and we incorporate that into the release plan. it's a plan in the works. i notice one the areas where it's working? reducing. it's a work in progress. one thing is for sure. we are not relying on the youths to get to the agencies. >> when did this start? >> in january. now we're going to move into a direction where we're going to assemble and call in the agencys and it's going to be for parents and it's going to be on days the heavily visiting days, the services will then be made available for the parents. that's where the effective indications will be. >> how many youth have participated in these 3 saturday. >> at any given time. there's over 100 kid in the detention center. so, we make certain that even, there were some concern about the kids that were in there for a long time. even if there's no hope. i say, that's short sided because the experience of having kids interact with helping adults is positive

is really great, it is upon the united nations to see a possibility of having a protection of the people. we need to see whether we could use the united states -- the united nations forces to be extended to cover the nuba mountain and the blue nile. the also have a feeling that the united nations can also help in terms of conduct of assisting nuba mountain. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate your courage and what you have done. i could not agree with you more. we were trying to get a no-fly zone for years, a decade ago, to prevent when darfur broke out but we could not get -- president boris agreed at one. -- president bush agreed to support the no-fly zone which would have stopped the bombing but continued in darfur. in the short time that i have left, what are some recommendations that would you like to see us do if you had the authority to do yourself? >> thank you very much. i am grateful for your leadership on this issue. i would point out that what the doctor said about how they illegalized the party and the north and that relates to the integrity reveals that they never really had any intention of keeping any agreements regarding these con