that only women have and only women can address. i think the cultural support teams were initially -- the reason they're called cultural support teams and not female engagement teams was it was envisioned to be a capability that could address populations at large, not -- of course i think civil affairs should have been able to do that to begin with. anyways, that's another debate. cultural support teams should be able to do the same thing that these -- i'm sorry -- civil affairs should be able to do the same things the cultural support teams were identified to do. i don't want to see any separate women's teams, women's only moss, because that says we're different. we're largely not. >> i do agree with that, but i think the problem with civil affairs is they were, as a branch, fielding out their [ inaudible ] units. that's the problem a lot of women run into. restrictions placed upon them by the respective branch. having the capability to continue to support these while retaining the mos in training. >> i understand. it's a problem t

security sector reform is a women's issue. corruption is a women's issue. a whole range of issues, access to justice are women's issues. something i think is a success particularly in your country, ambassador, is the acknowledgement of the issue of land rights and women's access to land and access to inheriting land as core to their ability to participate in public life and participate in security conversations. my most favorite statistic around africa overall, and i think it sums up so much, is that women are responsible for 70% of agricultural production, yet own less than 1% of the land. that's a huge, huge issue. agriculture productivity is another issue. if we start to address these things, it is all part of a large ecosystem or chain of events that enables women to participate in different aspects of life. fourtds, what -- fourth what we've seen african women lead on around the world in the last 15 to 20 years has been redefining the term "security" toward more of a notion toward human security. and in beijing we're about the 20th anniversary of the l

it's the role of women, women today and in previous eras that captured her attention. i really can't emphasize enough at least for my own personal vantage point what it got a vision i think she's made for filling in some very big blanks and distort of this nation. specifically the role of women at critical junctures over the last 200 plus years. we were talking about this earlier and i was a saint it's actually infuriating how silly people think the story of america is already complete and it's just a matter of interpretation. it's still not complete and thank you very much for helping enlarge and enrich that story. she has relied on letters and journals under the firsthand accounts by and about women. her books without background and those resources within an important new dimension to our understanding of the colonial experience, the american revolution and now with her newest book the civil war. and "capital dames" she introduces readers to the task of women. some known, some long forgotten in a perilous explains the women changed the capital and how the war changed

but how the process of engaging women in women, peace and security issues affects other secretariors as outlined below with global climate change early marriage, education, and economic growth. so i'm turning it over to ambassador princeton lyman for this panel. and i look forward to it. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, susan. thank you very much. and for those remarks thank you to the organizers and sponsors of africa day and this panel in particular. we are really very, very pleased to have an exceptional group. because the groundwork has been set by nancy's and ambassador mukantabana's comments and susan's comments we're going to delve even more deeply in this panel into both the specifics of where women have been involved in & made a difference or where the obstacles have arisen to them doing so. i'm not going to be able to do justice to this panel because if i did, in introducing them, it would take the whole time we have. will you bem introduce them briefly to you. first, next to me is ambassador amelia matos sumbana, the ambassador of mozambique to the united states since

women's rights? what about the mother that needs to be her baby? alice paul would say the vote first. that was her message. the vote is first and everything else will follow. i don't have any numbers -- i'm sure that a lot of her suffragists are also involved in the temperance movement because they know there's a huge overlap. between all of those reform movements, she has women interested in temperance, women -- she recruits a lot of factory women. she is working with lower classes of women. she is aware of what their needs are because she was a settlement worker. she is aware of all of these issues. she takes lessons from these campaigns. however, her focus is singly on getting women the right to vote. all of the movements definitely overlap, but for alice come her signal focus is going to be the 19th amendment, the vote first everything else will figure its way out. >> it's interesting that frances willard had a do everything policy and alice paul had a we will take this one step at a time and get

putting women on the battlefield along other women to gain access to afghan women. it brings the story to life and particularly about ashley white in which the book is entitled. this discussing the valor and in courage of these women. please join me in welcoming her. >> it's so nice to be here with all of you and of course i love c-span since i was ten years old. this is great. we'll keep a pretty informal. all talk about 15 minutes and then we can do the rest of question-and-answer. the story began when i was hosting an event in 2012 at the council on foreign relations and i was asking someone about combat story and she said well it's just like the first lieutenant who lost her life on the battlefield in afghanistan in a special operation night mission. i said what? she said yeah there was this lieutenant who was out there and she was on a night raid along ranger regiment and special operation team and if you look at her obituary it actually said she's a member of the north carolina national gatt guard. if you keep reading it, it tells you the story of what she was

there were no women there. i had an opportunity to train with them with my platoon for a month and do the mountain warfare training package. i was told no by a number of people. fortunately, my commanding officer was not one of them. i'll come back to that common theme is a go through. i had some amazing leaders. despite being told no by several people, i did it anyways. and everybody survived, we did great. and the nice thing was being able to compete with the men up there and i wasn't in competition with them. being able to keep up with them and excel on that mountain, it said something. and the 200 men that walked away from the experience, having seen a woman complete those tasks left having a different idea about women. for the first couple of days, i was a distraction to them. i can't deny that. they were fascinated by me. like i was some weird alien creature. they were really, really fascinated by me. but they got over it really fast and the rest of the month went extremely smoothly. and i built some incr

it created a lot of jobs on the home front for women -- there were women mechanics, women pilots. they were trained in a military style, but they were not an official part of the military. it was not until the 1990's that they were granted veterans benefits. jackie surrounded by a lot of her lost pilots. after the war, jackie cochran became a big proponent of an independent air force, which, of course, came about in 1947. she continued to fly. she wanted to be the first pilot -- first woman pilot to fly supersonically, so who better to teach her than the first pilot to fly supersonically, general chuck yeager? she became the first woman to fly twice the speed of sound again with chuck yeager flying the chase plane. at the time of her death, jackie cochran held more aviation records than any pilot -- man or woman -- in history. you can make a pretty great case jackie cochran may have been the greatest pilot of all time. jimmy doolittle fans may have something to say about that, but -- of course, during the war -- and diane is going to touch on this -- women found lots of jobs at fl

a lot of them are about women and run by women. the national domestic workers association, they've done quite a bit to organize women who can't be organized. they're not protected by the national labor relations act so they can't create a union but they've come together in other ways. it's moral support. they share information. they provide skills training for each other and connections. i actually had the immense honor of being invited to a meeting of a group of domestic workers at casa of maryland, and it was just an incredibly interesting conversation because they came together on weekends to share these kinds of stories what is your experience in the workplace? if someone -- there's a common -- should i say at least two common experiences of domestic workers of being subject to sexual harassment. they share stories try to help each other get into new situations if they're working for a bad employer. but they also -- these were women who had gone to annapolis to lobby for minimum wage increase and even though they weren't protec

women, not women themselves, might be the key factor in levels of cohesion. it's also important because it seems that irrespective of women's roles, negative attitudes about their place in the military persist and impact how a group describes its cohesion. just a couple of weeks ago, the results of a survey given to the american special operations forces were reported. and this was a survey just to gauge apprehensions that troops may have in relation to women in combat in order to preemptively address them. and the results did show several misgivings and concerns, including concerns about sexual assault. so we need to understand how these types of misgivings and reactions to women in combat might impact group dynamics and reported levels of cohesion. we also need to acknowledge that sexual assault is not a gender integration or cohesion problem. it's a sexual assault problem. again what these studies show is the main issue may be men's attitudes and perceptions. we may want to focus on cultural change rather than future studies on cohesion. debates around wom

then they put the same issue before a board of women and those women tended to fund men, attractive men. even women can have this unconscious bias. >> right. and that's why i think it's per pervasive and why education is so important. there's been a lot of research lately and i think the more we all learn about where our biases might be the more helpful it is. i'll tell you something interesting, this is not an investment of ours but there's a female entrepreneur she is actually a cybersecurity expert but she's building a company with a recruiting platform to help remove unconscious bias around things like how does your job description read it turns out if you call a work environment collaborative versus competitive, way more women are going to apply. i wouldn't have -- as a woman, i wouldn't have known that. it's important to start taking these learnings and applying it. and, you know, using technology and wouldn't it be great if women entrepreneurs were the one to bring those to market? >> is there a little bit of an ecosystem among female ceos of startups where they might be investin

where do you see under the bass fitting into the conversation about women and women voters and women candidates in 2016? >> guest: i have been very pleased to see how much a lot of the topics i write about are part of the national conversation from the minimum wage to childcare to paid leave to sick leave. these are issues not debated in the public arena. president obama has been speaking broadly about the need to move forward on these policies. i think it is actually a time where some of the ideas seem sad i can't remember the word, provocative they are not so provocative. the policy proposals that i make are very much in the mainstream. they are being debated more and more. more and more members of congress are interested in or supported legislation that addresses the issues that i raised. so i'm actually very hopeful we've made some strides forward. >> host: do you think we need to have a woman candidate to talk about these issues? i think more of these policies would come from democrats than republicans. they may have different approaches dealing with these but at the same time d

i appreciate the women. i started on this quest about women in history as the results of growing up with my mother and many of you knew her. i watched when i was growing up here in post-world war ii washington the women my mother and her cohorts running everything. they read the political conventions. they ran the voter registration drive. they ran their husband's campaigns. they ran their offices in amman with the african-american women in washington, they ran all the social service these. in fact when my father was killed in a plane crash and another ran for congress, she called lady byrd johnson who was one of her closest, closest friends and a group of remarkable women and she told her she was going to run for congress and didn't want me to read it in the paper. ladybird said that ladybird said it is to make lindy, but how are you going to do it without a wife? that was a very good question and one she had a hard time with takeshi ended up playing both roles of course and making it twice as hard. it wasn

women are suffering. what can you tell us from this point of level, from this place of peace and security, u.s. institute, what are we going to do to the common woman in the rural area of africa until tomorrow and today, though my organization called hope for tomorrow. we want a clang in african women. we want to do it as african women born and raised in africa, not on television. not in radio. not in newspapers. there has to be more from today. you will be seeing me and don't close your door. thank you. ambassador lyman: ok. i want to try and take another question here but it's -- before time runs out. i apologize if we have to move along. yes. >> you are excellencies, thank you for this opportunity. i'm vtszuniversity of california student. i'm currently at the dedeafrican women's leadership. i want to ask in what other means can dieaspra help to empower women in 2015. ambassador lyman i'll address : those and try to get back to as many as we can. we had a question about the whole historical issues of b

went on these missions and they talk to the local afghan he women were the women i assume the women first thought they were men and were they surprised? >> shots. >> i'm assuming because they were women they were able to build a level of trust a lot more easily. >> there was this moment where you take off your helmet and oh my gosh underneath all of that is a female and he put on a headscarf and you have a conversation. this is war, right? it was a moment of connection where they would talk to one another and in fact women would keep them away from foreign men and keep them away from everything else was happening and they would have conversations. that's why they were able to be effective. it's not that every night was successful but on balance you are much more likely to communicate to have a moment of conversation of an exchange of information with a woman than you were certainly with a guy. as one of the guys said we look like martians that had landed in these people's living rooms. >> these women were sort of doing the very things the local women couldn't do. were they also i gu

women are suffering. what can you tell us from this point of level, from this place of peace and security, u.s. institute, what are we going to do to the common woman in the rural area of africa until tomorrow and today though my organization called hope for tomorrow. we want a clang in african women. we want to do it as african women born and raised in africa not on television. not in radio. not in newspapers. there has to be more from today. you will be seeing me and don't close your door. thank you. >> okay. i want to try and take another question here but it's -- before time runs out. i apologize if we have to move along. yes. >> you are excellencies, thank you for this opportunity. i'm vtszuniversity of california student. i'm currently at the dedeafrican women's leadership. i want to ask in what other means can dieaspra help to empower women in 2015. >> i'll address those and try to get back to as many as we can. we had a question about the whole historical issues of borders and whether that is cont

our military women strengthen the force. the pictures here represent a few examples of the functions women are performing. since 2013, dod has notified congress of the intent to open 91,000 positions that were previously closed. in 2013, the marine corps allowed enlisted women to participate in basic infantry training as part of their ongoing research to determine what additional ground combat jobs may be open to female personnel. approximately 34% to lead to the course. the enlisted infantry school last eight weeks and includes a mix of physical training, classroom work overnight field exercises and live fire events. female unlisted marines who successfully completed the infantry training will not be assigned the infantry is a military occupational specialty or inside a unit, but they are critical to assess and validate the gender-neutral standards. in this photo, a female sailor was participating in a crew member course. in december of 2013 the navy notified congress of the intent to open 267 positions and one in the coast

by the way, women supporting women isn't always.is not instinctive that women always support women as an aside, but i think it has gotten a lot better. one of the challenges for women candidates is raising money. it is the whole networking and networking with those who have the dollars. that's another issue. but we have more than 100 women in the congress. i'm very committed to women helping women, so we get networking along and try to continue to grow. i'm where i am because the women who came before me helped open the doors. we have a responsibility to keep opening those doors of broader. al: do you feel the same? guest: i started a young women's leadership program because i realize i was inspired by sheryl sandberg's book -- she talks about how women hold themselves back. in my case, even though i had always worked in politics, i had never myself thought about running. it actually was a man who said why don't you run for the state house? he sort of pushed me in the pool. and the speaker of the house of virginia was a great advoca

that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. >> hello. good evening. welcome to book passage in san francisco's historic building. i want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. i also want to thank our future c-span viewers. we have c-span here with us tonight videotaping so know that you are on camera. so when we go-round for the duende also know that we will be having a mic around to capture your question for c-span. but we are very honored tonight to welcome author and journalist gayle tzemach lemmon a senior fellow at the council of orange relations as well as the contributed -- contributed to the linick defense one where she reports on issues of national security and foreign-policy. she is also the best-selling author of the dressmaker the remarkable story of a community of entrepreneurial active women under taliban rule. she is here tonight to talk about her latest book already garnering lots of national attention and praise called "ashley's war"." it's a book that looks

>> were women ultimately rejected by women that historically i revere -- i noticed that there were women were ultimately rejected by women that historically i revere. myra macpherson: because all of those women were middle-class, they were not upper-class, and the movement was a minority. they fought the same kind of things that we fought and things that continue, like these religious groups that come up. one of the beecher sisters was against women's writes totally -- women's rights, and she came from an educated background. [indiscernible] when they said too many things -- >> that will make us look bad. myra macpherson: yes, and a lot of women were in bed marriages themselves. that vittorio wrote a column called "tit-for-tat." she was going to rail on all of these people -- and then victoria wrote a column called "tit-for-tat." she was going to rail on all of these people, and she came into a meeting -- they came to the service so fast that within four months, newspapers were calling them woodhull women, so she was very determined to take over. she gave a speech, telling everybody to c

women. so "lean in" isn't really an available option. there are challenges are much more exponential so what i wanted to do was expose some of the broader questions that are affecting women in the workforce and think about what are the possible solutions that we as a nation could be moving towards. >> host: i was going to say it seems like part of your frustration is simply about the conversation around working women and which working women we are talking about. this book focuses on women with less education or lower down on the socioeconomic ladder. you have a legal possible -- policy background anywhere familiar with the family medical leave act but the premise seems we never go far enough and we need more government to help women especially those who are lower on the economic scale. you want to share more about that? >> guest: sabrina there are two things. one is that we simply don't have responses to some very broad questions and broad questions in these aren't just for low-wage women al

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>> so all three women are white and i had written previously about foryoung -- for young women. i -- sometimes we make the mistake in this country, i think, of imagining that poverty is an experience of color when that's just not true all the time. it can be true. so michelle comes from a background that i described where her dad has been married many times and in and out of jail, and her mom had been on welfare or doing fact -- factory jobs. desma grew up partly in foster care, and she really pulled herself together inside the military, the structure that the institution provided to her, she feels, was very valuable to her in building a healthier lifestyle than the one that she grew up in. debbie had a less challenging childhood. but never rich. was there a second part to that question? >> i would expect that. >> yeah. >> since that was part of the original thought process -- >> right. >> as you went and then evolved the book into what it is. but did any -- did you ever think of what the perspective would have been if you would have identified, you know, a variety, an african-a

>> i think it is a response to perceived women getting out of hand, women having too many rights. there's too much -- too much sex. >> goodness gracious. it's 2014. we're going to talk about that? we're going to -- i mean not saying challenging your perception of this. >> yeah. >> but the idea to me that we have to have a conversation about women having too many rights in 2014 is the epitome of preposterous. >> well, they would prefer -- that's why they would prefer to talk about the personhood of the fertilized egg. >> yeah. >> they know it sounds crazy when you put it that way. >> but why -- but when you say that, people just kind of go bananas. they hear you and they go this is absurd, but at the same time why -- that has not been the -- that really has not been a successful argument thus far. >> no, but if you look at the places, this is really interesting. if you look at the states that have the most restrictions on abortions -- >> yeah. >> -- there's really a one-to-one correlation with the states where the status of women is lowest. they're the fewest women in state legisla

and said we need women out here. and so from those two men posted general mcchrystal and a bunch of others who had overtime will become to believe they were not getting everything out of the information that they could have and they were leaving a security gap there to fill, came the idea for what became known as the cultural support teams which is incredibly benign name for and actually groundbreaking concept that you needed women to see the kind of operation that is very small sliver of the entire united states military was seen at the time. so the poster goes out female soldiers, become part of history can joint special operations command on the battlefield in afghanistan. almost all of them as you see in the early pages of this book have the same reaction. this is way too good to be true. these are people who had always wanted to test themselves. the only thing to hobart for was to put themselves in the most challenging situation to face the biggest test they could to do a mission that mattered and to serve along

what were the women saying happened? >> well, harry of those reporting sexual assault in the military ranks it was 62 percent of the women said they received some form of retaliation after making those reports. >> so to put this in context the number of reported cases has gone down right? >> that's right. i mean well, actually the prevalence of cases. so the ones they estimate have gone down too, about 20,000. and that is 27 percent decrease from 2012. the actual folks coming forward and reporting that has gone up and this year by 11 percent to 6,000 cases. the military perceives that to be progress in people feel comfortable number enough to come forward and report a sexual assault. >> they took steps over the last year to make it easier to report but if women come forward through the easier channels but still face retaliation at higher rates would that have a chilling effect? >> you would think so. i think that would be a major problem for them. again, if you are talking about 6,000 reports and an estimate of 20,000 in

relationships with men and women. and um. she wound up with team is the way she wanted to go x it makes me sad as i say she could not talk about it publicly. and this was her choice. i think that it gave her a little bit of a kind of privacy that she needed. within more time. thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon everyone welcome to our their annual book festival. oyama katy plate oechlt and happy to be here with you. and helen thorp to discuss her terrific look soldier girls the battles of three women at home and at war. before we begin, would i like to remind that you barnes & noble is selling books upstairs in the ate rum. go up the escalate or and helen will be signing in reference area next to the sales area at 1. 30. directly after this. i want to thank barnes & noble who generously donated a portion of the proceeds of sales to the san antonio book festival. andal we will take questions from the you yens the turn off your cell phones. helen thorp is the seasoned journalist and author who was born in london a

the truth of course is that women's books and everything women do and women's place is everywhere right now but whether it is books or on television, or in real life, i actually learned about my place on the planet from a series of experiences that i had while i was working in television news. one of them was, when i was back at abc news, where i enjoyed a long and wonderful career. one day my piece was done early for world news, what was then 7:00 probably 6:30 news. i got to leave early. i went with my husband over to visit my mother-in-law. i loved her and watched me on television a lot. never seen me in the same room while the tv was on. so at one point, larry said mother lynn, has a piece on the news and watched. he stood in the front of room and turned on tv. diana was sitting in her chair watching and i was next to the tv as well. here is what happened. tv came on. my piece came on and diana looked at the tv, then she looked at me. then she looked at the tv and looked at me, back and forth the entire minute and 10 seconds. i don't think she absorbed a word what i was saying. the

in 18 days we'll graduate 674 men and 189 women. we have about 23% women now. 27% minorities. although the nature of minorities is changing in our country too because of the blended nature of our country this is pretty great that the boxes on the surveys almost don't apply anymore. we also have students from other nations too. these students that are coming are pretty impressive. it's congressional districts determine applicants come in. we depend on our congressional delegations to appoint them. this is why when we want to make sure we get balance and diversity we have other things and avenues to try to make sure we look like the country we defend which may not happen in that process. it takes a phd to figure out how the rules work on that. that's the nature of our sessions. when i talk to other college presidents they have a little different approach. these are amazing people who come in. the average high school gpa is 3.8. more than 80% are into high school athletic letter. have high caliber people. our duty is to make sure we offer our essence those eight areas in way that

womens biggest obstacles?id in her facebook post if a woman run she would move to canada. >> if a woman ran she would move to canada? >> yes. >> please, hill ry we need you now more than ever. >> those poor canadiens. >> democrats threat tone move to canada. we have to hold anyone this cycle -- >> menstrual cycle. >> yes. >> the canadiens are lovely people thefplt have no face though. >> i don't think the canadiens want any of these ♪ ♪ at dunkin' breakfast just got zestier with guacamole made from real avocados, tomatoes, cilantro, and lime the new bacon guacamole flatbread. ole, indeed! america runs on dunkin'. you can call me shallow... but, i have a wandering eye. i mean, come on. national gives me the control to choose any car in the aisle i want. i could choose you... or i could choose her if i like her more. and i do. oh, the silent treatment. real mature. so you wanna get out of here? go national. go like a pro. >> that's all the time we have time for tonight. i want to thank our panelists and a messag

women who were -- along the way. women who were pioneers in their own right. women i looked up to. when i was growing up my mom and my coaches were at the top to have list. top of the list. now, as you can imagine, i've witnessed a lot of change during the last four decades. it's hard for millennials to even fathom the 1970s reality of an all women's army corps an all-male west point or rotc programs that excluded women. i witnessed the disestablishment of the -- [inaudible] and the integration of women into the regular army. it truly helped facilitate the major diversification of our ranks, but policy change alone didn't necessarily mean immediately change in mindset. twenty years ago i had the opportunity to accompany the chief of staff of the army, general rye her to our communications and electronic command in new jersey. that's a very high-tech command as you can imagine, mostly scientists engineers and communication experts. i was lieutenant colonel back then and was there to take notes for the general's trip report. we walked into the conference room and i couldn't help but

women and 71% of married women. even 49% of the democrats polled support a ban on abortion at 20 weeks or earlier significantly more than those who opposed it. a washington post poll similarly found 66% support for this bill and a huffington post poll found support at 59%. today, america is one of the few countries on earth including north korea and china that allows per miss i have late-term abortion. these polls show the american people want to change that. today is the second anniversary of kermit gosnell's conviction for first degree murder. following the gosnell trial, we were all reminded that when late-term babies are taken from the womb and cut with scissors, they whimper, cry and flinch from pain. an unborn babies when cut inside the womb also whimper and cry and flinch from pain. delivered or not babies are babies and they can feel pain at least by 20 weeks. it is time to welcome young children who can feel pain into the human family. and this bill, at last, will do just that. finally i would note that it

let's give susan and the democratic women's council a big round of applause.[cheers and applause] >> we really appreciate the democratic women's council partnering with the democratic legislative caucus in this year's event. we are extremely pleased to have colleagues come together from all across the state to engage and empower our communities and to make sure your voice is heard loud and proud. as all y'all know, there are not a lot of women in the south carolina house and we have only one woman republican in the south carolina senate. that must change. \[cheers and applause] >> because we all know that the difference that change in the faces of our general assembly can make. women bring a unique and necessary perspective and in office will fight for things that matter to families and all people. we are gathered today for our annual day in blue because all of us here believe that a woman's place is in the house and in the senate and also -- \[cheers and applause] >> in case there is any doubt, also at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. \[cheers and applause] >> speak

when i joined the army in 75 i joined a the women's army corps a separate bridge for women who wanted to serve. to be honest i never dreamed about joining the army. i knew from the time i was in elementary school i would be a coach and a physical education teacher as the kitten was a tomboy but i want to one of the top physical education and colleges is in the country. during my junior the rv offered high potential witness in $500 a month during they're senior year for a two-year commitment as a commission as a second lieutenant and $5 was a lot of money and even with four generations of west point graduates the thought of joining the army never crossed my mind. but it was an offer i could not refuse. slide began my two-year journey that turned into five years, 10 years, the 20 years and 38 years. so when people ask me if i knew i was going to be a general, i tell them not in my wildest dreams. there was no one more surprised than i was. except of course, my husband now you know why they say behind every successful woman is a man. [laughter] in 2008 when the president nominated me for

>> they have no interest or concern about the welfare of young women or women in general. their whole stated goal is to end legal abortion in america must overturn roe, and put planned parenthood out of business. and that is really their purpose. amy: as the republican-controlled house approves a measure that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks, we speak to cecille richards president of planned parenthood. in three plowshares activists who broke into the y-12 nuclear facility in oak ridge, tennessee, are released from prison after a court threw out the most serious charge, sabotage, against them. we will be joined by two of the protesters, michael walli and 85-year-old sister megan rice. >> this is so outrageous and such a cause of death -- imminent death, terrible suffering, you know, all of the attention that is put into these objects which can never be used without helping to extinguish the planet. amy: if malcolm x had lived, he would have been 90 years old today. >> the history of unpunished violence against our people clearly indicates we must be prepared to defe

off the helmets to show they were women. because otherwise under body armor, kit, and night vision it's hard to know who is male and female. so this, to me, was a story about a team that came to love one another and their mission in the way that we as a country had not seen. who were by and large accepted by people who simply wanted to get off target and complete their mission in the best way possible. and i did feel very strongly that particularly in the case of ashley white, this was somebody who had made a mark that no one paid attention to because upon her death, the lieutenant general head of special operations army command goes to her small town in ohio and said make no mistake about it, these women are warriors setting a standards for what it means to be a female in the united states army the finest army in the world, and he talks in a very public and moving way about what they had done and why it mattered. and the next day at her funeral the colonel from ranger regimen gets up to give the speech about the man in the

were women -- take off their helmets and show they were women. it's really hard to know who was male and female under armour and night vision. so this to meet was the story about the team that came to love one another and their mission and the ways that we as a country have not seen. and really were by and large excepted by people who simply wanted to get off target and complete the mission and the best way possible. and i did feel very strongly particularly in the case of ashley white, this was somebody who had made a mark that nobody paid attention to. upon her death, the tenant general mulholland goes to her small town in ohio and said make the mistake about this. these women are warriors. they have set a standard for what it means to be a female in the united states army, the finest army in the world. and he talked in a very public and very moving way about what they had done and why it mattered. the next day at her funeral, the ranger regiment gets up and gives the speech about the man in the arena which many of you will know. and said this

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young latina women, mexican-american women. and in some ways i really wanted to write about white poverty and what it is to be from a working class or a poor family and be white because sometimes we make the mistake in this country, i think, of imagining that poverty is an experience of color when that's just not true all time. it can be true. so michelle comes from a background that i described where her dad has been married many times and in and out of jail, and her mom had been on welfare and doing factory jobs. desma grew up partly in foster care and she really pulled herself together inside the military, the structure that the institution provided to her she feels was very valuable to her many building a healthier lifestyle than the one that she grew up in. debbie had a less challenging childhood but never rich. was there a second part to that question? you look like -- >> i respect that. but since that was part of the original thought process -- >> right. >> -- as you went and then evolved the book into what it is. but di

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you see, we can allow women to be in, we can have women there who want to be there. but if the men around them make it difficult, then we're not going to get the results that we need. so before i conclude, i want to thank women in international security and its combat integration initiative, alliance for national defense, reserve officers association and no exceptions for organizing this discussion and especially to express gratitude to ellen herring, holly hemhill and gray jacob for all of your support these past couple of years on this issue. i look forward to continuing this work together and ensuring once and for all that women are provided the same opportunities as men in our united states military. thank you for once again, for allowing me to participate in this discussion and i wish you all a successful event. >>> i'm currently a congresswoman for arizona commission district. >> provide a little information about your background and why you're interested in ground combat positions. >> great, so i was in the ninth class of women to attend the air force academy.