american businesses and american families need affordable american energy. >> what -- when can we expect to see legislation on the floor of the house? it has been said that it is preferable not to do a sweeping comprehensive bill, but rather, pieces. >> i will let the chairman comment on the timeline. the big comprehensive bills should be open. i would rather deal with this in a bite sized chunks. why would we not have a bill to encourage vehicles to use natural gas? why would we not have a bill that would encourage more oil and gas exploration where the royalties would go to support a more green energy development? why would we not do that by itself? what would we not do a nuclear energy bill, for example, by itself? i think it is a more logical and thoughtful way to deal with these issues. i'll turn it over to tim. >> there have been lots of discussions. we'll set lots of letters seeking information. i agree with what speaker john boehner just said. we will have the regulatory commissioners testified before our committee. we want to figure out what it takes so long to go from start to

even though your mom is white and your dad is african-american, you identify as an african-american woman, but you've always had this kind of prism of looking at things through "the other," and it was almost as if they're saying, "there's a whole other 'otherness' that you need to understand." >> that's right-- secondary marginalization. and so for me, it wasn't that i wasn't a black feminist, it's that i didn't quite know what that meant for my research, and so over those years, as i developed as a teacher and as a researcher, i discovered that for me, black feminism is simply asking the same question over and over again-- of myself and of my students and of my work. and that question is: "what truths are missing here?" so eveif you're telling something that's mostly true, there's always some other truth that is missing, some other story that's not being told, some other question that's not being asked. and so it becomes not just about making sure that women's voices are there or making sure that not only heteronormative but also queer experiences are there-- it's about asking every, sin

health center and the native american aids project in celebrating american indian heritage month. we proudly celebrates the diversity out northern california by commemorating american indian heritage with more than 60 programs this year -- this month, in fact. these programs are highlighted in a guide along with listings of community resources and local events, and you can find that actkqed.org/ -- at kq ed.org/heritage. i wanted to point out a couple of films we have coming up on our films series. one is called "real injun" and it is an interesting trip through the history of north american native people as they have been portrayed in the history of movies from silent did today. the second explores the life and death of fred martina's and the spiritual nature and gender. two spirits is going to come on kqed television in june of 2011, but we are also sponsoring the american indian film festival this year, and that will be premiering at the festival i think next week. then, just this past month in october, helped dialogue with a special theory from kqed public radio did a report o

as asian-americans in this country. as we look toward the new year, i think we can say that the asian-american community has come far in san francisco since we first started immigrating here in the 1950's, and there were many challenges for our community, beginning with the first exclusion act, immigration and for men and women that came for san francisco, to labor issues, and also segregation that we faced. and that was then brought forward as a court case to look at what it means to be equal but separate in our public schools. there is much work we have done here, and now we see we have our first asian-american mayor, the first time we have seen four asian american sitting on the board of supervisors. it is certainly an honor and privilege for me to be here today. i want to recognize the history not only of our communities, but of many communities that have fought for us to be here today. again, happy new year. thank you for being here and joining in on the celebration. [applause] >> thank you, supervisors. assessor p

american indians have the highest rate of diabetes and other americans 195% higher. native americans have the highest rates of alcoholism. suicide is one of the highest health disparities that impact our community. access to treatment and care is the lowest for native americans in san francisco alone. they are clearly underserved populations, the city and county of public health. one of the key issues to really underscore is why we're here. we're healthy, but we're here. i think one of the other important things to point out, it is not all american and alaskan natives. we have a post-colonial stress disorder. we don't come to city funded programs and therefore we must not exist or we are very healthy. that is not the case when you look at all of the other statistics. in talking about all of these health disparities, one of the key things that we helped speak to that we demonstrate when asking for funding, what is that we have to show need -- one is that we have to show need. we have statistics and numbers that really impact whether we are going to get funding or not.

we have just now selected our first chinese-american, asian-american mayor in the city of san francisco. [applause] on the board of supervisors, 11 of us, eight of us, eight members of the board of supervisors are people of color. this is true representation. but what has laid the foundation of the great muscle that has made san francisco well known in its reputation as being forward thinking also obligates us to answering the other questions some of the chals that i remarked on especially as it concerns the african-american population in after. i'm not so sure that the numbers really have dropped to 3.%. that's a quick drop from 6.2 two years ago. but whatever the case is, that decline in population is a healthy reminder that even the most forward-thinking cities have incredible work to do. thank you, everybody, and happy black history month. >> thank you, supervisors cohen and mirkarimi. just want to announce also that thanks to the efforts of lamont bishop and others, we do have for the kinseys proclamations or certificates of recognition for shirley and bernard kinsey from senator l

african-americans took to the streets to celebrate his victory. drawing the wrath of angry white mobs. for many jack johnson was much more than just a boxer as a powerful symbol of black masculinity he represented a direct threat to white male power both inside and outside the ring and his example would inspire other black athletes to fight for equality in ways that would reverberate beyond sports. four decades later that fight would reach a culmination of sorts with jackie robinson jackie rather. like. you know good for the guys you made in the world. when you joined the brooklyn dodgers in one thousand and forty seven jackie robinson became the first african-american to play for a major league baseball team literally changing the face of mainstream american sports in baseball it's not sure what you are but when you play the game. jackie robinson stories where like jack johnson before him robinson demonstrated great courage in the face and still is from legions of bright people who believe black athletes had no business playing alongside whites o

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one american family stunned. they thought they had so many american-made goods in their home. they let us take out everything not made in america and discovered the house was virtually bare. well, tonight, can we replace it with goods made by american workers? david muir and sharyn alfonsi found out. >> reporter: by now, you know the usrys, who might be asking themselves, why did we do this? >> hello! >> reporter: allowing "world news" to come check everything in their home. >> made in thailand. >> bangladesh. >> table made in thailand. >> reporter: where was your couch made in? china. take out anything that wasn't made in america. the usrys came home to an empty house. >> all of our appliances are gone. no microwave, no oven, no stove. no refrigerator. jon, what are you making for dinner? >> pb and j. american classic. >> reporter: living with the consequences at bedtime. even the dog. but then, the real challenge. replacing everything we took out with products made right here in america. >> reporter: hi, i'm trying to find out -- >> reporter: remember how long it took sharyn

african-americans, jewish- americans, japanese-americans, catholic-americans, and irish- americans. even martin luther king, who is a non-violent example of a civil rights movement and now has a federal holiday named after him and won a nobel peace prize was branded the most dangerous effective leader in the country. in an fbi memo, fbi director j. edgar hoover labeled king as a degenerate. it is about time we as americans put a stop to this practice. all of us need to work together to protect this great nation. thank you. >> thank you very much. next we have someone from the bill of rights and defense committee. >> thank you. i am the executive director of the bill of rights defence committee. as a constitutional lawyer who leads an organization based on civil liberty defense for all americans, there are two perspectives of would like to add to the discussion. the political theater that is looming in the haleh security committee is not just a crisis affecting the american-muslim community. it affects the united states. inclusion has long wait at the heart of our nation budget promi

together, members of the american legion, the american legion auxiliary, and be son of the american legion make up the entire american legion family. we all place high importance on preserving our american traditions and values, improving the quality of life for our nation's children, caring for veterans and their families, and perhaps, most importantly, teaching the fundamentals of good citizenship. with a past national commanders of the son of the american legion please rise and be recognized at this time. [applause] thank you, gentlemen. please welcome the current national commander of the sons of the american legion, from texas, david duke. [applause] >> good morning. thank you. the morning, ladies engineman. -- good morning, ladies and gentleman. we have our priority list, and every issue is very important. it has to be addressed as so. call me caribe, call me selfish, with all the great things that has happened to me this year, from being elected to this great office in milwaukee, to being at pearl harbor, madam president, commander foster, with the 120 survivors of that horrific att

muslim americans in this community are appalled that their very own u.s. representative is targeting them based on their religious beliefs there are extremists in every every community every religion i mean you know why just islam what does he have to gain from it either a personal vendetta or maybe something to gain in the politics of this is not a fear people are really angry and shows this to because the burden falls on our shoulders to really experience experience for you in a country of tolerance a new york community left feeling isolated and marginalized by the man they once rallied behind. r.t.e. new york. still to come on tonight's show n.p.r. under fire again the chirpy wants finding holes in the network after an executive calls the tea party racist whole debate whether or not taxpayer money should be used for n.p.r. and other media outlets interest in the. h.r. and her broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture a. new website with twenty four seven live streaming news towns like to do about it ongoing financial hard

are the american dream to own a home and fortunately that just might not be the american dream or that maybe isn't realistic anymore but you say that the entire market needs to be privatized you know fannie and freddie obviously need to go but then what happens to all of those people that got that one day perhaps the government might help them reach that dream but what needs to be privatized is the system of financing these homes and the. we how much money or where the money comes from for funding so i don't think that the american dream anymore really should be to own your own home it's not practical in a more. twenty first century where people are moving more frequently were the travel is not what it was in the night and sixty's you can go all over the world you can work in new york one year and two years later work in d.c. and that's normal we can still obviously people should still buy homes that we shouldn't have there but we shouldn't necessarily have a public policy the government shouldn't try to make sure that every single american owns a home that's the american dream that sh

pacific families, including vietnamese-americans, caribbean-americans, and others. in san francisco, we celebrated with our parade. -- korean-americans, and others. we celebrated the whole month to welcome everybody. it is supposed to be a year of good luck, a year of prosperity and good health so on behalf of mayor edwin lee, i want to welcome you here this evening. [speaking chinese] so we have the celebration in san francisco welcome the community to celebrate the chinese new year for many years now but this year we are particularly excited and very happy because this is an historic year where we are hosted by our first chinese- american mayor. [applause] this is another historic occasion. [speaking chinese] at this time, without further ado, i want to bring up our mayor, mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you, claudine. good evening, everybody. happy new year. i am very honored to join supervisor chu, a supervisor carmen chu, eric mar, and jane kim, and supervisor campos, supervisor mirkarimi, malia cohen is here as well. it is a wonderful occasion to celebrat

he is the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history and i would like to congratulate asian-american deal of -- du 0o that we have -- i would like to congratulate the asian-american duo that we have. ed lee was confirmed by the board of supervisors. in that role, he has spearheaded government efficiency measures and reforms that reduce the size and cost of government. he has supported the infrastructure for green city government. the first began working for the city and county of san francisco in 1989 as the investigator for the

muhammedhamdani was a young american whoave his life for other americans. his life should not be identified as just a member of an ethic group or just a member of a religion, but as an american who gave everything for his fellow americans. i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman for his testimony. >> mr. chairman? >> gentle lady from texas. >> being moved by the statement of mr. ellison, i am wondering whether or not you would waive the rules of this committee to allow all members to have opening statements? >> i will not. >> i ink, mr. chairman, i would like to finish my inquiry. i think because of the severity of this issue and the passion that is being expressed and the concern for demonizing of one group, that members need to be on the record to be able to express their view, their opposition or their support for the format and the structure of this hearing. >> reclaiming my time. the regular rules of the procedure will be followed. i recognize the gentleman from virginia. >> i object, mr. chairman. >> i recognize the gentleman from virginia mr. wolf. mr

to what extent is the american average americans confusion about global warming i mean you look at the poll numbers and they're just startling the number of americans who don't understand or have believed misinformation to what extent do you think that that is the result of things like well funded and oil industry funded right wing think tanks getting their shells out in the media or fox news and that sort of thing it's the it's the accumulation of all of those echo chambers that are funded by the koch brothers and the right wing and so people who see themselves as republicans here the republican leaders saying over and over again oh this is all a hoax that's what senator inhofe told our committee it's all a hoax and of course they have in mind in their minds that one of the chief spokespeople to do something about this problem was former vice president al gore so they think it's a partisan issue but science has never been a participant matter if you look at the evidence and you based on the evidence reach conclusions and almost all reputable scientists have reached the conclusion not

yeah and you know i think i think americans have stopped buying this argument that it's that it's the unions you know republicans have six successfully over the last thirty or forty years up until now said you know it's the unions fault you know they're making fifty sixty thousand dollars a year you're making thirty to forty and it's their fault that you're not making more money people have stopped buying that you know we are spending too much money on things like defense we haven't raised taxes to pay for the things that we're supposed to pay for taxes like it's like the third rail of american politics right next to social security when republicans going to say ok not only do we have a spending problem we have a revenue problem why can't we talk about that why can't we have an honest discussion about that why are we pointing to these people who are just trying to make an honest decent living they're not making ridiculous amounts of money they're making an average middle class earning that's given them a basic amount of the supposable income i think it's really unfair to place the bla

arab-americans are not the other. our community is not to be feared. our community is to be relied on. it is a rich community in culture and talent and heritage. we are the defendants of people who build great cities like casa blogging, baghdad, cairo, jerusalem, damascus -- casa blanca. we are the people of the world who have given the world great profits and religions. -- great prophets and religions. thank you. [applause] >> every year that i have been in city hall, i have tried to take an intern from the community and try to teach them the ways of politics to make sure we have leadership that keeps coming, so eventually, we have candidates for office. like when a friend on the school board. is she here? -- like winifred on the school board. a couple of years back, i was wise enough to bring on an intern that has made all the difference for our community, especially with arab heritage month. he worked so hard for last year's event and has made this year a success. we were really concerned about timing, and we were not sure he would get to it, and sh

could i have all the native americans please remain standing? all native americans, stand up. how about a big round of applause for our native americans here for native american heritage month in november. all you non-indians, just look around. this is what custer saw at the little bighorn, and you know what he said to his men? where did all these indians come from? once again, welcome to the sixth annual nida american heritage month celebration here at city hall. -- annual native american heritage month cicelebration. i would like to thank our host for this month, native american aids project, the mayor's office, the san francisco native american health center, and kqed public broadcasting. how about a big round of applause for our host? thank you. at this time, when indian people -- when we gather, we throw on our regalia, our outfits. we do not call them costumes. if you are from oklahoma, we call them in being close -- clothes. it is good to see all these dancers and singers as well, their families. when we gather like this, we start out with prayer, so please stand if you

we just got these the stream is the greatest rape in the minds of american citizens tears and fears on capitol hill so what exactly will this congressional hearing on the radicalization of muslims lead to and could this be a flash back to mccarthyism. it was a very slow moving. and as the next chapter continues to unfold in libya critics feature a strong you ask role or how the u.s. already learned that last. thursday march tenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out there watching our team. well it's a moment many people have been waiting for and many others have dreaded in the state capital of wisconsin afternoon lawmakers there passed a controversial budget repair bill that starts the rights of collective bargaining by public sector workers the vote task fifty three to forty two some calling it yet another surprise vote the labor war in wisconsin and the tension there now heating up and plans for a general strike are now in the works or italy's being talked about earlier i spoke with robert craig who is the executive director of citizen action of wisconsin about what

together members of the american legion, the american legion maxillary in the sense that the american legion makeup the entire american legion family. we all place high importance on preserving our american traditions embodies in improving the quality of life for a nation children, caring for veterans and families and perhaps most importantly, teaching the fundamentals of good citizenship but the past national commanders of the sons of the american legion please rise and be recognized to this time? [applause] >> thank you, gentlemen. please welcome the national commander of the sons of the american legion and the great state of texas, david duke. [applause] >> morning. thank you. good morning, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests. first of may 2 thank you for the opportunity to bring greetings from the sons of american legion. we have a priority list and yes every issue is very important. it has to be addressed as though. call me greedy, call me selfish. with all the great things that have happened to me this year, from being a leg did to this great office in the lock he to bein

like al hakim who are recruiting other americans to kill americans is a new phenomenon that didn't happen necessarily right after nine eleven so this is a brand new threat that america is facing we're trying to deal with it in a way that's empowering mostly i mean congressman king was bringing together people there was there the sheriff talking about what he's done why wouldn't muslims want these stories from people instead of groups that have really bad records when it comes i mean when the big islamic groups here in the united states just have horrible records with agents near a seal empowered as a muslim by these hearings you know i don't know and the reason i just there was not to attack this person on respect that the reason i brought him up is you already you think the first thing you did was that the reason they realized i'm blowing him up is because he runs a nonprofit sort of designed to say that muslims aren't cooperating with police whereas we all are i mean i i work with the department of homeland security for two years doing role playing helping train people to catch terroris

days, to chase american dream. they don't have a voice. we have been kidnapped. so our children, we have been kidnapped by leadership that we have never seen. >> mr. bihi,f you can tryo finish in 30, 40 second >> i will finish that. i want to conclude for two and a half years they have not done anything else. the somali community wants to be heard and i thank you, mr. king, congressman king, and other members of the committee for getting me here, for panelists like him, and like me. my community wants to be heard. i would ask you to look and open investigations as to what is happening in my community. we are isolated by islamic organizations and leaders who support them. talk to the common chain, muhammad industry of close to 100,000 members of my community. i want to tell you, 85% of our vulnerable youth do not have viable employment. they are not engaged in constructive programs. and if we stand and speak up for them, we are labeled and hurt instead of being supported. we need your support, we need a voice to spe

was like a holy cow for the american administration is they would like to that family to continue the new bad that you know of a legion of human rights that bad because of freedoms there so that american old was actually grooming as i'll be royals to last and then have a listen to their grievances of the saudi people and the problem is not that actually among the shia in the eastern province that the problem is among the young saudis there are fifty two percent of the saudi population under the age of twenty five so those people really do keep it all one great deal of them where you can in the west and they can see that unemployment is more than twenty percent in one of the wealthiest country in the middle east so twenty percent there pop where you know unemployment this is it's including women because women are not allowed to work and old jobs just very selective sic there's over of that society so i believe this is the lead. very many people are really good i'm playing there and they want changes to be placed i mean political team is that government that i mean the king of saudi ara

in american history as in american life, black americans are invisible presence. did you hear what i just said? you got to just listen to that a little bit because it's got to sink in a little bit. they are not seen not because of their absence but because of the presence of a myth that prepares and requires their absence. did you hear what i just said? they are not seen not because of their absence but because of the presence of a myth that prepares and requires their absence. the myth of absence which expresses this idea and intention operates not by misinterpretation and slander but by silence and exclusion. by simply not mentioning certain realities and by removing black actors from scenes in which they played supporting roles, the manipulation of the myth changes the color of the past and controls the perception and acts in the present and it's no accident that the dominant images of popular history are white. do you follow me? if you think about the myth of absence, if you look in all, every aspect of history, or even if you go to a place that you see nobody

grade which american. the new wave of settlers who moved to alaska during the last decades came from siberia twentieth century russian destinations changed in comparison with the eighteenth century the majority preferred alaska's largest city anchorage rather than kodiak island or the can i pin insula out of the cities three hundred thousand strong population five thousand are migrants from russia. this fun group is rehearsing in a garage situated in an. anchorages suburb. is the youngest of the band everybody calls him. his perfect english hides his true origin he was born in the siberian town of . children of the russians who came here in one thousand eight hundred nine or the early one nine hundred ninety s. the girls are about twenty years old now just some of this russian generation has grown up in alaska they speak very good english and understand spoken russian it is indeed a new generation of music when you might. one of the songs of the greenberg group says there's a place where everybody is going

territory though some americans still don't know about. the silastic the idea about that stuff like nothing i don't know anything about the alaska cold. it was cold a box of ice a polar bear garden and one russia but in the language of the indigenous peoples the word alaska means the great land. concern is steering his boat out of the narrow bay of kodiak island his ancestors have lived here since time immemorial. over the thousands of years they to solve this seascape each time they put out to sea to hunt. but they use their canoes with a couple of paddles instead of comfortable motor boats with powerful engines in the past yes it was very very difficult to hunt as an individual you need to group in order to. in order to actually capture for example you look at the sea lines over here in order for you to hunt one of those you need several people. on a summer day and seventeen forty one scores of natives of the land set out on a hunting expedition internet they spotted odd looking ships on the horizon. those big sail boats belonged to an e

american independence. it talks about the -- the first chapter gives the background to the document itself -- >> host: to the declaration of independence. >> guest: right. and how people, you know, the chronology of it. it also, the second chapter looks at some of the local documents. i mean, what was the documentary history of it? the great discovery that's in the book, probably the greatest contribution to scholarly knowledge of the topic was my discovery of all these local documents that towns wrote, what they thought about independence. massachusetts is probably the most dramatic because the end of may 1776 the legislature asked the towns to debate the following proposition: should the congress decide for the safety of the united colonies to declare their independence of britain? would you, the inhabitants of the towns, be willing to support that decision with your lyes and for-- lives and fortunes? the that isn't just a graceful way of putting it. it u it -- everybody understood that the punishment for

congressman peter king spent years building bridges with american voters. supporters who today remain shocked that kenya labeled their mosque a hotbed for extremism that should be put under surveillance to have happened and how good or bad things also and we have been to his office many times what about if we needed a bit. how people ahmed is chairman of the long island center that sits just outside the boundaries of king's third congressional district amid fears the man he once fundraise for make currently be the strongest force fueling the flames of islamophobia in america safety and security of my community is my biggest concern and trying to create trouble with that is. why i would be doing these things during his early days as congressman king was often seen at the islamic center on long island giving lectures holding book signings even serving as the main guest of honor when the fair officially open officials say since september eleventh two thousand and one the u.s. representative has not stepped one foot inside this building the islamic center unani

he is the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history and i would like to congratulate asian-american deal of -- du 0o that we have -- i would like to congratulate the asian-american duo that we have. ed lee was confirmed by the board of supervisors. in that role, he has spearheaded government efficiency measures and reforms that reduce the size and cost of government. he has supported the infrastructure for green city government. the first began working for the city and county of san francisco in 1989 as the investigator for the city's first whistle-blower ordinance. after that, he served in several positions including the executor of the director of human rights, the director of city purchasing, and director of the department of public works. prior to being appointed to the city administrator in 2005. at this time, we will show a short video clips and then we will introduce the mayor. >> it is my