she shows them a dvd from rwanda. >> the messages have encouraged me. i'm now determined to fight on. >> even in a difficult situation i will always be ther for them. i will be there as a family member. i hope they will understand that. >> her sad experience has taught her a lot. she's now determined to support disaster survivors in japan that need help in a time of need. she found a new mission. >> mary luis has helped a lot of people in fukushima. we asked our reporter what drives her to help out. >> her brother went missing in the genocide. she says she understands japanese feelings. it was so moving to see evacuees respond to her. she said rue wand ands cannot afford to give financial support, but wants them to know they share their pains. some killed by the tsunamis seven years ago are returning after japan helped them rebuild. actually, i was in cairo on a business trip at the time of march disaster. many people there gave me words of encouragement. some donated money, even though -- i took expression of gratitude for japan's long running assistan

she shows them a dvd from rwanda. >> the messages have encouraged me. i'm now determined to fight on. >> even in a difficult situation i will always be there for them. i will be there as a family member. i hope they will understand that. >> her sad experience has taught her a lot. she's now determined to support disaster survivors in japan that need help in a time of need. she found a new mission. >> mary luis has helped a lot of people in fukushima. we asked our reporter what drives her to help out. >> her brother went missing in the genocide. she says she understands japanese feelings. it was so moving to see evacuees respond to her. she said rue wand ands cannot afford to give financial support, but wants them to know they share their pains. some killed by the tsunamis seven years ago are returning after japan helped them rebuild. actually, i was in cairo on a business trip at the time of march disaster. many people there gave me words of encouragement. some donated money, even though -- i took expression of gratitude for japan's long running assista

sipping it takes your heart to rwanda. it's a moment you no longer feel homesick. >> mary louise was a school teacher in 1993. she visited fukushima to study at a vocational school. she returned to rwanda after ten months. but soon after, the country descended into genocide. mary louise narrowly escaped death and ended up in a refugee camp. people in fukushima found out about her plight and helped her move to japan. mary louise and her family settled down in fukushima. they have been living there for 17 years now. >> translator: i would probably not be alive today if i had not had the chance to stay in japan. before the civil war in rwanda. japanese people have brought hope and dreams back to me. they saved my life. >> reporter: she wanted to do something in return. on september 11th, just six months after the march disaster, she was back in rwanda. she organized an event in support of the quake and tsunami victims in japan. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: after returning to fukushima, mary louise visited a couple living about 20 kil

gabe was on the way to rwanda when he heard he had won. he spent 12 days with the school project helping to bring supplies and teaching lessons in the schools in the village. >> in rwanda these people lived through atrocities with having a million people murdered in the genocide since 1994. they are real people just like us. >> gabe hopes to inspire other young people to get involved in a cause. >> if there is a kid out there, who wants to help but doesn't know if he should and he might get made fun of. make sure you follow what you think is right. >> so impressive. we salute 16 year old gabe ferret for all of his hard work to help the victims of genocide around the world. that is all for this edition of abc 7 i am cheryl jennings, thank you for joining us, we'll see you next time. >> at 5:00, some choosing to go others vowing to say. another warning to the "occupy" oakland encampment. >> "occupy" protesters put on notice to leave in portland, philadelphia, and other cities. >> alan: how pennsylvania lawmakers want to break the silence in

so when i saw what happened in rwanda are i was so shocked so surprised i woke up my calling the world now but my colleagues were there you know trying to treat people in the midst of the genocide now let's hope and i do think the world is changing and i think maybe what is changing is you and mean maybe not as a journalist and me being interviewed many people outside looking at us they have no bubble phone there is internet i think what we seen in the middle east for example the vastness with which image goals fly and influence people maybe maybe dest what would make a difference and it puts so much pressure on all of us to go faster and to intervene that we won't see randa on your it's interesting that you mention the exchange of images will the public display our detainees and mortal remains that was committed by the new government. in different countries in libya for example would it triggered a great deal of reaction and debate so what does the red cross think about these issues in general what we say is it's very it's very basic we like sometimes to come back to basic you know in

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desolate in rwanda where was working with people in 1995 who had survived the genocide. i was working with children, many of whom had been separated from their parents. i saw it in bolivia when i was working with children on the street. as many of you know, there are hundreds of children who live in places like bolivia to wake up every day and spend their days begging, selling gum and cigarettes, some of them like this groan spend their days shining shoes. i saw this in cambodia or was working with people who had lost limbs to land mines. i was working with kids, some of them young kids who have lost limbs to land mines whose families lived on less than $1 a day. kids who were survivors of polio when they were fitted with prosthetics literally had to learn how to walk again. what i saw in all of these situations was how important it was, how essential it was for people who were living through tragedies and facing difficulties to have a sense of purpose and now lives in the sense that there were being called to be of service to something larger than themselves the questio

. >> reporter: china, italy and rwanda have banned or severely limited plastic bags. in the u.s., dozens of cities and some states have tried to curb their use. you authored a bill that would have banned plastic bags across the state of california. >> plastic bags and paper bags. >> reporter: who was the biggest opponent of your bill? >> the american chemistry council, for sure. they came here to sacramento and hired lobbyist after lobbyist after lobbyist. they had television ads. >> a $19 billion deficit. what are some sacramento politicians focused on? grocery bags. >> plastic bags -- >> reporter: steve russell is a vice president of the american chemistry council. a lobbying firm representing makers of plastic bags. >> we spent almost a million dollars, most of that costs of television advertising, and that was necessary because citizens weren't being given access to complete information that was accurate and fair. >> reporter: russell says plastic bags have gotten a bad rap. he told us a local study found that 3% of plastic bags in california are recycled. you loo

some of the worst in rwanda in my opinion. >> okay, sir? just wait for the mic and we have about five minutes left of the program so we'll take this question and one more. >> there are a couple questions. i didn't hear everything you said. i guess you were saying sharpton has impacted things negatively. it seems to know one of the things that i was hearing about. the other is to get people -- elections to go in that direction next year. what about pac so all this tea party doesn't have all the company. and i'm involved in the n.o.w. the national organization of women and other activists group. what can we do to get some of the more positive attention that will get the democrats stronger and re-elected like the way the congress was up to last year? >> what can we do? >> how we're going about it. >> i'm a disciple of martin luther king and i think a nonviolent direction action would be very useful, and it should be united and try in new york to set a precedent and bring the progressive community together, progressive white community together

situation around well if it's true do you think that we can see something similar to what happened in rwanda that in the twenty first century were the personal community can stop things like that does have the leverage to stop. i'm shared you know on one side on my side with a never ever again but i thought before ninety four but we would never seen what we saw in rhonda's so when i saw what happened in london. i was so shocked so surprised i would quit my calling the world now with my colleagues where they're trying to treat people in the midst of the genocide now let's hope and i do think the world is changing and i think maybe what is changing is you and maybe not as journalists and media being interviewed really people outside looking at us they have not go by phone there is internet i think what we see in the middle east for example the the fastness with which image boards fly and influence people maybe need the best of what would make a difference and put so much pressure on all of us to go faster and to intervene that we won't see you wonder and it's interesting that you mentioned the

. >> reporter: china, italy and rwanda have banned or severely limited plastic bags. in the u.s., dozens of cities and some states have tried to curb their use. you authored a bill that would have banned plastic bags across the state of california. >> plastic bags and paper bags. >> reporter: who was the biggest opponent of your bill? >> the american chemistry council, for sure. they came here to sacramento and hired lobbyist and lobbyist after lobbyist. they had television ads. >> a $19 billion deficit. what are some sacramento politicians focused on? grocery bags. >> plastic bags -- >> reporter: steve russell is a vice president of the american chemistry council. a lobbying firm representing makers of plastic bags. >> we spent almost a million dollars, most of that costs of television advertising, and that was necessary because citizens weren't being given access to complete information that was accurate and fair. >> reporter: russell says plastic bags have gotten a bad rap. he told us a local study found that 3% of plastic bags in california are recycled. you look

. >> reporter: china, italy and rwanda have banned or severely limited plastic bags. in the u.s., dozens of cities and some states have tried to curb their use. you authored a bill that would have banned plastic bags across the state of california. >> plastic bags and paper bags. >> reporter: who was the biggest opponent of your bill? >> the american chemistry council, for sure. they came here to sacramento and hired lobbyist after lobbyist after lobbyist. they had television ads. >> a $19 billion deficit. what are some sacramento politicians focused on? grocery bags. >> plastic bags -- >> reporter: steve russell is a vice president of the american chemistry council. a lobbying firm representing makers of plastic bags. >> we spent almost a million dollars, most of that costs of television advertising, and that was necessary because citizens weren't being given access to complete information that was accurate and fair. >> reporter: russell says plastic bags have gotten a bad rap. he told us a local study found that 3% of plastic bags in california are recycled. you loo

he said that clinton was right about rwanda, israel. east timor, which i don't know if he knew anything about, didn't matter. i think president clinton got it right. if herman cain had said i agree with president obama, let's talk about my 9-9-9 plan, it would have been much better. >> ari, you agree with that? >> what i agree is it's very hard to run for the presidency and make it your first time you hold elective office. i said this about herman cain for a while. he's an exciting outsider but he needed to have more strong credentials by having run and won. and it would give him a different approach about how he gets ready for substantive issues. that's really the problem here, anderson. >> take a look at what this new cnn poll found. almost half the country doesn't think he should even be in the race at all, even among republican, almost a third say it's time for him to go. i mean, is this the tip of the iceberg, is this a downward trend now? >> well, downward trend, yes, herman cain has been on a downward trend since the allegations

i wanted to talk about rwanda, how it's a role model and what it can teach us following the 1994 genocide. i want talk about the role of the haitian diaspora. about the need to decentralize haiti. i want to talk about deforestation. i want to talk about the plight of women in haiti which is an amazing thing. there i was when katie couric interviewed -- this was back in april of 2010 a woman who had been raped and we know in the big camps and all around there, there is that problem. but since there's only 2 minutes left -- and then i loved the end where you're imagining all of the different scenarios to reconstruction. if you were king of the jungle, what it would look like so you're going to have to read the book but since we only have 2 minutes i thought the most delicious part of the book, although your parts were very tasty but for me the most delicious part was the woman who took the histories from the -- from the haitians and i want you to talk about it and what the haitians themselves are saying. because those are the people as you pointed out so beautifully who weren't at the table

samantha power, the three people in foreign policy said, no, we are not going to stand by for another rwanda. we're not going to let another african government just come in and kill everybody because they feel like it. that was a gut reaction. it seemed to me that mr. cain did not have a gut reaction as to whether we should have gone in. and that is a problem. you should have a reaction. either stay out because you're principled and you're isolationism, or, damn it, american people have to take responsibility as human beings, occasionally. >> well, right. and his reaction was that he, ultimately, wound up agreeing. and as the clip closes, he says, well, maybe president obama did everything right in the first place. the instinct is to oppose obama, no matter what he has done. and i think that's true across the board among the republicans. the problem is, there are many cogent critiques to be made. the problem is that he didn't settle on one of those, which would indicate that he didn't have one in his head in the first place. >> yesterday, cain's campaign try to the explain the embarrassing e

he said that clinton was right with rwanda and east timor, which i don't know if he knew anything about, didn't matter. now let me talk about my 9-9-9 plan, it would have been much better. >> ari, you agree with that? >> what i agree is it's very hard to run for the presidency and make it your first time you hold elective office. i said this about herman cain for a while. he's an exciting outsider but he needed to have more strong credentials by having run and won. and it would give him a different approach about how he gets ready for substantive issues. that's really the problem here, anderson. >> take a look at what this new cnn poll found. almost half the country doesn't think he should even be in the race at all, even among republican, almost a third say it's time for him to go. i mean, is this the tip of the iceberg, is this a downward trend now? >> well, downward trend, yes, herman cain has been on a downward trend since the allegations broke against him and he doesn't have a strong enough wall beneath him to propel him forward in case anything like this broke in the public eye. i

., the three people in foreign policy community said, no, we are not going to stand by for another rwanda. we're not going to let another african government just come in and kill everybody because they feel like it. that was a gut reaction. it seems to me that mr. cain did not have a gut reaction as to whether we should have gone in. and that is a problem. you should have a reaction. either stay out because you're principled and you're isolationism, or, damn it, american people have to take responsibility as human beings, occasionally. >> well, right. and his reaction was that he, ultimately, wound up agreeing. and as the clip closes, he says, well, maybe president obama did everything right in the first place. the instinct is to oppose obama, no matter what he has done. and i think that's true across the board among the republicans. the problem is, there are many cogent critiques to be made. the problem is that he didn't settle on one of those, which would indicate that he didn't have one in his head in the first place. >> yesterday, cain's campaign tried to explain the embarrassing epis

rwanda, darfur, we didn't know. we know. we have been told. we had been warned. [applause] the conscience of, we know we are on notice. we must act now to protect these 3400 vulnerable individuals. if we fail to do so, the blood of innocents will be on our collective hands and there are specific life-saving steps our government can take immediately. you've heard some of them from our distinguished speakers. we should appoint a special envoy to lead the efforts to the peace resolve to matter. we should call publicly on the iraqi government to remove the december 31st deadline coming and we should do that before maliki comes to the united states. we should take the matter to the u.n. security council for binding decision to prevent a human catastrophe coming and we should do it immediately the state department should act immediately to eliminate this horrible excuse that's been used by the iraqi regime, buy removing the mek from its list of the foreign terrorist organizations, and the united states, we, with our beautiful statue of liberty standing in the harbor, t

rwanda, darfur, we didn't know. we know. we have been told. we had been warned. [applause] the conscience of, we know we are on notice. we must act now to protect these 3400 vulnerable individuals. if we fail to do so, the blood of innocents will be on our collective hands and there are specific life-saving steps our government can take immediately. you've heard some of them from our distinguished speakers. we should appoint a special envoy to lead the efforts to the peace resolve to matter. we should call publicly on the iraqi government to remove the december 31st deadline coming and we should do that before maliki comes to the united states. we should take the matter to the u.n. security council for binding decision to prevent a human catastrophe coming and we should do it immediately the state department should act immediately to eliminate this horrible excuse that's been used by the iraqi regime, buy removing the mek from its list of the foreign terrorist organizations, and the united states, we, with our beautiful statue of liberty standing in the harbor, t

rwanda, darfur, we didn't know. we know. we have been told. we had been warned. [applause] the conscience of, we know we are on notice. we must act now to protect these 3400 vulnerable individuals. if we fail to do so, the blood of innocents will be on our collective hands and there are specific life-saving steps our government can take immediately. you've heard some of them from our distinguished speakers. we should appoint a special envoy to lead the efforts to the peace resolve to matter. we should call publicly on the iraqi government to remove the december 31st deadline coming and we should do that before maliki comes to the united states. we should take the matter to the u.n. security council for binding decision to prevent a human catastrophe coming and we should do it immediately the state department should act immediately to eliminate this horrible excuse that's been used by the iraqi regime, buy removing the mek from its list of the foreign terrorist organizations, and the united states, we, with our beautiful statue of liberty standing in the harbor, t

rwanda darfur, we didn't know. we know. [applause] we have control. we have been warned. [applause] the world -- the conscience of the world has been pricked. we know we are on notice. we must act now to protect these 3400 vulnerable individuals. if we fail to do so, the blood of innocents will be on our collective hands. and there is specific lifesaving steps our government can take immediately. you've heard some of them from our distinguished speakers. we should appoint a special envoy to lead the efforts to peacefully resolve this matter. we should call publicly on the iraqi government to remove the december 31 deadline, and we should do that before maliki comes to united states. we should take the matter to the u.n. security council for buying the decision to prevent the human catastrophe, and we should do it immediately. the state department should act immediately to eliminate this horrible excuse that's being used by the iraqi regime, by removing mek from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. and the united states, we -- [applause] -- with our beautiful statu

rwanda still insisting its nuclear program is for energy production. now reports that israel was considering a preemptive military strike against iran's atomic facility. reena ninan is live in jerusalem with more. >> reporter: the israel write government took their time in giving a response to this report. they believe for years they have been trying to tell the interest national community iran does have a nuclear weapons program and they are working towards a bomb. and this is the official response that came out a short while ago. they said by the prime minister's office, the international community must bring by the cress -- the says sayings of iran's nuclear weapons. israel said they won't launch a unilateral strike. they are trying get crippling sanctions against iran. but china and russia do a lot of business with iran and they don't want to see sanctions put in place. israeli diplomats say they will try to get the international community to move forward on these sanctions. there would have to be a vote of the u.n. security council. the problem is

trailed such job creators as macedonia, georgia, rwanda, belarus, saudi arabia, armenia and puerto rico which are ranked number six through number 12. big companies aren't usually founded as multinational corporations. most begin as small businesses and it's small businesses which employ more than half the domestic nongovernment work force that generates the bulk of new employment opportunities. our own research, from this article, our own research shows that small businesses create more than 80% of the new jobs in this country. this isn't some fantasy we've cooked up. it's been confirmed in "the new york times" by reporter steve larrer who wrote in september -- quote -- "it's an irrefutable conclusion that small businesses are this country's jobs creators. two-thirds of net new jobs are created by companies with fewer than 500 employees which is the definition of a small business. but job creation is more than a function of size. lorrer creates a bureau of economic research report that states that the age of business is the biggest factor. startup, an economist at the university of mar

they're reporting women who are doing kind of medical care in rwanda and are, you know, on capitol hill. so, i think that "ms." really changed the content, correct me if i'm wrong, for other women's magazines. and now, women reporters can get as serious a story done as any man can. >> are you happy with -- do you see letty when you go to the newsstand? >> well, you see it on the covers of traditional women's magazines. you'll see rape as a cover story. you would never see the word rape on the inside of a women's magazine back then. you never saw, you know, insurance discrimination, you never saw sexual harassment, you never saw critiques of political campaigns based on sexism. you know, why do we have to care about her legs and we don't have to care about his ridiculous nose? >> was there sexism in the 2008 campaign against hillary? >> a lot. >> amen. amen, sister. and i'm not talking about a nun. no, that was something that was really telling for all of us around this table, how everybody was focused on an african-american breaking a racial barrier, but by the end of that campaign, you

the president in tanzania, and the president in rwanda, and president kabila in congo. they say yeah, it would serve better to have that command located somewhere in africa but we have the political problem with the people who would think that's a move back toward colonialism. so it's a complicated problem. however i do believe that all of the generals pretty much feel that africon should stay where it is, at least stuttgart is in the same time zone, easier to transport equipment and people back and forth so i would oppose any amendments changing that situation. with that i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: llinois. mr. kirk: i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. mr. kirk: i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kirk: and unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kirk: mr. president, last week we celebra

overseas, working in places lik bosnia with refugee children, cambodia with kids who lost land mines or rwanda with kids to have been separated from their parents. let's talk about what it's like going through navy s.e.a.l.s training and combat deployment overseas on the front lines of places like iraq and afghanistan and the right about the work we do today on the frontlines your home working with wounded and disabled veterans to help them to find a way to win this battle on their front lines so that they can come back and continue to serve as citizen leaders again. and what i have learned in all of the work is that we all have a front line in our lives. we all have a place in our life where our hopes for the future and also the people that we love come right up against the reality that the world presents to us. and i believe that in order for us to be successful on those front lines it takes a combination of courage and compassion. at think it takes a combination of the heart in the fifth to be successful on the frontlines. i am really excited to be here with all of you today because one of