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y are suppose remember the cold war and what exactly are we supposed to remember? >> whats our time frame? -- the memorial for the cold war i found almost two dozen but the preliminary question is what are we supposed to remember about the cold war and there is kind of an official story the democrats and republicans have agreed on and that is the cold war was a good for her like world war to a battle between freedom and totalitarianism. this is more a republican idea van dak had but de...

schickel for "time" magazine and more books than everyone else put together. a couple of which well talk about today. one is guilty of tucson, his biography, which was critically acclaimed and armies of my hiscock conversation with scorsese, which is interviews with martin scorsese over several years than all of his great films. but our topic is the cold war hollywood and beyond. at the end what we do in the q&a who want to venture off, thats fine, too. so lets get started. their book ...

like minds, and educators to all agree that the state of california needs to take a stand against the federal government, because the federal government is what i want to talk about. before i came in here, i read about mr. gary webb, who came up dead in 2004 after he wrote the article and the book, the dark alliance. if we are going to put anything in place, you are going to have to go against the federal government. at one point they were talking about the war on homelessness, the war...

i have recommendations. one of the recommendations is we need a coalition of counties in california. we need a coalition of cities and politicians and people of like minds, and educators to all agree that the state of california needs to take a stand against the federal government, because the federal government is what i want to talk about. before i came in here, i read about mr. gary webb, who came up dead in 2004 after he wrote the article and the book, the dark alliance. if we are ...

barrier to our human rights. were talking about how to bring this hearing and the human rights framework, i went back and look at the the united nations declaration of human rights. article 25 was about the right to help and it says that everyone has a help to a standard of living adequate to the health and well-being of himself and his family including medical care and necessary social services and the right to security in the event of sickness or disability. that is the right to huma...

>> commissioners, first, i would like to thank you for calling this an important hearing on the war on drugs. san francisco will have to cause a war on the government to get justice. i have recommendations. one of the recommendations is we need a coalition of counties in california. we need a coalition of cities and politicians and people of like minds, and educators to all agree that the state of california needs to take a stand against the federal government, because the federal gove...

devastating, so today i am doing things to better my future. next month i am going to try to get a certificate of rehabilitation. i am in america, and this is the land of opportunity. people from other countries come here, and they get a chance to make their lives and right, and i want the chance to make my life right. from the mistakes i made in the past. >> i am going to call the next five. [list of names] >> commissioners, first, i would like to thank you for calling this an importa...

people from other countries come here, and they get a chance to make their lives and right, and i want the chance to make my life right. from the mistakes i made in the past. >> i am going to call the next five. [list of names] >> commissioners, first, i would like to thank you for calling this an important hearing on the war on drugs. san francisco will have to cause a war on the government to get justice. i have recommendations. one of the recommendations is we need a coalition of co...

room. . fast forward 10 years, thanks to peer groups like the speed project, things like that. i realized what was going on. i had a real help emergency, which is something that happened to me. something in my i was going on. i went, there is something in my eye. then, they could tell, they looked at me like it, ok. i sat there for hours and hours. i left, fine. there was something in the emergency room, i did not take it personally. sunday night, i was riding my bicycle. suddenly, i h...

are talking about the impact of the strategies that have been called the war on drugs. we are going to move to public comments o. >> the impact has affected not just individuals but a community of. our youth are losing their parents. we are getting ready to open it up to public comment. we will begin the process. we are hoping as people come forward to speak we are not only hearing about the issue of the war on drugs, but if you have strategies and effective solutions to that you will ...