Danny Kennedy

Solar Power

open source energy- it's energy abundance in our lifetime

wealth and power gets distributed to society

Kennedy

Tech is good, money is flowing, limiting part is...

Told Obama to put solar panels on the white house- hasn't happened yet, but Obama thought it was a good idea

Entrepreneurs -> need more of them (solar entrepreneurs)

Spinegro- The white house avoiding talking about solar power

ALL Energy comes from the...

Solar cells are going to get very cheap and lead to...

Storing 1% of surface area can...

SUN

energy abundance

power LA at night

Kennedy Solar power continued

49% of the water taken up by people in the US is to generate electricity and 42% used for agriculture

Electricity is largest use for water

To all other people supporting other forms of energy, it all comes from the sun

Brownian motion most efficient

Energy can lead to political and economic change-> more job density

very high employment- residential solar

farmers will lose jobs

2% of Australia is Solar

Exponential Growth

The Deparment uses solar to...

Army men are running around with

prevent burning (?)

technology

IMPORTANT

Best route for China sport of China exports

$1.25 per kilowatt/hr -> China needs to do things cleanly

and making photovoltaics

he believes that electric cars will eventually take over

Min Dang- Human Trafficking

She holds an executive position at "Don't sell bodies"

She went through Human Trafficking

# is 5 used to be 8

There is an extensive case of it in Berkeley,

Reddy- case trafficking in India, hard to see

She says that it's way worse than old slavery because more poeple are enslaved

female victims are less than 25 years old , babies, South Asian

Perpetraitors= parents, boyfriends, orphans (?), upper class

she was sold in the US, lived in the projects

There is no typical victim; it's not only girls

The Trafficing Victims Act= who did what to who by what means

The Difference between Slavery and Trafficking

You cannot consent to exploitation. You have to prove that the victim didn't consent

Is sex trafficking the same as prostitution?

Ex= lgbt kicked out of home, has to resort to survival sex, picked up by pimps -> human trafficking

Trafficking comes in all different forms rather than just slavery in the past

When she was 10, got taken to a Vietnamese brothel

raped in exchange for money

sexually abused yb father = incest = way to terrorize child into trafficking

sold by both her mother and her father

people get trickeg into oming to the US and get trafficked

They are given a passport and have a debt to repay to the person who let them come and are threatened with death if they don't comply

It causes trauma b/c sense of humanity gets destroyed

sex is the weapon, as is beating

You must disregard human feelings/ humanity to see people as property

she used to be afraid to leave home

Her relationship with human-kind is damaged

She used to carry shoeboxes and put things in them like report cards and medals, she left her parents, and also left her boxes behind. Her therapist told her that she already had all of those things inside of her

Trafficking made her think that she was not a complex human being

stress on body from healing and memories coming up

repression- she keeps remembering them

IMP= US says that 24 million are brought into the US

Question about how many slavers there are

She says it's the amount + 1 because she wan't in low-income poor school-work/student group

Social Welfare- She helps people heal, identifies as a survivor of child abuse

Perpretators pick up from outside of foster homes

people don't really believe that parents would be willing to hurt their children

Was involved with: not for sale at Berkeley, human trafficking hotline

State Harbor Laws= ppl under 18 not seen as criminals but rather as victims

her parents weren't prosecuted, diff procedures for diff cases, she had teachers who were nice to her and asker her what was going on, but she couldn't tell them b/c threatened by her parents

Min Dang's parents trained her about what responses to give to people

Estimated several hundreds of thousands were made off her abuse

went from projects to buying a home + cars + paying for education

thinks that many victims are missing out on education, some are passive

aren't able to focus on school, parents told her she had to do well and get abused until graduating college when she could earn money

her brother faced it too, waking up at 5:30-6am since she was 6

worked at mother's nail shop

always tried to be busy to get mind off things

get raped by father, taken to brothel, then sleep at 1 and repeat

junior in college when she started leaving parents and went to therapy a lot

she always knew it was wrong

oct 2004- her father told her he had liver cancer -> she broke ties with them

ppl noticed she wasn't ok when she didn't want to play or go home

she thought she couldn't live with herself had she not stood up for herself

parent have no remorse

wanted to go to Cornell, but they wanted to find homes near where she went to college

she's not yet licensed to become a therapist

According to CBC report in the year 2000, there were 28,663 firearm related deaths

Sposato believes that we do have a problem

Sposato continued

IMPORTANT

Military combat in Iraq and Afghanistan near La Fayette

If you have a gun in your house, it is 3 times more likely for a homocide to occur

History and King George -> can't remember what exactly he said about that

Total Cost= 100 Trillion a year

80% is drawn to tax payers

25% of parents keep guns loaded, not locked

If having guns made us safer, then the United States would be the safest country in the World

Some Documentaries are: Living for 32-Virginia Tech gun shooting in 2007 where 32 were killed and Bowling for Coloumbine- Coloumbine high school massacre in 1999 movie

The gun industry is a billion dollar industry

National Rifle Association is a lobby group for the gun industry

banning of top-killer bullets, putting togg(handwrigint)) in gun powder, background checks, wating periods, restructiolson concealed weapons, banning of mass destruction

Results: there are few laws to balance the gun industry at the federal level where it is needed most

there are marketing and sales practices that actually target criminals with ads such as: "finger print resistance finish" and "as tough as your toughest customer"

101 CA Street Shooting- His Wife was shot by a crazy guy in SF who shot as many people as he could

it was 7/1/93 when this occurred

He wanted to get a hand-written letter to Clinton with a baby on his back

Had Diane Finestein deliver the lettter to Clinton

Finestein invited him to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on Assualt weapons

His testimony at the hearing on Assualt weapons before Senate Judiciary committee was featured on CSPAN and 1st page news

He worked with the Brady Organization that's named after John Brady, the man who was permanently disabled after protecting Reagan from an assasination attempt.

IMPORTANT

Stood behind Clintion when he dedicated a law to Jody, Sposato's wife

stood behing Governor Davis

shared political system info action

IMP = thinks there is no way to ban guns, he keeps his guns locked up

says problem is that there is no background check

says that it's one bill in progress

Police reccommend a shot gun for personal use because there is less noise and bullets don't go far

he asks: "who needs 30-40 rounds of bullets?"

says Gun Traffickers are Criminals

Ammunition trails can trace you to criminals

mininum age, clip size, assualt weapons

* Brady Campaign, Brady Center, Law Center to prevent gun issues, snagunlaws.com

Daniel Robelo: Drug Policy Alliance

war on drugs has failed

failed to reduce drugs and saving people

preventable deaths

destructive black market, fueling crimes +

100 yrs ago: currently prohibited drugs ok, no labeling or controls for quality, harms like overdose + dependency occurred , use begins to decleine around turn of 20th centurny

Things changed : social movement against alcohol , social stigma of alcholism, presuaded people against certain ethnic groups associated with alcohol

local and state efforts to regulate or prohibit

Pure good and Drugs Act 1906 (FDA created product labeling), Harrison Narcotics Act

18th amendment becomes a law in 1920, bootlegging big business + corruption violence +battles over underground trade spills onto streets

secret driking establishments

harms increase- many consumers of home made

youth access- thousands more arrested

high cost

Al Capone benefited, supply reduction fails

Prohibition ended

Incremental Laws led to total prohibtion of other drugs

other drug laws inspired by ideology politics

Marijuana tax act of 1937

comprehensive drug abuse prevention and control act of 1970

there are federal drug schedules

Marijuana is schedule 1 even though not that bad

1971- Nixon declared drugs public enemy #1

began modern war on drugs

anti-drug abuse Act of 1986- mandatory minimum

sentencing for crack cocaine

5g of crack gives a sentence of 5 years

most crack users are white but blacks mostly arrested

Controlled substances act- incorporates club drugs into federal drug schedule

ppl use synthetic marijuana

Consequences of Drug Prohibition

black market, criminal syndicated empowered, corruption in countries (inc US), violence, turf wars b/t cartels + criminal gangs over underground industry

illegal drugs are widely available + consumed by many americans

youth have ready access due to lack of age control

effects of prohibition cont:

harms of drugs continue increasing

mass incarcertaion, mostly people of color, huge cost

US Leads world in Incarcertions- US represents < 5 % of total world population but nearly 25% of world's prison problem

how many blacks arrested out of 9?

1

Systemic Racism

AA comprise 13-14% of US pop

31% arrested for drug-related offences

nearly 50% incarcerated, racial discrimination at every stage of justice system

criminal records, create permament ban on social, economic, and political life

IMPORTANT:

Drug War is main driver of a "New Jim Crow"

Says creating permanent lower class, overwhelming ppl of color

Mexico Crisis + Central America- > 70,000 killed since 2006 in prohibition related violence including many innocent citizens

drug trafficking organizations directly challenge Mexican State + threaten democratic institutions

Merida institute- no accountability

decentralization leads to greater competition +moving to other areas

Ineffective US + Mexico Response focuses on supply

Merida Institute- roughly $2 billion without any accountability

Joaquin El Chapo Loera- Ceo of Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico

Escaped from prison in 2001- most wanted list

worth 1 Billion

replaced Pablo Ecsobar Gunea

Former CEO of Mendellin Cartel, 7th Ricjest in 1989

IMPORTANT: Balloon never pops, air moves elsewhere

supply reduction efforts have failed

1Solution= legalize marijuana, US cartels say 60% of cartels derive from marijuana, could reduce drug trafficking revenues by $2 billion

says marijuana safer than alcohol

Washington and Colorodo in 2012 legalized marijuana, almost 55% in those states voted in favor

elimination of criminal penalties, both states in process of establishing regulations on production + distrubition

Nearly 64% 2/3s of US pop opposes federal interference in Colorado _ WA -> let county try and decide what they want

Medical marijuana as regulation, medical cannabis dispenseries are responsible well-run businesses

they pay state + often federal taxes, many test product for contaminants, quality, active ingredients

age controls in real market

growing movement against drug prohbition

objectives of regulation= eliminate or reduce illegal drug market and related crime, control use of drugs

regulate marijuana

decriminilaze everything else

mdeicalization models (prescription heroin in Eur + Can) reduce harmd to userd, provude access to supply

Michael Santos

X billion a year comes from education

wants to fix the prison system

every individual is expected to display failure

x= 75

elites don't want others to gain education

socrates said he had to educate people

get educated, support network, contribute to society

$40,000 year less going to edu but instead going to prison

money should being going to health care and infastructure

invest in failure instead of success

wrote books

says lobbyists want money going to prisons

looks up to Nelson Mandela

doesn't like taking money from future and using it to cage people

David Craig- the president of Govern for CA and advisor to Schwartzeneggar

UC Board of Regents

joined Arnold in 2003

was a democrat because of civil rights

Kennedy largest tax cut to...

Joined Arnold in 2003

agrees with Arnold on a lot of things

Says that dems moved away from Craig

not favor of oportunity, rights to be educated

found that politics are...

stimulate economic growth

tribal, ppl moved Craig's office away from Arnlold becaue he's a dem

left office in 2010, success in envrionment, not in budget

works at Stanford

He's happy with the national level and less comfortable of fiscal

national level -$ cotizens mericare + social secutirt -very little goes to federal gov employees

most powerful lobbyists in state aer government employees , CA teachers Association, Prison association, NAte something, Oil Companies

IMPORTANT= Gov Brown announced balanced budget, last time happened was 2007, cash in  = cash out

revenues went up a lot, states boosted income tax, tate dpending down on UC + CSU, parks, fees being charged are up

State spending on 2 things really big= Medicaid 8 million ppl will grow + Patient protection ACT + Obamacare

Prison guard+ employee benefit up to 5 million

Debt is up 128 Billion

higher edu, dpa, courts, parks don't cut benefits because their employees control the legislatures

IMP: in 2011, they cut UC funds ant welfare 3 times...

he boosted spendings when Arnold in 07 -wants studetns to March

legislature + democrats voted to cut welfare and boost compensation (prion guards) more than the state spends on UC

2011 joined Govern for America

2009- Arnold voted for tax increase, 1 ligistation wanted top 2 primary 2/3rds vote to increase taxes

Craig supported Brian Johnson- ppl spent half a billion to beat him & people don't understand state assembly members and understand how gov't works

* Most Government employees like teachers are not overpaid, benefits must be cut most

He doesn't think it's right that only the rich/ well connected get a choice of private education

choice + competition = ppl should have a choice

competition saves money and lowers prices

Kinsey Koriake- psych + poli sci 2002

* aug 26 Ted Kennedy dies -> let's get health care reform for Kennedy

President said Kennedy's goal was to get health care reform passed

intention to get republicans to rally

* Obama's failure= don't try to get everyone to agree, just get through the bill and then focus on economy, don't focus on bipartisan

Nov 7, 09, US house of reps passes affordable care act

then realized that bi-partisan idea wouldn't work, then president realized that they wouldn't get anything

then senate passed bill

Jan 19, MA - lost supermsojrity

Obama asks Pelosi- what's Your suggestion?

Objectives of bill= 1 reduce costs for everyone

2. expand coverage to 50 + million people

only got expansive, didn't really reduce price

* Health care companies are all for profit

* didn't include a public option to compete with private companies

* cost 10-20% overhead as opposed to medicare 2%

* 61 % of bankruptcies are because of health care

doctors do unnecessary procedures because get money for xray, mri, cat scan fee for each test

American care act would have to lower costs somehow someday amend in 2015 maybe

* Medicare is not a perfect bill, amended bill 20 yrs later to improve it, thinks that amdnepemnts to bill is what'll have to be done b/c American care act of 2010 isn't really affordable

why no public option? ppl would think it's socialism

*Romney's plan didn't work b/c prices went up, 97% covered but at high price

*United health care actually cares about making ppl well

all other companies incl Kaiser only care about profit

Michael Santos Continued...

drugs aren't the same as killing people

his role models include Malcolm X who helped him learn the power of language

also looked up to a Nazi Death camp person named Victor Frankel who had to overcome Nazis

wrote to Mercer University

in Atlanta to try to get professor's help to enroll in classes -> qualified for pell grant and educated himself

wanted to go to law school, but wasn't allowed to go to an accredited program, Hofstra allowed him to do masters

warton in Prison dind't let him get pHd b/c didn't want Santos to be more educated than him

George Cole of UCONN visited Santos and told him to write a book to show students prisoner's perspective

wrote 2nd book about his brothers in prison who didn't meet the wisdom of Socrates

prison used to be called the department of correction

his books started being used in universities around the country

wife Carol waited 10 years for him

Santos Continued

1) express appreciation 2) break out

inspired by Gandhi

Corruption corporation of America

2.3 million are in prison

could justice be measured by time or efforts to be a good citizen?

Quora, San Quentein, w/Michael Tubbs

fbook instrumental in taking down terrorists, wants ppl to join him on twitter + social media to help other know about what goes on in prison

Michael Santos

arrested at age 23, trafficked cocaine from Miami to Seattle

arrested in 1987 at 23 years old in Miami after trafficking for 18 months

Harmeet Dhillon

elected vice chair of CA republican party

first woman elected to that position

founded own law school in Sf, went to Dartmouth

* it's a fundamental right to be involved with politics

from India, dad= doctor and he came to US to finish MEd School

grew up in North Carolina

*parents wanted to escape socialism in India b/c involved w/ Soviets during the cold war

*Dhillon picked republican party because she believes it's the party of freedom

says Rep party was in favor of integration in South, Mother was an enforcer of rules/ election monitor to help the uneducated vote + translated

dad was a doctor and there are lawsuits in mdeicine so she became a lawyer

skipped 2 years -> went to Dartmouth at 16

time was more liberal at Dmouth

involved with conservtive newspaper called Darthmouth Review becaame editor + chief senior year

Dhillon cont.

Some students attacked by a professor at Dartmouth prof of music.

maybe expulsion for minor offense

won lawsuit against darthmouth+ student readmitted

John Kemp...

gold standard + flat tax act rate

proponent + left journalism and went to University of Virginia Law school

became president of federalist society

involved with Bush + Cheney campaign in 2004

Dhillon cont.

Differnt counties have differnt representation

she ws senator Tomayano's opponent, rant for state senate in 2001

she was counuraged to run for vice president of state party

*she's responsible for voter registration, supporting central commands, spokesperson for Republican party

now 29.3% registration Republican

*independents increasing in CA

*raise money and identify candidates, focusing on poor areas, try to get data, get ppl running who look like you for more popularity

How to get involved with politics:

* every county has a central committee, tell them you're intrested in volunteering, one job was to register voters

party is looking at online voter registration

* it's your obligation as a citizen to vote

ppl moving away from political parties because they see how candidates act

Prop 14- top 2 vote getters face off, not just Dem vs Rep, can be 2 dems against each other

Dhillon cont

trying to appeal to Latinos

Tex Republicans targeted black + latino ppl to run + get more support + change rhetoric

* a Major opponent of immigrant reform is organized labor having them work for less

says candidates must appeal b/c they're the product

rep party becoming more libertarian

very organized like the bolsheviks

students will have to pay for their parent's spending

govt doesn't take care of you

Dhillon + Reps want to increase appeal to youth

running younger candidates

abortion issus is common- says ending beginning of life which happens at conception is bad

rep part viewed slavery as a human rights issue

prop 209- no affirmative action- says ppl shouldn't be put in quotas

prop 30- says public schools doing poorly, doesn't think money is solution

says CA teacher associaiton is at Fault, parents can't complain b/c no choice

involvement of parents is greatest factor in student success

Dhillon: how can rep party connect to poor + immigant?

*says immigrants work harder

* dems are poverty pimps, making ppl be reliant on gov't for health care, education

Rep party position on growth- pro growth, there is lack of housing in SF

development isn't being allowed in SF

high speed railway is good, but she doesn't like how gov't pays for it

Dhillon

*most things better run at local level & Bush didn't follow these principles

says > 1/2 of Californians don't pay taxes

her hero is Jack Kemp b/c flat tax = less opportunity to cheat, less work for accountants, more sensitive to how money gets spent

Charles Wiley- a formoer reporter who has been to many countries

govt reps don't really do anything to solve problems

keep talking about medical costs byt d nothing

*everyone isn't entitled to the same care

but everyone is entitled to the ebst emergency care

everybody having private rooms is expensive + time consuming -> was in the navy when treated by a nurse who went bed oto bed

says he doesn't need tv

Wiley on Education- > forget no child left behind because it results in the lowest possible schooling

says people not good at education should becoe technicians

*doesn't like how there is now 0 tolerance for guns

when it was a normal things to bring / like toys, no shooting happened

*there is no need for sex edu b/c you can learn it on the street

w/o it pregnancy rate was 2%, not with it, it's at 40-50%

*the problem with Education= moving away from education

college is where free speech goes to die -> he agrees says somebody is always offended by something

Wiley bings up the secual assault case in Ohio where 16 yo abused _ died and none of onlookers tried to save girl -> back then nobody would let a ppl go if guy sbused girl that time

*common sense for girl not to get drunk around men

dark side is new norm in society

says hooking up is runining good sex b.c taking romance + intimacy out of it, taking challenge out of the event

says old age will become a horror b/c more and more people will be lonely

*how will ppl handle lonliness

*the key to everything is to build character= pl who have real values, honor, truth noble,

better wise than clever

self respect + respect for others

*less and less nice ppl out there, and nice is what lasts longest in a relationship

*been to 100 countries good world, but you have to make the world better

*sex causes pregnancy to go up, before it was hard to get

says sex is private which makes it great

*bringing up sex publicly has caused the rate to increase

some think sex is ost important

*says he doen't know if any country is doing better job or better than US

says more sex better for ppl like him than before

problem is not that something is bad, it's that we're getting rid of good things ppl need to take care of themselves

Gavin Newsom- Lieutenant Governor

Elected in 2010

wrote a book out of frustration

talked about website called change.gov -> top priority of president in first 100 days of electoin

ppl voted to legalize marijuana -> Obama laughed, said he'd consider it, and took the website down for reconstruction

*Obama is now governs using a Top-down approach, not down up

Newsom asked Al Gore about how technology affects politics and was told that everything is changed by technology

education is going to get rapidly altered

teachers are now mentors instead of lecturers

says people are digital now

Tom Freeman- "The world is flat"

skype, twitter, fb, didn't exist in 2003

*hyper-connected world

*techonology democratizes voices

provides access to exclusive things ppl couldn't access before

Newsom says that government is like a vending machine; you pay $1 of taxes, get police, healthcare, don't like it? kick the machine. Don't like gov? protest

Steve Jobs- created the notion of apps/ platform

*think of government as a platform, does things with you, not to you

book "----ville how to take Townsale digitally"

-all town hall meetings are fraud

-book about tech + leadership

you don't need to be something to do something

Mandela, Gandhi, King at peak of influence had jail time, none of them had formal authority

After Mandela + Havel became presndents, lost some of their authority

Newsom says don't wait for the next Obama, just do it

Lincoln: "we are all born originals, but we die copies"

says that's true especially for politicians

Government "degeniuses" you gets in the way of becoming next Gandhi

*Persuasion industry of people -> trust politics? disgusting

*original voices trump organized $

* don't give in to those groups

*persuasion industry is bad

*wants hybrid learning system new mooks= online education experiences

Michelle Simon - Food Politics

Food industry lies

fear with prop 37, food industry threatens higher prices

*industry doesn't act in your best interest, must know who is saying something

* studies / research conducted by food companies is biased, don't really show data

*Front Groups= consumers + Freedom, Council, Alliance sound like good organizations, but they want to control public discourse with Public Relations

*Richmond Beverage Taxes-  community coalition against beverage taxes -> claming soda taxes would hurt businesses

Coke + Pepsi put small businesses, symphatetic ppl out in public to convince others

Michelle Simon

American Beverage Association: Coca-cola, Pepsi, represents Doda industry in DC that pay local Public Relations Groups

companies attach a name to a health group that already had credibility

industry have to tear down opposing ppl

*Prop 37 = labeling of genetically modified food-> $45 million raised to go against it -> regular people had 9 million

*How industry lies= higher costs, job loss, -ary state

Michelle Simon- how to fight back?

what you can do right now, tomorrow, and what we all must do

prepjundo- lies that become believed

descredit ppl and marginalize them

she urges ppl to question arguments given by a person in an industry

*She thinks the food movement must be more political because the food industry is always going to lie

prop 65- disclosure about chemicals

some lawsuits never come, written differently in prop 37

allow provide enforcement, corn helps keep food cheap b/c it's used to feed animals, food substitutes

* crop subsidies -> crop insurance, problems= none complained then just subsidies ex= laws

*almost 2/3rds taken over by food stamps

-imp to open discussion to other things

*90% of corn and soy in the US are genetically modified + canola oil doesn't exist in nature

*govt shut down unless budget bill passes, Montsanto got Biotech reider to add them , Monsanto tear constitution

*law said USDA allows planning to go forward

*wasn't until a group Democracy Now published the budget bill

Biotech Industry got it in slipped, some protesters try to stop it but failed, temp version 6 month period

*Genetically Modified Ogranisms labeling in 60 countries, but not in US b/c companies know ppl don't want to eat food w/chemicals