Panel: Same-Sex Marriage - State vs. Fed
Commonwealth Club Radio Program
Same-Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed Molly McKay, Media Director,
Marriage Equality USA Jennifer Morse, President and Founder, Ruth
Institute at the National Organization for Marriage Therese
Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco; Attorney for
the plaintiffs in current court case challenging Prop. 8 Kevin
Snider, Chief Counsel, Pacific Justice Institute Doug Sovern,
Broadcast Journalist, ...
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Same-Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed Molly McKay, Media Director,
Marriage Equality USA Jennifer Morse, President and Founder, Ruth
Institute at the National Organization for Marriage Therese
Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco; Attorney for
the plaintiffs in current court case challenging Prop. 8 Kevin
Snider, Chief Counsel, Pacific Justice Institute Doug Sovern,
Broadcast Journalist, "Sovern Nation" on KCBS; Three-time Winner,
AP’s Reporter of the Year Award for California - Moderator Six
years ago, the eyes of the nation were focused on San Francisco
when Mayor Gavin Newsom granted almost 4,000 same-sex couples
marriage licenses. But the battle was far from over. With the
passage of Proposition 8 in 2008, only marriage between a man and a
woman is recognized in California; this year, after numerous
protests, lawsuits and campaigns, San Francisco’s Federal
District Court will decide the constitutional validity of the law.
This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the
Commonwealth Club of California on February 17, 2010.
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Mon March 01 2010
Same-Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed Molly McKay, Media Director,
Marriage Equality USA Jennifer Morse, President and Founder, Ruth
Institute at the Natio...
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Same-Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed Molly McKay, Media Director,
Marriage Equality USA Jennifer Morse, President and Founder, Ruth
Institute at the National Organization for Marriage Therese
Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco; Attorney for
the plaintiffs in current court case challenging Prop. 8 Kevin
Snider, Chief Counsel, Pacific Justice Institute Doug Sovern,
Broadcast Journalist, ...
read more
Same-Sex Marriage: State vs. Fed Molly McKay, Media Director,
Marriage Equality USA Jennifer Morse, President and Founder, Ruth
Institute at the National Organization for Marriage Therese
Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco; Attorney for
the plaintiffs in current court case challenging Prop. 8 Kevin
Snider, Chief Counsel, Pacific Justice Institute Doug Sovern,
Broadcast Journalist, "Sovern Nation" on KCBS; Three-time Winner,
AP’s Reporter of the Year Award for California - Moderator Six
years ago, the eyes of the nation were focused on San Francisco
when Mayor Gavin Newsom granted almost 4,000 same-sex couples
marriage licenses. But the battle was far from over. With the
passage of Proposition 8 in 2008, only marriage between a man and a
woman is recognized in California; this year, after numerous
protests, lawsuits and campaigns, San Francisco’s Federal
District Court will decide the constitutional validity of the law.
This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the
Commonwealth Club of California on February 17, 2010.
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Fri February 26 2010
Crisis and Command: Presidential Power in the 21st Century John
Yoo, Law Professor, UC Berkeley; Author, Crisis and Command Allen
Weiner, Co-director,...
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Crisis and Command: Presidential Power in the 21st Century John
Yoo, Law Professor, UC Berkeley; Author, Crisis and Command Allen
Weiner, Co-director, International Law Program, Stanford Law School
- Moderator At the Department of Justice, Yoo played a large and
controversial role in shaping the Bush administration’s policy in
the war on terrorism, arguing that prisoner of war status under the
G...
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Crisis and Command: Presidential Power in the 21st Century John
Yoo, Law Professor, UC Berkeley; Author, Crisis and Command Allen
Weiner, Co-director, International Law Program, Stanford Law School
- Moderator At the Department of Justice, Yoo played a large and
controversial role in shaping the Bush administration’s policy in
the war on terrorism, arguing that prisoner of war status under the
Geneva Conventions does not apply to “enemy combatants.” He
further asserted executive authority to undertake “enhanced
interrogation techniques” regarded as torture by the current
Justice Department. This program was recorded in front of a live
audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 27,
2010.
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Wed February 24 2010
Eve Ensler: I Am an Emotional Creature Eve Ensler, Author, I Am An
Emotional Creature; Playwright, "The Vagina Monologues" In
conversation with Daniel...
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Eve Ensler: I Am an Emotional Creature Eve Ensler, Author, I Am An
Emotional Creature; Playwright, "The Vagina Monologues" In
conversation with Daniel Handler, "Lemony Snicket"; Author;
Screenwriter; Accordionist Since creating her groundbreaking first
work, "The Vagina Monologues," Ensler and the performers she
inspired have grown into nothing less than a global movement. A
best-selling author, a...
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Eve Ensler: I Am an Emotional Creature Eve Ensler, Author, I Am An
Emotional Creature; Playwright, "The Vagina Monologues" In
conversation with Daniel Handler, "Lemony Snicket"; Author;
Screenwriter; Accordionist Since creating her groundbreaking first
work, "The Vagina Monologues," Ensler and the performers she
inspired have grown into nothing less than a global movement. A
best-selling author, award-winning playwright and anti-violence
activist, Ensler has been the voice for women and girls across the
globe for over a decade. She will reveal the daily struggles faced
by many modern women around the world. This program was recorded in
front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on
February 16, 2010.
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Thu February 18 2010
Protecting Public Health: FDA’s Global Challenge Margaret
Hamburg: M.D., Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration J.
Michael Bishop, M.D., Profess...
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Protecting Public Health: FDA’s Global Challenge Margaret
Hamburg: M.D., Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration J.
Michael Bishop, M.D., Professor and Director, G.W. Hooper
Foundation, UCSF and Chancellor Emeritus UCSF - Moderator FDA chief
Hamburg has been tasked with an extremely difficult job: ensuring
the safety of everything we consume, in an increasingly globalized
world with increasin...
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Protecting Public Health: FDA’s Global Challenge Margaret
Hamburg: M.D., Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration J.
Michael Bishop, M.D., Professor and Director, G.W. Hooper
Foundation, UCSF and Chancellor Emeritus UCSF - Moderator FDA chief
Hamburg has been tasked with an extremely difficult job: ensuring
the safety of everything we consume, in an increasingly globalized
world with increasingly obscured accountability trails. With a
background in medicine, science and public health, she is
well-positioned to meet the myriad of challenges facing the FDA. As
New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene commissioner,
Hamburg improved services for women and children, instituted
needle-exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV (the AIDS
virus), and created the first public health bio-terrorism defense
program in the nation. Her most celebrated achievement, however,
was curbing the spread of tuberculosis. Learn what she has planned
to help keep the nation and its food and medicine supply safe. As
New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene commissioner,
Hamburg improved services for women and children, instituted
needle-exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV (the AIDS
virus), and created the first public health bio-terrorism defense
program in the nation. This program was recorded in front of a live
audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 28,
2010.
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Wed February 17 2010
And Yet, We Are Not Broken: The Journey of Recovery Janice
Mirikitani, Co-founder/Founding President, Glide Foundation; San
Francisco’s 2nd Poet Lau...
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And Yet, We Are Not Broken: The Journey of Recovery Janice
Mirikitani, Co-founder/Founding President, Glide Foundation; San
Francisco’s 2nd Poet Laureate Mirikitani speaks about recovery of
her life from a childhood history of incest, abuse, violence and
internment of her family in WWII camps. She has worked for 43 years
in partnership with the Rev. Cecil Williams. This program was
recorded in f...
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And Yet, We Are Not Broken: The Journey of Recovery Janice
Mirikitani, Co-founder/Founding President, Glide Foundation; San
Francisco’s 2nd Poet Laureate Mirikitani speaks about recovery of
her life from a childhood history of incest, abuse, violence and
internment of her family in WWII camps. She has worked for 43 years
in partnership with the Rev. Cecil Williams. This program was
recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of
California on February 8, 2010.
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