now, a discussion with some activists who recently traveled there. some of the topics are disease response, humanitarian aid concerns, sexual violence and sanitation. this is an hour and 30 minutes. brookingsstitution here in d.c. my name is ted picone, senior fellow and deputy director of the foreign policy program. we re very honored to have with us an incredible panel to talk about the tragic earthquake in haiti that took place almost exactly one year ago. we are here today really at a momentous time to step back and reflect on the challenges that haiti faces, the terrible tragedy and to take a moment to take stock of the circumstances the and how to move forward in the best possible way for all concned. we re going to have a full diussion and it will proceed in the following way. we re first going to hear from our honored guest, sean penn, who s the founder of the j.p. haitian relief organization and you ll hear lots more about that as we go through. and we will then al
it s seeing a rather ingenious rubble removal project run by catholic relief services. spent time in the areas where there s no truck could, go as all wheel barrels, it s walking through rubble with wheel barrels, bringing it to a site where a $6,000 grinder is being operate by a group of men and it s all being run by a business, a business woman who had a business before the earthquake is now running this. there are 30 or so people involved. they are gathering the rubble from the neighborhoods. running it through this crank. turning it into small pieces of rock and sand. bagging it. and selling that to the organizations that are rebuilding houses and temporary shelters per all of the people that enterprise are paid for by the proceeds of that sale. so you see these types of exercises replicated throughout the city. but an ability to get this many people out of camps as everyone has said is going to take time, most of the resources that the american people gave to nonprofits
more now on tsa security procedures including the constitutionality of body scanners. after that a security expert talks about defending against terrorism with smart intelligence and later a look at the effectiveness of current security. this is 12 hours and 35 minutes. those who are watching us on c-span or following the streaming video or the tweets along to you can learn more information about the conference and this topic at epic.org/events/tsa. we also have a trigger - tag which is scantsa. as for our program, we will have one more panel this morning. there will be a break for lunch. there will be a keynote speech next by bruce snyder and then our closing panel today will look at next steps for the reform, and that is particularly interesting panel. we will have on that panel new york city council member david greenfield who has introduced a bill in the new york city council to simply ban on the airport body scanners in new york. we are also going to be joined by a st