i am an old fashioned a journalist. a few of us still exist. i host your call. thank you. [applause] it airs from 10:00 to 11:00 and i am always wanting more women to call in. it is interesting to see when we have more men called versus women. we focus on politics, social issues, the environment. when i needed break, we focus on the arts. on today s show, we talked about international women s day. and what we re facing here at home. the u.n. declared march 8 international women s day three decades ago. the goal was to provide an opportunity to reflect and confront issues affecting women. we know that we cannot have a vibrant society and must we have a seat at the table and have the power to make our own decisions about our bodies, families, and communities. each year, the un select a team . theme. if we could have everybody sit down, please. thank you. i love looking at the photographs and reading the stories about what happened around the globe. i encourage everyone to g
50 years, even in the last 30 years. it will take time. it will take our concerted effort. but i am convinced that if we come into pursuing the promise of this participation age and unleashing and harnessing the economic potential of women, we will see a new and better future. that is why i am honored to be here representing the people of the united states, bearing witness to what begins right here in san francisco, on september 16, 2011. this is the beginning of a very promising future for us all. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] [applause] thank you, all. i think we re going right into the high level ministerial meeting. is that right, ambassador? and i have got two of my most esteemed colleagues here, the foreign minister from indonesia and the foreign minister from australia. and we re going to have a discussion about a lot of these issues and what we all can do. are we going to begin right away? ok, so we re going to have everybody on
chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30 s and 40 s and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer s and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance,
have more men called versus women. we focus on politics, social issues, the environment. when i needed break, we focus on the arts. on today s show, we talked about international women s day. and what we re facing here at home. the u.n. declared march 8 international women s day three decades ago. the goal was to provide an opportunity to reflect and confront issues affecting women. we know that we cannot have a vibrant society and must we have a seat at the table and have the power to make our own decisions about our bodies, families, and communities. each year, the un select a team . theme. if we could have everybody sit down, please. thank you. i love looking at the photographs and reading the stories about what happened around the globe. i encourage everyone to go home and log on to google, just type in women s day. there are so many things happening today. i want to point out one of the great story. this really grabbed my attention. it took place in a village in indi
women. we focus on politics, social issues, the environment. when i needed break, we focus on the arts. on today s show, we talked about international women s day. and what we re facing here at home. the u.n. declared march 8 international women s day three decades ago. the goal was to provide an opportunity to reflect and confront issues affecting women. we know that we cannot have a vibrant society and must we have a seat at the table and have the power to make our own decisions about our bodies, families, and communities. each year, the un select a team . theme. if we could have everybody sit down, please. thank you. i love looking at the photographs and reading the stories about what happened around the globe. i encourage everyone to go home and log on to google, just type in women s day. there are so many things happening today. i want to point out one of the great story. this really grabbed my attention. it took place in a village in india. 200 women blocked traffic