Low-Wage Food Workers Stage One-Day Strike at Smithsonian Museums

A protest song by Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City. "I know I'm not the only one/With trouble on my mind/We have to stand together/We are the 99"
Democracy Now! hosts a debate between Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at the Nation Institute and former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, and Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Stone served as an informal advisor to President Obama in 2008, years after hiring him to teach constitutional law.
Despite working full-time, Walmart employee and Florida resident Lisa Lopez had to apply for food stamps in order to support her family -- yet the 6 Walmart heirs are richer than 42% of Americans combined. Something is wrong with this picture.
Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) demonstrates what it means to be force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedures.
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