What can the progressive movement learn from the LGBT community? On the 40th anniversary of Stonewall there has been a good deal of reflection and soul searching on the role of the struggle for gay rights within the larger civil rights movement. Yesterday when Barack Obama met with gay couples in the White House he said, “It’s not for me to tell you to be patient any more than it was

James Baldwin put his finger on it: we're provoked -- and call "unstable" those who actually destabilize us. While Jackson may have been struggling with his own demons, he certainly stirred up ours.

What difference might the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) make? Well, Rite Aid warehouse workers organizing in California say that it would dramatically change their ability to organize. Angel Warner who works in the Inventory Control Department in Lancaster, CA says that as soon as they started to organize in 2006 the company hired a union busting firm to thwart them.

Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, takes a fresh look at how American hubris and imperial ambitions led to the establishment of an outpost of the auto industry in the Brazilian rainforest. What was he after and what does it tell us about US empire in the 21st century?

As we're following the story of the military coup in Honduras, I came across these two articles that I thought were worth linking to for a quick bite: Obama Must Strongly and Unequivocally Condemn the Coup in Honduras by Roberto Lovato and A Few Thoughts on the Coup in Honduras by Jeremy Scahill.

Opposition to union organizing within the workplace has become more intense and punitive in recent years making it incredibly difficult and risky for workers to unionize. As unemployment continues to rise and workers struggle for a bit of parity, will the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) pass? Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell's Labor Education Research in a new report, No Holds Barred:

On tonight's show, how hard is it to form a union in the United States? Kate Bronfenbrenner and others on the intensification of employer opposition to organizing and the Employee Free Choice Act. Greg Grandin on US imperial ambitions in Latin America and his new book Fordlandia. Brave New Films on Burger King's effort to crush unions and EFCA.

Brave New Films explores the many violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act committed by Burger King as well as their long history of anti-union tactics. Now that Goldman Sachs, which purchased the fast food chain several years ago, is receiving billions in bailout funds and fighting the Employee Free Choice Act, Brave New Films is calling for accountability.

The political climate before the explosion at Stonewall in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969 has been artfully documented by John Scagliotti, whose films Before Stonewall and After Stonewall tell the story of gay activism and the struggle for social justice throughout the twentieth century. You can find out more about Scagliotti's work here.

California's Supreme Court, in a decision yesterday, upheld Prop 8 and a ban on same sex marriage. At the same time, a host of states (Iowa, Vermont, and Maine) have legalized gay marriage in recent months. What's next for the LGBT movement? And should efforts to expand civil rights focus on the states or the Federal level? Joel Silberman a media consultant and co-signer of the Dallas Principles, author and activist Jewelle