Directors Pamela Yates and Jawad Metni join Andrea Holley, Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival to discuss the importance of documenting human rights stories. Then, acclaimed filmmaker Costa-Gavras tells us why "all cinema is political" and we learn to 'Rethink Afghanistan'.

The banking lobby still holds enough sway inside the Beltway to torpedo sensible consumer protection rules, even after releasing a flood of predatory mortgages that kicked off the current economic crisis. On issues ranging from payday loans to subprime mortgages, the banking industry continues to successfully defend itself against new regulations that would protect the consumer.

Wells Fargo stands accused of disproportionately denying minority consumers favorable loans while targeting them for subprime ones. If the president really wants the economy to bounce back, confidence needs to be restored. We've become all too familiar with 'too big too fail'. Are some people also too big to jail?

After rejecting orders to shut it down, the Palestine Festival of Literature took place last month in East Jerusalem. Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad spoke at the event.

The Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant aims to "foster ecological awareness through the arts".

For Rick Steves, popular PBS travel host and author of more than thirty guidebooks, traveling has become a way of life. Recently back from Iran, he shares what traveling has meant to him and encourages Americans to grab that passport and step outside of their 'comfort zone'. His latest book, Travel as Political Act is just out from Nation Books.

June 8 marked the United Nation's first World Oceans Day, yet the seas around us are in trouble. David Helvarg, President of the Blue Frontier Campaign, award-winning journalist and author of Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes joins Sarah Chasis, senior attorney and director of the Ocean Initiative at the Natural Resources Defense Council and Cindy Zipf, executive director of Clean Ocean Action to discuss the state of the world's waters.