Most Americans agree our current immigration policy is not working, how to deal with it garners far more debate. As government mulls over ways to improve policy, the list of recent hate crimes continues to grow: three police officers shot in Pittsburgh last April by a white supremacist, Dr. Tiller's assassination in Wichita, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting. Can the government reform our immigration policy while taking strong measures to curb the violence?

Joining us in studio today are Mallika Dutt, Founder and Executive Director of Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture, Rich Benjamin, senior fellow at DEMOS and Author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America and Leonard Zeskind, a longtime civil rights activist and Author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream.

Then, Leonard Cohen's hopeful piece 'Democracy' was created as part of the United States of Poetry Project. Thanks to Bob Holman and the Bowery Poetry Club for making this video available. 'A Time Comes' is a documentary by Greenpeace UK depicting direct action protests in 2007 against Britain's plans to build new coal-fired power stations across the land. Watch the whole of Nick Broomfield's film here.

Next we talk with Farai Chideya, Author of Kiss the Sky: A Novel, which documents a has-been black rock musician's comeback in New York City in 2000.   Finally, a look at a short piece from Streetfilms about Carla Saulter, who writes a blog for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, 'Bus Chick, Transit Authority'.