If President Obama wants to get something done he is going to have to, in the words of financial columnist Joe Nocera, "make some bankers mad." Fat chance. Instead, he's driving the rest of us insane.

William Black, former senior bank regulator and Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri -Kansas City, weighs in on President Obama's financial regulation proposal. He'll join us again this Monday with journalist Nomi Prins, a Senior Fellow at Demos. Her latest book coming this Fall is It Takes a Pillage:

Steve Early is a self-proclaimed participatory labor journalist. He started out in the 1970s with a union of retail clerks and has been writing about the labor movement ever since. Despite the decrease in union membership and the never-ending obstacles to workplace organizing, Steve says there is a lot to be hopeful about. He sits down with GRITtv to help us see the rays of light and talk about his new book, Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home.

The city of Baltimore is suing Wells Fargo for racial profiling while workers in Chicago took to the streets to protest its recent refusal to extend credit for Quad City Die Casting Company. To discuss these recent events, we're joined by Sarah Ludwig, Kai Wright, Leah Fried and Beth Jacobson.

The city of Baltimore is suing Wells Fargo for racial profiling while workers in Chicago took to the streets to protest its recent refusal to extend credit for Quad City Die Casting Company. To discuss these recent events, we're joined by Sarah Ludwig, Kai Wright, Leah Fried and Beth Jacobson. Also on the show, New Yorkers step out to support Iran, the life and death of a transgendered Navajo teenager, and Steve Early on the labor movement.

In her affidavit in the city of Baltimore's lawsuit against Wells Fargo, former subprime mortgage broker turned whistle-blower Beth Jacobson describes how subprimes were sold to African Americans: "African American brokers were sent into Black churches", she says.

We sit down with Farai Chideya, author and former NPR show 'News and Notes' host. She talks to us about what happened to her broadcast and her new book, 'Kiss the Sky: A Novel', which documents the comeback of a has-been rock musician.

'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. It's directed by the acclaimed Nick Broomfield -you can watch the whole film here.

Most Americans agree our current immigration policy is not working, how to deal with it garners far more debate. Mallika Dutt, Rich Benjamin and Leonard Zeskind on what can and should be done.

Most Americans agree our current immigration policy is not working, how to deal with it garners far more debate. Mallika Dutt, Rich Benjamin and Leonard Zeskind on what can and should be done. Also on the show: videos from Streetfilms, GreenPeace UK and the Bowery Poetry Club and an interview with author Farai Chideya.