From ColorLines, the the national magazine on race and politics, we have a story of the unintended consequences of deportation.

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Now some good news. The public option's alive and kicking -- it may not be what you dreamed of -- but it's worth a cheer that it's not plain dead.

We here at GRITtv wouldn't be able to do what we do without a free and open Internet, so today we're discussing Net Neutrality with Timothy Karr of Free Press, Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge, and Karlos Schmieder of the Center for Media Justice.

In this video from Billionaires for Wealthcare, supporters of a public option tried a new tactic: song. Watch activists serenading insurance executives with the need for health care reform.

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President of the Hip Hop Caucus and co-author with 350's Bill McKibben of the article "People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down" in The Nation, joins us to talk about Saturday's actions, the hip-hop generation's involvement in environmental activism, and his new initiative, Green the Block, with Van Jones and Majora Carter's Green for All.

We'll have updates all week on the actions at the Showdown in Chicago, but here's a look at one of the first actions at the "Bankers' Ball," where activists decided to crash the party.

We might think of our genetic code as something natural, part of us, certainly not "intellectual property" in the traditional sense. Yet corporations doing medical research have begun to patent certain genes, calling into question the whole idea of where property begins and ends.

Corporations have edged into nearly every area of our lives, impacting decisions we make on a daily basis, from health care to the food we eat to the way we get our news and information. Today on GRITtv we take a look at a couple of places that corporate control is being challenged.

Sunday's bombings in Baghdad are a security issue indeed, but the priority in US media isn't the life and death of Iraqis; it's the security of the war consensus in Washington