During the Great Depression, the labor movement was a major player pushing a progressive agenda and helping to put people back to work. While we've heard plenty of comparisons between the current recession and the Depression, we haven't seen a return of the kind of militancy that came from labor in the 20s and 30s. With all the anger swirling around right now, where's the organizing? Paula Finn, Editor of the New Labor Forum, Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew and Wall Street Journal columnist, Tom Geoghegan, labor lawyer, recent Congressional candidate, and author of Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back joined Laura to talk about labor's problems and suggest some solutions to help all of us, whether we're union members or not. While labor issues are lately ignored by both parties--Democrats paying lip service and Republicans using populist anger to push through tax cuts for big business--most people can agree that we don't want to be ingesting dangerous chemicals. Yet many plastics used to package food contain Bisphenol A, a synthetic estrogen with harmful effects on the endocrine system.  Nena Baker wrote a book, The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being, on this very subject, and joined Laura in the studio to discuss what can be done about these frightening chemicals. Matthew Hoh was the first US civilian official to resign in protest over the conduct of the war in Afghanistan. In this video from Brave New Films, Hoh reads his letter of resignation and explains why he decided to make a public statement. "The people that are fighting us there are fighting because they're occupied," he says of Afghanistan. The Applied Research Center has put together a toolkit for ensuring that federal funds for green jobs are used to create well-paid, union-represented jobs that are available to women and people of color and that help to rebuild communities that have been hardest hit by the economic collapse. Finally, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund isn't talking about a new horror movie when it refers to "Zombie buildings," but a new problem that threatens to destabilize hundreds of small- and medium-sized banks across the country.