Tea party protests and labor unions might not seem at first to have much in common, but both groups are angry about bailouts of massive banks and the struggles of working people to make ends meet while jobs disappear overseas. Is the dispute between the tea parties and the progressive left just one of the means to an end?

To discuss their differences and talk about finding common ground, Michael Johns, Tea Party organizer and Ed Ott, former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council and Disinguished Lecturer at the Murphy Institute at CUNY, join us in studio.

Audacia Ray spent time in Sangli, in India, with the International Women’s Health Coalition. While there, she made this short documentary about the sex workers in Sangli and their fight to organize for their own human rights. Thanks to RH Reality Check for the video.

The final fight over the health care reform bill is coming up, and women's health care been a key issue throughout, as we've reported many times. This video from Not Under the Bus is here to remind us not to give up and to take action to ensure women don't get thrown under the bus for the sake of reform. January 13th is the national day of action!

The housing crisis was where the economic meltdown started: a bubble popped, and foreclosures spread across the country. Now houses stand vacant while people sleep on the streets in record cold, and in some places public housing is actually destroyed to make way for new development. We talk to Catherine Albisa of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, author of Bringing Human Rights Home. Three Volumes Complete, Rob Robinson of Picture the Homeless and the Right to the City Alliance, and David Muchnick of Housing First! and author of Family relocation in urban renewal about public housing, empty homes and homeless people, and what "social housing" would look like.

Finally, Laura has some thoughts on reconsidering conclusions about Proposition 8, gay marriage, and Ted Olson.