Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights and several of our favorite bloggers and activists to bring you this video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Think about it: if they don't want their tax dollars spent on abortion, what don't YOU want your tax dollars spent on?

In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, we've seen many solutions posed around the world (and even suggested a few of our own). One option that has been raised is allowing more adoptions from Haiti; Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell even got involved in bringing orphans into the U.S., managing to land a plane when relief planes were unable to get in.

Green for All is holding a month-long multimedia competition to showcase the best video, song and visual art of the movement for an inclusive green economy. Check out this song and video from Markese Bryant (aka Doo Dat), and submit your own to The Dream Reborn story contest--and send it our way!

We've been proud to feature content from the Ciné Institute over the last couple of weeks from Jacmel, Haiti. Their ongoing coverage of the disaster has been a lesson in the ways grassroots journalism succeeds when the mainstream fails. This video explains a little bit about the Institute and the work they've done since the quake.

The state of the Union will be a little different this year. Thanks to a last-minute switch the annual address will be presented by Lloyd Blankfein, CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs, known henceforth as CEO of America.

The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti--and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later--need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions.

Raj Patel has spent a lot of time studying the way resources are distributed among people, and he's watched spiraling inequality leave many people with nothing while concentrating wealth in the hands of the few. From the food system, which he studied in Stuffed and Starved, to the bank bonuses still being handed out, he argues that something has to change.

Haitians woke up before we did Wednesday, with 6.1 earthquake-strength aftershocks adding more insult to their ongoing injuries. Those aftershocks were bad, but there’s been a failure, a massive failure, on the part of the Obama administration’s response to the disaster. This is a worse aftershock worth commenting on.

In South Africa during the years of colonialism and apartheid, land was systematically taken from Africans and given to the white minority population. 16 years later, only 5 percent of that land has been redistributed. In this week's Got Docs segment, we look at a film in progress by Bernadette Atuahene, Sifuna Okwethu, which translates to "We Want What's Ours." The film looks at the difficulties of reclaiming stolen land under the continuing neoliberal control. The filmmakers are looking for support to finish the movie, and you can help them out at their website.

The Ciné Institute continues to send out video from its students and staff in Jacmel, Haiti, despite continuing aftershocks and difficulty getting aid in and out. This is one of their recent reports, taking us inside meetings with local officials and the continuing lack of proper medical care.