Two teachers at a Brooklyn middle school, frustrated with a lack of social-justice education in public schools, founded the Pass it On Project to engage their students, mostly black and Latino, around issues of race and the civil rights movement. They ended up taking a road trip through the South, visiting historic sites and learning from leaders from the civil rights era. The Pass It On Project is a feature documentary about that experience.

The devastation that Haiti is facing after Tuesday's earthquake is flooring. and emotionally wrenching for many of us. And lately, when we're hard hit, we take to social networks to work out our pain and find a way to manage it.

Organizations around the world are rallying to the aid of Haiti after the earthquake that devastated the country earlier this week. Artists for Peace and Justice sent us this video, discussing their work in Port-au-Prince and Petionville, and they too are collecting donations to rebuild hospitals and provide essential care to the people most affected by the quake.

Wendell Potter worked for CIGNA health insurers for over 15 years, including a position as head of communications. He left that job, in a 180-degree switch, to fight for the rights of all Americans to affordable health care.

Things to remember while helping Haiti. That's the benign-sounding headline on a Heritage Foundation paper regarding the disaster in Haiti. Released just hours after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit, the pro-corporate analysts at Heritage suggested that the US response should think beyond the immediate...to "address long-held concerns over the fragile political environment that exists in the region."

The hearings on the financial crisis are getting underway, but the real solutions will need to come out of Congress. Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that we've seen meltdown capitalism; is it possible to create a conscious capitalism to take its place, or do we need to radically rethink our economic system?

We check in with actor/activist Danny Glover and Marie St. Cyr, vice president of the Long Island Association of AIDS Care, on the situation in Haiti. St. Cyr was the Director of the Haitian Coalition on AIDS in New York City, and her family is in Port-au-Prince and Petionville, Haiti. Glover has been working on a film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Retired U.S. Army colonel Ann Wright just returned from ten days in Egypt with the Gaza Freedom March. Having served both the army and the State Department overseas before stepping down in protest over the Iraq war, Wright knows the power and impact of political protest of a country's actions as well as she does the pressures of serving in an overtaxed military.

Our friends over at the Visual Resistance Artist Collective "Just Seeds" sent us this video. Political street art protests everything from war to consumerism, but gets a bad rap for being criminal, gang-related, etc. This film takes a look at the politics and people behind the graffiti.

The media in the U.S. likes to refer to the corrupt government in Afghanistan, but new reports from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) say that about three-quarters of its active corruption investigations involve Westerners. Who's really corrupt? Thanks to Brave New Films for the video.