In another story from Arizona, but one that's attracting less attention than that state's check your documents anti-immigration law, a nun in Phoenix has been ex-communicated after approving a live-saving abortion. Sister Margaret McBride was excommunicated for approving an abortion without which, doctors say, both the woman and her 11-week-old fetus would have died. According to Thomas Olmsted, the Bishop of Phoenix, approving an abortion is an excommunicating offense -period

Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.

Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water.

Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water. Currently, there are six million public housing units for nine million people in need of public housing. Right to the City presents, We Call These Projects Homes, interviewing Anne Washington of Community Voices Heard about the need to empower public housing communities to express this need to the government. Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.

The winners were challengers -- right and left - and those who organized on the ground.

After abysmal coverage of the massive labor protests against the Washington Lobbyist stronghold on K Street one of the protestors tweeted, “maybe you have to serve tea to get noticed.”

Foreign development projects in Haiti: are they a necessary investment or part of long-standing trend of colonization? The idea may resonate poorly with a people who have suffered two centuries of foreign meddling and its devastating consequences but the track record of the current government and NGOs is nothing to celebrate either. Currently, Global Renewable Energy is proposing a project in La Gonave to use the land as a 'planned sustainable green community'. Blogger Pascal Robert wrote about this plan recently which he described as another step in the "wholesale sell-off of Haitian resources.”

Even though today is the most important primary election day of the year, a slough labor protestors has invaded K Street to protest lobbying efforts against the banks as detracting attention from the actual state of the American people

Labor correspondent and executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Ed Ott joins us in the studio to discuss why Americans are so angry, how the outcomes of the primaries could affect these issues, and ask where the power really lies. After abysmal coverage of the massive labor protests against the Washington Lobbyist stronghold on K Street one of the protestors tweeted, “maybe you have to serve tea to get noticed.

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