The single-payer health care plan that recently passed the Vermont state assembly "is truly an example of democracy at its finest. It is the people of Vermont banding together as human beings and as a community," according to Mary Gerisch of the Health Care is a Human Right campaign of the Vermont Workers Center. Organizing around human rights framework, Mary notes, helped unite the people around a universal plan that leaves no one out.

Laura, Alan Grayson, and Ed Schultz discuss the Republican response to US and UN intervention in NATO, whether it's hypocritical of them to suddenly be concerned about war, and whether we should be involved at all.

From Wisconsin to Indiana to right here in New York—the state capitol in Albany Wednesday night echoed as well with chants of “This is what democracy looks like” as protesters occupied the halls to protest budget cuts to education.

"We know that two-thirds of corporations in the U.S. pay no taxes at all. General Electric was not only paying no taxes but taking a three billion dollar tax benefit," notes Josh Holland, editor & senior writer at AlterNet and author of The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy. And while corporations are finagling their way out of paying taxes, working people still have no money to spend to keep the economy moving--and thus the recession goes on.

Sleeping in the statehouse, takin' it the streets--this generation of students is getting a great education, at least outside of the classroom. Last week a group of San Francisco students and educators turned out to protest Governor Jerry Brown's cuts. These may be some of the youngest movement leaders we've seen to date. This video courtesy of Openline Media and voiced by our friend, Davey D.

"It's a targeting of workers' abilities to come together against big companies," says Columbia University professor Dorian Warren of the Walmart v. Duke case. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments from both sides on whether a class-action lawsuit that pits female employees since 1998 against the corporate giant Walmart will be permitted.

Could Obama and his supporters take a break from celebrating so-called no-fly zones -- and take a look at what's happening in Arizona?

“I wonder if those same people who asked for the intervention, when they ask for the intervention to end, will we listen to them?"

“It’s a matter of political will and a moral question—do you see the rest of the world as your brothers and sisters or not?”

The latest front in the all-out war on abortion is once again South Dakota, which succeeded last week in passing a law that forces women seeking abortions to first get advice at “pregnancy help centers,” otherwise known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are not heath care centers, but rather places where anti-abortion counselors pressure pregnant women to carry to full term.