human rights

The New York State Senate is now back in the hands of Republicans due to two Democratic defections, but the fate of the LGBT and AIDS agendas are up in the air, including a late-breaking story that out gay Sen. Tom Duane is in negotiations with the new Republican-led caucus about bringing the marriage equality bill to the floor. "Gay USA," hosted by Ann Northrop and Andy Humm, offers comprehensive weekly news and analysis by and about the LGBTQ community.

The Coffee House is a monthly, hour-long, cable TV magazine of public affairs and the arts. The program is taped at Montgomery Community Television in Rockville, MD, and airs regularly on eleven cable channels in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, reaching over five million people. Now in its tenth season, The Coffee House has won numerous awards; "it's what public TV is supposed to be." The producer of The Coffee House is Mark Cohen.

They're not refugees, the more 300,000 people of New Orleans who were driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina, and prevented from returning by their city, state and federal governments. They are citizens, and their civil and human rights have been trampled by an unjust system that is becoming LESS just with each passing day. The people of New Orleans are now threatened with losing their VOTES, and they are responding with community involvement that's spilling out from courtrooms and into the streets, the same streets that volunteers are trying to rebuild.

Today SourceCode asks, is another economy, an environmentally sustainable economy, possible? Hear from Hunter Lovins on natural capitalism;.an economy that attempts to take everything of value into account; including human resources and living systems. Then, what would you do if a toxic factory set up shop in your backyard? One group of local activists is taking on the multinational company CEMEX.