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Two Greenpeace activists in Tokyo, Japan, are standing trial for exposing a corruption scandal in the whaling industry. Their court case is starting in Aomori, Japan, but the United Nations Human Rights Council and many other activists, including Amnesty International, have expressed concern for the way they have been treated. Watch the video and take action!

The Climate Action International Awards are given daily, and Monday's winners were headed by Canada and Saudi Arabia, both for having the worse climate-control policies, to the European Union, for the giant loopholes in its climate policies, and a special award to the United States for not budging from its original 1990 target levels in its emissions while asking other countries to do more.

From Copenhagen: The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu tried to get a new protocol that would require more aggressive reductions in emissions and a more ambitious climate target. Greenpeace head Kumi Naidoo talks about Obama’s Nobel prize, the status of the Copenhagen summit and climate debt. Pres. Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today. In a possible attempt to avoid questions about the Afghan war, the White House canceled several Nobel events.

Maya Wiley, Tim Casey and Heather Boushey discuss the problems with unemployment and underemployment in this country and that they will not be fixed by returning to where we were. Author Thomas Frank's study of conservatives has left him convinced that having anti-government people in charge of government leads only to destruction. In the second part of yesterday's video from the Real News Network on the ongoing crisis in Honduras, we look at what happens next. After claiming victory in the heavily-boycotted election, what will the new government do to consolidate its power?