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Isaiah Poole interviews George Goehl of National People's Action, which is leading a series of actions against Wall Street financial institutions designed to rein in the Wall Street casino and hold the bailout barons accountable. Goehl discusses the major Wall Street reform rallies scheduled to place around the country in late April and early May 2010, culminating in "showdowns" on Wall Street in New York and on K Street in Washington.

In this video, CNN's decision to air four hours of programming based on conservative deficit propaganda from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation is subjected to a forceful take-down by Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey and Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

CNN scheduled "I.O.USA: America's Money Crisis" to air during the weekend of April 10 and 11. "What we're seeing here is a real campaign to get the country to focus on things like cutting Social security and Medicare as opposed to focusing on jobs, growth and investment," Hickey says.

Baker notes that Peterson has committed about $1 billion of the wealth he earned on Wall Street to this effort, and adds that Peterson, along with much of the media "has fundamentally mischaracterized both the near-term deficit problem and the long-term deficit problem" — a problem, Baker says, was created "by people like Pete Peterson and the folks on Wall Street" who wrecked the economy and created the need for the government to spend billions on Wall Street bailouts and on the consequences of a collapsed economy.

We've called on CNN to either cancel this program or make it more balanced by including progressive solutions for addressing the budget deficit.

To celebrate the passage of health-care reform, we're highlighting this mash-up of will.i.am's groundbreaking 2008 "Yes We Can" music video with the signature line from House Minority Leader John Boehner's speech against health-care reform before it passed the House March 21, 2010.

Democrat Nancy Pelosi and Republican John Boehner made the final arguments for their parties before the House voted in favor of President Barack Obama's health care reform overhaul.

Progressive Caucus member Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., explains his support for the Local Jobs for America bill, which progressive activists consider one of the most important actions Congress can take this year to help lower the unemployment rate and jump-start the economy.

Ellison, working with the bill's sponsor, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., is working to build momentum for the legislation. The bill would authorize $75 billion, which would be distributed through state and local governments to create or save from 750,000 to 1 million jobs over two years.

On March 9th, thousands of people performed a citizens' arrest of the insurance companies as they were meeting in Washington, DC to plot to kill health reform.

We need reform, we need it now, and we won't let their lobbyists or their money stop Congress from passing it. We will fight, and we will win.

Health insurance executives who came to Washington's Ritz-Carlton Hotel for their big trade conference on March 9 were greeted by a "citizen's posse" armed with arrest warrants charging them with crimes ranging from fraud to the involuntary manslaughter of 45,000 people who could not get health coverage. In this report, USAction's William McNary and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spell out the indictment against the insurance companies.