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Physicians for Human Rights talk about the mass grave found at Dasht-e Leilli, Afghanistan, and America's role in covering it up.

With the astounding vote on the health care reform bill in the House this weekend, progressives were forced to consider what kind of compromises were worth making for health care. When certain people are excluded from health care simply because of who they are, how "public" would even a public option be? Tammy Johnson of ColorLines asks these questions and more in this commentary.

In 2007, a VA survey found that 18 percent of recently discharged veterans were unemployed and that of those who had found a job, 25 percent made less than $22,000 a year. Those numbers have only gotten worse since the recent recession, but with ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more and more servicemembers are returning home and trying to find work. This video from New America Media takes a look at the struggles of veterans to readjust to civilian life.

Puerto Rican Republican governor Luis Fortuno promised not to cut jobs when running for office, but only a few short months in announced massive cuts -- despite millions in stimulus money earmarked to maintain employment. About 150,000 Puerto Ricans participated in a general strike in protest of the job cuts. Fortuno threatened to charge the protesters with terrorism, but is now backing off after seeing the size of the protests. SEIU sent us video urging action in Congress, keeping the pressure on Fortuno to do right by Puerto Ricans.

Andres Conteris of Nonviolence International and Democracy Now! en espa'ol is the only English-speaking media representative inside the Brazilian embassy with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, and he thinks that the U.S. could be doing much more to ensure that democracy prevails in the Central American country. Though the administration has called for the reinstatement of Zelaya, it has not put actual pressure to bear, and Conteris urges GRITtv viewers to call their representatives in Congress and urge sanctions against the coup regime.

This weekend saw unprecedented worldwide protest on behalf of the environment: the 350 project coordinated activists in 181 countries to call for action on global warming. Many organizations came together for the actions, including protests in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Rev. Lennox Yearwood joins us to talk about Saturday's actions, the hip-hop generation's involvement in environmental activism, and his new initiative, Green the Block, with Van Jones and Majora Carter's Green for All.