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"I imagine a world in which my seven-year-old daughter doesn't say to me 'I can't be the president because I'm a girl.'" Anika Rahman was horrified and yet not surprised when her daughter expressed that sentiment. As the new CEO and president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Anika works to empower women to fight for their right to control their bodies and their lives. She joins Laura in studio to talk about the latest research on how the recession is hitting women, about why she works for women's rights, and why the attacks on collective bargaining are attacks on women.

The ink on the compromise that kept the government open—barely--isn't even dry and they're already talking about the next round of cuts in Washington. The New York Times led off this week with an article about Obama's plan to reduce the deficit by making unspecified “changes” to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Sure, it also mentions increasing taxes and cutting military spending, but when we're embracing the conservative frame that entitlement programs are too big, that's not much to cheer about. Distributed by Tubemogul.

"It's not about dollars and cents, it's about owners telling players who is boss," says Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation, about the impending NFL lockout. Even Barack Obama has gotten into the act, though, writing off the labor dispute in professional football as "millionaires fighting billionaires" and ignoring the real factors in the fight, from the health risks and short careers the players face to the people who will be out of work if football doesn't go on--while the owners sign a TV contract that pays them even if there is no season. Dave joins us via Skype to give us the latest on why progressives should stand with the NFL players, and the connections to the labor struggles going on around the country right now. Sherry Johnson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin nearly lost her sight from glaucoma. When she had to miss work for surgery to save her eyes, she was fired from her position for taking the time off. She had also signed a petition for a union in her workplace just before her illness. In this clip from our friends at 1000 Voices, she explains why a union might have helped her keep her job. "Wikileaks is a symptom of a much larger change, an age when information can be moved into the public arena by all kinds of people," says Micah Sifry of the Personal Democracy Forum. Bradley Manning, the accused leaker of the "Collateral Murder" video aired on WikiLeaks, faces 22 new charges from the government, including "Aiding the Enemy." But which enemy is he aiding, Micah asks? Is it us? Micah is the author of a new book from OR Books (the publisher of At The Tea Party), WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency, and he joins Laura in studio for a conversation about the way transparency and freedom of information are changing our world, from military policy at home to revolution abroad. Finally, there's been a joke going around the labor protests. It goes something like this: A union member, a CEO and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO grabs 11, turns to the Tea Partier and says “The Union's out to take your cookie!� Laura's been thinking that the joke applies pretty well to another situation. For instance, the military. Distributed by Tubemogul.

The financial reform bill made it through the first Republican filibuster last week and is being debated and amended now on the Senate floor. Regulating Wall Street isn't easy, though, and economics journalist Zach Carter has noted that the proposed reforms are "pretty flimsy"--he uncovered a loophole that allows banks to continue to make illegal trades without punishment! Zach joins us via Skype from Virginia to discuss the financial reform bill and to explain in plain language just why derivatives continue to be so scary. William K. Black helped coordinate criminal investigations and prosecutions during the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980s, when regulators played important parts in sending key players to jail. This time around, we've seen CEOs like Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs face a scolding in front of Congress, but no arrests. Where are the handcuffs? Our friends at the Huffington Post Investigative Fund asked Black just that. President Obama campaigned on the issue of a free and open Internet as a candidate who understood the importance of 21st-century communication tools, and he appointed a chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, who also is a strong proponent of Net Neutrality--or was. After the court ruling in Comcast v. FCC, it seems that Genachowski might cave in to the demands of the big telecom companies and allow them to continue to have free rein over your Internet access. To discuss the situation, and what we can do about it, we speak to Tim Karr of Free Press and Amalia Deloney of the Center for Media Justice. Finally, Laura takes a look at the situation in Greece after three were reported killed in protests there over the collapsing economy.