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"I feel reborn," says Egyptian feminist author and activist Nawal El Saadawi. "I am 80, but I feel young, I feel all my energy coming back, I feel my childhood dream coming back." The revolution in Egypt has inspired people across the world, and we talk to Nawal today to find out why she thinks the successful removal of the Mubarak regime is the culimation of a movement to change the entire structure of Egyptian capitalist, patriarchal politics. Distributed by Tubemogul.

The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program. Joining us from Boston to talk about the nurses' union, patient care, and what's next after this healthcare bill is Karen Higgins, co-president of National Nurses United, who says that any fight on behalf of patients is their fight. Social justice movements take more than clicking a link on an online petition, says Paul Rogat Loeb, author of "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Trying Times." Making change requires getting out in the streets, going door-to-door, and talking to other people face-to-face. Loeb came to see us in studio to talk about the new edition of his book, about Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, cross-movement alliances, and how the Left can reach out to the tea party crowd. The nation's attention may be focused on the mine explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, but around the country, 16 people die every day from preventable injuries and accidents in the workplace. This video from Brave New Films looks at the regulations that exist--and new regulations that would help Hilda Solis's labor department better protect working people in the U.S. Finally, the Wikileaks tape showed soldiers treating human lives like characters on a video game--but is that just how war works? And what's wrong with that?

Since last fall's financial collapse, we've heard more honest discussion about capitalism's failings than in years. Yet real change is still hard to find. David Harvey and Alexander Cockburn don't think small when it comes to change, as you'll see here during a discussion with Laura for an event at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture & Politics. Antonino D'Ambrosio, author of "A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears," dispells some myths about the Man in Black and connect him to the folk-protest tradition. Plus, in the studio, a new cover of a Cash protest song.

John Perkins and Russ Baker talk about shady global conspiracies, corporate overlords, and the military-industrial complex, and what we can do about it. In the new film "Collapse," filmmaker Chris Smith follows Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer who predicted the economic crisis. But his theories often range into the apocalyptic. Is he a genius, or just paranoid? A video from New America Media takes a look at the struggles of veterans to readjust to civilian life, and asks what more we could be doing to truly honor them. And a report on the Earth Island Institute Brower Youth Awards.