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Clay Shirky, professor in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, talked with GRITtv about the way everyday citizens can use the same technology that brings us videos of a kitten on a treadmill to achieve results that strengthen and spread democracy and engagement around the world. Fahad Hashmi is an American citizen being held in solitary confinement in Lower Manhattan, facing several years in prison for the crime of providing and conspiring to provide material support and making and conspiring to make a contribution of goods or services to Al Qaeda. Jeanne Theoharis, associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College, CUNY and Fahad's former professor, Kathleen Chalfant and Wallace Shawn of Theaters Against War joins us to talk about Fahad's case, free speech and why we need to speak up for people like Fahad. Greenpeace brings us the latest from the global battle against climate change, and The Real News supplies an analysis of the ongoing conflict in Honduras: Will Zelaya return, and what will it change?