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This past weekend, "The Women in the World" conference played host to Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Valerie Jarrett, and activists from all over the world, as well as director Julie Taymor and actresses including the legendary Meryl Streep. So why wasn't this bigger news? Is the media STILL sexist? Jane Spencer, managing editor of the Daily Beast, joins us to discuss. As part of our new format here at GRITtv, we plan to bring you more field reports. To kick that off, our own Sam Alcoff went to Lakewood, New Jersey to visit a homeless encampment in the woods. Last year, the National Alliance to End Homelessness warned that one and a half million people would be added to the nation's already sizable homeless population by the end of 2010. These are just a few of their stories. Frances Moore Lapp is the author of the revolutionary book Diet for a Small Planet, the co-founder of three national organizations focused on democracy, hunger, poverty and environmental issues, and a frequent Twitterer, too. Her newest book, Getting a Grip 2, came out of a realization, she says, that we already know what the solutions to our problems are. So why don't we already have them under control? She joins Laura in studio to discuss.