Protests erupt in London as world leaders gather for the G20 summit. Today on GRITtv, Dean Baker co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research and the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, Ann Lee professor of economics at New York University and visiting professor at Peking University in Beijing, and Greg Denier Communications Director of Change to Win discuss the Summit, the labor movement, and the possibility of a new economic order.

We also speak to Tim Noonan of the International Trade Union Confederation about the protests and what labor is looking for from the G20 summit.

Then what is it to be good? That is just one of the questions at the heart of Tracey Scott Wilson’s remarkable new play,  The Good Negro. We speak to Wilson about the civil rights era and why reexamining that historical moment, in all its complexity, is relevant today.

Thanks to the Port Huron Project and G-20 Meltdown for video in tonight’s show.