The city of Baltimore is suing Wells Fargo for racial profiling while workers in Chicago took to the streets to protest its recent refusal to extend credit for Quad City Die Casting Company. As a reminder, Wells Fargo is the country’s 2nd largest mortgage lender, 5th largest bank and recipient of $25 billion in TARP money –taxpayer money that they will now likely be spent fighting the discrimination cases filed against them in court.

Joining us in studio are Sarah Ludwig, Co-Director of Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, Kai Wright, who wrote about the ‘Subprime Swindle’ for The Nation Magazine, Leah Fried, Organizer with the United Electrical Union, and Beth Jacobson, formerly one of the most successful subprime mortgage loan officers for Wells Fargo who became a whistle blower in the Baltimore case and is now offering advice to homeowners facing foreclosure through her agency, Paralegal Services and Consulting.

Then, New Yorkers gathered at Union Square to show solidarity to the protesters in Iran. Alex Barbone and Melanie Breault talked to some of those who came out. And in this week’s Got Docs?, Lydia Nibley’s Two Spirits chronicles the life and premature death of Fred Martinez, a transgendered Navajo who was killed by one of his peers.

Steve Early is a self-proclaimed participatory labor journalist. He started out in the 1970s with a union of retail clerks and has been writing about the labor movement ever since. Despite the decrease in union membership and the never-ending obstacles to workplace organizing, Steve says there is a lot to be hopeful about. He sits down with GRITtv to help us see the rays of light and talk about his new book, Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home.

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