Making Healthcare Work, Documenting the Undocumented, and The Mortgage Meltdown

For-profit healthcare making you sick? Tonight on GRITtv we discuss the broken health care system and who’s fixing it. Hempstead Mayor Wayne Hall, Health Care Now’s Tom Knoche, and Art Richter, co-chairman of Citizens for Universal Health Care say the movement for single payer health care is picking up steam. Find out how mayors and grassroots organizations are leading the way.

Most Americans favor a health care system that is publicly financed. So how do we go beyond preaching to the choir to making change? According to Knoche, "it’s already happening and it’s not too good to be true. It’s for real."

And an interview with photojournalist Donna DeCesare and playwright Jeff Solomon – DeCesare covered the war in El Salvador in the 1980s and was moved by scenes of devastation and the impact of trauma on children. In her recent exhibit, Sharing Secrets, DeCesare documents the lives of Central American and Colombian children struggling with the scars of war. Solomon, in his new play “De Novo” Part 1—Lil’ Silent, uses many of DeCesare’s images to tell the story of undocumented youth in US immigration custody.

Finally Transportation Alternatives holds their 7^th annual commuter challenge. And the incandescent bulb has gone the way of the VCR. Find out why compact florescents (CFLs) are the wave of the future in a video from Common Craft. And Dedrick Muhammad of the Institute for Policy Studies on the mortgage meltdown. All that and more on GRITtv.