Bill Plant

Twelve members of the secret service that were assigned to protect President Obama while attending a summit in Cartagena, Colombia were sent home with allegations of misconduct including prostitution. Bill Plant reports live from Cartagena.

Hi, my name is Joshua Kahn Russell. Right now I'm helping to coordinate the largest protest on Global Warming in history. I'm an organizer, which means I spend my time building power of regular folks to take control of their lives and communities. I've spent half my life helping to bridge movements for racial justice and the environment. Current TV asked me to record my life for 2 minutes a day. The series is gonna be called the 'ACTING UP', so search for that tag if you want. Our protest is called the Capitol Climate Action - CCA (www.capitolclimateaction.org), and will bring thousands to risk arrest in civil disobedience at the Capitol Coal Plant that powers our congress with dirty energy. We have a coalition of over 70 conservation, public health, labor, social & racial justice, faith-based, environmental and other advocacy groups, along with figures like NASA Climatologist Dr. James Hansen, and advocates like Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry and Bill Mckibben who will be joining us and sitting in. We can't afford to wait any longer for the slow gears of the political process, while our economy tanks and the planet burns. I believe now is the time for bold action that communicates a message of urgency. We have written and testified and organized politically. Now is the time to do more for the health of our communities and our planet. There are moments in a nation's--and a planet's--history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil and push for its correction. Such a time has arrived. Join me for the next 11 days in the build up to the largest civil disobedience for climate justice in history. It's gonna be a wild ride.

George Donnelly with We Won't Fly spoke with Bill Plant about National Opt-Out Day and why Thanksgiving travelers shouldn't fly and should boycott the TSA's enhanced screening methods.

Workers at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are racing to reconnect a power cable in the hopes of restarting the cooling system and averting a larger nuclear disaster. Bill Whitaker reports.