From the bottom up. That's the approach taken by Transition Towns; how to bring people together in hard hit towns and effectivley revitalize them. Burt's guest today, Tina Clarke, talks about communities coming together, listening to one another, shairing in economic costs and benefits.

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What the heck is going on with Yemen? Suddenly America seems quite interested in the few Al Qaeda operatives and Burt's guest today, Conn Hallinan, of Foreign Policy in Focus, sheds a lot of light on the complex realities behind the snapshot image you see on corporate news. Could it be yet another big muddy?

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Cracking down on undocumented immigrants may be a priority of the hard right, but Burt's guest today, Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum insists comprehensive reform, now working its way through congress, can be of significant benefit to our economy.

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Today's guest is author Michael Lind, policy director of the New America Foundation, who argues that Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 State of the Union speech ranks right up there with King's " I Have a Dream" speech and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. He called for a second bill of rights: economic rights. Rights, not priviledges: what a concept.

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