Human Rights at Home, Healthcare Reform and the Economic Crisis, and Dave ZirinWhere do human rights begin? Many would say they begin right here at home. Closing Guantanamo is a start but the fight for Human Rights goes much deeper. Catherine Powell, the author of Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration and an associate professor of Law at Fordham Law School says that human rights should include access to health care, equal opportunity for education, a living wage, and the elimination of racial and ethnic discrimination in U.S. prisons. And Barack Obama can initiate a process of human rights reform through his appointments to domestic agencies, the Justice Department and by reestablishing the Interagency Working Group on Human Rights created under Clinton and abolished by George W. Bush.There are opportunities. Laura Whitehorn a political prisoner for fourteen years and the editor of POZ magazine says that the United States can no longer use the war on terror and the threat of terrorism to justify the abdication of human rights law. In essence, preventive detention has been legalized under the Bush administration.But improving the U.S. human rights record will not necessarily come from the top down. Ajamu Baraka a leading human rights activist and the Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network says that it’s up to activists and the American public to push for more sweeping reform. And he thinks the public is up to it. Contrary to the U.S. record abroad and at home over the last eight years, the American public is very much in support of global human rights. 2-Cent with Project N.O. takes a look at the intersection of human rights and post-Katrina politics. And Eallin Animation from the Czech Republic and Art for Amnesty explore the meaning of the universal declaration of human rights. Then, Dave Zirin, a regular contributor to The Nation Magazine and the author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States, responds to some who have said that athletes of color paved the way for Barack Obama’s victory. Mike Bianchi writing in the Orlando Sentinel said, “If you're searching for tangible reasons why it became possible for Barack Obama to make his historic run at the presidency of the United States, then look no further than the golf course, basketball court or football field.” According to Zirin that sentiment is embarrassingly wrong.Finally, Michael Lighty, Policy Director of the California Nurses Association and Olveen Carrasquillo, Vice President and Policy Director of Latinos for National Health Insurance on healthcare reform and the economic crisis. With an ailing economy it is likely that the number of Americans who are uninsured will rise. Will Obama's healthcare plan do anything to mitigate the crisis? And will single payer healthcare, which Lighty argues will actually serve as an economic stimulus, get a hearing? Thanks to Witness, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Jolu Productions, and Jonathan Mena for video in tonight's show. Less