Five years ago this month, in April of 2004, the first photographs from inside Abu Ghraib appeared in the US media. The photos showed Iraqi prisoners being tortured, abused and humiliated by US forces and private contractors. The initial reports of abuse came from Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq. We speak with Peggy Gish and Art Gish of the Christian Peacemaker Team. [includes rush transcript]

We turn now to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Kenyan environmentalist, lawmaker and civil society activist, Wangari Maathai. Her latest book, The Challenge for Africa, tackles the broad obstacles to living in peace, justice, environmental and economic security for the one billion people across the continent of Africa. [includes rush transcript]

National demonstrations are scheduled in more than fifty cities across the country tomorrow to protest the government's handling of the economic crisis. The demonstrations are organized by the recently launched group A New Way Forward. They are calling on the government to take three main actions on the country's banks: nationalize, reorganize and decentralize. [includes rush transcript]

US Attack Kills 5 Afghan Civilians, Wounds Pregnant Mother, Obama to Request $84.3B for War, Iraqis Stage Massive Anti-US Protest, CIA Head: Overseas Prisons Closed, Contractors Barred from Interrogations, Marine Acquitted Despite Confessing to Killing Unarmed Iraqi, Court OKs Apartheid Victims' Suit Against US Companies, Morales Stages Hunger Strike for Electoral Reform, Thousands Protest Georgian President, Protesters Tell Summers "We Want Our Money Back", Palestinian Doctor Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Failed Nuclear Funding Measure Reinserted into Senate Budget Bill, Terrorism Charges Dropped Against RNC 8, Poll Shows Declining Support for Capitalism, CDC: US Food Safety Efforts Fail to Improve, Massive Cutbacks Proposed at Detroit Schools

As we broadcast from Raleigh, we look at how the economic crisis has impacted the Carolinas with Chris Kromm, executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies and a writer for the blog "Facing South." South Carolina has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation at 11 percent, just ahead of North Carolina. [includes rush transcript]