A Spanish cemetery is threatening to evict thousands of people in their supposedly final resting places - claiming that their leases are up and caretakers and relatives need to pay up. For some reason - many Spanish cemeteries no longer allow people to buy gravesites - instead they offer leases up to 49 years - which falls well short of the intended move-out date...eternity. Already - the remains of 420 people have been dug up for failure to pay rent.

Russ Baker, author, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty joins Thom Hartmann. The Occupy movement received a boost yesterday from senior citizens. To send a message to Congress about plans to cut Medicare and Social Security - cuts that will likely come out of the Gang of 12 - hundreds of senior citizen patriots occupied a downtown intersection in Chicago. They were joined by nearby members of Occupy Chicago and other grassroots organizations - as well as a few members of Congress including Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Danny Davis. Ultimately - police moved in to break up the demonstration - hauling away 47 people - mostly senior citizens - away in handcuffs. We can add their names to the growing list of 3362 patriots who've been arrested since the Occupy movement started more than a month and a half ago. But these mass arrests of patriots instead of banksters don't jive with the attitudes of most of the American people. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows Occupy Wall Street popularity surging with 60% of Americans supporting the basic sentiment of the occupiers. That's twice as much support as the Tea Party received in the same poll. So while more and more Americans seem to be "getting it" when it comes to the 99% movement - there's still one group that's woefully ignorant...the corporate media.

Tyson Slocumb, Public Citizen & Kyle Ash, Greenpeace USA. There was a huge victory for the planet yesterday as Australia passed a new carbon tax law. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard played a key role in ushering the law through the lower chambers of government amid fierce opposition by big polluter interests. She said her nation "made history" when the law was finally passed. Beginning next July - Australia's 500 biggest polluters will begin paying for the damage they're causing - with a tax on every ton of carbon emissions. Similar legislation was passed by Democrats in the House of Representatives back in 2009 - but died thanks to a Republican filibuster in the Senate. Former Vice President Al Gore applauded the new Australian law - writing, "This is a historic moment...With this vote, the world has turned a pivotal corner in the collective effort to solve the climate crisis...Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we do everything we can to ensure that this legislation is successful." So what does this mean - and what are the chances of similar carbon taxes coming to the United States?

Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America (DFA) & Cliff Schecter, Libertas, LLC & Amanda Beadle, Think Progress.org joins Thom Hartmann. It's Election Day - also known as the day when voters across the nation can have their say about the radical anti-American agenda being pushed by Republicans. At the top of the list issues soon to be decided is the fate of SB-5 in Ohio - the law passed by state Republicans to strip public sector workers of their legal rights to collectively bargain. Early polling showed the harsh anti-union law headed for repeal today - as a majority of Ohioans tell pollsters they're against the right-wing war on labor, and think Governor Kasich overstepped his mandate. Meanwhile - up in Maine - voters go to the polls to repeal several new laws passed by Republicans that make it harder to vote. These new laws now require voter IDs - they make it more difficult for people to register - and they shorten early voting. According to reporting from the Center for American Progress - a secret conservative donor has dumped a quarter-million dollars into that election to make sure these laws stay on the books. But early polling in Maine too - showed a majority of voters in support of repealing these anti-democratic laws. So as the votes are being counted right now - there's a chance that come tomorrow - workers in Ohio will be allowed to collectively bargain again - and voters in Maine will be able to vote. Unfortunately, down in Mississippi - it looks like voters ...

What does GOP TV - aka Fox so-called News - have to do with the domestic terrorism?

Thom speaks with activists who witnessed the violence at annual Americans for Prosperity convention in Washington, DC. Later, he interviews author and humanist cultural critic, Morris Berman for a special edition of "Conversations with Great Minds".

Morris Berman, author Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline. "Why America Failed" is the third volume of his trilogy on the decline of the American empire. In it - Morris Berman examines America's commitment to economic liberalism and free enterprise going as far back as the late sixteenth century, and concludes that this ideology, combined with technological progress, was an inevitable recipe for creating the demise of the American empire as we are experiencing today. He served on the faculty of a number of universities in the United States, Canada and Europe and he currently resides in Mexico where he writes for a number of publications worldwide.

Morris Berman, author Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline. "Why America Failed" is the third volume of his trilogy on the decline of the American empire. In it - Morris Berman examines America's commitment to economic liberalism and free enterprise going as far back as the late sixteenth century, and concludes that this ideology, combined with technological progress, was an inevitable recipe for creating the demise of the American empire as we are experiencing today. He served on the faculty of a number of universities in the United States, Canada and Europe and he currently resides in Mexico where he writes for a number of publications worldwide.

Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church and State joins Thom Hartmann. In "Everything You Know is Wrong" my expert guests challenge the conventional wisdom on the very things that most of us just assume to be "the truth" even though we've never really stopped to think about the real story behind the accepted norm. Last week - Republicans in the House of Representatives decided not to take up legislation to create jobs - and instead to take up legislation to re-affirm the motto of the United States as "In God We Trust." But is "In God We Trust" REALLY the national motto - at least the one that our Founding Fathers intended? If you think that is the case - then everything you know about our national motto might be wrong!

A bronze Ronald Reagan statue in Newport Beach was leaning to the left early Sunday morning, after an unidentified driver tried to tear it down like we did the statues of Saddam Hussein

While a fourth woman has come forward to say that Herman Cain tried - sexually - to screw her, his "brothers by a different mother," the Koch Brothers, are continuing their efforts to economically screw the American middle class. But are we going to see politicus interruptus? With elections in Ohio to determine the fate of the radical anti-union law known as SB-5 - Republican Governor John Kasich and his buddies are doing anything they can to stop repeal of the law he has lusted over. So on Friday - Ohio Republicans prematurely ended early voting to keep people away from the polls. The Ohio Secretary of State - Jon Husted - who also has a cozy relationship with ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council - ordered the polling stations to be closed despite the fact that early voting in Ohio has always been available to the public in previous elections. But this election is different, due to a new law - passed by Republicans in the state legislature - that conveniently took effect last week and bars early voting three days before an election. And as we all know - this latest effort to cut off people from the polls is "just the tip" of right-wing voter suppression efforts around the country. So how might this rejection of democracy affect tomorrow's vote? And will Governor John Kasich get any satisfaction?

Adele Stan, Alternet & Ethan Rome, Health Care For America Now join Thom Hartmann. The Koch brothers got occupied over the weekend. As the Kochs hosted their annual Americans for Prosperity convention on Friday night - hundreds of Occupy DC demonstrators marched to the event to join in as well. So while the Tea Party crowd was wooed by the likes of Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and GOP TV talking heads inside the Washington, DC convention center, roughly 500 American patriots peacefully assembled outside the convention to demonstrate against the Koch brothers. Occasionally, the convention was interrupted by 99-percenters who managed to sneak in. But as is usual with the Occupy movement - it didn't take long before there was a violent backlash against the patriotic occupiers. According to reports - a silver Lexus drove right into the crowd of demonstrators running over two people - and then running over a third as it tried to flee. DC police officers stopped the vehicle - but let the driver go shortly after with no criminal charges. Instead, police ended up arresting members of Occupy DC who took to the streets outraged that the hit and run driver was let free. Run a patriot over - you're free to go. Protest letting hit and run drivers walk - you're going to jail. But aside from that incident - there were other questions raised regarding the tactics behind the Occupy the Kochs demonstration - and just how non-violent it really was.

: Comedian and activist, Dick Gregory joins Thom for the first half hour of Conversations with Great Minds. Later in the show, Thom debates the jobs and poverty crisis in America and Vermont's single healthcare payer system in the weekly rumble.

Derek Hunter, Townhall, Tony Katz, The Tony Katz Show & Erikka Knuti, Democratic strategist all join Thom for one of the most "roudy" panels. They rumble on jobs, the poverty crisis, the Gang of 12, Occupy Wall Street and other potential sex scandals.

For tonight's Converation with Great Minds - I am joined by Dick Gregory to talk about Occupy Wall Street, his activist work on the death penalty for a white supremacist, the Keystone Pipeline and more. Dick Gregory is a comedian, social activist writer, and entrepreneur whose work has redefined how Americans perceive political comedy and African American comedians. He got his first big break when he was hired by Hugh Hefner to perform stand up at the Chicago Playboy Club in 1961 and he hasn't stopped since. He began political activism by running against Richard J. Daley for the mayor's office in Chicago in 1967 and followed that up with a write-in campaign for the Oval Office in 1968 as a candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party. He has devoted himself to many causes throughout his career as an activist - including civil rights, women's rights, anti-war campaigns, the international anti-apartheid movement and environmental protection issues. When Thom Hartmann ran a community for abused kids in New England in the early 1980s, he was on the advisory board, and did fundraisers for the Salem program, and he traveled with Thom to Uganda during the end of the war with Idi Amin to set up famine and medical relief programs. He has devoted his life to using his considerable talents and gifts to helping others. He now finds himself on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Standups of All Time and has his own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.