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Economist Brad DeLong noted on his blog that part of the productivity gain in the U.S. economy comes not from job production, but from squeezing more work out of employees scared to lose their jobs.

"Movies are about movement," says documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, and in his newest film, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, he examines the movement of ballet. The film gets inside the workings of the ballet, from rehearsals to marketing sessions, and follows the company through the production of seven ballets: Genus by Wayne McGregor, Le Songe de Med?e by Angelin Preljocaj, La Maison de Bernarda by Mats Ek, Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, Casse Noisette by Rudolph Noureev, Orph?e and Eurydice by Pina Bausch, and Romeo and Juliette by Sasha Waltz.

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This week's Got Docs? is Americana, by director Topaz Adizes. Looking at the story of two young men who are preparing to enlist, the film follows their story while also traveling the world and looking at people who've lived under American bombs and carried American guns. Beautifully shot, at times it almost feels like a fiction film, alas it is all too real.

Last week, world leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit and delivered - as usual - lots of talk but little promise for action. There was definitely lots of action on the city's streets as security forces clashed with protesters. Bill Quigley, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Storms Still Raging Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice is just back from Pittsburgh and breaks down the week's events for us.Then, we talk to three queer cartoonists about what the medium represents for them. Cartoons have always dealt with the subversive but our guests today share with us how identity politics - questions of gender, race, class, sexuality - find an arena for exploration and expression through this medium.Jennifer Camper, who recently completed the second book in her Juicy Mother series joins Carlo Quispe, currently a teacher at the Hetrick-Martin Institute/Harvey Milk School in NYC. And on the line from the West Coast, Erika Lopez, author, artist, performer and self-described Welfare Queen who's bringing her show to the East Coast this coming Thursday at The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance here in New York City. And Yes Magazine's Sarah Van Gelder says we need new strategies to wake people up to the urgency of climate change. We check in with her for some fresh ideas. Finally, this week's documentary-in-the-making blazes through the fog of war to reveal the scars underneath. Check out Topaz Adizes's Americana in this week's Got Docs?Thanks to Sally Kohn of the Center for Community Change and Mobile Broadcast News for video in tonight's show.