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Beyond the Headlines of the Ferguson Story
This week on the "The Laura Flanders Show" we talk about making movies about systems, not gunshots with one of the directors of the documentary "Whose Streets?" As the news cameras left Ferguson, Missouri, after the police killing of Michael Brown, Sabaah Folayan and her team stayed on to document what happens to people subjected to police violence as a matter of routine. And an F Word from me on surveillance. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention and if you are, well the feds know about it.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
Special Report: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party's Radical Rise
This week on the "Laura Flanders Show" we talk about what's happening in the U.K., where one of the two main parties is picking up many of the radical demands coming out of movement groups seeking to transform the economy and society.
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Laura Flanders Show
All Families Belong Together: Immigration and Incarceration
This week, the Laura Flanders Show discusses how families are torn apart at the border and through our prison system.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
Bodies, Borders, Resistance, Rebirth: Arundhati Roy
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Laura Flanders Show
Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland
The formerly industrial city of Preston, Lancashire, England is experimenting with a new model of community wealth building that has inspired Cleveland, another formerly industrial city across the pond.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
A Public Bank for Public Good
This week "The Laura Flanders Show" explores whether a public bank is possible and how this type of institution help worker co-ops, students, entrepreneurs.
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Individuals can protect themselves from surveillance intended to control and police people of color, women, and immigrants by securing their exposure on their cell phones. This tutorial shows you how.
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Laura Flanders Show
Some connecting threads stand out in recent mass shootings. Not because they are more important than others but because they weave so relatively quietly through the news accounts.
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Societies traumatized by disaster accept things they’d normally reject, whether socially-minded or opportunistic.
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Laura Flanders Show
Black Lives Matter has emerged organically as one of the most important movements of this era.
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Ten years post-Katrina, Laura Flanders explores the race, class, and gender outlines of New Orleans' recovery.
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Rep Pramila Jayapal and Baltimore activist Dominique Stevenson discuss activism, political involvement and why leaders should consider running for office. Then Stevenson takes us on to a community farming project in Sandtown (Freddie Gray's neighborhood).
Laura Flanders Show
Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the new National Director of the Working Families Party, joins us in studio. Laura and Maurice discuss his activist background, the WFP's national and international vision, and how the organization is tackling this midterm election year.
Laura Flanders Show
Two forms of government have dominated in the west over the last hundred years. In one big power is vested in the state, the government, in the other policy is dominated by the influence of big industry, big corporations, or big money. Well a hundred years after the Russian revolution, and ten years after the financial crash, a whole lot of people all around the world are saying “are there any alternatives?” especially as neither of those models has delivered on a promise of shared prosperity.
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