Chokehold: Policing Black Men

From I will not to yes we will. This week on the Laura Flanders Show as the midterm elections play out, we look at the struggle for good governance in these United States and hear from Historian Jeff Biggers, Dream Defender Philip Agnew, and Deb Haaland on her race to be the first Native American woman in the US Congress. Plus, women’ s suffrage fighter Susan B. Anthony, and the voice of the people’s historian, Howard Zinn.

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, something unexpected rose up out of the devastation in the Rockaways, worker-owned businesses. Now 6 years later, we get an update from Lorena Giron and Brendan Martin of The Working World, an organization focused on starting and sustaining cooperatives in low-income communities. We also hear from noted Marxist geographer and anthropologist, David Harvey about the perils of the "State-Finance Nexus" in the face of economic upheaval.