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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit has come at a cost to public services and public trust. Could it be different? On this week's show, we talk about the new conversations that are happening between labor unions and community members. Between residents, workers, and employers about how everyone's economy can move forward.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
How can we harness the transformation of the information revolution for good?
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Laura Flanders Show
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
Who gets a say in designing where they live and what if more of us did?
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Amazon Pulls Out When NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2
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Laura Flanders Show
The Next Economy: Worker-Led, for Public Interest
It has been 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the financial crash and people are building economic alternatives to climate devastation and capitalist extraction.
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Laura Flanders Show
Special Report: Ableism Out, Independent Living Now!
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The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the Black and Brown populace across the United States but the rates of infection are at their highest within the Navajo Nation.
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Racial justice and economic justice are indelibly linked. According to Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, we can’t have one without the other.
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The global race is on to create vaccines and treatments for Covid-19, but who will own the products that are developed?
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New York State might have "flattened the curve," but the country’s largest metropolitan area is still grappling with the effects of the coronavirus.
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White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked. Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been catastrophic for public health and yet, the majority of white voters support exactly those policies. The spectacle of hundreds of mostly white, unmasked Trump supporters crammed into indoor rally venues during a pandemic exemplifies this phenomenon.
Laura Flanders Show
Although the toll of the coronavirus has been most acute in urban areas, the virus has been spreading in rural America. The reasons behind the uptick are numerous, from lack of medical providers, hospitals and personal protective equipment, to limited broadband and large proportions of uninsured, and poorly protected farm and factory workers. “They’re treated as essential workers but not essential human beings,” Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis?
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2020-07-08T00:30:00-07:00Link TV
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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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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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