Laura Flanders & Friends

THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW is back with more award-winning interviews and investigative reporting on the people and movements driving positive systemic change in our world today. Hosted by multi-media reporter and author Laura Flanders, the series features smart, solutions-driven conversations with forward-thinking people, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Indian writer Arundhati Roy, actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, and actress/activist Laverne Cox. Laura and her team also report from the field on cutting-edge innovations and topics such as collective ownership and ways that organizations across the country are addressing disparity in the housing market. Every month, contributors S. Mitra Kalita and Sara Lomax, co-founders of the URL Media network, join Laura for "Meet the BIPOC Press," a monthly feature of the show highlighting reporters of color from minority-owned and operated media outlets from around the country. THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW Season 5 is independently-produced and recorded in a small cabin in rural Sullivan County, New York.

Sun, Jul 26	11:30 A.M.	Angela Davis: A Revolutionary Roadmap for Building a Better Future NH World (11.3) Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movement for abolition and feminism who has lots to share about her evolution and how decades of activism are coming together.
Sun, Aug 2	11:30 A.M.	Illinois Successfully Ends Cash Bail: Why Is No One Talking About It? NH World (11.3) in jail. Bail reform has faced tremendous pushback, but Illinois disproportionately impacts Black and Brown people, and favors the implemented the first-of-its-kind Pretrial Fairness Act, ending cash wealthy who can buy their freedom while leaving the poor to languish The discriminatory and unjust for-profit cash bail system bail statewide in 2023.
Sun, Aug 9	11:30 A.M.	The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy NH World (11.3) Carolina. Laura meets residents and leaders from across the state who insurrection unfolded, many Americans watched in shock, but it has being decided in out-of-the way towns like theirs.
Sun, Aug 16	11:30 A.M.	Ask Angola Prison: What Difference Can A Play Make? NH World (11.3) Angola Prison. Although she had permission to perform and bring a middle of her performance.
Sun, Aug 23	11:30 A.M.	How to Break the "CYCLE" of Police Killing? Listen to Survivors NH World (11.3) who was shot to death after being pulled over by a Mount Pleasant police officer for riding a bicycle with no headlights.
Sun, Aug 30	11:30 A.M.	Prison Creative Arts Project: Imagination in the Face of Incarceration NH World (11.3) artists, facilitates creative arts workshops and even hosts an annual Prison: Survival and Resistance" is a new book based on the project.