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, Jun 7	11:30 A.M.	Public Safety In Public Hands: The Newark Model NH World (11.3) Host Laura Flanders visits Newark, New Jersey, to look in-depth at one city where decades of police reform efforts failed to stop violence and crime.
Sun, Jun 14	11:30 A.M.	Building a Democratic Economy from Cleveland to Preston NH World (11.3) In Preston, England, they're experimenting with investing public Cleveland, Ohio, home of the Evergreen Cooperatives.
Sun, Jun 21	11:30 A.M.	Whose Economy Is It? The Options for New York NH World (11.3) cooperative in the U.S., based in the Bronx. report on Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker-owned city like New York might change its economic model, so as to share Laura attends an historic gathering at the School for Labor and Urban Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) to explore how a wealth and power more democratically.
Sun, Jun 28	11:30 A.M.	LANDBACK: A Tipi Village Takes on Healing & Homelessness NH World (11.3) addiction and violence against Native Americans. In this special Laura visits "He Sapa,'' the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral lands to address homelessness, tribal trust land that welcomed hundreds of unhoused Indigenous people and others in the Rapid City area in the dead of winter.
Sun, Jul 5	11:30 A.M.	Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection NH World (11.3) Private tactical training facilities have proliferated across North Carolina - many located on the outskirts of rural, predominantly Black towns - creating extreme noise pollution and fear, say local community members.
Sun, Jul 12	11:30 A.M.	Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism with Rice NH World (11.3) A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast - a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land theft and white violence.