THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW is an award-winning public affairs series that reports on community-led initiatives across the U.S. creating a more inclusive society. Host Laura Flanders - a New York broadcast journalist, author and contributing writer to The Nation - talks with experts and people on the front lines of artistic, cultural, social and economic movements. Each episode blends reporting with in-depth interviews of leaders in the arts and small business world, profiling individuals and organizations uplifting and revitalizing their communities.
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Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where long time farmworkers are able to buy their own land.
The U.S. transportation system has long been rife with inequality, making it more difficult for low-income people, people of color, and people with disabilities to get where they need to go.
"Defund the police" became a rallying cry in the summer of 2020 as demonstrators flooded streets across the United States to demand an end to police brutality in the wake of the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd at the hands of the police.
The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn't simply to "build back better.
The Trump years have seen a doubling-down on the immigrants-as-problem narrative in which migrants are accused of bringing gang violence, crime, and disease to the United States, and of "stealing" jobs.
In the aftermath of the January 6th siege of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, Laura convenes a panel of pro-democracy activists to discuss the fate of the nation.
Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights.
The right wing has found its newest racist wedge issue: Critical Race Theory.
Crip Camp is a Peabody Award-winning documentary from Netflix and Higher Ground Productions that tells the story of Camp Jened, a summer camp in the 1960s where disabled youth could be themselves.
This July, America's largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia.
New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November.
The Compton Pledge is paying 800 families up to $600 per month to give them a leg up.
What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film and storytelling to give judges an in-depth, humanizing look at the lives of defendants facing prison for non-violent crimes.
Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities-all of these are turning up the heat on American democracy.
In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.
A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racism.
When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners of Opportunity Threads in Morganton, North Carolina stepped up, retooling to make PPE for New York caregivers.
In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky-for the first time ever-to discuss the way forward for people, politics, and the planet.
Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman-and first Democratic Socialist-to lead the city.
Could a city reduce violent crime by planting more trees? How will the culture of work adapt to the climate crisis? What will increased flooding in the Global South do to U.
Many of the world's most successful businesses began as someone's good idea.
"Had the government stepped in and done its job, had they not advocated against vaccines and mask mandates, we wouldn't have been frantically gathering our children to cut up bedsheets to make masks for medical workers and everyone else.
Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States.
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women's freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerable just as the world is learning how counterproductive most incarceration - solutions are.
As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliche but according to this week's guest it's true.
Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban revitalization.
Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it's more controversial than ever.
More than 20 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats at the start of Black History Month - including a threat on Valentine's Day at Howard University.
The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual ceasefire but not before displacing millions and damaging the air, water and land of what was known as the bread basket for the world.
Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans - Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be what's happening now, but could it also be a bellwether of a different sort? Why is the reactionary backlash and the resistance to it that's happening in Texas vital for the rest of the country? Our guests today say that their state could be a predictor of how 21st century change happens, when people organize differently.
In this special feature for Earth Day, we focus on just one group: Greenpeace, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
The fight over what can and can't be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year.
McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US - a place that embodies the challenges facing many American areas in transition.
The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-ally Victor Orban.
The January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, intended to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America, "was as close to fascism as I ever want to see our country come," says Jamie Raskin, Democratic Congressman from Maryland.
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