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? Equipped with a mask and...
Jun 24, 2020•30 min•Ep. 298
Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the land of the free? Sustained campaigns for change are beginning to pay off. At the community level, it turns out that a whole lot of people and places already make peace without cops. Today, we imagine a world without prisons. It may be closer than we think. Note: This episode originally aired the summer of 2019. Guests: -Esteban Kelly, Executive Director, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. He is also a found...
Jun 19, 2020•31 min
"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news that the Civil War was over and the North had won. We don’t always know what moment we are living in. Or what lies on the other side of now. ... In this 400th year of colonial American slave capitalism we don’t know, for example, what it is to live equal and free." Watch/Listen to this week's LFShow "Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Mod...
Jun 19, 2020•4 min
Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on people of color, the nation has reached a tipping point in relation to racism, policing and public health. The Newark Community Street team in Newark, New Jersey serves as a viable model for realizing many of the demands of advocacy groups such as the Movement for Black Lives, Reclaim the Block, ...
Jun 08, 2020•32 min•Ep. 297
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law." Watch/Listen to this week's LFShow "Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model" The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support by becoming a patron, goto https://Patreon.com/theLFShow That's also where you'll find our series "Forward Thinking on Covid-19". Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabri...
Jun 08, 2020•4 min
Grammy-nominated musician Raul Midón has never fit neatly into any category. A skillful singer-songwriter and guitarist, he melds African and Latin influences, combining jazz with soul and bossa nova with salsa. As an independent musician, he also writes, performs, records and produces all of his own work. His most recent album, The Mirror, was released just days before the US went into lockdown for the Covid-19 crisis, but Midón has used his time at home as an opportunity to perform live for hi...
Jun 03, 2020•31 min•Ep. 296
The skies over Los Angeles may be bluer thanks to the Covid 19 slow-down, but the impact of environmental racism on low income people of color persists. According to a recent Harvard study, where people have been exposed to even slightly higher levels of air pollution the Covid-19 death rate is significantly higher. Nevertheless, the EPA has rolled back its enforcement of pollution regulations. In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez fr...
May 27, 2020•30 min•Ep. 295
"So which will it be? Will this disaster spark a shift for the better? Or will the deadly myths white Americans tell ourselves survive Covid19? Memorial Day messaging bodes ill. " The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support by becoming a patron, goto https://Patreon.com/theLFShow That's also where you'll find our series "Forward Thinking on Covid-19". Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel...
May 22, 2020•4 min
TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of misinformation in a country that is gearing up the fight against Covid-19. More than 80 Mexican media outlets, organizations and universities have organized under #TómateloEnSerioMx to unify their public health message, and they are focusing especially on women and other vulnerable people. Against all the odds, Jordy Meléndez Yúdico, María José Evia and ...
May 20, 2020•31 min•Ep. 294
Dana Brown, Director of the Next System Project frames the motives of privatized medicine in a system, which values profit over people. While nations are racing to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, how can the public gain ownership of big pharma? “We’re really in a situation now where we’ve got socialized risk and privatized benefit” says Brown. Become a Patreon partner to hear the entire interview. Go to https://Patreon.com/theLFShow Soundscape composed by Jeannie Hopper, our talented audio and p...
May 15, 2020•7 min
In this episode, Laura interviews Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Stacyann Chin about her long awaited anthology, Crossfire, and her relationship to a cannon dominated by white men. Despite her success, Chin says that until recently she didn't see herself as a real poet, a poet worthy of an anthology, because her work centers her experiences as a lesbian and a Jamaican national of mixed Chinese and African descent. Support the show and our new series Forward Thinking on Cov...
May 13, 2020•29 min
"When it comes to cashing in on Covid 19 the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking education, or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic dystopian future is being charted fast, while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support by becoming a patron . That's also where you'll find our series "Forward Thinking on Covid-19". Laura Flanders and Friends Crew:...
May 11, 2020•4 min
It's our May Day to Memorial Day Fund Drive. Are you one of 25 subscribers ready to join us during these revolutionary times? Unlock the entire audio podcast version, by becoming a patreon partner. ....Support monthly for $3, $5, $12 or more at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow Your generous support enables us to keep producing audio extras like our Forward Thinking Covid-19 Series and more. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. The tensions being revealed by the COVID-19 epidemic are planted dee...
May 07, 2020•8 min
The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class. What explains our failure to build a more caring state? Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. argues that we must grapple with the divides at the core of our society in order to reimagine the U.S. with a fully inclusive sense of “us.” “What we have to do is tell the truth about who we are. We’re not the best country in the world....
May 06, 2020•30 min•Ep. 293
A pandemic is no place to be a bystander, says Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. In this episode, Laura interviews Sarsour about her recently published memoir We are Not Here to Be Bystanders, which tells her story of growing up in Brooklyn and Palestine and becoming the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York and one of the co-chairs of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. Sarsour describes how Covid-19 is affecting her work, what contact tracing triggers for peop...
Apr 29, 2020•32 min•Ep. 292
The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support by becoming a patron . The latest: "Want to pay the WHO to fight pandemics and poverty around the world for a year? One man called Jeff could do it today and still be worth $114.5 billion as he was at the end of last year. " Watch our NEW SERIES Forward Thinking on Covid-19 where guests offer their view point from a forward looking perspective in their area of expertise. Become a Patreon member ...
Apr 24, 2020•4 min
What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant garde filmmaker and cinema studies professor Su Friedrich about the hidden sheroes of film editing, the names you don’t know but ought to know from Hollywood to Bollywood and beyond. Aside from Blanche Sewell, the editor of The Wizard of Oz, and Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese’s editor for over fifty years, there’s Renu Saluja, who edited many classics of 1990s Indi...
Apr 23, 2020•31 min•Ep. 291
The following features excerpts, to unlock the entire 1 1/2 hour conversation....Support the show by becoming a monthly contributor for $3, $5, $12 or more....easily at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow Your generous support enables us to keep producing audio extras like our forward-thinking content week after week. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. On February 23 at the Hammer Museum in LA, Laura moderated a discussion about the future of environmental justice featuring actor and activist Ja...
Apr 21, 2020•32 min
This week, Laura talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement. If we take the cooperative route, they argue that tomorrow’s online world could distribute rather than concentrate power—but will we? Recorded before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, this conversation about the companies that mediate our lives is more relevant now than ever. Music in the Middle: “Facebook Killed The Arts” by T-Q-X featuring Josh Mease from T-Q-X’...
Apr 15, 2020•32 min•Ep. 290
The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support by becoming a patron . The latest: "It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical dreams and then dance on them. And that’s just what the New York Times did, the day after Bernie Sanders bowed out of the Democratic race for the nomination." Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervising Producer; Jeremiah Cothren-Senior Producer;...
Apr 10, 2020•3 min
Support the show by becoming a monthly contributor for $3, $5, $12 or more....easily HERE Special Series: FORWARD THINKING ON COVID-19 How do homeless people avoid exposure to Covid-19? And where do they quarantine if they test positive for the virus? New York City’s Department of Homeless Services had little in place to deal with a pandemic and over 60,000 people remain in shelters struggling to quarantine. Mental Health Peer Specialist, EMT, and advocate for the homeless, Allilsa Fernandez, te...
Apr 09, 2020•22 min
What does it look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice for help. In the nation that incarcerates more people than any other on earth, there are many reasons why a person might not want to call 911. Undocumented, sick, over-policed, dependent on or in love with an abuser? In this episode, Laura talks with the editors of the just-released book, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative...
Apr 08, 2020•31 min•Ep. 289
Jutta Treviranus pushes back against cultures, policies, and technologies designed only for those deemed "normal." As founder and director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University in Toronto, Treviranus works to challenge and improve the way we build software, make large scale decisions, and govern. If only the majority matters, she says, innovation is stifled and there will always be people left marginalized. Music in the Middle: “If I Could See” by Raul Midon from his upcomin...
Apr 01, 2020•32 min•Ep. 288
Covid 19 Requires Us To Know Each Other. From public health to remote learning, inclusive design leader Jutta Treviranus says Covid-19 is forcing us to rethink how we design response systems. Where we have the greatest vulnerability, we have the greatest chance for innovation. And that’s what it’s going to take for us to survive. Amazing learning moments are coming out of this, but that will require a lot of un-learning. Treviranus is our guest this week on the LF Show. Support theLFShow by beco...
Mar 31, 2020•11 min
"A bridge is only as strong as its weakest part. Former slave turned educator Anna Julia Cooper uttered those very contemporary-sounding words back in 1893. The US didn’t heed them then. We haven’t heeded them yet. The big question, brought home to us one more time by the Covid 19 crisis, is why not? What does American society so love about having weak parts that we refuse, year after year, and epidemic after epidemic to shore them up?" The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commenta...
Mar 27, 2020•4 min
Since October 2019, people in Lebanon have been protesting corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government ineptitude. Where does that work stand now? Laura talks with Lebanese activist/artist Dayna Ash who runs one of the few safe spaces for LGBTQI+ people and women in the region about her experience of organizing in a melt-down. Music in the Middle: “Drown Out the Other”, featuring Danya Ash and her collaborator Nour Sokhon courtesy of the artists. As many of you know, the Laura Flande...
Mar 26, 2020•33 min•Ep. 287
Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the infamous state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia and visit with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama to consider how our society’s mental and political health relate to history. Segrest’s newest book is “Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum” due out...
Mar 19, 2020•34 min•Ep. 286
Support by becoming a patron . The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervising Producer; Jeremiah Cothren-Senior Producer; Veronica Delgado-Video Editor, Janet Hernandez-Communications Director; Jeannie Hopper-Audio Director, Podcast & Radio Producer, Audio Editor, Sound Design, Narrator; Sarah Miller-Development Director, Nat Needham-Editor, Gra...
Mar 13, 2020•3 min
For more information on Okwui Okpokwasili's work, a link to watch this episode along with additional research materials, go to Patreon.com/theLFShow . That’s also where you can easily become a member for as little as $3 to $12 a month. We couldn’t do the show without you and continue to bring you uplifting voices and issues that matter. Subscribed via Apple Podcasts? Please write a review and we’ll share it on the show . Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer;...
Mar 11, 2020•31 min•Ep. 285
In this episode, Laura interviews the founder of One Billion Rising and VDay, Eve Ensler , world renowned playwright, author and activist, along with activist, singer, songwriter Taína Asili about One Billion Rising 2020 , a global movement to stop violence against women and girls by organizing public demonstrations rooted in music and dance. They discuss the role that joyous public movement and song can and must play in soothing trauma, raising awareness, and building solidarity among women acr...
Mar 04, 2020•28 min•Ep. 284
