Full Episode Notes are posted at Patreon.com/theLFShow We revisit an 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. From labor strikes to racial uprisings to climate action to the Great Resignation, they reflect on the renewed power of collective organizing and the changing tide in economic ...
Dec 17, 2021•33 min•Ep. 364
"When Marx was writing, just under 200 years ago, jobs were still a relatively new and contentious concept. "Wage slavery "as the liberal economists of the day called it, forced people to rent their labor out to others - at a loss. It wasn't slavery, but it wasn't freedom, either. ...." Related episode to check out: This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything LISTEN / WATCH Flex your media muscles , become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 or make a one time donation La...
Dec 14, 2021•4 min
Full Episode Notes are posted at Patreon.com/theLFShow Many of the world’s most successful businesses began as someone’s good idea. But the path from startup to conventional financial success typically involves going public, prioritizing shareholders’ interests, and ultimately selling to a giant conglomerate whose intentions are far from the original mission of the business’s founders. In this episode, Laura interviews guests who say this conventional path of success is desperately in need of an...
Dec 10, 2021•31 min•Ep. 363
"A Free Press is vital if we are to have any chance at a functioning democracy. On that, you’d think, Right and Left might agree...." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervising Producer; Jeremiah Cothren-Senior Producer; Veronica Delgado-Video Editor, Janet Hernandez-Comm...
Dec 07, 2021•4 min
We do not accept advertisements or government funding. We are independent movement media for the people, and funded by the people! Become a member by making a one time donation or make it a monthly contribution at https://LauraFlanders.org/donate It’s that time of year when we all need resilience: elections, holidays, the change of seasons. Many of us need fortitude to get through. Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis would add that we need Fierce Love too. Reverend Jacqui is senior minister of Middle Coll...
Dec 03, 2021•29 min•Ep. 362
Will you help us meet our goal to raise $5,000 that will be matched, but only if we meet our goal? Donate at https://LauraFlanders.org/donate We do not accept advertisements or government funding. We are media for the people! From the contest for governor of Virginia to school board races across the country, opposition to Critical Race Theory proved an effective tactic for Republican candidates to defeat Democrats in this November’s election. Does that justify the conclusions drawn by many in th...
Nov 26, 2021•32 min•Ep. 361
Support the show by becoming a member as a monthly supporter at Patreon.com/theLFShow We do not accept corporate or government funding. We rely on you! Full Episode Notes are posted at Patreon.com/theLFShow for members and non-members. In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honoring the traditional, legal, and moral rights of native nations. Earlier this year, a group of Native organizers travel...
Nov 19, 2021•29 min•Ep. 360
Support the show by becoming a member as a monthly supporter at Patreon.com/theLFShow We do not accept corporate or government funding. We rely on you! Full Episode Notes are posted at Patreon.com/theLFShow for members and non-members. 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.S. immigration patterns? In this month’s edition of Meet the BIPOC Press, guest hosts Sara ...
Nov 12, 2021•29 min•Ep. 359
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "Changing the Future with India Walton... Buffalo drew attention this election season after first-time candidate, long-time activist, India Walton won the Democratic primary, positioning her to become this Democratic city’s first African American woman and first Democratic Socialist mayor." Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura ...
Nov 09, 2021•4 min•Ep. 358
Support the show by becoming a member as a monthly supporter for $3 $5 or more at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow We do not accept corporate or government funding. We rely on you! Full Episode Notes are posted at Patreon.com/theLFShow for members and non-members. 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. Laura Flanders first interviewed Walton in...
Nov 05, 2021•30 min•Ep. 357
Portions of this historic interview are featured in this week's radio show & podcast , and Public TV & YouTube In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY Representative 14th District) and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky—for the first time ever—to discuss the way forward for people, politics, and the planet. From labor strikes to racial uprisings to climate action to the Great Resignation,...
Nov 04, 2021•58 min
Check out the full episode notes and become a member at Patreon.com/theLFShow 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. From labor strikes to racial uprisings to climate action to the Great Resignation, they reflect on the renewed power of collective organizing and the changing ...
Oct 29, 2021•32 min•Ep. 356
Join us live Sunday October 24th 7pm ET for a online screening & discussion of this week's episode, Register, for more Info and full episode notes goto=> Patreon.com/theLFShow The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the for-profit business of training guns-for-hire is booming -- literally -- in the backyards of many rural Americans. In this special episode, The Laura Flanders Show travel...
Oct 22, 2021•30 min•Ep. 355
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. How are activists shutting down radicalized militia training facilities in defense of community safety? "Veteran activists organizing across this state [North Carolina], are concerned about a seemingly unmonitored flow of military grade weapons, training, and white warrior ideology out of the state’s privatized military and into civilian lives." Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member...
Oct 19, 2021•4 min
Check out the full episode notes and become a member at Patreon.com/theLFShow In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.S. Senate is negotiating a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package. President Biden, among others, is calling for extensive investment to lower emissions and combat the effects of climate change. But what sort of investment? In this episode, Laura interviews environmental lawyer Colette Pichon Battle in Louisiana about the strategies organizers there have deve...
Oct 15, 2021•29 min•Ep. 354
The following audio exclusive features the entire uncut interview with NDN Collective’s Director of Racial Equity, Sunny Red Bear of the Lakota Nation. Excerpts of this interview were included in our recent special “LANDBACK! A Tipi Town Approach to Healing & Homelessness”. In this special feature, Laura traveled to the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral lands to address homelessness, addiction and violence against Native Americans. Laura reported...
Oct 14, 2021•32 min
Check out the full episode notes, along with an invitation to join guests from the episode with Laura for a live premiere and chat event to view this week’s episode via our YouTube channel, Sundays 11:30am EDT, at Patreon.com/theLFShow On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral lands to address homelessness, addiction and violence against Native Americans. Catalyzed in 2020, by an action in which ...
Oct 08, 2021•29 min•Ep. 353
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. October is National Co-op Month. "Worker co-ops like New Era demonstrate that it’s certainly possible to run a successful business while prioritizing safety and treating workers like fellow humans." Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervisi...
Oct 05, 2021•3 min•Ep. 352
You'll find a link to watch this episode, check out the episode notes posted along with an invitation to join guests and Laura for a live premiere and chat event to view this week’s episode via our YouTube channel, Sunday's 11:30am, at Patreon.com/theLFShow 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 ...
Oct 01, 2021•31 min•Ep. 351
You'll find a link to watch this episode, check out the episode notes posted along with an invitation to join guests and Laura for a live premiere and chat event to view this week’s episode via our YouTube channel, Sunday's 11:30am, at Patreon.com/theLFShow 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. Many made sweeping promises to support Black-owned businesses, but now, over one year later,...
Sep 24, 2021•30 min•Ep. 350
The following is the full uncut conversation with Colette Pichon Battle, Lawyer & Founder and Executive Director, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, from our episode "Ecology: The Infrastructure of the Future?" In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.S. Senate is negotiating a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package. President Biden, among others, is calling for extensive investment to lower emissions and combat the effects of climate change. But what sort of investm...
Sep 23, 2021•23 min
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can only take us so far." Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervising Producer; Jeremiah Cothren-Sen...
Sep 21, 2021•4 min
In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.S. Senate is negotiating a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package. President Biden, among others, is calling for extensive investment to lower emissions and combat the effects of climate change. But what sort of investment? In this episode, Laura interviews environmental lawyer Colette Pichon Battle in Louisiana about the strategies organizers there have developed since Hurricane Katrina for equitable green development and climate just...
Sep 17, 2021•31 min•Ep. 349
You'll find a link to watch this episode, check out the episode notes posted along with an invitation to join guests and Laura for a live premiere and chat event to view this week’s episode via our YouTube channel, Sunday's 11:30am, at Patreon.com/theLFShow 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. At the same time, pro-democracy movements are...
Sep 10, 2021•30 min•Ep. 348
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow 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 ...
Sep 07, 2021•3 min
For full episode notes including related episodes from our archives, a research and reading list and more goto: https://Patreon.com/theLFShow 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. All of Complete Picture’s films have resulted in a sentence reduction and half of th...
Sep 03, 2021•30 min•Ep. 346
The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) formed during the pandemic to support independent performance venues and promoters. NIVA now encompasses over 3,000 independent venues in 50 states including Washington D.C. They’ve pressured the Small Business Administration to act. By the end of 2020, the Small Business Association (SBA) signed the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, the largest arts funding program in history with $16 billion dollars allocated for independent venues. It took mont...
Sep 02, 2021•4 min
You'll find a link to watch this episode, check out the episode notes posted along with an invitation to join guests and Laura for a live premiere and chat event to view this week’s episode via our YouTube channel, Sunday's 11:30am, at Patreon.com/theLFShow If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors across the full spectrum of our media thinking about this? This week, we're introducing some new ...
Aug 27, 2021•29 min•Ep. 335
The following is the full uncut conversation from our TV, Radio & Podcast episode: "Gender Justice Requires more than Money say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid" Note: Full episode notes are available to members and non-members at Patreon.com/theLFShow MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in historically underfunded sectors - her third such drop in a year. But while Sco...
Aug 24, 2021•18 min
For full episode notes including related episodes, research and reading links goto: https://Patreon.com/theLFShow As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain momentum in their fight to end reliance on fossil fuels. In Minnesota, Enbridge plans to build another pipeline, violating treaties and threatening the Mississippi Watershed. The company says its new pipeline is essential to our energy system....
Aug 20, 2021•28 min•Ep. 334
