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Laura Flanders
Best-selling author and broadcaster Laura Flanders hosts the The Laura Flanders Show, where she interviews forward thinking people about the key questions of our time. The LF Show airs weekly on KCET/LinkTV, FreeSpeech TV, and in English & Spanish in teleSUR. Flanders is also a contributing writer to The Nation and Yes! Magazine (“Commonomics”) and a regular guest on MSNBC. She is the author of six books, including The New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). The Laura Flanders Show first aired on Air America Radio 2004-2008. You can find all her archives and more at Lauraflanders.com or via Twitter @GRITlaura
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Views Friday, July 28, 2017 A Healthcare Story to Celebrate: Oregon’s Reproductive Equity Act What does reproductive justice look like in action? It looks like bravery; the bravery required to stand up for everyone not just a few; for the whole, not a fraction of the population. People who stand for justice, not the just-us approach to something like reproductive rights, often meet... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 01, 2016 Lucy Parsons: The Anarchist and Intersectional Feminist Who Inspired May Day Workers shouldn't strike and go out and starve, but strike and remain in, and take possession, said Lucy parsons. Lifelong partner of Albert parsons, one of the American Labor Leaders, most associated with the founding of the American May Day tradition. Lucy Parsons was of Mexican American, African... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 22, 2016 Concentrated Media Power is Real Power: We've Let Markets Rule the Public's Airwaves For months we have done our best here at the Laura Flanders Show show to keep it a Trump-free zone. As far as humanly possible we’ve not commented on Donald Trump's rise, his fall, his peaks, or his lows. But maybe just maybe there is something positive that could come of this Trump fiasco. And... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 19, 2016 A Great National Sick-Out - It's Past Time A picture’s worth a thousand words they say, and that was certainly the case earlier this year when public school teachers in Detroit started tweeting out pictures of the crumbling schools they work in. After months of attempting to grab legislators’ attention, the teachers called in sick, en masse... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 11, 2016 The Great Corporate Buy-Up: Because of Corporations, Our Cities Are Not Our Own Think you can tell the difference between a city and a business park? It may not be so clear. A corporate buying boom since the financial crash is gobbling up city property and leaving us with places that are literally not our town. Purchasing took off after 2008, when foreclosure rates were high,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 02, 2016 Dark Money: What Might The Money Media Cover If They Weren't Covering Trump? Dark Money, Super PACs, shady multi-millionaires buying your democracy. When Americans were asked recently what they fear most, it wasn’t terrorists (unless you mean the sort that take over your TV at election time.) It was corruption of government officials. It’s that fear that a certain multi-... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 28, 2016 Who Cares if Hillary is Warm? I Care About Her Wars Primary season is in its prime and feels familiar in almost every respect. Eight years on, it’s the same candidate, the same point of contention. Is Hillary Clinton warm enough? I’m not debating that this is sexist stuff: all this focus on her warmth, her style, her smile. Come on. Why do women... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 20, 2015 The Solution Isn't Kindler, Gentler Prison What got a person locked up – no matter what - in 1790? Piracy. Period. At the birth of the republic mandatory minimum sentences were a rare and targeted thing. Attacking and robbing ships at sea got you life, no ifs, ands or buts. What gets you a mandatory minimum sentence today? Any one of 261... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 20, 2015 Who's Leading The Charge For Change? Women Towards the end of the new movie, This Changes Everything , Naomi Klein, author of the book that inspired the film, notices something about who’s leading the charge for change. They come from sacrifice zones, the very same places the powers that be have written off for environmental or ecological... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Money Media Cover Change Makers Most When They're Dead It’s amazing how money media cover activists, when they die. When radical philosopher and organizer Grace Lee Boggs passed away on October 5, she received long, respectful obituaries in just about every paper. "Activist and revolutionary", "trail blazer", "human rights advocate". Boggs, it was... Read more |