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Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal

About the Show The climate crisis is accelerating faster than expected. In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that...

Women of Color Lead the Way

This year at the Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win back the White House in 2020 but also create long...

Before the Ground Runs Dry: BIPOC Media on the US Water Crisis

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 9/25). From the sinking lands of California's Central Valley to the depleting aquifers nationwide, we're at a...

Extreme Cities: Ground Zero for Climate Change

How do we define "love is love," and what are we willing to do to defend one another? This week, we speak with a group of LGBTQIA leaders on just that.

Revolutionary Love

About the Show As 2019 comes to a close, Laura speaks with Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis of Middle Collegiate Church in New York City's East Village. Rev. Jacqui's public theology focuses on social and environmental...

After Ida, Build Back Green, Not Gray

As Hurricane Ida approached the Gulf Coast this August, exactly sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina, all eyes were on New Orleans’ new levee system. The city levees that failed so disastrously back then have...

Youth Climate Activism and the New Non-Violent Resistance

About the Show In the wake of the 25th UN Climate Change Summit known as the Conference of Partners or COP, scientists and activists are warning that governments are failing to act as quickly as...

Newark: Fixing The People’s Water

The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons with Flint, Michigan. There, the state took control of the city’s...

Mary Robinson: Women Leading on Climate Change

Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit has come at a cost to public services and public trust. Could it be different?

How to Make a Democratic Economy

The U.S. economy, weak or strong, is the question at the heart of the election. But it doesn't get to the reality which is that, whatever else it may be, the U.S. economy is...

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