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The City as Living Laboratory: Mary Miss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8HCNVvtNiMIn this excerpt we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist, whose organization, The City as Living Laboratory, strives to empower people to create not the cliché of the sustainable city, she...

A Love Letter to Long Island City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzpra1HL5YUAmazon might no longer be putting its headquarters here, but Western Queens and specifically, Long Island City are a new frontier for New York City's politicized land battles. A Long Island City preacher's son...

Affordable Internet, One Rooftop at a Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WlkH1Ql_lU In this excerpt, we learn how Eastern Tennesee and Detroit are reclaiming their right to accessible, affordable internet, one rooftop at a time.

Excerpt: How Central Bankers Rigged the World: Nomi Prins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfrAYTOYZnwIn Nomi Prins' new book "Collusion," she reveals the collaboration between central bankers as they control global markets and dictate economic policy from Wall Street to Main Street.

Excerpt: Artificial Money Feeds the Financial System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1lRlW4US18Author Nomi Prins explains how central bankers have cornered themselves in a catch 22 with artificial money.

Automating Inequality: Virginia Eubanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADYxJU0WyJASUNY professor and author Virginia Eubanks on how our government and corporations are erasing social services through unequal digital practices.

International Women’s Day: the View from Kyrgyzstan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toA3vR9dZr4Britain's John Smith Trust works with up and coming leaders who are building civil society in the former Soviet Union. The Trust recently invited Laura (along with her sister Stephanie, of Bloomberg News) to...

How To Stop Letting The System Screw Us All: Jaclyn Friedman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG5YxF1CmyEWe talk a lot about economics on the show, but we're not just economic beings, we're human ones, with a wide range of wants and desires; including desires for sex. Writer, educator and activist...

The Need For Accessible Technology – Chancey Fleet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cemtDfKX8icWhat's missing in the tech industry? We need developers to really know something about accessibility and to challenge the notion that some things are too visual, says Chancey Fleet in this excerpt from our...

Remembering Marielle Franco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubbo9L5dFBsJust days before the one year anniversary of activist Marielle Franco's assassination in Brazil, prosecutors there charged two former police officers with her murder. Those arrests may provide a partial answer to the question...

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