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Racial Justice is Also Economic Justice

AboutNewark, NJ has been held up as a real world example of what defunding the police could actually look like. The Newark Community Street Team, which we featured on this week's episode of The...
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Mourn Justice Ginsburg, Keep Fighting

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed the way the law sees gender... She changed the course of American law... She touched the lives of generations of men and women... She pushed for a full and inclusive...

Pre-Election Roundtable

In this pre-election roundtable, recorded just days before November 3, 2020, Laura checks in with the US’s most enduring social critic, MIT professor emeritus, Noam Chomsky, and sits down with three dedicated activists whose...

Election 2020

AboutThe US holds a momentous election amid a global pandemic, an economic meltdown and one of the most polarizing presidencies in generations. In this episode, recorded just hours after polls close, Laura is joined...

Food Justice

AboutFood justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also the idea behind a rising movement in the...

Farm Workers to Farm Owners

AboutWhere do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where long time farmworkers are able to buy their own land. In the United States today, 83 percent of farmworkers are Latinx...

Housing is a Human Right

AboutBefore 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A record level of evictions have created record levels of homelessness at...
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Uncut Interview: Keeana-Yamahtta Taylor

Laura talks to Princeton Professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. This is an uncut interview from The Laura Flanders Show episode Housing as a Human Right. For more information on housing, and to learn more...
Indigenous Peoples' Power

Indigenous Peoples’ Power

About“Standing Rock was our Ferguson,” indigenous activist and author Edgar Villanueva tells Laura Flanders in this week’s timely episode. 2020 was a watershed year for indigenous peoples’ movements. Native American organizers made great strides...
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Not Everyone’s an A$$Hole: Rutger Bregman on Humankind

Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humankind can do better. Bregman’s the guy who took down Tucker Carlson...

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