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New Governance and Politics

      Shows about radical and not-so-radical international and local ways to govern that create democratic representation and shared stakeholding. Governance that creates power for the many.

      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...

      Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCmJcPkpI98 Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist,...

      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...

      NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcr43_0BKG0 Amazon’s New York City headquarters is off. As we go to air, it looks as if the mega-seller has pulled out of its plan to locate in New York. In a conversation recorded before that...

      Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours.

      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?

      Reporter in Spain: On the Spanish Left

      On Left: Claud Cockburn in Spain with Fred Branfman, commander of British battalion of International Brigade, in a photo by Gerda Toro. (Photo courtesy Laura Flanders)     Eighty years ago this April, Spain fell under a...

      Ada Colau: Barcelona’s Fearless Mayor

      And at the level of principle, Colau has not finished making change yet. Having polled her base this weekend, Colau’s putting the question to the people. Barcelonans will vote on what deal she should make. Let the people decide. Putting that principle into practice has got to be a win, no matter what.  

      Listening to Our Better Angels

      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.

      Chinese Women Then And Now: Yang Lan, China’s Premier TV Anchor

      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.

      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.

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