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    Reporter in Spain: On the Spanish Left

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    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...
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    We Need to Know Each Other: Covid-19

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    We Need to Know Each Other: Covid-19       To download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player below.           About     Jutta Treviranus, founder and director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD...
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    Extreme Cities: Ground Zero for Climate Change

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    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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    Juneteenth: What Lies Ahead? – F Word

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    Juneteenth: What Lies Ahead—Tulsa 1921 or Something We Haven't Built Yet?     To download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player above.       Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the...
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    New Media, Old Problems: Buzzfeed, Vox, and Vice Unionize

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJnFhwEX6C0 The media layoffs are here. It's new media’s sky-is-falling moment. Instead of the promised golden age, we're seeing rolling cutbacks and massive layoffs at digital darlings like VICE and BuzzFeed. Is that it for...
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    The Edge of Democracy: The Rise of Authoritarianism in Brazil

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    In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democracy on the verge of collapse. With...
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    Pre-Election Roundtable

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    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...
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    Community Land Trusts: A Model for Reparations?

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    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?
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    Public Ownership of Privatized Medicine

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    Public Ownership of Privatized Medicine: Covid-19       Dana Brown, Director of the Next System Project frames the motives of privatized medicine in a system, which values profit over people. While nations are racing to develop a...
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    The City as Living Laboratory: Mary Miss

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    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...
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