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Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote

“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federation. With Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama igniting the fight to unionize and the...

How to Make a Democratic Economy

About The strength of the U.S. economy is often at the center of debate during an election season. But whether the economy is good or bad, there is no denying that America’s economy is neither...

Covid in the Country

About The coronavirus crisis has been acutely felt in urban areas, but the virus also spread disastrously, and in some ways differently, in rural America. Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders...

Reimagining Our Food System

A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this difficult time and making it possible to keep this content free for everyone. The food system in the US is overdue for a...

Farmworkers to Farm Owners

Farmworkers to Farm Owners To download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player below. A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this difficult time and making...

Minneapolis Model to Abolish Police

The Minneapolis City Council’s forthcoming proposal to disband its police department was built on years of activism and resistance to systemic police violence and racism. But while calls to defund the police have only...

Frontline Workers and Labor Unions: Covid-19

A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this difficult time and making it possible to keep this content free for everyone. New York State might have "flattened the curve," but the...

Checking Corona-Profiteers: Amazon

A special, heartfelt thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this difficult time and making it possible to keep this content free for everyone. You might have heard stories of corona-profiteers trying to...

To hear Laura’s full, uncut conversation with Allilsa Fernandez, become a Patreon partner of the LF Show at http://patreon.com/theLFShow It may sound obvious, but the homeless can't stay home. So how do homeless people avoid exposure...

Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight

  Twenty years after turtles and teamsters teamed up to battle the WTO in Seattle, labor strikes and climate strikes are coinciding everywhere but in the media, and that’s dangerous. If history is any guide,...

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