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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...

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...

Chattanooga to Karachi: Resilient Under Violence

A suspicious fire and a white power symbol at a legendary leadership school in the U.S. South. And a brutal backlash to a women's rights march in Pakistan. This week, leaders who are resilient...

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...

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,...

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?

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