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Laura Flanders Show
On her weekly interview show, former Air America Radio host and author Laura Flanders talks with forward-thinking people from around the world of politics, business, and culture, and introduces the cutting edge social movements that are making tomorrow's world today. For intelligent, eclectic conversation with the world's most creative thinkers and doers, watch the "Laura Flanders Show," produced by GRITtv.org.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
Tony Kushner: Hollywood and Socialism
Can a socialist choose Hillary over Bernie? Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner discusses Socialism, Zionism, Hollywood, and the 2016 elections.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
New Media for a New Economy
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
Beyond the Headlines of the Ferguson Story
Sabaah Folayan and her team stayed in Ferguson after the police killing of Michael Brown to document what happens to people subjected to police violence as a matter of routine.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
Greece - Taking Power vs. Making Power
A look at the creative approach taken by the Greek when meeting the needs of the community after the financial crisis.
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Laura Flanders Show
Laura Flanders Show
Planning for Climate Disaster
Geographer David Harvey weighs in on natural disasters and how we could organize our cities better to avoid them and Thanu Yakupitiyage from 350.org explains why climate justice requires reversing our policies on refugees.
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Continuing Revolution: Democratic National Convention 2016
"The Laura Flanders Show" reports from Philadelphia, a site of both historic and contemporary constitutional debate—as we've seen at this year's Democratic National Convention. With a myriad of messages coming from all corners of the party, we follow the movements, both inside and outside the Wells Fargo Center to ask: how can people continue to do the work of revolution?
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2020-10-05T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
Free The Land: Shirley Sherrod and Black Land Struggles in the South
The struggle for Black economic independence: Not a lot of people have had a chance to design a new community, to be different and equal, co-owned by its residents. In 1969 Shirley Sherrod co-founded a collective farm in Lee County, Georgia. At 6,000 acres, it was the largest tract of black-owned land in the United States. What happened to the New Communities land trust they planned? Let's just say they were way, way ahead of their time but their time just might be coming back. Shirley Sherrod is a long-time civil rights organizer, and trainer.
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2020-10-12T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
Laura Flanders Show
Two forms of government have dominated in the west over the last hundred years. In one big power is vested in the state, the government; in the other, policy is dominated by the influence of big industry, big corporations or big money. A hundred years after the Russian revolution, and ten years after the financial crash, it's clear that neither of those models has delivered on a promise of shared prosperity.
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2020-10-19T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
Articles
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Laura Flanders Show
Some connecting threads stand out in recent mass shootings. Not because they are more important than others but because they weave so relatively quietly through the news accounts.
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Laura Flanders Show
Societies traumatized by disaster accept things they’d normally reject, whether socially-minded or opportunistic.
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Laura Flanders Show
Black Lives Matter has emerged organically as one of the most important movements of this era.
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Laura Flanders Show
Ten years post-Katrina, Laura Flanders explores the race, class, and gender outlines of New Orleans' recovery.
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