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Research & Reading List: Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy
Watch The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check your local public television station's listings for day and air time in your area, orwatch online on YouTube where you can participate in a live viewing event and chat with Laura and guests Sunday, at 11:30am-12:30pm ET.And check your local community radio station listings. Here's The List of Radio Stations Airing the Show.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Season 1, Episode 121 Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Econ...
Research & Reading List- Countering the Coup: From the Grassroots Up
Watch The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check your local public television station's listings for day and air time in your area, orwatch online on YouTube.And listen on your local community radio station. Here's The List of Radio Stations Airing the Show. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Season 1, Episode 120, Countering the Coup: From the Grassroots UpWATCH or LISTEN and DOWNLOAD the podcastDescription: In the aftermath of the January 6th siege of the Capitol by a mob of Tru...
Research & Reading List: Unforget, Dream, Build
Watch The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check your local public television station's listings for day and air time in your area, orwatch online on YouTube.And check your local community radio station listings. Here's The List of Radio Stations Airing the Show.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Season 1, Episode 119: Unforget, Dream, BuildWATCH or LISTEN and DOWNLOAD the podcastDescription: The Trump years have seen a doubling-down on the immigrants-as-problem narrative in which...
Research & Reading List: The Pandemic Economy
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Research & Reading List: The Economics of Abolition
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Research & Reading List: Transportation Is a Human Right
Are you enjoying and utilizing our episode research and reading lists? Please consider becoming a monthly supporter for $3, $5, $12 as a Patreon Partner. Already a monthly supporter? Please consider upping your monthly contribution. Help us reach our Holiday Fund Drive Goal of $35,000. Every donation will be matched making your support worth double! We do not take corporate or government funding. We rely on you.Thank you!Watch The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check you...
Research & Reading List: Farm Workers to Farm Owners
Watch The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check your local public television station's listings for day and air time in your area, orwatch online on YouTube.The List of Radio Stations Airing the ShowSeason 1, Episode 116: Farm Workers to Farm OwnersWATCH or LISTEN and DOWNLOAD the podcastDescription: Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where long time farmworkers are able to buy their own land. In the United States today, 83 percent of ...
F Word: The Times They Aint a Changing
I’ve never been a Bob Dylan fan, and the Nobel Prize winner’s sale of his archive to Universal Music changed nothing about that. In fact, sing as he might about how The Times They are a-Changing, Dylan’s deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anything.But it could have been different.Dylan, pre-sale, had assets worth an estimated $200 million. Post-sale, he’ll have half-a billion. If he lives to 100, he’ll have to spend $25 million a year for the rest of his life to spend it down. More, if he invests.Come ...
Research & Reading List- Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
If you are enjoying and utilizing our episode research and reading lists, please consider becoming a patreon partner by becoming a monthly supporter for $3, $5, $12 or more. Help us reach our Holiday Fund Drive Goal of $35,000 to continue bringing you the show. Thank you!Watch Live The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check your local public television station's listings for day and air time in your area, orwatch online on YouTube.LISTEN LIVE: The List of Radio Station...
Research & Reading List: Okwui Okpokwasili, Body Power
Watch The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check your local public television station's listings for day and air time in your area, orwatch online on YouTube.The List of Radio Stations Airing the ShowSeason 1, Episode 114: Okwui Okpokwasili on Centering Black Women's Experiences in PerformanceWATCH or LISTEN and DOWNLOAD the podcastDescription: Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identit...
Research and Reading List: Food Justice
Watch The Laura Flanders Show airing on public television!Tune in Sundays, at 11:30 am ET on the WORLD channel, and check your local public television station's listings for day and air time in your area, orwatch online on YouTube.The List of Radio Stations Airing the ShowSeason 1, Episode 113: Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of LifeWATCH or LISTEN and DOWNLOAD the podcastDescription: Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and se...
Reimagining Our Food System
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.The food system in the US is overdue for a reimagining. Reinforced by a racist economic system, industrial farmers resort to practices that maximize profits but poison both people and the land. Veteran labor activist Dolores Huerta tells Laura that addressing economic injustice is...
F Word: We Treasure What We Measure
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.We Treasure What We MeasureTransparency, transparency, transparency. The word has become a battle cry in Trump times, and there was another skirmish this week when the administration ordered hospitals to send their Covid-19 data not to the Centers for Disease Control, where it’s...
Episode Notes: Farm Workers to Farm Owners
Title: Farm Workers to Farm Owners Watch / ListenDescription: Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where Latinx farmworkers are able to buy their own land. In the United States, 83 percent of farmworkers are Latinx but Latinx people own only 3 percent of the farms. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, Latinx farmers discuss what they bring to the US food system in terms of fresh produce, healthy techniques and a cooperative management style born out of years working as laborers in less than sustainable conditions...
Do Black Lives Really Matter to Businesses?
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Companies large and small are proclaiming Black Lives Matter as widespread demonstrations sweep the country to demand an end to police violence and investment in Black life. But is real change on the way, or is this just empty rhetoric? For years, businesses have been promising to...
Farmworkers to Farm Owners
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where Latinx farm workers are able to buy their own land. In the United States, 83 percent of field workers are Latinx but Latinx people own only 3 percent of the farms. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, Latin...
Institutional Racism in Higher Education
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.The Black and Latinx Student Caucus at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health is challenging their school to address its anti-Black curriculum and institutional racism. They wrote an open letter to demand Columbia Mailman acknowledge the multiple public health cri...
F Word: The Great American Lie
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.The Financial Times recently reviewed a slew of business books whose titles speak volumes about denial in America.Winning Now, Winning Later; Future-Proof Your Business; Designing Your Work Life; and The Art of Being Indispensable at Work.The titles convey the most beloved message...
Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness and Public Health
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked.Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been catastrophic for public health and yet, the majority of white voters support exactly those policies. The spectacle of hundreds of most...
Episode Notes: Musician Raul Midón on Creative Adaptation During Covid-19
Title: Musician Raul Midón Watch / ListenDescription: Grammy-nominated musician Raul Midón has never fit neatly into any category. A skillful singer-songwriter and guitarist, he melds African and Latin influences, combining jazz with soul and bossa nova with salsa. As an independent musician, he also writes, performs, records and produces all of his own work. His most recent album, The Mirror, was released just days before the US went into lockdown for the Covid-19 crisis, but Midón has used his time at home as an opportunity to perform live...
Episode Notes: Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
Featuring grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice Watch / ListenDescription: The skies over Los Angeles may be bluer thanks to the Covid 19 slow-down, but the impact of environmental racism on low income people of color persists. According to a recent Harvard study, where people have been exposed to even slightly higher levels of air pollution the Covid-19 death rate is significantly higher. Nevertheless, the EPA has rolled back its enforcement of pollution regulation...
Episode Notes: We Need #TomateloEnSerioMX
theLFShow #294 episode notes, #TómateloEnSerioMX, Watch / ListenDescription: TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of misinformation in a country that is gearing up the fight against Covid-19. More than 80 Mexican media outlets, organizations and universities have organized under #TómateloEnSerioMx to unify their public health message, and they are focusing especially on women and other vulnerable people. Against all the odds, Jordy Melénd...
Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Public Safety in Public Hands:
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Over the last 50 years, every public service in the U.S. has been defunded, shrunk and starved, with the exception of law enforcement. Now, at a turning point in the nation’s tolerance for racism, inequality and police brutality, organizers and civic leaders are demanding we shi...
Putting Public Safety in Public Hands
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on people of color, the nation has reached a tipping point in relation to racism,...
Episode Notes: Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning
Episode 293 featuring Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. Watch / ListenDescription: The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class. What explains our failure to build a more caring state? Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. argues that we must grapple with the divides at the core of our society in order to reimagine the U.S. with a fully inclusive sense of “us.” “What we have to do is tell the truth about who we are. We’re ...
Episode Notes: Linda Sarsour, We Can't Afford to be Bystanders During Covid-19
As of May 28th, we're just 4 away from our goal of 25 new partners by June 1st, for our spring 2020 pledge drive. Please join! The LFShow would not be possible without your support! And thanks to all our partners who are on board! Episode192: Watch / ListenDescription: A pandemic is no place to be a bystander, says Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. In this episode, Laura interviews Sarsour about her recently published memoir We are Not Here to Be Bystanders, which tells her story of growing up in Brooklyn and Palestine and becoming th...
Environmental Racism as Usual During Covid-19
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.In Los Angeles, the skies may be bluer thanks to the Covid-19 slow-down, but the impact of environmental racism on low income people of color persists. A recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health shows that where people have been exposed to even slightly higher levels of...
We Need #TómateloEnSerioMX
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of misinformation in a country that is gearing up the fight against Covid-19. More than 80 Mexican media outlets, organizations and univers...
Front-Line Workers and Labor Unions: Covid-19
We love our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.New York State might have “flattened the curve,” but the country’s largest metropolitan area is still grappling with the effects of the coronavirus. Neighborhoods with many low-income residents have been hit disproportionately hard, and people of color are twice as likely to...
F Word: The Future is up for Grabs
We love you, our Patreon community! Your generous support enables us to keep producing forward-thinking content week after week. Best of all, your contributions make it possible for us to keep The LF Show free for the general public. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic, dystopian future is being charted while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out.Naomi...
