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theLFShow Episode #269 Research & Reading List
Episode #269 Title: Special Report: Making Buffalo Our CityRelated Articles and Resources:•The Racial Dot Map•New York Can Win on Climate and Racial Justice•Gentrification Can’t Be the Theme of Rust Belt City Recovery•Push Buffalo : The mission of Push Buffalo is to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance economic and environmental justice in Buffalo.•Our City Buffalo: OUR CITY is a broad coalition of people in Buffalo who have come toge...
theLFShow #268 Research & Reading List
•Episode #268 Title: How to Make a Democratic EconomyGuests:Marjorie Kelly - Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, The Democracy CollaborativeTed Howard - Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Democracy CollaborativeRelated Articles and Resources:•The New Left Economics: How a Network of Thinkers is Transforming Capitalism•Mission-led employee-owned firms: The Best of the BestThe Book:The Making of a Democratic Economy by Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard of theDemocracy Collaborative, Building Community WealthRelated Laura Flanders Sh...
theLFShow #267 Research & Reading List
Fighting For the Future of Hong KongGuests:Joy Ming King Student Organizer and member of Lausan CollectiveMichelle Chen, Journalist/Labor Historian, CUNY and Co-Producer, Belabored podcastRelated Articles and Resources:•Hong Kong’s Fight for Life by Wilfred Chan•The Lausan Collective (project by young Hong Kongers—inside and outside HK—of which Wilfred and Joy Ming are founding members•Hong Kong Protesters and Militant Chinese Workers Point the Way to a New Kind of InternationalismRelated Laura Flanders Show Episodes:•Commoning Ou...
theLFShow #264 Research & Reading List
How We Can End Gender-Based Violencewith guests Debora Diniz, Kavita N. Ramdas, and Terry McGovernRelated Articles:•How does Hindutva and the Gates Foundations Philanthro-capitalism affect #Reproductive Justice in India?•Professor forced into hiding by death threats over Brazil abortion hearing•MADRE Announces New Strategy AdvisorRelated Laura Flanders Show Episodes:•Gender Ideology: A Pretext For Murder in Brazil•Standing Up To The Sacklers•Feminists Writing History: Cherrîe Moraga and Adrienne Marie BrownGuest Bios:Terry McGovern...
LF SHOW EXCLUSIVE: Exile of Bolsonaro's Brazil: Feminist Debora Diniz
Death threats and violence are driving Brazilian dissidents into exile, including feminists, LGBTQ+ leaders and anyone speaking out against the violent extremism of Jair Bolsanaro, the Donald Trump of Brazil.Debora Diniz is the first of those exiles. While campaigning for reproductive rights, she was forced into hiding, and later into exile. Diniz speaks publicly for the first time about her experience in this exclusive Laura Flanders Show interview.
Accessible Art: Jaye Moon's "Call Me by Your Name"
Jaye Moon is an Asian American artist in New York who makes urban art on political themes. She has a mural up now at 50 Avenue A in honor of Stonewall 50. In bright colored Lego-type blocks she’s written out the script of 2017's hit film “Call Me by Your Name” in English Braille. Check out Jaye's other works: https://jayemoon.wixsite.com/minimal-artist
Audio Exclusive: Artists as Agents of Change, Celebrating Ben Barber
Enjoy a panel discussion moderated by Laura Flanders and a key note address by Oskar Eustis, director of the famed Public Theater in New York, featuring artists as agents of change celebrating the work of Ben Barber, founder of the "Interdependence Movement".The artists, activists and scholars featured were chosen to represent the new and inspiring ways in which the arts, culture, and creativity in particular are giving voice to a new generation of activism, in engaging Barber’s Interdependence Movement philosophy.Panelists Included:C...
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 256
Housing as a Human Right with guests Cea Weaver, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Anita Long Kasakove, Sophie. Big Real Estate Peddles the Myth that New York Rent Control Mainly Targets Small Landlords. June 19th, 2019. Pacific Standard. Aldana Cohen, Daniel. “A Green New Deal for Housing.” February, 2019. Jacobin Magazine. Baiocchi, Gianpaolo & Brady, Marny & Carlson, Jacob. “Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives for the Grass Roots” Fall, 2018. Dissent Magazine. Fawcett, Jacob. “The Global Green New Deal.” June, 2019. The People’s Pol...
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 255
Design for Justice: Disabled Hackers are Leading the Way with guests Laurel Lawson, Villissa Thompson, Chancey Fleet Smith, S.E., Not One 2020 Candidate has a Website that is accessible to the Blind. VOX, June 26th, 2019. Thompson, Villissa. “How Technology is Forcing the Disability Rights Movement into the Twenty-First Century” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, TecnoNoscience, 2019. Issue 5 (1-5). Jackson, Liz. We are the Original Lifehackers. May 30, 2018. The New York Times.
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 254
Listening to Our Better Angels with Guests David Blankenhorn and Michelle Brody Pitt Rivers, William. “Progressive Candidates are Rising, Establishment Media Are Terrified.” Truthout, July 6th, 2019. Varn, Jake & Winkler, Andy. “The Green New Deal Can Coexist with a Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.” Bipartisan Policy Center. March 26th, 2019. Moffit, Kelly “A Trump Supporter Finds a Surprising Ally at an Anti-Trump Rally.” Storycorps. September 28th, 2018. Johnson, Jake. Hundreds of Jewish Activists Surround ICE office to protest Det...
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 253
Feminists Writing History with guests Cherríe Moraga and adrienne maree brown The Combahee River Collective Statement. Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies And Eighties. Albany, NY: Kitchen Table:1986. Lorde, Audre. “The uses of the erotic: the erotic as power,” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984. Johnson, Anita (host). “American Revolutionary: the Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” Making Contact, May 22, 2019.Anthony, Adelina Interview with Cherrie Moraga. Bomb Magazine. Jan 1st, 2007.
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 252:
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future? With guests Astra Taylor and Scot Nakagawa Sunshine, Spencer and Campbell, Jessica with Rural Organizing Project and Political Research Associates (PRA), “Up-in-arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement,” (Somerville: Political Research Associates, 2016). Nakagawa, Scot. “NRA TV is No Joke.” The Nation. March 5th, 2019. Taylor, Astra. “Declaration of Independence: How Writing Democracy can Become More Democratic.” Book Forum, Fall 2018. Brown, Wendy, “ Booked #3: What Exactly Is Neolibera...
Come Party with Us!
Our radio/podcast producer and legendary New York City DJ Jeannie Hopper is celebrating 20 years of her summer dance party on a boat— for all ages! Liquid Sound Lounge serves delectable, soul-infused dance music vibes supporting independent record labels, artists, and emerging culture. Partial proceeds go towards supporting this show.More info and tickets: lslboat20.bpt.meUse the code "LFSHOW" to unlock a limited amount of reduced admission tickets.PLUS, all current and new patrons will be entered in a raffle to win a pair of free tic...
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 251
Stonewall 100: Riotous Past, Rapturous Futures with Guests Scot Nakagawa, Kaz Mitchell, Edafe Okporo, and Bri. M. Perry, T. Jade, “Chills down my Spinal Degeneration: Why we need Black queer disabled kink” March 27th, 2019, Black Youth Project. Sonoma, Serena, “Black Trans Women Want the Media to show them living, not just dying” June 18th, 2019 “The Stonewall Reader | Book Launch and Panel Discussion,” Vimeo (Friday, May 3, 2019), The Hemispheric Institute.
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 250
Aging isn’t a problem Ageism is With guests Alice Fisher, Rachel McCullough, Penny Cook, Adria Powell, and Gladys Drew. Gupta, Sarita & Poo, Ai-jen. “How to bring Caring for Kids and Elders and other acts of Love into the economy” YES Magazine, Jan 22, 2018. TED talk: Applewhite, Ashtont. (Aprilt, 2017). Let’s end Ageism. Colas, Marina R. La Tercera Adolecsencia//The last Adolescence, 2014. Abraham, Rosham. “What’s it Like Growing Older in the NYC Homeless Shelter System? City Limits, June 5th, 2019.
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List — Episode 249
Community Land Trusts: A Model for Reparations? With Guests Catherine Albisa, Professor Katherine Franke, and Jaritza Geigel Schneider, Benjamin. “CityLab University: Shared-Equity Homeownership” April 29th, 2019, Citylab. Sabonis, Pete and Hill, Matt and editors. “C+L+T: Tools for Development without Displacement.” The Baltimore Housing Roundtable, 2011. Craven, Sarah. “We Absolutely Could Give Reparations to Black People. Here’s How.” March 5th, 2019, Portside. Baiocchi, Gianpaolo with Marnie Brady, Jacob Carlson, Anamika Jain, ...
The F-Word: Media Funding
"For all the changes in the media world, some things remain the same. A handful of mostly pale male editors and publishers define who and what is newsworthy and who gets to tell the news". - Laura FlandersBut today could be a new day if more independent and local media were properly funded. The Laura Flanders Show remains independent and commercial-free because of donors like you. Feel like supporting? Join our Patreon community today!
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 247
Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours. With Guests J. Phillip Thompson, Roger Green, Adria Powell, Gladys Drew, Shaywaal Amin, Rebecca Lurie, Lynn Benander, Cole Carothers & Shilpa Nandwani, and Sheila R. Foster. Kelly, Marjorie and Mckinley, Sarah. “Cities Building Community Wealth” November 2015. The Democracy Collaborative. Foster, Sheila. “The Co-city from the Tragedy to the Comedy of the Urban Commons.” Nov 2nd, 2016. The Nature of Cities. Mironova, Oksana. “The Co-op City”. May 2nd, 2019. Urban Omnibus Alperovitz, Gar. The...
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 246:
Dance as World-Changing Movement: Alice Sheppard and STREB with guests Alice Sheppard and Elizabeth Streb Sheppard, Alice, “I Dance Because I can.” The New York Times, February 27th, 2019. Heumann E, Judith, “Road Map for Inclusion: Changing the Face of Disability in Media” The Ford Foundation, April 2019. Risk Pool. Triple Canopy, Issue #24. Published from January 17, 2018 to April 25, 2019. Silverberg, Cory. Interview with Sins Invalid founders Leroy Moore and Patricia Berne. “When it come to sex, are your Sins Invalid?”
Audio Exclusive: Laura Flanders in conversation with Jonathan H. Marks on his book The Perils of Partnership
In his book The Perils of Partnership, Jonathan H. Marks argues that public-private partnerships create "webs of influence" that distort research and policy and reinforce the framing of public health problems and their solutions in ways that are least threatening to the commercial interests of corporate "partners." We expect multinational corporations to develop strategies of influence -- but Professor Marks argues that public institutions, ranging from museums to health agencies, can and should develop counter-strategies to ins...
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 245:
Standing Up to the Sacklers with guests L.A. Kauffman, Professor Jonathan H. Marks, and Jess Worth Murch, Donna, “How Race Made the Opiod Crisis: The opioid crisis and the War on Drugs are intertwined in the mutually reinforcing framework of racial capitalism.” The Boston Review, April 10, 2019. For the ambitious, the thorough—and poetic–case state attorney general Letitia James brought against the Sacklers on behalf of New York State. Ro, Christine, “A BP Oil Protest Spills Through the British Museum’s Protest Exhibition,” Hypera...
May Day to Memorial Day: A Laura Flanders Show Member Drive
Our dearest Patrons,Four for FortyWe have a membership drive this month! The goal of our May Day to Memorial Day drive is to gain 40 contributing members. Will you help us with our goal? We have until Memorial Day—May 27th—for this project. Each of you who is part of this community reminds us of who, where, and how our reporting is making an impact.If each of you got 4 friends to join you as a member we would reach our goal!Here’s an idea: send your friends and family a link to your favorite episode and urge them to join you in supporting...
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 244
Episode 244: Chattanooga to Karachi: Resilient Under Violence with guests Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steel from the Highlander Center and Nighat Dad of the Digital Rights Foundation Kelley,D.G. Robin and Makani Themba, “Why the Hghlander Attack Matters,” The Nation, April 12th, 2019. TED talk: Dad, Nighat. (August, 2017). How Pakistani Women are Taking the Internet Back. Eubanks, Virginia, “The Digital Poorhouse,” Harpers, January, 2018. The Digital Rights Foundations’ March, 2019 report: Female Journalists in ...
Coming up soon!
Stay tuned for our new episode on community land trusts as a vehicle for reparations.
The Laura Flanders Show Reading List
NEW! We have begun compiling a list of supplementary reading for our episodes. It is made up of some of the research we do in preparation of production, material by our guests on the show, and additional publications we think provide interesting insight into our show.From now on, we will be adding the reading list weekly, on Wednesdays. Think of it as a working bibliography, a syllabus, a source for further study and inspiration!The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 243: Drawing Comix at the Margins with guests Mohammad Saba’aneh and...
Laura Wins An Izzy Award!
We are so excited and grateful to announce that Laura Flanders has been awarded an Izzy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media" from the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College!
Patron Exclusive: 'Music in The Middle' Talk With Laura
Many thanks to our patrons for supporting the show by becoming part of our Patreon community! Today we're launching a mini-podcast series for you called "Music in the Middle" where Laura and podcast producer Jeannie Hopper discuss the artists featured in the middle of our regular podcast episodes.This is a Patron exclusive.Our first episode features artist Torniquet X aka TQX’s album, "Global Intimacy", which was featured in our episode, “By Every Means Necessary: Southern Progressives Are Shaking Up Politics.”
We're excited! Hope you are too.
Launching our Patreon, along with our new studio partnership with CUNY TV, is a big part of how we're celebrating 10 years of producing independent and progressive media. We'd love to have you on board.
