Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSaket Soni: How Trafficked Workers Pulled Off “The Great Escape”
Episode 425
“THE GREAT ESCAPE: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America” tells the story of one of the largest human trafficking schemes in m…
3 years, 6 months ago
Full Conversation- “The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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3 years, 6 months ago
BIPOC Media: Building Local Power Through Reporting
Episode 424
What are the stories that will be driving news coverage in the coming year for communities of color and our network partners in the media that serve …
3 years, 6 months ago
Full Conversation: Ask Angola Prison: What difference can a play make?
Description: In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut…
3 years, 7 months ago
The F-Word: Time to Stop Trashing the Luddites?
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
Twenty-three minutes. That’s how long it takes for your b…
3 years, 7 months ago
Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?
Episode 423
Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari says we’re a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Full Conversation- Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ha…
3 years, 7 months ago
Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?
Episode 422
Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s fla…
3 years, 7 months ago
Full Uncut Conversation: What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
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Description: In 2020, the au…
3 years, 7 months ago
“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Episode 421
“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion,” shares Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinh…
3 years, 7 months ago