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Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
Episode 236
Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we th…
7 years, 5 months ago
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
Episode 235
Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Mis…
7 years, 5 months ago
F-Word: Time for Socialist History Month?
"We need to take a long, hard look at the ideology that underpins what we call capitalism," Laura Flanders' commentary, The F-Word.
Our goal is to th…
7 years, 5 months ago
NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win
Episode 234
Amazon’s HQ2 in New York City's Long Island City neighborhood of Queens is off. In a conversation recorded before the news broke, we looked at the r…
7 years, 5 months ago
F-Word: An End to Amazon’s Two-Bit Romance. No Low-Rent Rendez-Vous
Like a macho man in the pre-feminist era, Amazon wanted things their way or no way. That’s how monopolies roll. Don’t ask questions, don’t consider o…
7 years, 6 months ago
The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
Episode 233
As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What ha…
7 years, 6 months ago
F-Word: In Prison, the Power’s On But There’s No Accountability
"It shouldn’t take a week without heat during a polar vortex and hour after hour of hands hammering on windows for hours to sound an alarm about cond…
7 years, 6 months ago
By Every Means Necessary: Southern Progressives Are Shaking Up Politics
Episode 232
When you live in the rural South, your story rarely makes the news, but Southern activists are shaking things up, with their votes, and their broadba…
7 years, 6 months ago
Green New Deal, Yellow Vests
Episode 231
Is the climate movement heating up? This week on the show, activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cr…
7 years, 6 months ago
Minicast Exclusive: Who’s Afraid of Public Ownership?
The following minicast features Laura in conversation with Thomas Hanna, research director at The Democracy Collaborative and author of “Our Common W…
7 years, 6 months ago