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Ireland's New Rising: An Exclusive Report from The Laura Flanders Show
Episode 94
With the news around Brexit, we revisit an episode filmed last year in Ireland and reflect upon the Easter Rising of 1916. The question of Irish sove…
9 years, 2 months ago
Restore, Renew and Reparations: Adaku Utah and J Bob Alotta on Healing Justice
Episode 93
The chorus for radical action demands a versatile effort: it needs people power, initiative, and funding, but if we're caught between offense and def…
9 years, 2 months ago
Policy with a Conscience: Angela Glover Blackwell
Episode 92
This week, Angela Glover Blackwell, executive director of PolicyLink and former Obama advisor, has a long history of using policy for progressive, ra…
9 years, 2 months ago
Cheat, Lie and Steal: Michael Hudson on the Capitalist Way
Episode 91
We’re living in a time of economic babble, where politicians and economists throw out words like “reform,” “privatize,” and “austerity” to prop up co…
9 years, 2 months ago
Intersectionality & Movements. And Exploring the Alt Right
Episode 90
Laura is joined by celebrated academic, organizer, and advocate Professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, who is perhaps best known for coining the term …
9 years, 2 months ago
Women's Solidarity Strikes Back
Episode 89
When feminism has come so far, how do modern day strikes, marches, and protest reflect the evolving and complex aspects of the movement, as well as i…
9 years, 3 months ago
Trumpism, Warfare and Fixing Fissures in the Left
Episode 88
Donald Trump's tweets and divisiveness on Capitol Hill tend to draw the money media in and hold them there, but if progressives and the Left focus on…
9 years, 3 months ago
Making the Police Count
Episode 87
With the Trump administration embracing private prisons, and a crackdown on all crimes, how police departments operate will come under scrutiny. We …
9 years, 3 months ago
Progressive Congress and Progressive Confidence
Episode 86
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is 25 years old, and yet, the shadow of a Trump administration looms over its vision to advance a progress…
9 years, 4 months ago
Standing Up to Big Brother: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Episode 85
Trump has been critiqued, among other things, as the troll-in-chief. His presidential win can be credited to the rise of alt-right internet 'trolls,'…
9 years, 4 months ago