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Race, Gender, and Work: Lola Smallwood-Cuevas with Domestic Workers United:
Episode 38
The Laura Flanders Show in in Los Angeles talking about women and work. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas shares about her work with the Black Workers Center, an…
10 years, 8 months ago
Connecting the Grassroots and the Global: Eric Mann and Pedro Páez
Episode 37
Eric Mann from The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union talks about why working people from LA are attending the climate talks in Paris. And Ecuador's former…
10 years, 8 months ago
Jalal Sabur & Raymond Figueroa, Jr: Food, Land, and Freedom
Episode 36
Land and food has been used as a weapon to keep people of color in second class status, in this episode Laura looks at the ways it can be used as a t…
10 years, 8 months ago
The Surveillance-Industrial Complex and Columbia Prison Divestment
Episode 35
The “surveillance-industrial complex” has profound, but poorly understood impacts on our political, structural, economic, and cultural lives, says Ha…
10 years, 9 months ago
Donna Schaper & Matthew Stinchcomb: Can etsy change the world?
Episode 34
Can one of the founders of the craft website Etsy.com - valued in the billions of dollars - lead a change in the way we do business? Etsy.com is the …
10 years, 9 months ago
Laurie Anderson & Mohammed el Gharani: Habeas Corpus
Episode 33
Like all men held at Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed el Gharani, who was imprisoned at the age of 14, is barred from entering the USA. But American artist L…
10 years, 9 months ago
Avi Lewis: This Changes Everything
Episode 32
The climate crisis is our best chance to build a better world - and the people most affected by the destruction are in the forefront of coming up wit…
10 years, 9 months ago
End Mass Incarceration: Bryan Stevenson
Episode 31
Mercy - more and more people are talking about it in the context of the masses of Americans incarcerated. but is mercy enough? Bryan Stevenson of the…
10 years, 9 months ago
Tim Wise: Under the Affluence
Episode 30
How does race and racism affect in your life? Anti-racist activist and writer Tim Wise is the author of six books, most notably his highly acclaimed …
10 years, 10 months ago
Greg Grandin: Empire and Resistance in Latin America, and Beyond
Episode 29
Professor and author Greg Grandin talks about the enduring influence of Henry Kissinger's bloody and brutal foreign policy. Greg Grandin has been exa…
10 years, 10 months ago