Podcasts by The F Word with Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders is a best-selling author and the host of The Laura Flanders Show, a syndicated weekly program airing on Public TV which she talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. In her weekly commentary, The "F" Word, she tells you what she thinks. The "F" Word is heard on the Progressive Voices Channel on Tune-In and is made available free to radio stations who appreciate an upbeat, radical perspective. lauraflanders.org
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F-Word: Capital Not Charity from 2022-02-15T19:29:58
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"Carter, who has gone from fighting developers in the Bronx to becoming one herself, lost h...
F-Word: Win or Lose, Nominations Debates are Dangerous from 2022-02-09T19:06:56
"Justice Breyer has announced his resignation from the Supreme Court and a Biden/Harris pick is expected to win confirmation. The Democrats’ choice is unlikely to shift the court’s balance, we’re t...
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F-Word: A Fascist World is Breathing from 2022-01-18T16:22:22
Another World is Possible. Fascism Too, Is Breathing: Listening to Arundhati Roy.
Related episode to check out- Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal
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F-Word: Federal Action for Media Could Undo Some Federal Damage from 2021-12-13T16:24:28
"A Free Press is vital if we are to have any chance at a functioning democracy. On that, you’d think, Right and Left might agree...."
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A Paramilitary Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans' Backyards from 2021-11-10T23:45:33
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
How are activists shutting down radicalized militia training facilities in defense of community saf...
F-Word: What Does It Take to Imagine the Future? Ask a Nic Unit Nurse from 2021-11-10T23:43:04
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
"Changing the Future with India Walton... Buffalo drew attention this election season after fir...
F-Word: Worker Co-ops Coped with Covid. Why Can't Others? from 2021-10-05T13:13:54
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
October is National Co-op Month. "Worker co-ops like New Era demonstrate that it’s certainly ...
F-Word: Build Back Green, Not Gray from 2021-09-23T19:26:07
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructu...
F-Word: Big Pharma versus The People from 2021-07-27T12:04:42
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F-Word: The Disability Revolution from 2021-07-12T20:28:44
"Living free, with equality, dignity, equity and justice - requires more than law, it requires systemic change."
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F-Word: Buffalo's Next Mayor Is Putting Electeds on Notice from 2021-06-25T16:42:04
"Sometimes the good people win and that’s just what happened June 22 in Buffalo NY when community organizer, working mom and self described socialist, India Walton won the Democratic primary to st...
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F-Word: Take Pride in Desire from 2021-06-15T12:02:36
"Class, race, gender, sexuality, place. What would shift in our minds, and our relations with each other, if we put trans lives and perspectives at the center? In addition to celebrating trans surv...
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F-Word: United Action To Keep Workers Down from 2021-05-21T19:26:16
"Besides, if an extra $300 a week enables some to make ends meet without that stinking $7/hr job at the Dollar Store. Is that so bad? "
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F-Word: A New Deal for Democracy? Invest in Public Media from 2021-05-04T18:08:23
"While every other wealthy nation spends around $100 per citizen for public media of different kinds, the US government spends just over $1.00 on public broadcasting."
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F-Word: January 6, Viewed From North Carolina from 2021-04-28T15:50:56
"Independent Media bring issues to the boil, mainstream media inhale the steam."
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F-Word: Arm our Cities with Military Grade Healthcare, not Weapons from 2021-04-08T12:58:47
"American #police are armed to the teeth with #military grade weapons and the results are in. The more combat gear, the more combat. So how about we armed our cities with military grade #healthcare...
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F-word: A Culture of Violence? The US Can Switch from 2021-03-26T16:50:44
"Culture of violence, culture of violence. If I hear that phrase wheeled out one more time to excuse a mass shooter, I’ll scream. That doesn’t mean I’ll head to the gun shop."
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F-Word: Royalty, Racist? Really? from 2021-03-10T15:54:53
"In the context of the Divine Right of Kings, the who-said-what-to-Harry and Meghan question. is most certainly missing the white supremacist forest for the trees."
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In Indian Country, It’s Not the Weather, It’s the Racism That’s Leaving Thousands In the Dark from 2021-02-23T20:46:31
"How do we live with the decades-long reality that tens of thousands of families in #IndianCountry have had no electricity and limited cell and broadband access - not for a day or a week - but for ...
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F-Word: Impeaching Racism Needs to Happen Everywhere from 2021-02-10T21:01:38
"The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began just as we were learning of the death, on February 7, of the bold and brilliant labor leader, Karen Lewis."
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F-Word: Time to Take the Mittens Off! from 2021-02-02T21:43:48
"Like or loathe memes, it’s time for Sanders, and more to the point, Sanders-ism, to take its mittens off."
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F-Word: Time For Socialist History Month? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura Flanders' commentary, The F-Word. Host of The Laura Flanders Show airing on TV & Radio and streaming & by podcast subscription. http://www.LauraFlanders.org/listen Our goal is to thrive, no...
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F-Word: An End to Amazon’s Two-Bit Romance. No Low-Rent Rendez-Vous from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 options, and whatever you do, don’t conduct a bac...
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F-Word: In Prison, the Power’s On But There’s No Accountability from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hour after hour of hands hammering on windows at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn was chilling, until the President’s State of the Union Speech. Our goal is to thrive, not just surviv...
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F-Word: In the French Yellow Vests Murdoch Finds a Movement to Like from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"By many accounts Macron's paying the price not so much for taxing carbon as for ignoring inequality and passing tax breaks for the rich, while pushing more austerity on people already at breaking ...
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F-Word: HUD Official to Move into Public Housing? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
HUD NY official Lynne Patton is planning on moving into NYCHA projects, but why not move big money OUT of housing instead? Make a year end donation. Support 10 years of the Laura Flanders Show. ...
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F-Word: Amazon Gives to End Homelessness? That’s Rich from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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F-Word: From Voting to Wealth Building for Native Americans from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Building a new economy for and by Native Americans requires election level attention beyond election week. That new book out from the Democracy Collective, "An Indigenous Approach to Community We...
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F-Word: WTF White Women? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"The particular patriarchs whom white women have put in office this November are on the record, anti-female. " Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our indepe...
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F-Word: Hate Speech at Homeland Security from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Someone scrawled KILL N@%gers on the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York this week, not thirty five feet from the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the FB...
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F-Word: Is Donald Trump Responsible For Violence? Absolutely from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Is Donald Trump responsible for unhinged violence against innocent people? Absolutely. You only have to look at Yemen to see that. Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, yo...
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F-Word: Fighting Chance in Virginia’s Fighting 9th from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"For a while last week, I thought I was in the wrong place. While the nation’s eyes were on the Kavanaugh hearings, I was in southwest Virginia, with a congressional campaign in rural America that ...
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F-Word: It’s Time to call #TimesUp on Standing Alone from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"September 28, when a woman, Ana Maria Archila, stuck her foot in the door of an elevator and gave Republican Jeff Flake, a potential swing voter, a talking-to, and kept that foot in that door so t...
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F-Word: 10 Years on, The End of Capitalism is Easier to Imagine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
'Not long after the financial crash of 2008, I heard someone say, “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Is it?' Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By be...
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F-Word: Markers - Past, Present, Public, Private from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"This particular plaque for my father made me think about something else too. If it wasn't for inclusive design, I literally would not exist." Check out our SPECIAL REPORT: Ableism Out, Independen...
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F-Word: Ominous Silence on the Anniversary of the ADA from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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F-Word: Jeff Sessions Sets Back The Clock from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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F-Word: National Suicide Point? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed." Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain...
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F-Word: Bottom Up Wins In Virginia’s Primaries from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A certain handshake in Singapore dominated the news June 12, so you may have missed Virginia’s Democratic primaries. Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our...
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F-Word: Liberal and Establishment Media Thwarting Populist Politics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The commentary is an excerpt taken from our online-only interview with Chomsky, where the famed linguist analyzed the state of geo-nuclear politics, the crisis of climate change, and the need for i...
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F-Word: Throwing Shade not Light on Youth Voting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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F-word: After Brexit, Blexit: Putting Your Money Where Your Life Is from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Public banks serving public interests. Find out more about BLEXIT at http://NextCity.org and learn about the Banking for Justice campaign at http://NewEconomynyc.org and watch the Laura Flanders S...
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F-Word: What if Ida B Wells Depended on Facebook? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"After Ida B. Wells published a column on May 21, 1892, denouncing “the old threadbare lie,” that lynching was used to “protect white womanhood,” a white mob marched to her office in Memphis, dest...
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F-Word: Water, Profit and Public Trust in Michigan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Two hundred dollars a year, to make private profits off public water is little for Nestle Water Company in the state of Michigan. When it’s what residents in Flint Michigan are paying every month t...
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F-Word: USA Human Rights Double Standard on Palestine and Syria from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
USA on Human Rights Has a Double Standard on Palestine and Syria: As Israeli forces kill unarmed demonstrators for a third week in Gaza and while the US simultaneously prepares to strike Syria ove...
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F-Word: Sesta Doesn't Make Us Safer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
F-Word: Sesta Doesn't Make Us Safer by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: An Exception to the Rule In Rio from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
F-Word: An Exception to the Rule In Rio by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: West Virginia Workers And the Taste of Solidarity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
F-Word: West Virginia Workers And the Taste of Solidarity by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: Smear’s The Thing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
F-Word: Smear’s The Thing by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: Who Needs DeNeuve When We Have Judge Aquilina? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
F-Word: Who Needs DeNeuve When We Have Judge Aquilina? by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: Trump's Migration Program Mimics the Cold War Dragnet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
F-Word: Trump's Migration Program Mimics the Cold War Dragnet by Laura Flanders
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F-word: From Washington to Jerusalem - It’s not Reckless. It’s a wreck from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
F-word: From Washington to Jerusalem - It’s not Reckless. It’s a wreck by Laura Flanders
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F-word: Wanted, This Christmas, A Media-Monopoly Bust Up from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week's commentary covers the ongoing battle over the future of Net-Neutrality. As if 2017 hasn't been filled with enough threats to our civil liberties, the ax seems to finally be coming down ...
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Fword: Weinstein Suggests It’s Time for a Shared Power Index for Companies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Fword: Weinstein Suggests It’s Time for a Shared Power Index for Companies by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: If the President had HIV he could be in Prison from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If the Donald was a poor man, poorly defended and in po...
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Celebrating Ali, Collectivizing Courage: Dave Zirin w. Laura Flanders on WBAI from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On his way to #MuhammadAli's memorial in Louisville, KY, Ali's hometown, Nation Magazine editor and @EdgeofSports podcaster Dave Zirin talks with @TheLFShow's Laura Flanders about the man, his mess...
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From Belfast To Baltimore Bad Police Tactics Spread. Can Justice Too? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s an old adage but it’s true, especially when it comes to policing: an injury to one really is an injury to all. That’s because like a bad movie, bad police tactics spread the globe. Accountabil...
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F-Word: Resisting Authoritarianism One Co-Op at a Time from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"A popularly-elected Republic overturned by a reactionary armed revolt: There are myriad reasons why the painful history of the Spanish civil war might pop into ones head at this particular moment...
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Dump Hope! Break The Trance! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Sunday September 21st, huge crowds marched through Manhattan. More than 1,000 environmental justice, labor, faith and grassroots groups mobilized and trod the many steps down the city’s upper we...
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F-Word: Mourn Justice Ginsburg, Fight to Close Irwin Detention Center from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"...one fitting way to honor the historic justice would be to take action on some unfinished feminist business. Justice Ginsburg is on my mind today, and so is Nurse Dawn Wooten....the ICE whistleb...
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F-Word: The Media’s Quadrennial Eclipse from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our politics. It’s us." We’re coming up on Giving ...
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F-Word: Remember Those We've Lost from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Election day is upon us. Reading of the names of those who died due to the coronavirus pandemic. "This list needn't expand any longer. Vote in favor of our public health." The F-Word is released...
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F-Word: Divest / Invest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"For many Americans, there’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Years of work, by abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruthie Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, and organizations like Critic...
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F-Word: Take on the Tech Mob now or Perish from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record while Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook only added wealth. " The F-Word is released bi-weekly featurin...
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F-Word: We Treasure What We Measure from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Transparency is important, especially in matters of public health. We treasure what we measure..." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Su...
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The F-Word: The Great American Lie? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We can not cling to the cruel lie that economic success is the product of individual merit and sweat. The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. ...
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F-Word: What lies ahead: Tulsa 1921 or Somewhere We Haven’t Built Yet? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news that the Civil War was over and the North had won. ...
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F-Word: Paradigms Take Years to Shift from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law." Watch/Listen to this week's LFShow "Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model" https:/...
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F-Word: A Memorial Day For Lies? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
So which will it be? Will this disaster spark a shift for the better? Or will the deadly myths white Americans tell ourselves survive Covid19? Memorial Day messaging bodes ill. The F-Word is re...
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F-Word: The Future Is Up For Grabs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"When it comes to cashing in on Covid 19 the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking education, or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic dystopian future is being char...
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F-Word: Covid By The Numbers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. The latest: "Four to five hundred million dollars is what our deadly president claims the US is contri...
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F-Word: Thank you Bernie. Screw You, New York Times from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support by becoming a patron, goto https://Patreon.com/theLFShow The latest: "It is the essence of Am...
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F-Word- February/March: The Pandering Months from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
::The latest Laura Flanders commentary, The F-Word :: "Here we are again, ending Black History Month, starting Women’s History month. ...Do we need more months? We certainly need more intersectio...
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F-Word: Democracy vs Dictatorship: Don't Let Bloomberg Muddy That Choice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"The 2020 presidential race didn’t get decided this week but the choice before us did. More democracy or less of it. That’s the decision we are facing and if the Democrats manage to foul this up, t...
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F-Word: Iowa Media Back to the Future from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Down-home democracy rests on down-the street media when it comes to covering the Iowa Caucuses 2020. February 3rd, 2020, 7pm-Midnight (EST) you will be able to follow the livestream of KHOI'S cauc...
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F-Word: Iowa is not the Twitterverse from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Given a choice between covering tit-for-tat tweets and reporting on voting rights or publicly-owned generic drugs, the brought-to-you-by-Big-Pharma News Networks will always go where it’s easiest....
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F-Word: SayHerName, Impeachment and the Hawk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"I was thinking about impeachment when a bird fell out of the sky. ......Dazed, on the sidewalk, she stood perfectly still, protected by gentle cops and generous yards of yellow caution tape... It...
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F-Word: THE GLOBAL CORRUPTION REBELLION AMERICANS DON'T KNOW THEY'RE PART OF from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"In a system that's unequal, corruption is not just the way we swim, it’s the water we swim in..." The F-Word, Laura Flanders' bi-monthly commentary. Help us thrive and not just survive, by becom...
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F-Word: Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Almost fifty thousand workers went on strike at General Motors Sept 16th, 2019, after management and United Auto Workers Union negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. GM has bounced back fr...
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F-Word: From Voice of America to NPR: New CEO Lansing's Glass House from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"I don’t know about you but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the sound of shattering." Laura Flanders' bi-weekl...
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F-Word: Woodstock Urges Roaming from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New York, I'm pondering what’s happened since. What’s ...
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F-Word: Jerome Roos's Smart Take On The Next Financial Crisis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week's commentary comes by way of Jerome Roos, an LSE Fellow in international political economy at the London School of Economics and founding editor of ROAR Magazine. He paints a grim picture...
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F-Word: Love and Rights: Contingent or Unconditional? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Are rights things to be granted by the powerful to the deserving few, contingent on their obedience, someone’s convenience, and adherence to the prevailing rules and conventions? Or...." Help us ...
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F-Word: Reporter in Spain from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today on the F-word we have a report from Spain. 80 years ago this April Spain fell under a brutal 30 year dictatorship after right beat left in a brutal civil war, General Franco's rebels backed b...
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F-Word: The Opportunity Cost of Trump TV from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"The Attorney General’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and his standoff with the House may be important. Something, sometime, may come of it. But let’s consider the opportunity co...
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F-Word: Can It Happen Here? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"white nationalists have been targeting bookstores and libraries across the country for a while"....."It’s not the hate that’s new. It’s the apparent sense of entitlement. ....they’re out in plain ...
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F-Word: Lyra McKee, Shot Dead In Derry, Reported on the Uncomfortable from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"These days, establishment journalists spend inordinate amounts of time, bemoaning their own welfare and the state of their beleaguered industry. but it’s rarely been journalism fed and watered by ...
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F-Word: Collusion is in Plain Sight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Oh no! What will the money media report on now that Russia-gate has proven to be a dud? Not to worry, there’s plenty of collusion in plain sight, and it wouldn’t take a twenty-two month inquiry to ...
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F-Word: The Anti-Vaxx Epidemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The State of Washington has declared a public health emergency due to spreading outbreaks of Measles. The World Health Organization credits "Vaccine Hesitancy" as a cause of the resurgence. And Tru...
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F-Word: Making American Journalism Great and Different from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The same miserable mob that mauled main street banks has plundered and pillaged newspapers across the country. Pursuing only profits, private hedge funds bought and stripped even long-lived legacy ...
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F-Word: Learn From Georgia from 2021-01-14T15:15:57
"The answer to the mobster who riles up the lynch mob is media that’s moral, which is not what we have. What we have is media that’s motivated by money. And money, as we also saw this week, has no ...
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2020-12-15_fword_dylan from 2020-12-15T20:27:36
"... sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylan’s deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anything. But it could have been different."
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F-Word- Covid-19: Our Health Crisis is born of Bigotry from 2020-03-27T17:42:42
"A bridge is only as strong as its weakest part. Former slave turned educator Anna Julia Cooper uttered those very contemporary-sounding words back in 1893. The US didn’t heed them then. We haven’t...
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In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide from 2019-06-13T19:42:18
No matter the result of the elections, Barcelona's Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú continue to put principles into practice.
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Cooperatives, From Brooklyn to Brattleboro from 2018-07-20T19:27:11
Socialism is as close as your closest coop. Check our our UK special with Jeremy Corbyn- UK Labour: http://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=55387497
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F-Word: U.S. Led Strike on Syria More of a Show of Weakness from 2018-04-20T15:31:09
“Politicians and pundits tend to get excited about war, but the US-led strike on Syria of April 14th, was more of a show of weakness than of strength, veteran Middle East correspondent, Patrick Coc...
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F-Word: We Need Local Media For Our Health from 2018-04-06T15:58:56
F-Word: We Need Local Media For Our Health by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: ?'Headline: Time for Farm to Table Fairness' from 2018-03-16T17:19:26
F-Word: ?'Headline: Time for Farm to Table Fairness' by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: Dr King and the Ram from 2018-02-07T17:26:13
F-Word: Dr King and the Ram by Laura Flanders
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F-Word: America’s New Fossil Fuel Moment from 2018-02-02T15:48:15
F-Word: America’s New Fossil Fuel Moment by Laura Flanders
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Election Night: Dems Divided Down Progressive Fault Lines? from 2017-11-16T21:30:46
Plus, an F-word from Laura on how election night wins on the part of Democrats shouldn't conceal their internal fissures or the work being done by progressives.
Tis the season to make that...
Catalan Crisis or Capitalist Crisis? from 2017-10-25T16:06:28
Catalan Crisis or Capitalist Crisis? by Laura Flanders
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Absolute Media Power Corrupts Absolutely from 2017-10-12T20:34:09
Absolute Media Power Corrupts Absolutely by Laura Flanders
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First They Came for the Immigrants from 2017-10-04T22:00:13
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention and if you are, well the feds know about it.
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Made Homeless by Hurricanes? This Budget’s Not For You from 2017-09-20T19:27:11
Made Homeless by Hurricanes? This Budget’s Not For You by Laura Flanders
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Anti Racist Rebellions Deserve Their Own Monuments from 2017-09-13T19:08:39
A commentary from Laura on monuments - where are the monuments to the motley crew and our antiracist predecessors?
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On the Side of the Mob: American Interests in Venezuela from 2017-08-01T18:47:07
In the case of Venezuela -- President Trump’s on the side of the mob, not the government. The burners, not the burnt. Still he’s asking the right questions: Look around. What’s going on? And are ...
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On the Diggers - The Revolution Will Be Fed from 2017-07-28T18:23:47
A commentary from Laura on the Diggers and feeding while rebelling.
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People Who Stand for Justice, Not the Just-Us from 2017-07-20T19:39:09
Laura Flanders on the recently passed Reproductive Equity Act in Oregon that extends heath coverage to all Oregonians, including trans and undocumented people. Watch the full episode at www.laurafl...
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Hunger Strike Against Inhumane Detention of Immigrants from 2017-07-12T22:45:28
You've gotta wonder, protests, congress, hunger strike, deaths? What's it gonna take before Americans notice what's happening?
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Hell In Hamburg? The G20 Summit Could Have Been Worse. from 2017-07-07T19:01:12
Laura Flanders on the G20 summit and prospects for resistance.
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Progressive Power Shifts From the Bottom Up from 2017-06-21T18:30:03
An F-word from Laura on why, and how, progressives need to respond to the Russia fiasco by buckling down on a focus towards local power shifts.
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People Have A Right to Repair from 2017-06-07T20:57:19
People Have A Right to Repair by Laura Flanders
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Zombie Economics and Zombie Malls are a Problem from 2017-05-24T20:03:47
We can't look to the dying economics of retail and so-called unskille work to move us in to the future.
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On Pope Francis, Concentration Camps and US from 2017-05-16T20:41:33
So what about the subhuman conditions we systematically herd whole populations into through war, segregation, expulsion, redlining detention, incarceration?
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Nuclear Provocation Update: It's Not Just North Korea from 2017-05-10T22:49:29
Laura on why there isn't just one major nuclear aggressor in the world, and in fact, we have to look homewards to find some key nuclear players.
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Putin's Alleged Crimes Distract Us From The GOP's Real Ones from 2017-04-05T18:05:02
Laura's weekly F-word on why focusing on what Russia's head of state might have done, is distracting us from what he's actually doing.
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Trump's Budget is Socialism for the Rich and Corporates from 2017-03-28T20:01:18
Laura’s F-Word on why Donald Trump’s new budget isn’t about cuts -- it’s about conversions. The budget wants to convert public dollars into private funding for military research and spending, for t...
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Happy White Cis Het Capitalist Patriarchy Month? from 2017-03-23T21:45:07
Happy White Cis Het Capitalist Patriarchy Month? by Laura Flanders
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The Roots of International Working Women’s Day from 2017-03-16T21:24:33
Laura goes back to where the International Women's Day began: in the dire straights of striking women, demanding autonomy and a right to the way they lived.
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The Merit in Merit-Based Immigration is Political from 2017-03-13T19:09:29
Laura describes how the history of Irish immigration to the United States shows the way lines drawn for deciding immigrants "merit" are blurry.
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Trump's Migration Program Mimics the Cold War Dragnet from 2017-02-23T22:45:20
Laura's F-Word this week on how the Trump administration has launched a Soviety era, McCarthyist witch hunt to catch "illegal" immigrants, that's not really about immigrants at all.
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Trump vs the Judiciary from 2017-02-15T23:48:04
It's not too far out to think that Trump and co.'s first target might be the judiciary courts themselves. Laura takes a look.
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Taking A Breath From The Political Moment from 2017-02-07T22:58
An F-Word from Laura on taking a breath in the midst of panic, to recollect, and then, organize.
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Reimagining Our Systems of Power from 2017-01-27T20:38:10
Who governs is important, but what we really need to be talking about is government itself. Let's remember that least discussed statistic, 49% of eligible voters, some 117 million Americans, didn't...
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Independent Media vs. Donald Trump from 2016-11-29T01:11:30
In the days since the election, the Trump team have stated their intention to 'open up' (nonexistent) libel laws and sue the elect's accusers. But it's not just about protecting old bastions of med...
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Never Again from 2016-11-08T00:21:09
Laura Flanders, on why she hopes voters will never have to make this choice again.
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The Gritty Work of Marriage Equality from 2016-11-02T21:35:38
Laura's F-Word on the new documentary Political Animals, which tracks the four California Assemblywomen that put in motion the pieces that allowed marriage equality to happen.
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Building Highways Not Gates from 2016-10-25T20:16:05
Laura's F-Word on what happens to the house when the glass ceiling is broken, with notes from feminist scholar Anna Julia Cooper's famed 1893 speech, "Women's Cause is One and Universal."
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Being Stressed & Organizing Anyway from 2016-10-18T22:23:40
A few words from Laura on how to keep mobilizing and organizing -- in spite of stress.
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Don't Trust The Money Media from 2016-10-18T22:21:43
Laura speaks a little on why winner takes all media isn't helping voters.
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Recovering Our Pride from 2016-06-25T01:09:07
On this week's F-Word: Laura talks about the complicated history many LGBTQ people have with pride, and why at its best, it still proclaims solidarity and joy.
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Rosa Luxembourg: Reform or Revolution as a Lesson for Modern Times from 2016-06-21T19:09:28
On this week's F-Word, Laura reminds us of the German socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxembourg who, while living in an epoch eerily similar to ours, called for reform against capitalism.
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Apple's Questionable Borrowing from 2016-06-15T20:39:52
On this week's F-Word, Laura asks why Apple, one of the most profitable companies on the planet, borrows so much money. Find out more at www.lauraflanders.com/read
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Yale Should Pay Its Fair Share from 2016-06-13T11:55:24
Ancient law, contemporary blowback, a chase-the-rich approach to developing your local economy. It’s not just Puerto Rico that’s mired in debt and a crisis that’s sparing the rich at the expense of...
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Men Who Move and States That Shake from 2016-05-24T04:14:48
One man moves and a whole state shakes? When that one man is hedge fund billionaire David Tepper, that’s just what happens. David Tepper is a multi-billion dollar hedge fund manager who’s lived i...
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The Human Cost of Automation or "My Miserable Travel Experience" from 2016-05-20T19:56:41
Automation automation everywhere. Wherever you look, robots are in, and precarious work is getting precarious-er.
Take telephone operators, it’s been years since I spoke to one. I kinda miss'em...
Who Needs Panama When You Have the Home State of Joe Biden? from 2016-05-12T19:00:03
"Enough time has gone by that it’s worth following up on a question raised but then rapidly dropped this spring. Remember the Panama papers? That staggering dump of 11.5 million documents leaked on...
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Lucy Parsons: The Anarchist & Intersectional Feminist Who Inspired May Day from 2016-04-28T21:12:05
"Workers shouldn't strike and go out and starve, but strike and remain in, and take possession, said Lucy Parsons.
Lucy Parsons was of Mexican American, African American, and Native ameri...
Concentrated Media Power is Real Power: We've Let Markets Rule the Public's Airwaves from 2016-04-12T18:24:14
For months we have done our best here at the Laura Flanders Show show to keep it a Trump-free zone. As far as humanly possible we’ve not commented on Donald Trump's rise, his fall, his peaks, or hi...
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This Primary Season: Don't Give In To Panic And Mute from 2016-04-05T05:53:46
Well here we are in my least favorite phase of the election season. The part when pundits and politicians pile on en masse to pull back public aspirations.
Robert Reich, former Secretary ...
Paying for War: Time to Step Up and Stop the Bleeding from 2016-03-29T15:50:44
It’s coming up. April 15th: US Tax Day. Among other things, that’s the day that the Stockholm International Research Institute releases its annual report on world military spending. The number is a...
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Easter Rising: Irish Eyes Are On Neoliberalism from 2016-03-25T16:22:48
"We declare the right of the people to the ownership of the land and the unfettered control of our destinies.”
Sounds familiar? It's not the US Constitution, it’s the Proclamation signed b...
Happy Easter: Why are Taxpayers Subsidizing Church? from 2016-03-22T13:48:19
Happy Easter everyone! Have you ever noticed how — US Constitution notwithstanding — churches occupy a pretty special place in our society?
Just consider the upcoming holiday. If there’s ...
A Great National Sick-Out - It's Past Time from 2016-03-15T15:41:48
A picture’s worth a thousand words they say, and that was certainly the case earlier this year when public school teachers in Detroit started tweeting out pictures of the crumbling schools they wor...
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The Great Corporate Buy-Up: Because of Corporations, Our Cities Are Not Our Own from 2016-03-08T16:48:46
Think you can tell the difference between a city and a business park? It may not be so clear. A corporate buying boom since the financial crash is gobbling up city property and leaving us with plac...
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Dark Money: What Might The Money Media Cover If They Weren't Covering Trump? from 2016-03-01T15:22:35
Dark Money, Super PACs, shady multi-millionaires buying your democracy. When Americans were asked recently what they fear most, it wasn’t terrorists (unless you mean the sort that take over your TV...
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SCOTUS Case Friedrichs is a Trojan Horse - Let's Talk Real Freedom in the Workplace from 2016-02-23T19:15:56
The Supreme Court is considering the most important labor case in years.
Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association, ostensibly addresses public workers rights on the job, specificall...
We're Still Moving Forward - On Authoritarianism and Angels in America from 2016-02-02T17:08:31
Half way through Tony Kushner’s play, Angels in America, two old Bolsheviks consider the prospect of the future in a scene set in the Kremlin on the verge of the end of the Soviet Union in 1985.
Who Cares if Hillary is Warm? I Care About Her Wars from 2016-01-26T17:31:51
Primary season is in its prime and feels familiar in almost every respect. Eight years on, it’s the same candidate, the same point of contention. Is Hillary Clinton warm enough? I’m not debating t...
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Wealth Isn't Colorless or Gender Free: Capital and Intersectionality from 2016-01-19T17:12:48
Capital is intersectional says guest Zillah Eisenstein on The Laura Flanders Show this week.
People with bodies labor, which means that the capital they produce is immersed in race and gen...
The Dark Magic of the Art Market from 2016-01-12T18:08:35
The market is magic, say capitalism's admirers but some that magic is pretty dark. Just look at what it's done to art and the art market. What once inspired generosity now feeds off its exact oppos...
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Laissez Faire Capitalism - That Is Anything But from 2016-01-05T16:47:12
“Laissez faire” capitalists love to argue that the market itself is magic. You don’t need government or regulation to rein in bad companies -- consumers will do it. The principle involved is called...
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The Solution Isn't Kindler, Gentler Prison from 2015-12-15T19:03:52
What got a person locked up – no matter what - in 1790? Piracy. Period. At the birth of the republic mandatory minimum sentences were a rare and targeted thing. Attacking and robbing ships at sea g...
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Working against the Racial Wealth Gap from 2015-12-08T17:47:34
Black workers centers are meeting nationally this month to deepen their ties and strengthen their political power. In a sane world their agenda would be our national agenda: to build assets and acc...
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What Do 19th Century African Statues Have to Do with COP21? from 2015-12-02T16:22:58
The heads of 19th century African states, when they found their authority bypassed by colonial traders and their land and people savaged by powers beyond their control, sought to reassert their aut...
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This Thanksgiving Think Food Power, Not Food Pantries from 2015-11-24T16:52:42
During his historic address to Congress, Pope Francis called out Dorothy Day. Scurrying to figure out why, reporters duly described Day as the co- founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, which fee...
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If You're An Activist, Free Information Will Cost You from 2015-11-17T17:50:53
Just because it’s called the Freedom of Information Act, doesn’t mean the information is free. In fact, if you’re an activist or a journalist trying to investigate the police, chances are it’s goin...
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Money Media Cover Change Makers Most When They're Dead from 2015-11-10T16:15:11
It’s amazing how money media cover activists when they die. When radical philosopher and organizer Grace Lee Boggs passed away on October 5, she received long, respectful obituaries in just about e...
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A Long Forty Seconds: Mohammed el Gharani and Habeas Corpus from 2015-11-03T16:39:53
Mohammed el Gharani was one of the youngest detainees ever held at Guantanamo Bay. At the age of fourteen he was abducted, imprisoned and subjected to torture – a non person in America’s non prison...
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Who's Leading The Charge for Change? Women from 2015-10-27T15:46:04
Towards the end of the new movie, This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein, author of the book that inspired the film, notices something about who’s leading the charge for change.
They come f...
System Overhaul: Stop Isolating Prisons from 2015-10-20T14:46:45
The State of California recently conceded that its policy of keeping prisoners in isolation demanded an overhaul. Now can we overhaul our system of isolating prisons?
As the prison activis...
Gaza and Ferguson: Security Forces that Stink - Literally from 2015-10-13T16:08:56
What do Gaza and Ferguson have in common? Security forces that stink.
I mean it literally.
Thanks to Missouri’s open records law, it has been confirmed that the St. Louis M...
Why Are Our War Criminals Still Walking Free? from 2015-10-06T15:02:35
If the Guatemalans can send their war criminals to jail, why are ours still walking around?
It just so happened I was reading Greg Grandin’s new biography of Henry Kissinger while the new...
Who's In Deepwater For The Deepwater? from 2015-10-05T00:00
BP‘s settlement for the Deepwater Horizon spill was great headline-grabbing news recently. Five Gulf coast governors as well as the US Attorney General took the opportunity to claim glory for the l...
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Cheney, Bush, Give Your Home To a Refugee from 2015-09-29T14:33:59
Waterfront sunsets, oysters, cool breezes on white sails. I hope the Bushes and the Cheneys enjoyed their long vacation, because now it is time for them to hand over their vacation homes to refugee...
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The Pseudo-Email Scandal from 2015-09-22T13:18:24
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv, for the Progressive Voices channel on Tune-In
A year from now we’ll be in the election’s grimmest days; those weeks before the
voting when every...
An America Without Prisons: It's Been Done Before from 2015-09-15T14:07:52
The state of California agreed in early September to overhaul it's solitary confinement system. With some 3,000 living and breathing people locked up, some of them for twenty or thirty years, in sm...
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Inversion Perversion from 2015-09-01T15:53:28
There’s US law and then there’s global trade law and if you ever felt inclined to believe that Congress rules the roost, just take a look at the Obama administration's evaporated pledge to take on ...
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New Orleans’ Deadly Floodwaters Are Now From Gentrification from 2015-08-27T14:20:41
It’s New Orleans remembrance time; that time where, for the last ten years at the end of August, public attention returns for a bit to the city that abandoned its poorest. Poor people clinging to r...
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In The Empire Of Google from 2015-07-25T00:00
You can now “unsend” email. Whoop di doop. Forgive me if my enthusiasm is under control. For one thing, “unsend’s” been around for years. Google’s announcement this June was merely that what had be...
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Will We Ever Stop The Drones? from 2015-07-19T00:00
Almost a year after the 2012 election, Florida congressman Alan Grayson decided to hold a hearing. The number of drone attacks were going up not down; sparse news reports from mostly military sourc...
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Anti-Social Giving to Harvard and Yale from 2015-07-11T00:00
Not so long ago, Yale university received a $150 million gift. That looked like a lot until Harvard scooped up $400 million a few weeks later. Both gifts came from Wall Street speculators – Blackst...
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Death By Stereotype from 2015-07-07T00:00
The nuclear clock’s still ticking and arms-trading is fuelling a suicidal race. There are a lot of things to fear in the world today. I’d like to suggest that African American women be taken off th...
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I am Not Roof's Woman from 2015-06-25T00:00
“You rape our women and you’re taking over our country,” Dylann Roof is reported to have said as he opened fire on African Americans in Charleston, killing nine.
His claim to act in women’...
This LGBT Pride, Let's Celebrate Difference not Sameness from 2015-06-01T00:00
It’s hard to imagine an American poet more celebrated than four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost whose most famous poem concludes:
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I
—I took t...
Black Women Suffer Death By Stereotype from 2015-05-26T00:00
Sticks and stones may not break your bones, but stereotypes can certainly put your life in danger. That’s the message of a new report on police violence against women of color.
Not only a...
Gaza's Missing Money from 2015-05-11T00:00
US media coverage of the Middle East is awash in vagueness – I’m looking at two headlines this year, “Palestinian Said to Be Killed by Israeli Soldiers” and “Palestinian Driver Suspected of Deliber...
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Is Freddie Gray Dead Because Of Lead? from 2015-05-07T00:00
Indictments are nice, but institutional change is necessary. That’s the message bellowing out of Baltimore. Even as she announced charges against six officers in the death of Freddie Gray, Sta...
The Missing Millions in Prison, Aren't Missing. We Are. from 2015-04-30T17:13:24
It’s becoming popular in the media to talk about the missing millions-- the 1.5 million African American men in their prime who are missing from civic life.
Those millions, it’s explained...
Don't Expect The Master's Media To Cover the Master's Trade Deal from 2015-04-28T12:38:47
LED signs, banner drops, projections on famous monuments; activists have used all manner of tactics to spread the word about the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. Still, a vote on the largest trade...
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Visionary Sci Fi for an Age of Acquiescence from 2015-04-20T00:00
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
A new book just out on the Gilded Age, calls ours an Age of Acquiescence.
We’ve become a nation of accepters, its author argues, wiling to tolera...
The "Cost Of Doing [BIG] Business" from 2015-04-13T18:34:55
“The cost of doing business.” That’s what corporations call it when they claim a deduction from their taxes for the damage they’ve done to people and the planet. It’s a cost of doing business all r...
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High Stakes Testing for High Stakes Economy from 2015-03-31T04:04:41
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
Governor Scott Walker stirred up the hornets this winter when he not only proposed cutting $300 million from the University of Wisconsin's budget, but sim...
The Costly Police Gender Gap from 2015-03-24T22:53:05
Women’s History Month is drawing to a close and as if on cue, we saw another example of why paying attention to gender matters, and how for the most part we still don’t do it.
In their bli...
What's the Economy For? Community or Control? Lessons from Hungary from 2015-03-16T22:14:55
Communism, capitalism; I just spent a week in Hungary, where anyone in their 50s has spent more or less equal parts of their life under each system and what many of those people find surprising now...
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Federal or Local? It's About Power from 2015-03-02T00:00
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
Conservatives need to figure out where they stand on local power. Their views present a paradox, suggested The New York Times recently.
Causing t...
The Incredible Whiteness of Clinton from 2015-02-25T20:49:49
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv, for the Progressive Voices channel on Tune-In
Hillary Clinton effectively entered the 2016 presidential race this week with a major speech to a women’s con...
Uber Wants to Reorganize the Economy? Workers, too Can Play at that Game: from 2015-02-17T00:00
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv, for the Progressive Voices channel on Tune-In
The global newswire Associated Press announced this January that it will no longer refer to the app-based ca...
Own The Change: Building Workplace Democracy One Worker Cooperative At A Time from 2015-02-10T02:52:57
You cannot be what you cannot see, they say.
We all saw an economy in crisis a few years ago. Now, in between fear of another crash and pain in a supposed recovery, many Americans are fru...
Media Miss Half the Story of The Greek Election from 2015-01-25T00:00
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
When it comes to elections, there’s the “who” of politics and then there’s the “what” of it, by which I mean what do parties and politicians actually do to...
NATO Chief Unfit To Quote on Terror? from 2015-01-23T13:06:41
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv, for the Progressive Voices channel on Tune-In
It tells you something about what’s laughingly called the public debate, when the most dovish voice on the q...
If People Were Pipelines from 2015-01-13T00:00
If Nigeria's Dead were Oil Profits
The UN has called on Nigeria to restore law and order in the northeast and investigate mass killings alleged, to have been carried, out in the past ...
From Drones to Chokeholds, We're Over-Policed! from 2014-12-15T21:53:10
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
I’ve just spent two very different weekends in the company of two very different groups of people dealing with two very related problems; on the one hand, ...
Human Rights Not Issues from 2014-12-03T13:49:49
Human Rights Day is coming up. It's marked every year on December 10th -- an occasion on which the world commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US spreads li...
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Sexist Smoke Serves Clinton Camp from 2014-11-13T16:55:36
The Hillary Clinton nutcracker reappeared this week -- a blonde plastic doll with sharp, steel-lined legs. The stupid sexist toy came to retail shelves amid a slew of post midterm stories that repe...
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Hart, Ferraro: Today's Dirty Tactics Have Old Roots from 2014-11-06T16:23:49
Former New York Times political correspondent Matt Bai is out with a new book about the decline of US campaigns and it’s a timely read in the cold post midterm winter.
Bai’s topic is the ...
When First Responders Are Women from 2014-10-31T18:36:36
It shouldn’t take a strike to keep first responders safe, but that seems to be what’s needed when those first responders are women.
Hunks in hard hats, we make our heroes. Women in scrubs...
Our Politics Is The Pathogen from 2014-10-23T12:32:30
HI, I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
Infectious disease specialists say Ebola can't spread through the air, but the political grandstanding about it can and if history’s any guide, that co...
From Ferguson to the Nation: What if Moral Mondays Came Everyday? from 2014-10-17T13:51:10
The Moral Monday movement came to Missouri. What if it spread nationally, and to the rest of the week?
Police arrested more than fifty people in front of the Ferguson Police Department Mo...
Shifting Syria Threats from 2014-10-09T18:52:13
The US is under pressure to respond to allegations of war crimes in connection with its air strikes on Syria. But how do you assess disproportionate harm when this entire assault is disproportionat...
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Demanding Local Power from Hong Kong to New York from 2014-10-03T14:35:44
Imagine: a wave of protests engulfs a city, demanding attention to a lack of democracy. Police fire tear gas, local lawyers object, and instead of dispersing, the protests don't dwindle, they grow....
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It's Not the Carbon; It's the Capitalism! from 2014-09-20T15:57:27
The big climate march in New York City and a big new book have concentrated attention on the climate. Enough denial and delay the marchers chant; This Changes Everything, says Naomi Klein in her la...
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Surplus Military from 2014-08-24T00:00
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police. That's a relief. Now can we have a review of the distribution of military influe...
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A Mountain Is Not A Beach: Media Rules on the Middle East from 2014-08-14T17:19:41
Hi, I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv on the Progressive Voices Channel on Tune In.
“I will not compare slaughter to slaughter. I will not compare death to death. I will not compare I will no...
My Brothers (and Sisters) Keeper from 2014-07-30T23:32:08
President Obama addressed a Town Hall meeting the other day, to announce the expansion of an important initiative on racial justice. The room was packed and all sorts of people were there including...
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Where are the Referees On Gaza? from 2014-07-16T17:04:53
Not so long ago, as I watched the World Cup soccer final, I couldn’t help but wonder where the referees are when you need them -- in the Middle East, for example?
The final soccer match be...
Revolution Now: Common Sense Asks Why Not? from 2014-06-26T15:12:44
July 4th, Independence Day, is coming up and I’ve been thinking about Thomas Paine.
“These are times that try men's souls,” wrote the American revolutionary in 1776. But you’ve got to wond...
More Cheering, Please, for Seattle from 2014-06-06T16:19:03
I’m beginning to think the American Left is a lot like Eeyore. Our favorite food is thistles. Give us a week in which something extraordinary is won and we cheer for an instant before retuning to g...
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What About North Dakota's Man-Made Tornado? from 2014-05-29T15:18:29
If you’re going to get hurt in a North Dakota man camp you’d better make sure it’s by a tornado.
In fact, when a 120-miles per hour twister tore through a group of homes on Memorial Day m...
To Repair the Environment, Rehabilitate the Body Politic from 2014-05-22T03:40:57
Hi, I'm Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
I've been out of commentary mode recently, in part because I've been recovering from knee surgery and in part because I've been traveling.
In ea...
Chokwe Lumumba's Solidarity Economics: Not Black or White, Just Smart from 2014-03-06T04:27:02
It’s one of the exasperating things about our not-so United States.
When white people in the North protest inequality outside city hall, it may take a while but eventually they’ll get noti...
On VDay, Justice Looks Like Love from 2014-02-19T16:47:28
Hi I'm Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
You often hear that progressive causes are trapped in competing "issue silos", so it’s worth celebrating when those silo walls crack and people come togeth...
AOL's CEO IS Not the Only One who Should Be Shamed from 2014-02-09T19:53:13
Hi, I'm Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
Not long ago it was the Great Recession, today it’s Obamacare that’s serving as a convenient scapegoat for employers seeking to tighten the screws on their wor...
To Truly Address Inequality, Build a People-Centered Economy from 2014-01-30T22:29:35
Hi I’m Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
President Obama got one thing right in his State of the Union address. "It is [we] the citizens who make the state of our union strong."
Just loo...
On Giving Tuesday, Giving's Never Been Easier, or Cheaper for Global Corporations from 2013-11-30T03:05:58
It’s "Giving Tuesday" on December 3. Following Black Friday, on Giving Tuesday people all across the United States will be kicking off the holiday season not with shopping, but with giving.
Catastrophe or Crash? Welcome to the Carbon Bubble from 2013-11-23T23:48:39
When the UN’s climate chief told a meeting of coal executives this month that most of the world’s coal reserves will have to stay in the ground if we want to perpetuate life on the planet, we shoul...
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Fukushima: WTF? from 2013-11-15T13:56:39
Far be it from me to distract from the important blaming and shaming around the Obamacare website. But if we do have a minute left for our actual health, can we talk about the radiation threat that...
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De Blasio in New York: If You Can Do It Here... from 2013-11-07T19:27:06
Bill de Blasio is now Mayor-elect de Blasio.
Take that, all of you who doubted that a candidate who planted his campaign on a promise of tackling inequality could attract enough support to...
We Need Robin Hood Not Food Stamp Cuts from 2013-11-01T16:00:22
We need Robin Hood because between them the richest 400 Americans are worth just over $2 trillion dollars. We only need a fraction of that to stop food stamp cuts. Robin Hood would know what to do...
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Finally Someone's Paying Attention to Our Imbalance! from 2013-10-25T15:33:08
It was early but for a moment I thought I was reading something important in an ad in the New York Times. Someone was paying attention to our nation's teetering imbalance! (Not. )
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New Economics and Mad Nobels from 2013-10-18T19:52:16
In the same week that the pseudo-Nobels in economics were announced, regular Americans were diving into economics. October 12-18 is New Economy Week.
Read more about New Economy Week in Y...
Domestic Workers Aren't Family from 2013-09-19T20:24:45
Big Labor is welcoming domestic workers like family. But are they getting up and washing the dishes?
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Noam Chomsky on GRITtv with Laura Flanders from 2013-09-09T16:26:10
What do Takism Square, Google Glass, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and NSA data gathering have in common? Find out in this interview with Noam Chomsky.
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Laura Flanders: The "F" Word - Democracy is Not A Disease from 2013-09-05T02:15:39
It is a mind-boggling thing to hear an international journalist compare democracy to disease, but that’s just what happened in a CNN debate around military action in Syria.
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The Price For Praising the March on Washington is A Peace Conference. from 2013-08-28T19:02:54
Fifty years after the historic March on Washington, President Obama is participating in celebrations at the Lincoln Memorial. At the same time, he’s said to be considering authorizing action in Syr...
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