Watch / Listen The Hidden Sheroes of Film Editing from Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond
Description: What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk with avant garde filmmaker and cinema studies professor Su Friedrich about the hidden sheroes of film edit...
2020-05-08 21:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class. What explains our failure to build a more caring state? P...
2020-05-05 18:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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From farming to food delivery, immigrants perform many of the essential jobs we rely on. And while many undocumented migrants especially are pushed to continue working through the Covid-19 pandemic, they have no access to t...
2020-05-01 19:42:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch / Listen: TAKE BACK THE APP!
Description: Take Back the App! We need platform co-ops now more than ever. If the 19th and 20th Centuries were about storming the factory and taking back the means of production, then the 21st Century is about storming the online platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and the apps that increasingly control ...
2020-05-01 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch / Listen: Mutual Aid Justice: Beyond Survival
Description: What does mutual aid look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice for help. In the nation that incarcerates more people than any other on earth, there ar...
2020-04-30 18:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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"Want to pay the WHO to fight pandemics and poverty around the world for a decade? One man called Jeff could do it today and still be worth $114.5 billion as he was at the end of last year. "
2020-04-27 21:23:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Google and Apple have partnered to create a Bluetooth-based app that collects location data to notify users if they’ve come in close contact with anyone who tests positive for Covid-19. Hamid Khan, an organizer with the Stop ...
2020-04-22 16:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Ela Kagel is one of Laura's guests on this week's show, Take Back The App.
As the outbreak of Covid-19 has forced everything f...
2020-04-20 17:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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While much of the US economy is in trouble, the Amazon corporation is not. Orders are surging and workers are coping with increased demands and dangerous conditions in the workplace. As the Covid-19 pandemic co...
2020-04-16 15:34:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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We need platform co-ops now more than ever. If the 19th and 20th centuries were about storming the factory and taking back the means of production, then the 21st century is about storming the online platforms like Fa...
2020-04-14 18:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical dreams and then dance on them. And that’s just what the New York Times did the day after Bernie Sanders bowed ...
2020-04-10 15:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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What does mutual aid look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice for help. In the nation that incarcerates more people than any other o...
2020-04-07 18:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Title: Designing a Future Where Everyone Counts Watch / Listen
Description: Jutta Treviranus pushes back against cultures, policies, and technologies designed only for those deemed "normal." As founder and director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University in Toronto, Treviranus works t...
2020-04-06 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Dana Brown, Director of the Next System Project frames the motives of privatized medicine in a system, which values profit over people. While nations are racing to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, how can the public gain ownership of...
2020-04-06 16:02:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution Watch/Listen
Description: Since October 2019, people in Lebanon have been protesting corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government ineptitude. Where does that work stand now? Laura talks with Lebanese activist/artist Dayna Ash who runs one of the few safe spaces for LGBTQI+ people and women in the region...
2020-04-03 20:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The tensions revealed by the COVID-19 epidemic are planted deep in the US experience. On the Laura Flanders Show, race and gender scholar Mab Segrest discusses how white supremacy has trumped science throughout American history, with particular focus on the evidence she uncovered in her new book, “Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry. Segrest’s work was the subject of a Laura Flanders Show special feature shortly this March (bit.ly/2UVgvjs). She shared her thoughts on COVID-19 with Laura recently, fro...
2020-04-03 15:47:43 +0000 UTC View Post
From public health to remote learning, inclusive design leader Jutta Treviranus says Covid-19 is forcing us to rethink how we design response systems. Where we have the greatest vulnerability, we have the greatest chance for innovation. And that’s what it’s going to take for us to survive. Amazing learning moments are coming out of this, but that will require a lot of un-learning.
Treviranus is our guest this week on The LF Show. Check out the full episode on inclusive design 2020-04-01 17:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post
EP#286: Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
Description:
Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the infamous state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia and visit with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal J...
2020-03-27 20:38:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode of The Laura Flanders Show is all about the intersection of art, identity and revolution. In From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution, Lebanese artist and activist Dayna Ash talks about grassroots organization during the protests in Beirut and founding Haven for Artists, one of the few safe spaces for LGBTQI+ people and women in the region.
Aja Monet is a revolutionary ...
2020-03-25 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode Title: OKWUI OKPOKWASILI - BODY POWER - Watch / Listen
Description: Can dance and song offer insight into a performer’s experience, even across race and gender? In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to communicate the lived experience...
2020-03-20 17:47:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: RAISING VIBRATIONS AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
Description: In this episode, Laura interviews world-renowned playwright Eve Ensler and singer/songwriter Taína Asili about 2020-03-12 22:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: Trump's Wall and the End of the American Frontier - Watch / Listen
Description: In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. They explore how America's foundational myth of progress has given way to pro...
2020-03-05 22:23:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It - Listen / Watch
Description: In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, media, and business leadership roles is stagnating. In her new book, Diversity, Inc. The Failed Prom...
2020-02-27 22:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam Listen / Watch
Description: From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura reports from Amsterdam ...
2020-02-21 18:15:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: Touretteshero Does Beckett
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Description: In this episode, Laura interviews British comedian and activist Jess Thom, TourettesHero, about her performance of Samuel Beckett’s play “Not I”. Thom’s work r...
2020-02-04 18:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Podcast :: Download the full episode and/or 2020-01-31 15:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: Puerto Rico: Freedom From Fantasy
Description: What most Americans know about Puerto Rico is based on a colonial fantasy, says journalist and Columbia University professor, Ed Morales. This fantasy, and the reality it obscures, is the subject of his new book, Fantasy Island. In this episode, Laura interviews Morales and scho...
2020-01-23 20:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Title: Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal
Description:
The climate crisis is accelerating faster than expected. This November, 11,000 scientists from 153 countries declared that “We’re reaching potentially irreversible climate tipping points—climate chain reactions that could cause significant disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies...” In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues...
2019-12-04 20:17:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch/Listen: Women of Color Lead the Way: Progressive Strategy Summit 2020 PLUS Civil Disobedience w/ Jane Fonda
Guests: Aimee Allison, She The People; Shelia Jackson Lee, Congresswoman TX-18th; Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter; Mia Ives-Rublee, Women's March Diability Caucus; Jane Fonda, Fire Drill Friday's; Ted Danson, Actor Author; Pramila Jayapal, Con...
2019-11-14 20:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch/Listen to EP #270 Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
Guests:
•Sabre Jordan and Anthony Diaz, Co-Founders of the Newark Water Coalition
•Yvette Jordan, a Teacher at Central High School in Newark, New Jersey
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2019-11-04 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
