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Laura Flanders & Friends

THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW is back with more award-winning interviews and investigative reporting on the people and movements driving positive systemic change in our world today. The show features forward-thinking people from actress Sheryl Lee Ralph to author Naomi Klein and innovative projects as well as a monthly journalists' round table with journalists of color. It's produced in rural New York.

Democracy or Capitalism? The Two Don’t Mix.

26m 46s

Is the West’s experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, sisters Laura and Bloomberg’s Stephanie Flanders hold their annual check-in, this time from St. James Park in London, to delve into the details of the many politico-economic issues dominating and driving the news.

Episodes

  • Democracy or Capitalism? The Two Don’t Mix.: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Democracy or Capitalism? The Two Don’t Mix.

    S2 E204 - 26m 46s

    Is the West’s experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, sisters Laura and Bloomberg’s Stephanie Flanders hold their annual check-in, this time from St. James Park in London, to delve into the details of the many politico-economic issues dominating and driving the news.

  • Maria Hinojosa & Chenjerai Kumanyika: The War on Free Speech: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Maria Hinojosa & Chenjerai Kumanyika: The War on Free Speech

    S2 E203 - 26m 46s

    In the US today, immigrants, students, visitors and even U.S. residents — are facing exclusion, militarization, detention, rendition, and elimination of basic due process rights. Are our media doing enough to sound the alarm? Journalists Maria Hinojosa & Chenjerai Kumanyika weigh in on this month’s installment of “Meet the BIPOC Press.”

  • Are Civil Rights Now Worse than Selma in ‘65?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Are Civil Rights Now Worse than Selma in ‘65?

    S2 E202 - 26m 46s

    In this special report, Laura heads to “Bloody Sunday” commemoration events in Selma, Alabama to find out how civil rights activists are looking to history to understand — and prepare for — the present. What does people power look like today, 60 years after the Selma to Montgomery marches?

  • Bernie Sanders & AOC: “Fighting Oligarchy” with People Power: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Bernie Sanders & AOC: “Fighting Oligarchy” with People Power

    S2 E201 - 26m 46s

    Laura Flanders spoke with Senator Bernie Sanders on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, to hear his plan to protect democracy and build people power. Why is Sanders’ tour drawing record-breaking crowds? Hear interviews from the road and speeches from Senator Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, and more.

Schedule

  • Laura Flanders & Friends: TVSS: Iconic

    Laura Flanders & Friends

    Democracy & Capitalism: A Failed Experiment?

    Sunday
    Apr 27

    30 Minutes

    Stephanie Flanders, head of Economics and Government at Bloomberg, discusses politico-economic issues dominating the news.
  • Laura Flanders & Friends: TVSS: Iconic

    Laura Flanders & Friends

    Sunday
    May 4

    30 Minutes

    Interviews and investigative reporting on the people and movements driving positive systemic change.
  • Laura Flanders & Friends: TVSS: Iconic

    Laura Flanders & Friends

    Sunday
    May 11

    30 Minutes

    Interviews and investigative reporting on the people and movements driving positive systemic change.

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