Laura Flanders & Friends

News and Public Affairs Series / 1 Season

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.

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Worker Organizers & Labor Educators Are Under Attack

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Labor organizing is critical to any anti-fascist movement, but labor unions and worker education are feeling the impact of Republican attacks and cuts. How are workers and educators responding? In this report, from a conference at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU), Laura speaks with scholars and organizers from around the country to hear how they’re pushing back against fascism.

Behind Barricades at Columbia: “The Encampments” for Gaza

S2 E208 / 26m 46s / TV-PG

The timely new documentary “The Encampments” brings viewers into the Columbia University encampments and captures the spirit of the student protests, without the media spin we see so often in commercial reporting. Laura sits down with the co-director and two students featured in the film to discuss how the film came to be, and where the situation stands today.

Jacqueline Woodson & Catherine Gund: Love & the “Meanwhile”

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James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Muhammad Ali, Nina Simone — these are a few of the artists featured in the new film “Meanwhile”, from National Book Award-winner Jacqueline Woodson and Emmy-nominated producer & director Catherine Gund. Their meditations on grief, art, breath and more are beautifully woven together as the film poses the question, how do you keep breathing amidst the chaos?

Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Is This End Times Fascism?

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Today's billionaires know our planet can't sustain their business models or lifestyles, but they don't care. Find out why, in this chilling conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors of a revelatory essay on "End Times Fascism" in the Guardian. As the Right prepares for the end of life as we know it, can we build a movement to counter their apocalyptic, fascist ideology?

Masha Gessen & Jason Stanley: Is it Doomsday for Democracy?

S2 E205 / 26m 46s / TV-PG

What will it take to reject fascism? Masha Gessen and Jason Stanley are two leading experts on autocracy, and they’re sounding the alarm. They and their families have escaped totalitarian regimes and oppressive governments; today Gessen and Stanley are pulling back the curtain on the attacks against DEI, trans bodies, civil rights, higher education and more. Is authoritarianism here?

Democracy or Capitalism? The Two Don’t Mix.

S2 E204 / 26m 46s / TV-PG

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

S2 E203 / 26m 46s / TV-PG

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?

S2 E202 / 26m 46s / TV-PG

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

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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.

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