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.

26m 46s / TV-PG

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

S2 E201 / 26m 46s / TV-PG

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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