The Laura Flanders Show

Series produced by Laura Flanders

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The Laura Flanders Show explores actionable models for creating a better world by reporting on the people and movements driving systemic change. We spotlight the solutions of tomorrow, today. The 28minute radio program (released 5pm Wednesdays) also airs as a TV Show on PBS stations reaching 80% of U.S. households. Laura Flanders is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center. Says Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation, who has known her for 25 years, “Flanders’ fearless and humane journalism never fails to challenge our downsized politics of excluded alternatives. But it does more — Flanders wants her reporting to shift power, seed bold ideas and offer people a way forward that is about transformative not transactional change”.

On her weekly TV and Radio program/podcast, author and journalist Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people from the worlds of politics, business, culture and social movements. The Laura Flanders Show produces 28 minute episodes on a weekly schedule released on Wednesdays 5pm EST. Recent guests include author/activist Naomi Klein, agrarian reformer Shirley Sherrod, novelist Arundhati Roy, economist Michael Hudson and ’Next System” theorist Gar Alperovitz.

"Most Valuable Multimedia Maker LAURA FLANDERS" - The Nation Magazine's 2018/2019 Progressive Honor Role.


312 Pieces

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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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In this special feature for Earth Day, we focus on just one group: Greenpeace, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The environmental group h...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be wha...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual ceasefire but not before displacing millions and damaging the air, water a...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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More than 20 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats at the start of Black History Month — including a threat on V...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban re...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Even as the nation celebrated the birthday and legacy of voting rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the right to vote for which King fought ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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“Had the government stepped in and done its job, had they not advocated against vaccines and mask mandates, we wouldn't have been frantically gathe...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2