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.


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Many of the world’s most successful businesses began as someone’s good idea. But the path from startup to conventional financial success typically ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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It’s that time of year when we all need resilience: elections, holidays, the change of seasons. Many of us need fortitude to get through. Reverend ...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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From the contest for governor of Virginia to school board races across the country, opposition to Critical Race Theory proved an effective tactic f...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honori...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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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: Oct 28, 2021
  • 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: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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The climate crisis seems to be in full effect. Everywhere one looks, historic storms, droughts, fire, and floods are wreaking havoc on society and ...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • 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: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.S. Senate is negotiating a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package.  President Biden, a...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 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: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors ac...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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Thousands of Americans recently received direct payments from their government as part of the Biden Administrations American Rescue Plan to address...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November. Eric Adams, currently the Brooklyn Borough President, was declared t...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3