The Laura Flanders Show - TopPodcast.com

View Top 200 Chart

Back to Rankings Page

The Laura Flanders Show — Society & Culture
The Laura Flanders Show

Award winning host, author and journalist Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people from the world of politics, business, culture and social movements. The 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 show airs on PBS stations in over 80% of the US market, and airs on 40+ community radio stations, and is available on YouTube and as a podcast. Online subscribers receive lots of video and audio web exclusives. Recent specials include “Indigenous People’s Power”, “James Baldwin: Lessons for the US”, “Building Public Trust for Public Health”, “Countering the Coup From the Grassroots Up”. Recent special guests include Representative Karen Bass, environmental activist Jane Fonda, economist Robert Reich, author/activist Naomi Klein, agrarian reformer Shirley Sherrod, novelist Arundhati Roy, economist Michael Hudson and ’Next System” theorist Gar Alperovitz.

Latest Episodes:

From Farm To Coop To Table: Food Justice in Urban Agriculture Dec 26, 2018

Show notes

Holiday Rewind. Food — from where it grows, to where it goes, all of it matters to our bodies and our communities. A conversation about how farmers are creating equitable food systems inside cities, from urban agriculture to worker-owned cooperatives. Guests: Susan Chin-Design Trust, Karen Washington-Rise & Root Farm and Ysanet Batista-Woke Foods. +Excerpts from Peter Coffin's "Music for Plants" Support theLFShow, 10 Years of Making Power Through Media!

Hallelujah Farewell: Chris Hedges and Reverend Billy Dec 19, 2018

Show notes

Farewell to America, or just to this year? This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges explains why President Donald Trump is just the predictable end of a long sad history of American avarice and greed. Then, Reverend Billy celebrates the season with not buying, but boisterous singing. Hear what happened when he and his partner Savitri D. did bid farewell to America and took their riotous rituals to Europe. Support theLFShow, 10 Years of Making Power Through Media!

F-Word: In the French Yellow Vests Murdoch Finds a Movement to Like Dec 12, 2018

Show notes

"By many accounts Macron's paying the price not so much for taxing carbon as for ignoring inequality and passing tax breaks for the rich, while pushing more austerity on people already at breaking point."
Laura Flanders, weekly commentary.

Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content!

Showing Up for Racial Justice and Arts Activism at the US-MX Border Dec 12, 2018

Show notes

Looking back on the midterm elections, we ask the tough questions about white women voters and race, then get introduced to the hi-pinky salute across the border. We meet the co-founders of SURJ, Showing up for Racial Justice, and speak with Grammy Award Winner Arturo O’Farrill. Music spotlight “Line in the Sand” from “Fandango at the Wall: A Soundtrack for the United States, Mexico and Beyond” by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Support theLFShow, 10 Years of Making Power Through Media!

Food Justice Is About Everything We Do Dec 05, 2018

Show notes

Where do we begin to think about food? Is it about how we grow it, how we eat it, or who has access to it? Isn't it all of it? However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NESAWG conference on food justice in late October. Among them, Leah Penniman whose beautiful new book, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, is out now. Thanks to Cheyenna Weber, consulting producer for the NESAWG segment. Support theLFShow, 10 Years of Making Power Through Media!

F-Word: HUD Official to Move into Public Housing? Dec 04, 2018

Show notes

HUD NY official Lynne Patton is planning on moving into NYCHA projects, but why not move big money OUT of housing instead?

Make a year end donation. Support 10 years of the Laura Flanders Show.

F-Word: Amazon Gives to End Homelessness? That’s Rich Nov 27, 2018

Show notes

The F-Word, Laura Flanders' weekly commentary.

Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content!

Building Power Through Media: Radio Kingston and DeRay Mckesson Nov 27, 2018

Show notes

For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, and to rebuild traditional empowering media infrastructures. This week, we re-visit Radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesson, Pod Save the People host and author of ‘On the Other Side of Freedom’. Support theLFShow, make a year end donation!

Divest to Decolonize: Michelle Cook and Hartman Deetz Nov 21, 2018

Show notes

As family and friends celebrate and give thanks, for indigenous peoples around the world perhaps apologies, even recompense, would be more in order. We’ll hear from Native American activists Michelle Cook and Hartman Deetz about the ongoing struggle for autonomy and environmental protection. Then our report on the thousand people in attendance at the American Museum of Natural History on Indigenous Peoples Day organized by Decolonize This Place. Music Spotlight: “Retribution” by Tanya Tagaq on Six Shooter Records. November 27th join Laura & guests - New Economy Screenings: Survival Socialism. Support theLFShow

F-Word: From Voting to Wealth Building for Native Americans Nov 20, 2018

Show notes

Building a new economy for and by Native Americans requires election level attention beyond election week.

That new book out from the Democracy Collective, "An Indigenous Approach to Community Wealth Building: A Lakota Translation".

Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content! www.LauraFlanders.org/donate

Related Podcasts