The F Word with Laura Flanders
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The F Word with Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders is a best-selling author and the host of Laura Flanders and Friends (formerly The Laura Flanders Show), a syndicated weekly program airing on Public TV in which she talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. In her weekly commen...
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F-Word: The Paramount Skydance Sale Makes the Case for Public Media
Synopsis, Laura's Commentary: As billionaires buy up our newsrooms and Congress defunds public media, the stakes for democracy couldn’t be higher. If...
Full Conversation- America's Drug Price Nightmare: Public Production Can Save Lives
Pharmaceutical prices in the US are astronomically high and many vulnerable people can’t afford the drugs they need. Public ownership of drug manufact...
F-WORD: Melissa Hortman's Lesson: Woke Worked
Laura's Extended Commentary aka The F-Word: Melissa Hortman’s murder was more than a tragedy—it was a political assassination aimed at a movement. Thi...
COMMENTARY: Troops Need Care Not a Circus
Laura's Commentary: With seventeen veterans taking their lives daily in the US, a haunting question arises: can America redefine its values and recla...
Full Conversation- V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Futur
"V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Future."
Original Release Date- February 19, 2023
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Full Conversation- Africana & Puerto Rican Studies: A Student-Led Victory
In this back to school special, we look at the grassroots movement led by student activists with the support of some faculty to establish Africana Stu...
Full Conversation- The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Milestone With Miles To Go
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, a significant milestone in the fight for civil rights, with a vision of inclusion and re...
Full Conversation- Ai Weiwei: How Do We Save Our Humanity?
In “ZODIAC: A Graphic Memoir”, the renowned artist Ai Weiwei writes that artists should “ignite stories”, “fight for freedom” and “help us hope.” Over...
Bad Surprises, Good Surprises: Reflections on the Trump Rally in New York City | Commentary
LAURA FLANDERS - COMMENTARY EXCERPT: "I went into New York City to attend Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, but I couldn't get in. It wa...
Full Conversation- From Civil Rights to Abolition: Angela Davis Shares Her Journey
This is the full conversation from the inaugural episode of Laura Flanders & Friends (formerly The Laura Flanders Show), Laura is joined by Angela Dav...
F-Word- Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism with Rice
You can watch The Laura Flanders Show report on The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project on PBS stations across the nation, or on YouTube. In a...
F-Word: Minnesota Democrats Codify Abortion Rights and More. It’s Not a ‘Miracle’
"It’s being called the Minnesota miracle, but Minnesota’s historic legislative session was no act of god."
The F-Word is released bi-wee...
F-Word: Moore v Harper and the War on Democracy in North Carolina
-excerpt from the latest commentary by Laura Flanders...
"It has often been said that the US South is the testing ground for American dem...
F-Word: Trafficked workers’ Great Escape?
"Saket Soni is a brilliant labor organizer. He's also a talented storyteller. His first book, The Great Escape, A True Story of Forced Labor and Immig...
The F-Word: Time to Stop Trashing the Luddites?
"Can we spare a few minutes to focus on Luddites?... and you’ll find that Luddites weren’t backward thinking thugs, but rather, skilled craftspeople w...
F-Word: Right or Wrong Polls Aren't Good
"What makes the obsession with polling so problematic is that it ignores the way that polls, even when they're right, are bad for our politics. Polls...
F-Word: Democrats Miss the Message
"Win, lose or draw, the allure of the “white working class voter” never dulls for big D Democrats."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly feat...
F-Word: Election Deniers Aren't Born, They're Bred
You can catch my interview with award-winning reporter Soledad OBrien about how she recommends reporting on liars, through subscribing to the free Lau...
F-Word: A.M. Home's The Unfolding: On War and Also Walking Away
"Even more than democracy, the language of freedom vs. tyranny has characterized this year’s mid-term election campaigns."
The F-Word is...
F-Word: Democracy is under Seige in Small Town USA
"'It would be easier for people to understand what could have happened on January 6th in DC, if they knew what actually happened on November 10th, in...
F-Word: Extreme Supremes Have Something Against Bodies
"Birth, earth, indigenous rule, even the “demos” of government itself… Kavanaugh and his crew seem to have something against bodies they can’t control...
From SCOTUS to Shireen: Linda Sarsour: Same Extremism. Same Threat.
"A Supreme Court assault on reproductive equity, another racist slaughter, and more Palestinian death. It’s a lot."
The F-Word is release...
F-Word: Inflating Hopes & Dreams in Manchin Country?
"Something exciting is happening in McDowell County, West Virginia. There, in what used to be coal country, the American Federation of Teachers is lea...
F-Word - Russia: A Nation of Informers. Texas too?
A culture of snitches? '...We describe it as horrifying when its happening in Putin's Russia, but just how different, really, is Texas?'
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F-Word - Russia: A Nation of Informers. Texas too?
A culture of snitches? '...We describe it as horrifying when its happening in Putin's Russia, but just how different, really, is Texas?'
...
F-Word: Win the War. Invest in Peace. The Conversation we need to be having now
Civil society must demand peace and diplomacy over war and killing as a global community.
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...
F-Word: War is Til We Stop it for Maria and Manar
"Prison abolitionist Mariam Kaba says of struggle, “We do this 'til we free us.” Likewise, it seems to me, war is 'til we stop it. We need to stop it...
F-Word: Prices Spiking, Options Shrinking. We're at a Tipping Point for Oil & Gas
"Stocks in renewables are out performing oil and gas right now. Tipping points tip and this could be one of those...."
The F-Word is rele...
F-Word: Capital Not Charity
Related episode to check out- "Your Neighborhood in your Hands: A Model from the South Bronx"
"Carter, who has gone from fighting deve...
F-Word: Win or Lose, Nominations Debates are Dangerous
"Justice Breyer has announced his resignation from the Supreme Court and a Biden/Harris pick is expected to win confirmation. The Democrats’ choice is...
F-Word: A Fascist World is Breathing
Another World is Possible. Fascism Too, Is Breathing: Listening to Arundhati Roy.
Related episode to check out- Arundhati Roy: Freedom...
F-Word: Federal Action for Media Could Undo Some Federal Damage
"A Free Press is vital if we are to have any chance at a functioning democracy. On that, you’d think, Right and Left might agree...."
Th...
A Paramilitary Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans' Backyards
How are activists shutting down radicalized militia training facilities in defense of community safety?
"Veteran activists organizing across thi...
F-Word: What Does It Take to Imagine the Future? Ask a Nic Unit Nurse
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
"Changing the Future with India Walton... Bu...
F-Word: Worker Co-ops Coped with Covid. Why Can't Others?
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
October is National Co-op Month. "Worker c...
F-Word: Build Back Green, Not Gray
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape...
F-Word: Big Pharma versus The People
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
Flex your media muscles, become a monthly s...
F-Word: The Disability Revolution
"Living free, with equality, dignity, equity and justice - requires more than law, it requires systemic change."
This edition of Laura's...
F-Word: Buffalo's Next Mayor Is Putting Electeds on Notice
"Sometimes the good people win and that’s just what happened June 22 in Buffalo NY when community organizer, working mom and self described socialist...
F-Word: Take Pride in Desire
"Class, race, gender, sexuality, place. What would shift in our minds, and our relations with each other, if we put trans lives and perspectives at th...