Xenia Rubinos – Lockdown or Liberation – Laura Flanders Show
Brooklyn based musician, Xenia Rubinos, talks to us about being a brown girl in America and how that influenced her second album, Black Terry...
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All-Inclusive Southern Liberation – Laura Flanders Show
Radical Southern activists Suzanne Pharr and Stephanie Guilloud, who spoke with Laura at Facing Race in November 2016, just days after the election. Through their movement work in the South, both have seen, and built, ground models for equitable, democratic, and defended communities. Pharr, a movement hero, was the former head of the Arkansas Women’s Project and the Highlander Center, the movement training school that graduated among others, Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King. Pharr was also one of the founders of Southerners on New Ground (SONG), a group that Guilloud came up through. Now Guilloud co-directs Project...
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Lockdown Or Liberation? – Laura Flanders Show
If we’re going to liberate anyone in the era of Trump, we’ll have to start looking where we haven’t looked before. Or so say our guests this week, radical Southern activists Suzanne Pharr and Stephanie Guilloud, who spoke with Laura at Facing Race in November 2016, just days after the election. Through their movement work in the South, both have seen, and built, ground models for equitable, democratic, and defended communities. Pharr, a movement hero, was the former head of the Arkansas Women’s Project and the Highlander Center, the movement training school that graduated among others, Rosa Parks and...
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Capitalism, Raced & Gendered: Rick Wolff & Farah Tanis – Laura Flanders Show
Capitalism looks different to those who were once commodities, and that has implications for how we build a future not based in domination. In this conversation, Laura talks with Farah Tanis, executive director of Black Women’s Blueprint and Marxist economist, Professor Richard Wolff, about late capitalism, early democracy, the crisis that gave rise to Donald Trump’s election and what might come next, if we take seriously the task of erasing race, gender and other disparities. Solidarity economy models exist across all cultures, times and traditions, points out Tanis, and those models had to be “unlearned” says Wolff. Can we...
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Why Does Independent Media Matter? – Laura Flanders Show
Via The Laura Flanders Show: A group of celebrated activists, from many different movements and visions, tell us why they believe independent media — like ours — has always mattered and continues to be vital in propelling...
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