Author: Laura Flanders

Not Trickle Down, But Bottom Up: Anthony Flaccavento – Laura Flanders Show

Not Trickle Down, But Bottom Up: Anthony Flaccavento – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Dec 15, 2016 | , , |

At the Laura Flanders Show, we want to find the common ground that unites Americans, stories of progress, equity, and resilience — to discover that there is more evidence of congress, than of division. Our guest this weeks speaks to some ways he has built a career on these very philosophies of equity and unity. Joining us for last new show of the 2016 year, is Anthony Flaccavento, founder of SCALE (Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies) and author of “Building A Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up.” Much of the Trump campaign and its cohorts campaigned for “trickle-down” economics...

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Facing Race: Tarso Luís Ramos, Eesha Pandit, Kim Diehl, Cara Shufelt – Laura Flanders Show

Facing Race: Tarso Luís Ramos, Eesha Pandit, Kim Diehl, Cara Shufelt – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Dec 8, 2016 | , |

The Facing Race conference, coordinated by Race Forward this November in Atlanta, brought together some of the most noteworthy names in progressive organizing right now. This week on the show, we have a special compilation of interviews from the conference with these very activists. Laura speaks with Tarso Luís Ramos, executive director of Political Research Associates, about the unusual emergence of the far right across the world; Kim Diehl of the National Employment Law Project, on strategy for progressive movements; Cara Shufelt and Jessica Campbell, of the Rural Organizing Project, on supporting rural mobilizations and Oregon’s patriot movement; and...

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From the Spanish Civil War to Trump’s Strange Lands: Arlie and Adam Hochschild – Laura Flanders Show

From the Spanish Civil War to Trump’s Strange Lands: Arlie and Adam Hochschild – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Nov 29, 2016 | , , |

In the aftermath of the election, much has been said about what liberal government, media, businesses failed to do: contextualize his rise to office and connect with his voters to change their minds. In this episode, Laura interviews Adam and Arlie Hochschild, the duo who have each spent their careers documenting the complexities of political behavior. Arlie Hochschild, with pragmatic energy, undertook the work we’d all like to do: she left the liberal haven of Berkeley, CA to go to the Louisiana Bayou — a stronghold of the conservative right. Hochschild interviews Trump voters about their “deep story,” what...

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