Author: Laura Flanders

Don’t Feed the Racist Patriarchy!: Chateau Hough + Hip Chick Farms – Laura Flanders Show

Don’t Feed the Racist Patriarchy!: Chateau Hough + Hip Chick Farms – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Nov 2, 2016 | , , |

2016 is an exciting — and precarious — time to be an entrepreneur, particularly when you’re queer women. Serafina Palandech and her wife Jennifer Johnson, the founders of organic food startup, Hip Chick Farms, had to deal with a lot when they wanted to start their business. Now they’ve been able to secure an investment from Whole Foods (and Johnson’s cooked at the White House). But it hasn’t been easy, more like a misogynist gauntlet, in...

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Mark Ruffalo Speaks at Standing Rock – Laura Flanders Show

Mark Ruffalo Speaks at Standing Rock – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Oct 28, 2016 | , , , , |

Watch activist and actor Mark Ruffalo on the front lines of #StandingRock with protectors as a few miles away hundreds of law enforcement personnel are mobilizing, preparing for a possible raid of the new winter camp just east of the Sacred Ground site. Law enforcement today warned protectors camping at the new site to vacate, or all will be arrested. Ruffalo spoke from the Prairie Knights Casino just south of the new winter camp yesterday. Here is a Ruffalo sharing his message of solidarity to the community of Standing Rock. The panel discussion included with Dallas Goldtooth, Kandi Mossett,...

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Movement Building Politics: Pramila Jayapal & Chase Iron Eyes – Laura Flanders Show

Movement Building Politics: Pramila Jayapal & Chase Iron Eyes – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Oct 26, 2016 | , , , , |

At the Laura Flanders Show, we say we talk with “tomorrow’s heroes today.” One of those could well be forward-thinker Pramila Jayapal, Washington State Senator, now running for Congress. If elected, Jayapal be the first south Asian woman in the House of Representatives. Jayapal describes herself as a “proud immigrant from India.” She founded Hate Free Zone (now OneAmerica) in response to hate and discrimination after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and played a big role in the push for a $15 minimum wage. Hear how Islamophobic racism, has shaped her campaign and why she believes politicians must address...

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Don’t Trust The Money Media – Laura Flanders Show

Don’t Trust The Money Media – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Oct 19, 2016 | , |

Despite the fact that voters near election day are made to feel that each of their votes matters, the winner-takes-all practice of American politics works to make voters feel powerless and as if their vote was not only ignored, but not counted at all! In this clip, progressive journalist Laura Flanders speaks a little on why winner-takes-all media isn’t helping voters....

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