Author: Laura Flanders

​Making Movies About Systems: Sabaah Folayan – Whose Streets? – The Laura Flanders Show

Making movies about systems, not symptoms, this week on The Laura Flanders Show we’ll talk with one of the directors of the documentary Whose Streets?. As the news cameras left Ferguson, Missouri, after the police killing of Michael Brown, Sabaah Folayan and her team stayed on to document what happens to people subjected to police violence as a matter of routine. And an F Word from me on surveillance. If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention and if you are, well the feds know about...

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Planning for Climate Disaster: David Harvey & Thanu Yakupitiyage – The Laura Flanders Show

Harvey on Harvey. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, Marxist geographer David Harvey weighs in on natural and not so natural disasters and how we might organize our cities better to avoid them. And Thanu Yakupitiyage from 350.org explains why climate justice requires that we make movements that will reverse our policies on...

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