Bernie has some laudable progressive ambitions, but can he get them done? Hilary has expressed her doubts. We asked prominent historian, Eric Foner, an expert on social movements, to weigh in on the...
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This Week: White people in Appalachia start an NAACP chapter to fight for justice? This week on the Laura Flanders Show, that surprising story – and others from the Moral Monday Movement in North Carolina that’s building broad, from the bottom up. Reverend Dr. William J Barber II, the architect of Moral Mondays, is my special guest for the whole show. Plus, a few words from me on bullys on TV. It’s not a bias problem. It’s a power problem. Welcome to the Laura Flanders Show – where people who say it can’t be done – take a back...
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The Moral Mondays Movement in North Carolina is building a powerful, grassroots, struggle against the right wing. Laura talks with Reverend Dr. William J Barber II, the architect of that movement about Moral Mondays, Reconstruction, #BlackLivesMatter and morality and LGBT...
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Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is the progressive Chicago politician who forced conservative Democrat Rahm Emanuel into the first run-off in that city’s history. Dan Cantor is the cofounder and national director of the Working Families Party. Before co-launching the WFP, he was a union organizer in New Orleans and Detroit; a community organizer in Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri; and Labor Coordinator for Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1998 presidential campaign. The two talk with Laura about how they see a path for progressives to change the Democratic Party, and national politics. Later in the show, Steve Phillips discusses the importance of cultural...
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It’s coming up. April 15th: US Tax Day. Among other things, that’s the day that the Stockholm International Research Institute releases its annual report on world military spending. The number is always mind blowing. But what to...
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