“Jealousy”, performed by the incredible Janani Balasubramanian from the transgender South Asian performance duo known as DarkMatter. Janani performed this poem as a part of a recent appearance on The Laura Flanders...
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Author Craig Willse and organizer Imani Henry discuss housing, homelessness and the role of nonprofits in change-making (or not). Plus, an exclusive report from an upstate New York farm that’s feeding people while fighting the school-to-prison pipeline. All that and Laura Flanders, inspired by Detroit’s teachers, wonders when we’ll be ready for a grand national sick...
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In 2015, Laura Flanders and Ralph Nader found themselves on Grand Cayman Island, at once a tropical tourist paradise and the home of one of the biggest tax havens in the world, Ugland...
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From Laura Flanders: Can residents determine how their cities change? They can certainly have an impact, say Aaron Bartley and John Washington of People United for Sustainable Housing (P.U.S.H.) in Buffalo, New York. PUSH Buffalo brings people together to create sustainable neighborhoods with quality affordable housing, green jobs and next generation infrastructure. Could their model apply where you live? Also in this show, Laura discusses the “great corporate buy-up” of our cities. Is that public plaza public, private or who...
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Alok Vaid-Menon is one member of the transgender South Asian performance duo known as DarkMatter. They performed this poem as a part of a recent appearance on The Laura Flanders...
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