Author: Laura Flanders

Antony Loewenstein and M. Jacqui Alexander: Disaster Capitalism and Spiritual Feminism – Laura Flanders Show

Antony Loewenstein and M. Jacqui Alexander: Disaster Capitalism and Spiritual Feminism – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jan 6, 2016 | |

Six years ago this month, Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake. Billions of dollars in aid were pledged but little made it to the people in need. Why did that happen? Today on The Laura Flanders Show, Antony Loewenstein talks about Disaster Capitalism and the great Caribbean feminist Jacqui Alexander gives us a rare interview. All that and a few words from Laura on laissez-faire capitalism – that...

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The Solution Isn’t Kinder, Gentler Prison – Laura Flanders Show

The Solution Isn’t Kinder, Gentler Prison – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Dec 16, 2015 | , |

What got a person locked up – no matter what – in 1790? Piracy. Period. At the birth of the republic mandatory minimum sentences were a rare and targeted thing. Attacking and robbing ships at sea got you life, no ifs, ands or buts. What gets you a mandatory minimum sentence today? Any one of 261 different crimes. Princeton professor Naomi Murakawa took a look, for her book, The First Civil Right, How Liberals Built Prison America. There she chronicles how for the first two hundred years, Americans managed to get by with only a handful of mandatory minimum...

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Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion – Laura Flanders Show

Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Dec 15, 2015 | , , |

Today on The Laura Flanders Show: Naomi Murakawa indicts liberals for growing the system of mass incarceration, and we take a look back at our coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. All that and a few words from me on mandatory minimums in 1790 and since. – Laura Flanders...

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Best of The Laura Flanders Show: 2015

Best of The Laura Flanders Show: 2015

Posted by | Dec 9, 2015 | |

This year, The Laura Flanders Show produced over 52 programs featuring forward thinking people in thoughtful, meaty interviews, field reports (from Brooklyn, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Gaza), as well as two feature documentaries, on Baltimore “The Roots of the Uprising” and New Orleans a decade after Katrina, “Recovery or Removal?” The Laura Flanders Show continues to air multiple times weekly on KCET/LINKtv (DirecTV 375 & DISH 9410), Free Speech TV, and in English & Spanish on teleSUR; it is available in over 180 million homes around the world through the teleSUR News Network, and in over 34 million homes in...

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