Author: Laura Flanders

Making Healthcare About People, Not Partisan Politics! – Laura Flanders Show

Making Healthcare About People, Not Partisan Politics! – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jul 24, 2017 | , , , , , |

The GOP’s anti-Obamacare push is defeated for now. But what if the debate over healthcare was as much about human and community health as it is about partisan politics? This week on the LF Show, health crusaders Loretta Ross and Lynn Paltrow explain why reproductive justice requires racial equity and Laura celebrates Oregon’s new Reproductive Health Equity Act which moved everyone forward, together, regardless of income, citizenship status, and gender...

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What’s A Sanctuary With Jails? – Laura Flanders Show

What’s A Sanctuary With Jails? – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jul 12, 2017 | , , , , , |

Although cities across the country have announced themselves as sanctuaries, the queer and trans communities who defined this movement have been routinely failed by those same cities’ adherence to regressive policing tactics. This week, Jennicet Gutiérrez, of La Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement, and Hamid Khan, of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, join Laura to take measure of the contradictions found in state sanctioned surveillance of so-called sanctuary...

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Sophia Zaman: The Biggest Barrier To Worker Organizing Is Employer Retaliation – Laura Flanders Show

Sophia Zaman: The Biggest Barrier To Worker Organizing Is Employer Retaliation – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jul 6, 2017 | , , , |

“In this particular moment, where we see that union density is on the decline, and we see that this culture of fear is permeating every workplace, we need organization that can hold space for the trauma that workers are experience ans we need organizations to have the kind of slack that’s required to test new membership models and to test new organizing campaigns…” – Sophia Zaman, Executive Director of the Raise the Floor...

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