Author: Laura Flanders

Yes To The People’s Movement: Naomi Klein – Laura Flanders Show

Yes To The People’s Movement: Naomi Klein – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jun 28, 2017 | , , , , |

The lines between politics and branding have been blurred, not just in recent years, but in a gradual effort by corporations to commodify media and politics. So says our guest this week, Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, joining Laura to discuss her most recent book No Is Not Enough. How will the movements of resistance and creation challenge a “reality tv politics?,” and where is it already happening? Klein sets out the map. Plus, a short report on water protector Red Fawn Fallis, who faces an imprisonment for life sentence as a result...

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Can Trump’s Base Survive? Working America Surveys Ohio – Laura Flanders Show

Can Trump’s Base Survive? Working America Surveys Ohio – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jun 27, 2017 | , , |

Money media keep telling us that Trump voters are sticking by him, but are they? And what do so-called swing voters really want? Working America, the community organizing affiliate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., took to the streets of Ohio to find out. Matt Morrison, the deputy director of Working America, shares the findings of the Front Porch Focus Group, and we hear from some of the canvassers who knocked on all those doors. Plus, an F-word from Laura on why it’s business as usual for the Koch brothers in the states. Right wing funders know power shifts from the bottom...

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Can The European Left Save Itself? – Laura Flanders Show

Can The European Left Save Itself? – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jun 12, 2017 | , , , , |

Can social movements take power and stick to their promises? There are lessons to be learned from the government of Syriza which ran against austerity and ended up imposing it. Laura’s joined by Helena Sheehan, author of a new book on The Syriza Wave in Greece and we consider the Movement for Black Lives. Should it ever run candidates? Natalie Jeffers, British Black Lives Matter activist, weighs in, ahead of the UK election. Also, a special feature on Stop And Frisk – UK style, And the Apple Corporation’s spending big to stop your Right To Repair? Laura explains in...

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