Author: Laura Flanders

A History Of Resistance Against White Nationalism In Portland, OR – Laura Flanders Show

A History Of Resistance Against White Nationalism In Portland, OR – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jun 7, 2017 | , , |

“This community is not a community that is going to support that kind of hate.” The stabbing of two men by a white supremacist in Portland, Oregon is a sign of the resurgence of the white patriot movement in the Northwest US. Scot Nakagawa, a community organizer, activist, and public intellectual, joins us to discuss the history of white supremacy and nationalism in Portland, “the largest, whitest city in the country.” From the 80s and 90s, where reactionary self-proclaimed neo-Nazis organized in response to federal repression to now, where the death of Ricky John Best, 53, and Taliesin Myrddin...

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Debt That Lasts Forever: Can’t Cash In On Credit – Laura Flanders Show

Debt That Lasts Forever: Can’t Cash In On Credit – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | Jun 5, 2017 | , , , |

If, in the twenty-first century, credit is the new capital , what are the implications for our finances, but also our relationships? This week, Laura talks with Ivan Ascher, author of a new book on The Portfolio Society, and debt activist Pam Brown, about the implications of a society based on risk rather than labor. And we hear from Mandy Cabot, CEO of Dansko shoes who chose her workers over a corporate buyout. She’s joined by Richard Eidlin, co-founder of the American Sustainable Business...

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New Economy Models: The Victory Of The Commons – Laura Flanders Show

New Economy Models: The Victory Of The Commons – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | May 29, 2017 | , , , |

A new world based on community and collaboration is closer than you think. We can steward resources together, in fact, millions of people are doing just that. And not just in the history books. This week, from Kingston, NY, author and activist David Bollier, Co Founder of the Commons Strategy Group, explains what it means to Think Like A Commoner. Then, two activists engaged in Commons projects right now, talk about two very distinct but complementary Commons strategies — one digital in Barcelona, the other rural, in Mozambique. Graça Samo is the director of the Global March of Women...

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Black And Queer Around The World: What Does Solidarity Look Like? – Laura Flanders Show

Black And Queer Around The World: What Does Solidarity Look Like? – Laura Flanders Show

Posted by | May 22, 2017 | , , , |

Systematic problems don’t limit themselves to just the countries we know and hear about; racism, occupation, profiteering, these are global problems and the solutions, too, must look to the world. In our first interview of this week, Cazembe Murphy Jackson, a transman and anti-racist socialist organizer from Atlanta, speaks to how the American South is typically erased from activist conversations — despite having some of the most practice in radical organizing under conservative administrations. Plus, a conversation between two women working on abolition, Johnae Strong (of BYP100) and Masera Maru (Rhodes Must Fall), and why the movement against anti-Blackness...

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