The F Word with Laura Flanders

"A Supreme Court assault on reproductive equity, another racist slaughter, and more Palestinian death. It’s a lot." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow Independent Media! Advertising free!

"Something exciting is happening in McDowell County, West Virginia. There, in what used to be coal country, the American Federation of Teachers is leading a project called Reconnecting McDowell. It's a program initiated over a decade ago by Gayle Manchin, wife of now Senator (then Governor) Joe, and it makes you think long and hard about her husband." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...

A culture of snitches? '...We describe it as horrifying when its happening in Putin's Russia, but just how different, really, is Texas?' The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Member supported, become a member today for early access to full conversations, online exclusives and more https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

A culture of snitches? '...We describe it as horrifying when its happening in Putin's Russia, but just how different, really, is Texas?' The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Member supported, become a member today for early access to full conversations, online exclusives and more https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

Civil society must demand peace and diplomacy over war and killing as a global community. The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.

"Prison abolitionist Mariam Kaba says of struggle, “We do this 'til we free us.” Likewise, it seems to me, war is 'til we stop it. We need to stop it." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow Independent Media! Advertising free!

"Stocks in renewables are out performing oil and gas right now. Tipping points tip and this could be one of those...." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow Independent Media! Advertising free!

Related episode to check out- "Your Neighborhood in your Hands: A Model from the South Bronx" "Carter, who has gone from fighting developers in the Bronx to becoming one herself, lost her family's home after her parents died when her siblings couldn't see the value in their property beyond the pittance they could get from speculators. She lost the home place, but determined to stay in the neighbor...

"Justice Breyer has announced his resignation from the Supreme Court and a Biden/Harris pick is expected to win confirmation. The Democrats’ choice is unlikely to shift the court’s balance, we’re told, but the media’s milquetoast reassurance misses the point that when it comes to balance it’s not just the court, it’s also the public debate that’s shfted dramatically to the right. And nomination fi...

Another World is Possible. Fascism Too, Is Breathing: Listening to Arundhati Roy. Related episode to check out- Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow

"A Free Press is vital if we are to have any chance at a functioning democracy. On that, you’d think, Right and Left might agree...." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.

How are activists shutting down radicalized militia training facilities in defense of community safety? "Veteran activists organizing across this state [North Carolina], are concerned about a seemingly unmonitored flow of military grade weapons, training, and white warrior ideology out of the state’s privatized military and into civilian lives." Article in the Nation by Laura Flanders on Militia T...

The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "Changing the Future with India Walton... Buffalo drew attention this election season after first-time candidate, long-time activist, India Walton won the Democratic primary, positioning her to become this Democratic city’s first African American woman and first Democratic Socialist mayor." Flex your media...

The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. October is National Co-op Month. "Worker co-ops like New Era demonstrate that it’s certainly possible to run a successful business while prioritizing safety and treating workers like fellow humans." Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow

The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can only take us so far." Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow

The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at http://Patreon.com/theLFShow

"Living free, with equality, dignity, equity and justice - requires more than law, it requires systemic change." This edition of Laura's commentary relates to the episode "Did a Summer Camp Help Spark a Disability Revolution?". Watch, listen, download and Check out the full episode notes here => https://Patreon.com/theLFShow The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura F...

"Sometimes the good people win and that’s just what happened June 22 in Buffalo NY when community organizer, working mom and self described socialist, India Walton won the Democratic primary to stand for mayor in that Democratic town." If you missed our show you can listen/download the podcast or watch our feature on Making Buffalo Our City at our YouTube channel, just search Laura Flanders and Bu...

"Class, race, gender, sexuality, place. What would shift in our minds, and our relations with each other, if we put trans lives and perspectives at the center? In addition to celebrating trans survival and trans courage, the makers of Disclosure subtly raise that question." The Podcast episode "Laverne Cox, Sam Feder: Trans Lives Depend on Owning Our Stories" and the full uncut conversation are al...

"Besides, if an extra $300 a week enables some to make ends meet without that stinking $7/hr job at the Dollar Store. Is that so bad? " Listen to The Laura Flanders Show for more on public media and independent media creators: "Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote" LauraFlanders.org/Listen The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support theLFS...

"While every other wealthy nation spends around $100 per citizen for public media of different kinds, the US government spends just over $1.00 on public broadcasting." Listen to The Laura Flanders Show for more on public media and independent media creators: "A New Day for Public TV" "Black Pain White Media: Introducing URL Media, a new, BIPOC network" https://LauraFlanders.org/Listen The F-Word i...

"Independent Media bring issues to the boil, mainstream media inhale the steam." Listen / Download the podcast "Black Pain White Media: Introducing URL Media, a new, BIPOC network" to hear about URL Media, Scalawag Magazine and more. Or watch it on your local PBS TV station, or on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/lauraflanders

"American #police are armed to the teeth with #military grade weapons and the results are in. The more combat gear, the more combat. So how about we armed our cities with military grade #healthcare instead?" The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support theLFShow with your media muscles by becoming a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 o...

"Culture of violence, culture of violence. If I hear that phrase wheeled out one more time to excuse a mass shooter, I’ll scream. That doesn’t mean I’ll head to the gun shop." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support theLFShow with your media muscles by becoming a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 or more, goto https://Patreon.com...

"In the context of the Divine Right of Kings, the who-said-what-to-Harry and Meghan question. is most certainly missing the white supremacist forest for the trees." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Support theLFShow with your media muscles by becoming a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 or more, goto https://Patreon.com/theLFShow