The F Word with Laura Flanders

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Laura goes back to where the International Women's Day began: in the dire straights of striking women, demanding autonomy and a right to the way they lived.

Laura describes how the history of Irish immigration to the United States shows the way lines drawn for deciding immigrants "merit" are blurry.

Laura's F-Word this week on how the Trump administration has launched a Soviety era, McCarthyist witch hunt to catch "illegal" immigrants, that's not really about immigrants at all.

It's not too far out to think that Trump and co.'s first target might be the judiciary courts themselves. Laura takes a look.

An F-Word from Laura on taking a breath in the midst of panic, to recollect, and then, organize.

Who governs is important, but what we really need to be talking about is government itself. Let's remember that least discussed statistic, 49% of eligible voters, some 117 million Americans, didn't even cast a vote in a country where registering is pretty darn difficult. That level of non-participation reflects an alienation that should be setting off alarm bells.

In the days since the election, the Trump team have stated their intention to 'open up' (nonexistent) libel laws and sue the elect's accusers. But it's not just about protecting old bastions of media, it's about transforming the very way we think about media and its role in directing our behavior. #TakeBackTheMedia

Laura Flanders, on why she hopes voters will never have to make this choice again.

Laura's F-Word on the new documentary Political Animals, which tracks the four California Assemblywomen that put in motion the pieces that allowed marriage equality to happen.

Laura's F-Word on what happens to the house when the glass ceiling is broken, with notes from feminist scholar Anna Julia Cooper's famed 1893 speech, "Women's Cause is One and Universal."

A few words from Laura on how to keep mobilizing and organizing -- in spite of stress.

Laura speaks a little on why winner takes all media isn't helping voters.

On this week's F-Word: Laura talks about the complicated history many LGBTQ people have with pride, and why at its best, it still proclaims solidarity and joy.

On this week's F-Word, Laura reminds us of the German socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxembourg who, while living in an epoch eerily similar to ours, called for reform against capitalism.

On this week's F-Word, Laura asks why Apple, one of the most profitable companies on the planet, borrows so much money. Find out more at www.lauraflanders.com/read

Ancient law, contemporary blowback, a chase-the-rich approach to developing your local economy. It’s not just Puerto Rico that’s mired in debt and a crisis that’s sparing the rich at the expense of the poor. It’s also New Haven. That Connecticut city is in a long drawn out fight with its very own colonial power: Yale University. At isssue is a series of bills that seek to clarify an 1834 state law...

On his way to #MuhammadAli's memorial in Louisville, KY, Ali's hometown, Nation Magazine editor and @EdgeofSports podcaster Dave Zirin talks with @TheLFShow's Laura Flanders about the man, his message and his "last great act of resistance" -- his Muslim send-off. Zirin also weighs in on NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's week: celebrating Ali while simultaneously criminalizing a Palestine solidarity campa...

One man moves and a whole state shakes? When that one man is hedge fund billionaire David Tepper, that’s just what happens. David Tepper is a multi-billion dollar hedge fund manager who’s lived in New Jersey for more than 20 years. Now he’s moving his home and his business to low-tax Florida. And That’ll cost New Jersey millions, probably hundreds of millions in lost tax revenue. New Jersey is not...

Automation automation everywhere. Wherever you look, robots are in, and precarious work is getting precarious-er. Take telephone operators, it’s been years since I spoke to one. I kinda miss'em. Bank tellers are probably next. Business Insider reports that banks could see a 30% reduction in staff over the next ten years and along with the tellers are the bank branches in which they work. Mobile ba...

"Enough time has gone by that it’s worth following up on a question raised but then rapidly dropped this spring. Remember the Panama papers? That staggering dump of 11.5 million documents leaked on fourteen thousand clients of the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama. Mossack Fonseca offered legal assistance to people and businesses seeking to set up shop in tax havens around the world. A couple of...

"Workers shouldn't strike and go out and starve, but strike and remain in, and take possession, said Lucy Parsons. Lucy Parsons was of Mexican American, African American, and Native american descent. Born into slavery, a feminist, anarchist, and a leading labor activist, she was an intersectional thinker a century before the term was coined. Parson's work after emancipation led her directly into c...

For months we have done our best here at the Laura Flanders Show show to keep it a Trump-free zone. As far as humanly possible we’ve not commented on Donald Trump's rise, his fall, his peaks, or his lows. But maybe just maybe there is something positive that could come of this Trump fiasco. And that's the creeping realization that media critics were right all along. Concentrated media power is rea...

Well here we are in my least favorite phase of the election season. The part when pundits and politicians pile on en masse to pull back public aspirations. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, calls it the "We Shouldn't Even Try" attitude common among establishment Democrats. Ralph Nader calls them “The hereditary Democrat opinion-shapers” who tell their audiences to line up...

It’s coming up. April 15th: US Tax Day. Among other things, that’s the day that the Stockholm International Research Institute releases its annual report on world military spending. The number is always mind blowing. But what to do? To back up - for the last few years, the Stockholm reports revealed that the world spends about $1.75 trillion on war. Weapons, planes, bombs, drones. The number’s now...