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Self-Determination Arising from Resistance
In this episode of The Laura Flanders Show, author and scholar Dr. Priyamvada Gopal discusses her latest book, Insurgent Empire, which examines a history of abolition and rebellion under colonial rule to demonstrate how these resistance movements served as active participants in their own liberation...
Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, unequitable economic systems. In this episode, Laura travels to Spain to learn how people in two of the regions most brutally repressed under the...
Special Report: Buffalo
Renewable energy, racist redlining, and now possibly a renaissance. The people of Buffalo, New York have seen a lot. In the last century, this was a booming industrial town fueled by a falls and people from all over the planet. But most of the wealth concentrated at the top, and at the end it mostly...
EP 268 How to Make a Democratic Economy
The U.S. economy, weak or strong, is the question at the heart of the election. But it doesn't get to the reality which is that, whatever else it may be, the U.S. economy is not democratic or good for the planet. But it could be. Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard of the Democracy Collaborative say how...
How Can Municipal Government Promote Economic Democracy?
New York, NY... Its a city with close to 100 billion dollar budget every year and one deputy mayor with some pretty creative plans for how to spend it. What can one city do? And what's it gonna take to create a non-racist democracy? J Phillip Thompson, NYC Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy...
Journalism: A Place of Incredible Segregation
Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Surely the media should help. This week, why mainstream media are so poor at covering poverty – and what one project is doing about it.
Episode 3: Rent regulation, Congestion pricing and the Amazon HQ deal
NYS Senator Elect Julia Salazar and State Senate Majority Deputy Leader Senator Michael Gianaris speak with co-hosts Ben Max, Executive Editor of Gotham Gazette and Jarrett Murphy, Executive Editor of City Limits as they discuss rent regulation, congestion pricing and the Amazon HQ deal.
Episode 2: Voter reform and Voter suppression
This week, on "AGENDA 2019" co-hosts Ben Max, Executive Editor of Gotham Gazette and Jarrett Murphy, Executive Editor of City Limits speak with New York State Senator Liz Krueger, representing district 28 on the East Side of Manhattan and Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York to...