From left to right: S. Mitra Kalita, Sara Lomax-Reese and Cierra Hinton. Text reads Adrienne maree brown We Will Not Cancel Us: Uncut interview cover image
 

“The TV and Radio show where the people who say it can’t be done take a backseat

to the people who are doing it.”

“The place where the people who say it can’t be done take a backseat to the people who are doing it.”

The Latest

Media & Racial Justice

Black Pain / White media: Introducing URL Media, a new, BIPOC Network

Watch Listen
If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors across the full spectrum of our media thinking about this?...
Read more

Economy

Stimulus Checks Every Month?

Watch Listen
The Compton Pledge is paying 800 families up to $600 per month to give them a leg up. So far, unemployment is down 50% and life is looking up for recipients and...
Read more

Audio Exclusive

adrienne maree brown Uncut Interview: We Will Not Cancel Us

Watch Listen
How do we deal with our differences differently? From our polarizing election cycle to cancel culture strategies ousting abusive and destructive institutions, society...
Read more

Art & Activism

Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness

Watch Listen
“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to colonial violence at the border and on indigenous...
Read more

F Word

Arm our Cities with Military-Grade Healthcare, not Weapons

Watch Listen
Arm our Cities with Military-Grade Healthcare, not Weapons  American police are armed to the teeth with military-grade weapons, and the...
Read more

Public Health

US Healthcare After Covid: What’s Next & How Could It Be Better?

Watch Listen
The Medicare for All Act was reintroduced into the U.S. House in March with a record number of cosponsors and public support. But while the idea of a public single payer system...
Read more

Latest Podcasts

Prefer to Listen? Full episodes and Laura’s commentary, The F Word, are available below and on your local radio station. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player below.

Featured Episodes

Art & Media

New Media, Old Problems: Buzzfeed, Vox, and Vice Unionize

Watch Listen
The media layoffs are here. It's new media’s sky-is-falling moment. Instead of the promised golden age, we're seeing rolling cutbacks and massive layoffs at digital darlings like VICE and BuzzFeed. Is that it for...
Read more

New Media for a New Economy – The Laura Flanders Show

Watch Listen
This week on The Laura Flanders Show, an urgent conversation about media diversity and our lack of it. We can do better, and we must. In studio we are joined by Joe Amditis, associate...
Read more

Why Does Independent Media Matter?

Watch Listen
A group of celebrated activists, from many different movements and visions, tell us why they believe independent media -- like ours -- has always mattered and continues to be vital in propelling progress. Donate...
Read more

Building Movements Through Media: Amy Goodman

Watch Listen
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. She has co-authored six New York...
Read more

Movement Strategy & History

Radio Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action

Watch Listen
For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, and to rebuild the empowering media infrastructures that have...
Read more

Hidden Gems

Art & Media

What is a risky truth? with Anna Deavere Smith, A.M. Homes, Elizabeth Streb and...

Watch Listen
Filmed at SLAM in Williamsburg, May 2, 2014. For more information about the Risky Talking series, visit riskytalking.org
Read more

Movement Strategy & History

Fandango at the Border: Arturo O’Farrill

Watch Listen
Grammy Award Winner Arturo O’Farrill introduces Laura to the hi-pinky salute across the border, which he hopes will turn into an international symbol of humanity over commodity.
Read more

Laura Flanders

Host

 Laura Flanders head shot
Read Laura’s Story

Subscribe to Our

Newsletter

Stay in touch

Support Us on Patreon

www.patreon.com

The Laura Flanders ShowFollow

The Laura Flanders Show
Retweet on TwitterThe Laura Flanders Show Retweeted
NativeOrganizerNative Organizers Alliance@NativeOrganizer·
5h

Join us TODAY at 2pm as the @lummitotempole is presented to @SecDebHaaland of the @JoeBiden - @KamalaHarris Admin in D.C.

RSVP Here:
https://redroadtodc.org/events/washington-dc/

Reply on Twitter 1420730835595141123Retweet on Twitter 142073083559514112315Like on Twitter 142073083559514112327Twitter 1420730835595141123
theLFshowThe Laura Flanders Show@theLFshow·
3h

If #WestVirginia is trying to bring people into the state, then what exactly is the logic behind pushing current residents out? Full #Podcast with Ixya Vega (@Ixyaaa): https://bit.ly/3zozPbe

@Sen_JoeManchin @OurRevolution @steelworkers @WorkingFamilies @POTUS

Reply on Twitter 1420761295012335623Retweet on Twitter 1420761295012335623Like on Twitter 1420761295012335623Twitter 1420761295012335623
Load More...

Next System Media: An Urgent Necessity

By Laura Flanders

Next System Media cover

THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW IS AWARD-WINNING

POPULAR MEDIA EDUCATION FEATURING FIELD REPORTS AND IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH FORWARD-THINKING PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO SHIFT POWER FROM THE FEW TO THE MANY, AND CREATE RADICAL CHANGE.

The Laura Flanders Show is committed to making our programming, website and social media as accessible as possible to everyone, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments. We’re constantly working towards improving the accessibility of our content to ensure we provide equal access to all. If you would like to request accessibility-related assistance, report any accessibility problems, or request any information in accessible alternative formats, please contact us.

FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM FOR OUR LATEST UPDATES

Search

Support Forward-Thinking Independent Media with a One-Time Donation or Sustaining Contribution

Site by Bright Development.