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Ai Weiwei: How Do We Save Our Humanity?Sunday, April 28
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1In his recent graphic memoir "ZODIAC: A Graphic Memoir", the renowned artist Ai Weiwei writes that artists should "ignite stories", "fight for freedom" and "help us hope." Over his long and defiant career, he has used his art in a wide variety of media to do just that. His past works such as "Sunflower Seeds" and "Remembering" confronted issues of censorship and human rights abuses in China; in a recent show in London, he asked questions of an AI Chatbot for his project "Ai vs AI", including "Is there hope for peace?" Earlier this year, he faced criticism for his expressions of support for Palestinian rights and had a show in London canceled. In this wide-ranging conversation with Laura Flanders, they discuss the role of the artist and ask why is "Power so afraid of art and poets?" As attacks on free speech, surveillance and displacement continue to impact so many of us, how do we keep the doors of our minds open to possibility? And how can art and artists help lead transformation? All that, plus a commentary from Laura. "I'm not this kind of very active activist. I'm just being forced to act . . . But I'm proud of doing that because that is the meaning of life, to give dignity to life itself . . ." - Ai Weiwei 888"The real fear for me is [if] we lost [the] ability to ask the question. We lost our memory, we lost our sense of caring compassion . . ." - Ai Weiwei "We [do] not encourage people to have free thinking and judgment and that is the ground to produce Nazis or hypocrites. And that can come to political disaster . . . We have this kind of censorship because people cannot freely express their feelings." - Ai Weiwei Guest: Ai Weiwei: Conceptual Artist, Filmmaker & Human Rights Activist; Author, ZODIAC, A Graphic Memoir -
Is Earth Day Still Relevant? Breaking Silos with Meet the BIPOC PressFriday, April 26
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Corporate greenwashing has hijacked Earth Day, but the ideas behind the holiday are more urgent than ever. There are environmental issues all around us - even within recent new stories like the Baltimore bridge collapse and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Will the media be talking about the environmental impacts of mass military onslaught this year or the corporate polluters that will dodge taxes this season? In this installment of Meet the BIPOC Press, our monthly media roundtable featuring journalists of color, hear how the idea of the environment has been siloed and why it's up to the media to undo that. Our guests are Olufemi O. Taiwo, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University; Francesca Fiorentini, host of The Bitchuation Room podcast and Maximilian Alvarez, Editor in Chief of The Real News Network. With Laura Flanders, they unpack whether Earth Day is still relevant and how the media can help make Earth Day intersectional. "We are all the victims of unregulated runaway corporate capitalism. The chickens are coming home to roost after 40 years of deregulation, disinvestment, corporate consolidation, and Wall Street takeover of every vital industry." - Maximilian Alvarez "We've seen what happens when you report on climate stories. People don't click it. Why? Because it's a bummer. And as a comedian, we have to un-bummer this topic in any way we can." - Francesca Fiorentini "If you look at Flint, people got together and to a great degree did it themselves. It wasn't the state of Michigan that was blaring the alarm bells about the water. It was the people who lived in Flint . . . It's going to be that kind of ground-up people power that is going to be the stuff of solutions if we're going to find them at all." - Olufemi O. Taiwo Guests: Maximillian Alvarez: Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network; Author, The Work of Living Francesca Fiorentini: Host, The Bitchuation Room Podcast Olufemi O. Taiwo. Associate Professor Philosophy, Georgetown University; Author, Reconsidering Reparations -
Is Earth Day Still Relevant? Breaking Silos with Meet the BIPOC PressThursday, April 25
10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Corporate greenwashing has hijacked Earth Day, but the ideas behind the holiday are more urgent than ever. There are environmental issues all around us - even within recent new stories like the Baltimore bridge collapse and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Will the media be talking about the environmental impacts of mass military onslaught this year or the corporate polluters that will dodge taxes this season? In this installment of Meet the BIPOC Press, our monthly media roundtable featuring journalists of color, hear how the idea of the environment has been siloed and why it's up to the media to undo that. Our guests are Olufemi O. Taiwo, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University; Francesca Fiorentini, host of The Bitchuation Room podcast and Maximilian Alvarez, Editor in Chief of The Real News Network. With Laura Flanders, they unpack whether Earth Day is still relevant and how the media can help make Earth Day intersectional. "We are all the victims of unregulated runaway corporate capitalism. The chickens are coming home to roost after 40 years of deregulation, disinvestment, corporate consolidation, and Wall Street takeover of every vital industry." - Maximilian Alvarez "We've seen what happens when you report on climate stories. People don't click it. Why? Because it's a bummer. And as a comedian, we have to un-bummer this topic in any way we can." - Francesca Fiorentini "If you look at Flint, people got together and to a great degree did it themselves. It wasn't the state of Michigan that was blaring the alarm bells about the water. It was the people who lived in Flint . . . It's going to be that kind of ground-up people power that is going to be the stuff of solutions if we're going to find them at all." - Olufemi O. Taiwo Guests: Maximillian Alvarez: Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network; Author, The Work of Living Francesca Fiorentini: Host, The Bitchuation Room Podcast Olufemi O. Taiwo. Associate Professor Philosophy, Georgetown University; Author, Reconsidering Reparations -
Is Earth Day Still Relevant? Breaking Silos with Meet the BIPOC PressSunday, April 21
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Corporate greenwashing has hijacked Earth Day, but the ideas behind the holiday are more urgent than ever. There are environmental issues all around us - even within recent new stories like the Baltimore bridge collapse and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Will the media be talking about the environmental impacts of mass military onslaught this year or the corporate polluters that will dodge taxes this season? In this installment of Meet the BIPOC Press, our monthly media roundtable featuring journalists of color, hear how the idea of the environment has been siloed and why it's up to the media to undo that. Our guests are Olufemi O. Taiwo, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University; Francesca Fiorentini, host of The Bitchuation Room podcast and Maximilian Alvarez, Editor in Chief of The Real News Network. With Laura Flanders, they unpack whether Earth Day is still relevant and how the media can help make Earth Day intersectional. "We are all the victims of unregulated runaway corporate capitalism. The chickens are coming home to roost after 40 years of deregulation, disinvestment, corporate consolidation, and Wall Street takeover of every vital industry." - Maximilian Alvarez "We've seen what happens when you report on climate stories. People don't click it. Why? Because it's a bummer. And as a comedian, we have to un-bummer this topic in any way we can." - Francesca Fiorentini "If you look at Flint, people got together and to a great degree did it themselves. It wasn't the state of Michigan that was blaring the alarm bells about the water. It was the people who lived in Flint . . . It's going to be that kind of ground-up people power that is going to be the stuff of solutions if we're going to find them at all." - Olufemi O. Taiwo Guests: Maximillian Alvarez: Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network; Author, The Work of Living Francesca Fiorentini: Host, The Bitchuation Room Podcast Olufemi O. Taiwo. Associate Professor Philosophy, Georgetown University; Author, Reconsidering Reparations -
Trust-Busting 2024 with Stacy Mitchell & Matt Stoller: A Bipartisan Battle Against Monopoly PowerFriday, April 19
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Is 2024 the year of trust-busting? This bipartisan issue of small versus big is a fight taking place on the streets and in the federal and state courts; led by grassroots movements and consumer protest. The Biden administration has stepped up anti-trust action, but the number of merger filings is also up. What should we make of this moment? To help answer that question, Laura is joined by two experts on anti-trust action: Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Matt Stoller, author of "Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" and publisher of the newsletter "BIG" on Substack. Mitchell has played a leading role in today's growing anti-monopoly movement and her work informed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon in 2023. Stoller is the former policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee and also worked for a member of the Financial Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives during the financial crisis. In this episode, they unpack how decades of corporate consolidation did not lead to cheaper prices, better service or more jobs, but instead worsened our local economies, the quality of our lives and democracy. How have people power and government action together brought about a shift? Is it real? Hear why one guest calls this moment a delayed policy reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, plus a commentary from Laura for tax day. "What we are seeing in this administration is we actually have people in place who are making huge change and are using the tools to the full extent that they have . . . There is a lot of grassroots support for the idea of dealing with corporate power. Everybody is feeling this . . ." - Stacy Mitchell "It's very clear that not having competition in these markets kills . . . In areas like hospices and elder care, dialysis or other parts of healthcare people die. And also in things like Boeing, people die." - Matt Stoller Guests: Stacy Mitchell: Co-Executive Director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Matt Stoller: Research Director, American Economic Liberties Project; Publisher, BIG & Author, Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy -
Trust-Busting 2024 with Stacy Mitchell & Matt Stoller: A Bipartisan Battle Against Monopoly PowerThursday, April 18
10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Is 2024 the year of trust-busting? This bipartisan issue of small versus big is a fight taking place on the streets and in the federal and state courts; led by grassroots movements and consumer protest. The Biden administration has stepped up anti-trust action, but the number of merger filings is also up. What should we make of this moment? To help answer that question, Laura is joined by two experts on anti-trust action: Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Matt Stoller, author of "Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" and publisher of the newsletter "BIG" on Substack. Mitchell has played a leading role in today's growing anti-monopoly movement and her work informed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon in 2023. Stoller is the former policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee and also worked for a member of the Financial Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives during the financial crisis. In this episode, they unpack how decades of corporate consolidation did not lead to cheaper prices, better service or more jobs, but instead worsened our local economies, the quality of our lives and democracy. How have people power and government action together brought about a shift? Is it real? Hear why one guest calls this moment a delayed policy reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, plus a commentary from Laura for tax day. "What we are seeing in this administration is we actually have people in place who are making huge change and are using the tools to the full extent that they have . . . There is a lot of grassroots support for the idea of dealing with corporate power. Everybody is feeling this . . ." - Stacy Mitchell "It's very clear that not having competition in these markets kills . . . In areas like hospices and elder care, dialysis or other parts of healthcare people die. And also in things like Boeing, people die." - Matt Stoller Guests: Stacy Mitchell: Co-Executive Director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Matt Stoller: Research Director, American Economic Liberties Project; Publisher, BIG & Author, Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy -
Trust-Busting 2024 with Stacy Mitchell & Matt Stoller: A Bipartisan Battle Against Monopoly PowerSunday, April 14
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Is 2024 the year of trust-busting? This bipartisan issue of small versus big is a fight taking place on the streets and in the federal and state courts; led by grassroots movements and consumer protest. The Biden administration has stepped up anti-trust action, but the number of merger filings is also up. What should we make of this moment? To help answer that question, Laura is joined by two experts on anti-trust action: Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Matt Stoller, author of "Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" and publisher of the newsletter "BIG" on Substack. Mitchell has played a leading role in today's growing anti-monopoly movement and her work informed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon in 2023. Stoller is the former policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee and also worked for a member of the Financial Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives during the financial crisis. In this episode, they unpack how decades of corporate consolidation did not lead to cheaper prices, better service or more jobs, but instead worsened our local economies, the quality of our lives and democracy. How have people power and government action together brought about a shift? Is it real? Hear why one guest calls this moment a delayed policy reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, plus a commentary from Laura for tax day. "What we are seeing in this administration is we actually have people in place who are making huge change and are using the tools to the full extent that they have . . . There is a lot of grassroots support for the idea of dealing with corporate power. Everybody is feeling this . . ." - Stacy Mitchell "It's very clear that not having competition in these markets kills . . . In areas like hospices and elder care, dialysis or other parts of healthcare people die. And also in things like Boeing, people die." - Matt Stoller Guests: Stacy Mitchell: Co-Executive Director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Matt Stoller: Research Director, American Economic Liberties Project; Publisher, BIG & Author, Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy -
Angela Davis: A Revolutionary Roadmap for Building a Better FutureFriday, April 12
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1With so many urgent crises tugging at our hearts, from war, to climate, to discontent and violence, people want to know: How do we set priorities and do the right thing, especially as that relates to building a better world, and to an election that seems both problematic and the most important of our time? If anyone can ground us thoughtfully in this moment, with all of its challenges and all its potential, it's renowned professor, activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis. In her writing, lecturing and many decades of activism, Davis has shown a unique ability to pull competing struggles into a single story a story of systems and power. In this special first episode of "Laura Flanders & Friends" (formerly, The Laura Flanders Show), Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movement for abolition and feminism who has lots to share about her evolution and how decades of activism are coming together in this moment. From Palestine to elections, to our carceral state and collective liberation, this kickoff conversation is packed with Davis' insight and the teachings from her latest book "Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1". What has Davis learned in her 80 years as a freedom fighter? All that, plus a commentary from Laura on the words of the late poet and essayist June Jordan, who writes, "I was born a Black woman/and now/I am become a Palestinian." "When vast numbers of people come together to defend a vision of the future that they would like to see, this is how change happens. It doesn't happen because we elect a particular person to office." - Angela Y. Davis "[In] Birmingham, Jewish people were the very first white people to support the struggle against racism... Here in the US and in other parts of the world, it's actually Jewish people, young Jewish people who are in the forefront of the struggle against Zionism." - Angela Y. Davis Guest: Angela Y. Davis: Professor, Activist, Scholar & Writer; Author, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1. -
Angela Davis: A Revolutionary Roadmap for Building a Better FutureThursday, April 11
10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1With so many urgent crises tugging at our hearts, from war, to climate, to discontent and violence, people want to know: How do we set priorities and do the right thing, especially as that relates to building a better world, and to an election that seems both problematic and the most important of our time? If anyone can ground us thoughtfully in this moment, with all of its challenges and all its potential, it's renowned professor, activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis. In her writing, lecturing and many decades of activism, Davis has shown a unique ability to pull competing struggles into a single story a story of systems and power. In this special first episode of "Laura Flanders & Friends" (formerly, The Laura Flanders Show), Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movement for abolition and feminism who has lots to share about her evolution and how decades of activism are coming together in this moment. From Palestine to elections, to our carceral state and collective liberation, this kickoff conversation is packed with Davis' insight and the teachings from her latest book "Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1". What has Davis learned in her 80 years as a freedom fighter? All that, plus a commentary from Laura on the words of the late poet and essayist June Jordan, who writes, "I was born a Black woman/and now/I am become a Palestinian." "When vast numbers of people come together to defend a vision of the future that they would like to see, this is how change happens. It doesn't happen because we elect a particular person to office." - Angela Y. Davis "[In] Birmingham, Jewish people were the very first white people to support the struggle against racism... Here in the US and in other parts of the world, it's actually Jewish people, young Jewish people who are in the forefront of the struggle against Zionism." - Angela Y. Davis Guest: Angela Y. Davis: Professor, Activist, Scholar & Writer; Author, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1. -
Angela Davis: A Revolutionary Roadmap for Building a Better FutureSunday, April 7
9:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1With so many urgent crises tugging at our hearts, from war, to climate, to discontent and violence, people want to know: How do we set priorities and do the right thing, especially as that relates to building a better world, and to an election that seems both problematic and the most important of our time? If anyone can ground us thoughtfully in this moment, with all of its challenges and all its potential, it's renowned professor, activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis. In her writing, lecturing and many decades of activism, Davis has shown a unique ability to pull competing struggles into a single story a story of systems and power. In this special first episode of "Laura Flanders & Friends" (formerly, The Laura Flanders Show), Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movement for abolition and feminism who has lots to share about her evolution and how decades of activism are coming together in this moment. From Palestine to elections, to our carceral state and collective liberation, this kickoff conversation is packed with Davis' insight and the teachings from her latest book "Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1". What has Davis learned in her 80 years as a freedom fighter? All that, plus a commentary from Laura on the words of the late poet and essayist June Jordan, who writes, "I was born a Black woman/and now/I am become a Palestinian." "When vast numbers of people come together to defend a vision of the future that they would like to see, this is how change happens. It doesn't happen because we elect a particular person to office." - Angela Y. Davis "[In] Birmingham, Jewish people were the very first white people to support the struggle against racism... Here in the US and in other parts of the world, it's actually Jewish people, young Jewish people who are in the forefront of the struggle against Zionism." - Angela Y. Davis Guest: Angela Y. Davis: Professor, Activist, Scholar & Writer; Author, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1.