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Bernie Sanders & AOC: 'Fighting Oligarchy' with People Power

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5:00 AM on Apr 10, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 7, 2025

Can the Democratic party reinvent itself? In this exclusive one-on-one interview with Bernie Sanders, recorded during the Senator's "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, he sits down with Laura Flanders in Las Vegas to discuss what he hopes people will take away from his rallies, and how we can all push back against oligarchy. Sanders' message is especially resonating with Americans in this moment, as record-breaking crowds turn out for his tour -- with many first-time activists in the audience. What is driving this phenomenon? Laura Flanders & Friends hit the road to find out, and traveled from Kenosha to Warren and Las Vegas. Along the tour, Flanders spoke with veterans, retirees and many concerned citizens. She also caught speeches from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, and sat in on a town hall meeting with Nevada Congresswoman Dina Titus. Will 2025 turn out to be the year that Americans remake democracy? "I did 28 years in the army. I maintained an apolitical front at all times . . . I think we're sliding into tyranny, and I took an oath to support and defend the constitution and I'm going to do that whether in or out of uniform." - Terrance Deuel "We are at a point where the wealthiest people in the world, like Elon Musk and all the Republicans enabling him, are turning to loot what is left of Medicaid, Medicare, and social security to bankroll even deeper tax cuts and sweetheart contracts for themselves, their fellow billionaires and their corporations. And our political system right now is ill prepared for this abuse of power." - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "I think the message of the moment is to understand that the vast majority of the American people do not think that we give tax breaks to the rich and cut social security or veterans programs. They don't. And our job is to work as hard as we can. Part of what this tour is about is to get them involved in their own local communities." - Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders & AOC: 'Fighting Oligarchy' with People Power

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5:00 AM on Apr 10, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 7, 2025

Can the Democratic party reinvent itself? In this exclusive one-on-one interview with Bernie Sanders, recorded during the Senator's "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, he sits down with Laura Flanders in Las Vegas to discuss what he hopes people will take away from his rallies, and how we can all push back against oligarchy. Sanders' message is especially resonating with Americans in this moment, as record-breaking crowds turn out for his tour -- with many first-time activists in the audience. What is driving this phenomenon? Laura Flanders & Friends hit the road to find out, and traveled from Kenosha to Warren and Las Vegas. Along the tour, Flanders spoke with veterans, retirees and many concerned citizens. She also caught speeches from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, and sat in on a town hall meeting with Nevada Congresswoman Dina Titus. Will 2025 turn out to be the year that Americans remake democracy? "I did 28 years in the army. I maintained an apolitical front at all times . . . I think we're sliding into tyranny, and I took an oath to support and defend the constitution and I'm going to do that whether in or out of uniform." - Terrance Deuel "We are at a point where the wealthiest people in the world, like Elon Musk and all the Republicans enabling him, are turning to loot what is left of Medicaid, Medicare, and social security to bankroll even deeper tax cuts and sweetheart contracts for themselves, their fellow billionaires and their corporations. And our political system right now is ill prepared for this abuse of power." - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "I think the message of the moment is to understand that the vast majority of the American people do not think that we give tax breaks to the rich and cut social security or veterans programs. They don't. And our job is to work as hard as we can. Part of what this tour is about is to get them involved in their own local communities." - Bernie Sanders

Decades After Bloody Sunday, Is Trump's America Worse than Selma in '65?

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5:00 AM on Apr 17, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 14, 2025

60 years ago in Selma, Alabama, state troopers beat peaceful protesters bloody on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they marched for civil rights. The horror of "Bloody Sunday" and the resilience of the Civil Rights Movement ultimately led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and many of the landmark achievements that are now directly under attack. As civil rights activists look to history to understand -- and prepare for -- the present, Laura walks the Bridge and talks with, among others, Sheyann Webb Christburg, who marched at the age of eight, Black Voters Matter co-founders LaTosha Brown and Clifford Albright; law professor and author Kimberle Crenshaw and Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. What does people power look like today? Plus, a commentary from Laura on name calling then and now. "We're not going to phone bank our way out of this. We're not going to text our way out of this. And in truth, we're not even going to vote our way out of this . . . It's going to take revisiting some of the same strategies that we saw here in Selma, in terms of nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action." - Clifford Albright "When we see and hear and think about fascism, we think about anti-democratic movements in Europe. We think about the Holocaust . . . But for Black people, as Langston Hughes said, you don't have to explain to us what fascism is. We experienced it. That is what we were fighting, for the 60, 70 years after Reconstruction was overthrown." - Kimberle Crenshaw "We're seeing a bill that the Republicans are supporting right now that will cut $800 million from Medicaid. What we're seeing is the demonized poor people and working class folks. But we're gonna stop . . . We are literally gonna stand on the space that if we are the wealthiest in the world, then we need to be the healthiest in the world." - LaTosha Brown Guests: Clifford Albright: Co-Founder & Executive Director, Black Voters Matter; Willard and Kiba Armstead: Veteran & Spouse; Trayvon Bossa: Sigma Chapter Member, Miles College Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity; LaTosha Brown: Co-Founder, Black Voters Matter; Kimberle Crenshaw: Co-Founder & Executive Director, African American Policy Forum; Noelle Damico: Director of Social Justice, The Workers Circle; Melinda Hicks: Child, Spouse & Mother of Veteran; Jaribu Hill: Executive Director & Founder, Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights; Myla Person: High School Sophomore, Columbus, Georgia; Ann Toback: CEO, The Workers Circle Sheyann Webb Christburg: Youngest Participant,1965 Bloody Sunday March; Maya Wiley: President & CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Decades After Bloody Sunday, Is Trump's America Worse than Selma in '65?

Past Show Times:
5:00 AM on Apr 17, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 14, 2025

60 years ago in Selma, Alabama, state troopers beat peaceful protesters bloody on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they marched for civil rights. The horror of "Bloody Sunday" and the resilience of the Civil Rights Movement ultimately led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and many of the landmark achievements that are now directly under attack. As civil rights activists look to history to understand -- and prepare for -- the present, Laura walks the Bridge and talks with, among others, Sheyann Webb Christburg, who marched at the age of eight, Black Voters Matter co-founders LaTosha Brown and Clifford Albright; law professor and author Kimberle Crenshaw and Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. What does people power look like today? Plus, a commentary from Laura on name calling then and now. "We're not going to phone bank our way out of this. We're not going to text our way out of this. And in truth, we're not even going to vote our way out of this . . . It's going to take revisiting some of the same strategies that we saw here in Selma, in terms of nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action." - Clifford Albright "When we see and hear and think about fascism, we think about anti-democratic movements in Europe. We think about the Holocaust . . . But for Black people, as Langston Hughes said, you don't have to explain to us what fascism is. We experienced it. That is what we were fighting, for the 60, 70 years after Reconstruction was overthrown." - Kimberle Crenshaw "We're seeing a bill that the Republicans are supporting right now that will cut $800 million from Medicaid. What we're seeing is the demonized poor people and working class folks. But we're gonna stop . . . We are literally gonna stand on the space that if we are the wealthiest in the world, then we need to be the healthiest in the world." - LaTosha Brown Guests: Clifford Albright: Co-Founder & Executive Director, Black Voters Matter; Willard and Kiba Armstead: Veteran & Spouse; Trayvon Bossa: Sigma Chapter Member, Miles College Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity; LaTosha Brown: Co-Founder, Black Voters Matter; Kimberle Crenshaw: Co-Founder & Executive Director, African American Policy Forum; Noelle Damico: Director of Social Justice, The Workers Circle; Melinda Hicks: Child, Spouse & Mother of Veteran; Jaribu Hill: Executive Director & Founder, Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights; Myla Person: High School Sophomore, Columbus, Georgia; Ann Toback: CEO, The Workers Circle Sheyann Webb Christburg: Youngest Participant,1965 Bloody Sunday March; Maya Wiley: President & CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Journalists Maria Hinojosa & Chenjerai Kumanyika: Forced Removals, Foreign Detention, the War on Education & Free Speech

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5:00 AM on Apr 24, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 21, 2025

In the US today, immigrants, students, visitors and even U.S. residents -- are facing exclusion, militarization, detention, rendition, and elimination of basic due process rights. Are our media doing enough to sound the alarm? In recent weeks, the government has detained students like Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi, apparently over their support for Palestine. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully exported to El Salvador, is being held at the notorious CECOT mega prison. We've also seen widespread ICE operations, random visas revoked and ideologically-driven attacks on the funding and functioning of our institutions of higher education. Our guests on this month's Meet the BIPOC Press live and work at the intersection of these issues: Maria Hinojosa is the co-anchor and Executive Producer of Latino USA, and producer of the Pulitzer-prize winning podcast, Suave -- which is just out with a second season. She is a Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at Barnard College. Chenjerai Kumanyika is a Peabody Award-winner, creator and co-host of Uncivil, and creator and host of the podcast series Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD. He is also an Assistant Professor of Journalism at New York University. As the Republican regime moves towards authoritarianism, will the media stand for democracy before it's too late? "What's being taken advantage of in this moment is the painting of a picture of people who are, to use that 1990s term, 'super predators,' therefore, they deserve nothing, no due process. It's not true. But if you only consume media that is coming from the Trump administration, you are convinced that all of these people who are being taken out of the country are terrifying." - Maria Hinojosa "The idea that the Trump administration, an administration that started an inauguration with a Sieg Heil, they're the ones who are going to enforce concerns about antisemitism? No, look at my students. Look at the students of Columbia, the universities all across the country . . . we are the ones taking concerns about antisemitism seriously." - Chenjerai Kumanyika. Guests: Maria Hinojosa: Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist & Founder, Futuro Media; Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, Barnard College; Chenjerai Kumanyika: Peabody-Prize Winning Audio Journalist, Uncivil & Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD; Assistant Professor Journalism, NYU.

Journalists Maria Hinojosa & Chenjerai Kumanyika: Forced Removals, Foreign Detention, the War on Education & Free Speech

Past Show Times:
5:00 AM on Apr 24, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 21, 2025

In the US today, immigrants, students, visitors and even U.S. residents -- are facing exclusion, militarization, detention, rendition, and elimination of basic due process rights. Are our media doing enough to sound the alarm? In recent weeks, the government has detained students like Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi, apparently over their support for Palestine. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully exported to El Salvador, is being held at the notorious CECOT mega prison. We've also seen widespread ICE operations, random visas revoked and ideologically-driven attacks on the funding and functioning of our institutions of higher education. Our guests on this month's Meet the BIPOC Press live and work at the intersection of these issues: Maria Hinojosa is the co-anchor and Executive Producer of Latino USA, and producer of the Pulitzer-prize winning podcast, Suave -- which is just out with a second season. She is a Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at Barnard College. Chenjerai Kumanyika is a Peabody Award-winner, creator and co-host of Uncivil, and creator and host of the podcast series Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD. He is also an Assistant Professor of Journalism at New York University. As the Republican regime moves towards authoritarianism, will the media stand for democracy before it's too late? "What's being taken advantage of in this moment is the painting of a picture of people who are, to use that 1990s term, 'super predators,' therefore, they deserve nothing, no due process. It's not true. But if you only consume media that is coming from the Trump administration, you are convinced that all of these people who are being taken out of the country are terrifying." - Maria Hinojosa "The idea that the Trump administration, an administration that started an inauguration with a Sieg Heil, they're the ones who are going to enforce concerns about antisemitism? No, look at my students. Look at the students of Columbia, the universities all across the country . . . we are the ones taking concerns about antisemitism seriously." - Chenjerai Kumanyika. Guests: Maria Hinojosa: Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist & Founder, Futuro Media; Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, Barnard College; Chenjerai Kumanyika: Peabody-Prize Winning Audio Journalist, Uncivil & Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD; Assistant Professor Journalism, NYU.

Democracy & Capitalism: A Failed Experiment?

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5:00 AM on May 1, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 28, 2025

Is the West's experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, sisters Laura and Stephanie Flanders hold their annual check-in, this time from St. James Park in London, to delve into the details of the many politico-economic issues dominating and driving the news. Stephanie Flanders, an economics expert of renown, is the Head of Economics and Government at Bloomberg and the host of "Trumponomics", the weekly Stephanomics podcast that looks at the president's economic policies and plans. Join Laura and Stephanie as they discuss how business impacts every aspect of our lives. Are we going backwards, or are there models like community wealth building that we can look to for economic transformation? ". . . There's quite a lot of people who are saying, 'Well, thank God we've actually got an America that's not pretending . . . You are a rapacious, self-interested nation that's out for yourself. We've always known you were that. But now, you've sort of admitted it.'" - Stephanie Flanders "[Social democracy] means lots of things to different people, but a kind of model of democracy that was at least nominally about raising people up, supporting the working class, allowing the rich to be rich, but only in the conjunction of also growing the economy for everybody else. That model, which has been pursued in lots of different ways, didn't deliver for people . . ." - Stephanie Flanders. Guest: Stephanie Flanders: Head Economics & Government, Bloomberg.

Democracy & Capitalism: A Failed Experiment?

Past Show Times:
5:00 AM on May 1, 2025
10:00 PM on Apr 28, 2025

Is the West's experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, sisters Laura and Stephanie Flanders hold their annual check-in, this time from St. James Park in London, to delve into the details of the many politico-economic issues dominating and driving the news. Stephanie Flanders, an economics expert of renown, is the Head of Economics and Government at Bloomberg and the host of "Trumponomics", the weekly Stephanomics podcast that looks at the president's economic policies and plans. Join Laura and Stephanie as they discuss how business impacts every aspect of our lives. Are we going backwards, or are there models like community wealth building that we can look to for economic transformation? ". . . There's quite a lot of people who are saying, 'Well, thank God we've actually got an America that's not pretending . . . You are a rapacious, self-interested nation that's out for yourself. We've always known you were that. But now, you've sort of admitted it.'" - Stephanie Flanders "[Social democracy] means lots of things to different people, but a kind of model of democracy that was at least nominally about raising people up, supporting the working class, allowing the rich to be rich, but only in the conjunction of also growing the economy for everybody else. That model, which has been pursued in lots of different ways, didn't deliver for people . . ." - Stephanie Flanders. Guest: Stephanie Flanders: Head Economics & Government, Bloomberg.

Masha Gessen & Jason Stanley: Is it Doomsday for U.S. Democracy?

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5:00 AM on May 8, 2025
10:00 PM on May 5, 2025

What will it take to reject fascism, before it's too late? Masha Gessen and Jason Stanley are two leading experts on autocracy, and they're sounding the alarm. They and their families have escaped totalitarian regimes and oppressive governments; today Gessen and Stanley are pulling back the curtain on the attacks against DEI, trans bodies, civil rights, higher education and more. Is authoritarianism here? Masha Gessen is an acclaimed Russian-American journalist, a Polk Award winning opinion writer for the NY Times and the author of "Surviving Autocracy" as well as "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia", which won a National Book Award. Forced to leave Russia twice, in 2024, a Moscow court convicted them, in absentia to eight years in prison for their reporting on the war in Ukraine. Jason Stanley is a best selling author and professor whose books include "Erasing History" and "How Fascism Works". He recently left his teaching position at Yale University to relocate to Canada with his family; noting that he is a child of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany. In this historic conversation - the first interview between Gessen and Stanley - the two explore how to be bold in our movements and envision a multi-ethnic democracy. Plus, a commentary from Laura. "Trump has proposed a revived empire, a return to an imaginary past. The Democrats have proposed the way things are now, which are deeply unsatisfying and horribly anxiety provoking for a very large number of people. So we need a vision of a future that is more appealing than the imaginary past." - Masha Gessen; "What I see now is this regime shifting the self understanding of America, from having these democratic ideals . . . God knows they've been imperfect, to a self identity as loving the United States because we've had these great men in our past, and we've conquered the West, and we can punch you in the nose. And that's not a democratic project. That's like what Putin is doing in Russia." - Jason Stanley.

Masha Gessen & Jason Stanley: Is it Doomsday for U.S. Democracy?

Past Show Times:
5:00 AM on May 8, 2025
10:00 PM on May 5, 2025

What will it take to reject fascism, before it's too late? Masha Gessen and Jason Stanley are two leading experts on autocracy, and they're sounding the alarm. They and their families have escaped totalitarian regimes and oppressive governments; today Gessen and Stanley are pulling back the curtain on the attacks against DEI, trans bodies, civil rights, higher education and more. Is authoritarianism here? Masha Gessen is an acclaimed Russian-American journalist, a Polk Award winning opinion writer for the NY Times and the author of "Surviving Autocracy" as well as "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia", which won a National Book Award. Forced to leave Russia twice, in 2024, a Moscow court convicted them, in absentia to eight years in prison for their reporting on the war in Ukraine. Jason Stanley is a best selling author and professor whose books include "Erasing History" and "How Fascism Works". He recently left his teaching position at Yale University to relocate to Canada with his family; noting that he is a child of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany. In this historic conversation - the first interview between Gessen and Stanley - the two explore how to be bold in our movements and envision a multi-ethnic democracy. Plus, a commentary from Laura. "Trump has proposed a revived empire, a return to an imaginary past. The Democrats have proposed the way things are now, which are deeply unsatisfying and horribly anxiety provoking for a very large number of people. So we need a vision of a future that is more appealing than the imaginary past." - Masha Gessen; "What I see now is this regime shifting the self understanding of America, from having these democratic ideals . . . God knows they've been imperfect, to a self identity as loving the United States because we've had these great men in our past, and we've conquered the West, and we can punch you in the nose. And that's not a democratic project. That's like what Putin is doing in Russia." - Jason Stanley.

Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering 'End Times Fascism'?

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Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering 'End Times Fascism'?

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5:00 AM on May 15, 2025

Today's billionaires know our planet can't sustain their business models or lifestyles, but they don't care. Find out why, in this chilling conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors of a revelatory essay on "End Times Fascism" in the Guardian. "Today's rightwing leaders and their rich allies are not just taking advantage of catastrophes, shock-doctrine and disaster-capitalism style," write Klein and Taylor, "but simultaneously provoking, planning and seeking to profit off apocalypse." These are deeply dangerous times, Taylor and Klein argue: "Trump 2.0's economic project is a Frankenstein's monster of the industries driving all of these threats--fossil fuels, weapons, and resource-ravenous cryptocurrency and AI." As the Right prepares for the end of life as we know it, can we build a movement to counter their apocalyptic, fascist ideology? What about a vision of love and compassion for people and the planet? All that, plus a commentary from Laura on Elon Musk's recently privately-incorporated Tesla town in Brownsville, TX. "These people are preparing for the end of the world. They are abandoning this place. They are traitors. And so we respond to them in part by committing to where we are and by being committed to other people. And it sounds very simple, but I think there's something really fundamental and profound about that when you realize the scale to which these folks have decided to embrace this politics of contempt and abandonment." - Astra Taylor "Under colonialism, the creation of nation states is pretty arbitrary. Guy with book decides to form country. That's what they see in Israel . . . The idea that you can have a kind of an apartheid state, wealthy, high-tech fortress as a way to weather the storms that you yourself are unleashing. Israel's become a kind of a beacon for both the tech bros and the Theo Bros." - Naomi Klein Guests: Naomi Klein: Columnist, The Guardian; UBC Professor of Climate Justice); Co-Author, The Rise of End Times Fascism; Journalist & Best-Selling Author, Doppelganger, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything & On Fire; Astra Taylor: Author & Organizer; Co-Author, The Rise of End Times Fascism; Co-Founder, Debt Collective & Author, The Age of Insecurity, Co-author, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.

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