Laura Flanders Associate

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Laura Flanders is the host and executive producer of The Laura Flanders Show, a nationally-syndicated TV and radio program that reports on real-life models of shifting power in the arts, economics and governance around the US and the world.

Twitter: LFShow (external link)

She is a contributing writer to the Nation Magazine, covering social movement organizing and "next system" economics. She is the author of several books and the recipient of a 2020 Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation for her independent reporting and advocacy for public media.

Laura is a trustee of The Democracy Collaborative and an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. In 2019, she was awarded an Izzy Award for excellence in independent journalism, and the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Media Center for advancing women’s and girls’ visibility in media. Flanders’ forward-looking show airs on hundreds of PBS stations around the US every week and streams anywhere, anytime on YouTube. It is also available free, as a podcast at lauraflanders.org. @GRITlaura, @theLFShow.

Latest work

Power, empire and US elections: internationalist perspectives Webinar recording

Authoritarianism
Four activist scholars reflect on the 2020 US elections. The attention to Trump has distracted from Biden's agenda. How will his administration reshape geopolitics and global governance, for poverty and war, for migration and climate, for democracy and tyranny around the world? What will the elections mean for the current set of authoritarian rulers around the world, and what will they mean for progressive forces worldwide? What will be the challenges and opportunities for campaigns committed to social and environmental justice?
Video by

Laura Flanders

Phyllis Bennis

Walden Bello

Cathy Feingold

Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Publication date: 10 November 2020
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam

Remunicipalisation

From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. Laura Flanders reports from Amsterdam at The Future is Public, a conference co-hosted by TNI that brings together hundreds of organizers, scholars, and government officials who are working to democratize their municipal and national economies.

Multi-media by

Laura Flanders

Publication date: 13 February 2020
Transformative Cities: Crisis and Opportunity

New Politics

Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility? Laura Flanders introduces TNI's Transformative Cities programme in Amsterdam during June 2018.

Multi-media by

Laura Flanders

Publication date: 29 November 2018