"Gun Violence In America: A Preventable Epidemic" (67 minutes)
On October 22, 2017, Joshua Sugarmann, founder and executive director of the Violence Policy center in Washington, D.C., was the keynote speaker at the Joint Annual Dinner of the Sacramento Chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Americans Against Gun Violence. Sugarmann asserted that the epidemic of Gun Violence in America can and must be solved.
"Does Cutting Corporate Taxes Create Jobs?" (2.5 minutes)
President Trump and Congressional Republicans are planning to cut trillions of dollars in corporate taxes. They say that lowering taxes on businesses will spur investment and create jobs. Let's look back a recent corporate tax cut to see if their claims are true.
"The Laura Flanders Show" (25 minutes)
Distinguished professor David Harvey joins Laura in the studio to talk about the spirals of capitalism and his new book "Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason." Then Laura meets with filmmaker Pau Faus, whose film "Ada for Mayor" captured the unlikely, successful, campaign of Barcelona's Ada Colau, from activism to governance.
"The Revolutionary Power of Diverse Thought" (22 minutes)
"From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shafak. "From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism" A native of Turkey, Shafak has experienced firsthand the devastation that a loss of diversity can bring — and she knows the revolutionary power of plurality in response to authoritarianism. In this passionate, personal talk, she reminds us that there are no binaries, in politics, emotions and our identities. "One should never, ever remain silent for fear of complexity," Shafak says.