Mass Incarceration: Envisioning A Moral Future, with Michelle Alexander
- September 13, 2019
Two-for-one on this week’s Laura Flanders Show! A riveting panel discussion with Michelle Alexander on mass incarceration and a podcast on cities and climate change.
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Last week, The Laura Flanders Show live-streamed a riveting panel discussion featuring highly-acclaimed civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and voting rights activist Desmond Meade on the moral shift America needs to make to end mass incarceration.
This week’s podcast
Extreme Cities: Ground Zero for Climate Change
No matter how we tackle climate change, cities are key. They emit massive amounts of carbon and they’re ground zero for the climate crisis. But could they also prove to be the sites of our best climate solutions?
Featured guests:
- Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center
- Mychal Johnson, Co-Founder, South Bronx Unite
- Aurash Khawarzad, Artist, Educator and Urban Planner
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