{"podcast":{"title":"Laura Flanders and Friends: Solutions-Focused Progressive Perspectives on Politics, News, and Culture","slug":"laura-flanders-and-friends-solutions-focused-progressive-perspectives-on-politics-news-and-culture-1095059","podcast_index_feed_id":1095059,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/trhTbNDK","website_url":"http://www.LauraFlanders.org/listen","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/fc671404-9abb-4783-bad5-692b3dbc59cf/660efaf7-020e-48c0-89d7-4547f6acc596/3000x3000/unnamed.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Laura Flanders","episode_count":890,"summary":"Uncensored history meets bold voices with Laura Flanders, award winning journalist and author. The show explores actionable models for creating a better world by reporting on the people and movements driving systemic change. We spotlight the solutions of tomorrow, today. The show airs on PBS stations in over 300 US markets, and airs on 60+ community radio stations via PRX Exchange and Pacifica, and is available on YouTube and here as a podcast. Subscribers receive lots of video and audio web exclusives in addition to the weekly episode. Recent field reports and specials include: Jimmy Carter; 60th Anniversary of Selma Bloody Sunday March; Bernie Sanders' Fighting Oligarchy; Labor Movement vs. Fascism: Worker Organizers & Teachers Under Attack; And interviewee highlights include Award Winning Actor, Director, Writer, Liev Schreiber on his documentary \"Meeting Zelensky\"; Award winning journalists Maria Hinojosa (Award Winning Suave Podcast and host of Latino USA) & Chenjerai Kumanyika (Award Winning Podcast Series Empire City) on Forced Removals, Foreign Detention, the War on Education & Free Speech; Democracy & Capitalism: A Failed Experiment? with Bloomberg Economist & host of Tru…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T20:20:38.191202+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laura-flanders-and-friends-solutions-focused-progressive-perspectives-on-politics-news-and-culture-1095059"},"episode":{"title":"[episode cut] Building Power with Braiding Sweetgrass’ Robin Wall Kimmerer","slug":"episode-cut-building-power-with-braiding-sweetgrass-robin-wall-kimmerer","published_at":"2026-04-08T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laura-flanders-and-friends-solutions-focused-progressive-perspectives-on-politics-news-and-culture-1095059/episode-cut-building-power-with-braiding-sweetgrass-robin-wall-kimmerer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laura-flanders-and-friends-solutions-focused-progressive-perspectives-on-politics-news-and-culture-1095059","url":"http://www.LauraFlanders.org/listen","audio_url":"https://pdrl.fm/a930a4/op3.dev/e/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/72a99690-00a0-4376-8b30-9ea490811cc0/c3cf0ccd-6993-4c0f-a004-338778a46c5b/episodes/audio/group/efbc720d-f8c0-4d0b-a30d-934f0675441d/group-item/d7fbd08f-c069-42d2-8609-d9c1dc2ac485/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=trhTbNDK","summary":"This month on Laura Flanders and Friends, we’re revisiting conversations around the earth, the natural world and climate justice in action. This week, a call to ecological action that’s about more than planting with 'plant whisperer', ecologist, Robin Wall Kimmerer. Description: When was the last time you listened to the plants? Plant ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, a self-proclaimed “student of the plants,” has dedicated her life to helping people of all ages understand the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. Her latest initiative “Plant Baby Plant” does exactly that, by mobilizing communities to restore plants while building collective power for the Earth. “. . . We have to kind of decolonize our minds from this industrial revolution concept that the Earth belongs to us as a source of nothing more than belongings, natural resources that are our property . . . There is this notion in many Indigenous worldviews that human beings play a critical role in maintaining balance, that the way we take from the living world can actually be regenerative.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer Guest: Robin Wall Kimmerer: Plant Ecologist, Writer, Professor; Founder, Plant Baby Plant; Author, Braiding Sweetgrass Watch the episode released on YouTube; PBS World Channel nationally airing Sundays 11:30am ET and on over 300 public stations across the country (check your listings, or search here via zipcode). Listen: Episode airing on community radio (check here to see if your station airs the show) & available as a podcast. These audio exclusives are made possible thanks to our member supporters. Become a member today, go to https://Patreon.com/LauraFlandersandFriends.","meta_description":"This month on Laura Flanders and Friends, we’re revisiting conversations around the earth, the natural world and climate justice in action. 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