In Preston, England, they're experimenting with investing public money in locally-owned businesses and cooperatives, and encouraging local "anchor" institutions to buy from, or train, local vendors. They're calling it the Preston model of community wealth building, and it's inspired by a model in another formerly industrialized city: Cleveland, Ohio, home of the Evergreen Cooperatives.

Laura attends an historic gathering at the School for Labor and Urban Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) to explore how a city like New York might change its economic model, so as to share wealth and power more democratically. This episode also features a report on Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker-owned cooperative in the U.S., based in the Bronx.

Laura visits "He Sapa,'' the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral lands to address homelessness, addiction and violence against Native Americans. In this special feature, she reports on Camp Mniluzahan, a tipi village built on tribal trust land that welcomed hundreds of unhoused Indigenous people and others in the Rapid City area in the dead of winter.

Private tactical training facilities have proliferated across North Carolina - many located on the outskirts of rural, predominantly Black towns - creating extreme noise pollution and fear, say local community members. Laura Flanders reports on two rural communities where residents have serious concerns about these facilities near their homes, especially in the wake of the January 6 insurrection.

A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast - a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land theft and white violence. The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project is pioneering regenerative farming practices as a means to address systemic racism. Join Laura Flanders on-location from Alexandria, Louisiana in this exclusive report.

In 2023, New York City received over 100,000 asylum seekers, including 15,000 unaccompanied minors. Most are from Latin America, where they face extortion from gangs and LGBTQ+ persecution. Hear the harrowing journeys and hopes of refugees coming to NYC - and meet the growing network of volunteers and nonprofits working to give asylum seekers a welcome, shelter, and legal protection.

Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movement for abolition and feminism who has lots to share about her evolution and how decades of activism are coming together. From Palestine to elections, to our carceral state and collective liberation, this conversation is packed with her insight.