Peter Linebaugh: Who Owns the Commons? An 800 Year Fight for Public Goods

This year marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, and this week’s show marks that occasion with a discussion on the rights of the commons with author Peter Linebaugh. We also visit a community center in Caracas, and hear from youth voices about life and revolution in Venezuela.

We join the radical arts collective Otro Beta in Caracas, Venezuela to learn about the work, and what they have to say to the people of the United States.

Laura Flanders

Laura is a best-selling author and broadcaster. After many years in public and commercial radio, she founded “The Laura Flanders Show” in 2008 to serve as an online channel for in depth conversations with forward-thinking people from the worlds of politics, economics, business and the arts. A primetime, daily broadcast, “The Laura Flanders Show” aired for three years on Free Speech TV before moving to KCET/Linktv and teleSUR, as a weekly program. Flanders is a contributing writer to The Nation and YES! magazine. She is also the author of six books including The New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). “The Laura Flanders Show” aired nationally on Air America Radio (2004-2008) before which she was the founding host of “Your Call,” on public radio, KALW, and “CounterSpin,” the nationally-syndicated radio program from the media watch group FAIR.

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