Laura Flynn

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  • Username: LauraPFlynn
  • PRX Member
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Laura Flynn

Caption: Talman Anderson votes in the Illinois presidential preference primary from the Cook County Jail, Credit: Photo by Pamela Kirkland

70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago (29:00)
From: Making Contact

A year ago, Illinois passed a law requiring all jails to ensure that pre-trial detainees have an opportunity to vote. Chicago’s Cook County Jail was turned into a polling ...
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Language Is Life, Land is Sacred (29:00)
From: Making Contact

Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellows Vincent Medina and Isabella Zizi share deep and personal stories on Native American Organizing and Activism on Ohlone lands in ...
Caption: Refinery Healing Walk, Credit: Isabella Zizi

Refinery Healing Walks (11:16)
From: Making Contact

We’ll meet Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow and environmental and indigenous leader Isabella Zizi. In this piece, Zizi talks about how the 2012 Chevron refinery ...
Caption: Refinery Healing Walk, Credit: Isabella Zizi

Walk the Talk: Stories of Indigenous-led resistance to oil and waste (29:00)
From: Making Contact

On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll meet people challenging polluters in their own backyard, not to push hazardous industries into another neighborhood. Instead they’re ...
Caption: Viridiana Hernández lobbying at the Arizona State Legislature against the bill that would ban cities from creating their own city ID if that is extended to undocumented immigrants., Credit: Valeria Fernández

From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan: Immigrant Communities Upholding Democracy (29:00)
From: Making Contact

This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics today. From Dreamers in ...
Caption: Alana Theriault, disability benefits counselor in Berkeley, California and Alice Wong, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Credit: Alice Wong

Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity (29:00)
From: Making Contact

Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the nature of the working ...
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Women Rising 30: International Slavery and Human Trafficking (29:00)
From: Making Contact

Women Rising Radio #30 profiles women fighting slavery, trafficking and forced labor globally.
Caption: Hwy 175 between Cobb and Middletown, Credit: Laura Flynn

After Disaster: Picking up the pieces in an age of climate change (29:00)
From: Making Contact

On this edition of Making Contact we explore the social and psychological costs of climate change, and the weight of inaction.
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Resurrected: Formerly Incarcerated Change-Makers (29:00)
From: Making Contact

On this edition of Making Contact we’ll meet individuals who went to prison, came out, and have since dedicated their life to changing the world.