Laura Flanders Show: Food, Housing and Time for a Sick-Out

Author Craig WIllse and organizer Imani Henry discuss housing, homelessness and the role of nonprofits in change-making (or not). Plus, an exclusive report from an upstate New York farm that's feeding people while fighting the school-to-prison pipeline. All that and Laura, inspired by Chicago’s teachers, wonders when we’ll be ready for a grand national sick out. Craig Willse is a professor at George Mason University. An author who's also worked in social service, His new book is The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States. Imani Henry is the founder of the community based organization Equality for Flatbush, as well as being a writer and performer. His writing has appeared in several books, including Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle, and the Lambda award-winning Does Your Mama Know.