Queer, independent journalist Laura Flanders is searching America for alternatives to the social, government and economic systems that failed in this annus horrribilis. "To me, this feels like now or never," Flanders said in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. "With a pandemic, a recession, and a political debacle that showed the weakness in our systems, we need to see radical, palpable change in people's lives." Finding where change is happening on a local and community level will be a main theme this year on Flanders' eponymous television program, which has been distributed by American Public Television on local affiliates of the Public Broadcasting Service since 2019. "The Laura Flanders Show" airs at 8:30 a.m.