Laura Flanders Show: Sarah Schulman, Lupe Fiasco and Paying for Church

Author, activist Sarah Schulman, cofounder of the Act-Up Oral History Project, is out with a new novel, The Cosmopolitans, in which a group of mid-century East Villagers pull together to survive gentrification and modern life. Meanwhile, musician Lupe Fiasco is starting a tech entrepreneur program in one of New York City’s poorest neighborhoods - we have an exclusive report. And with so much to spend public money on, asks Flanders in her weekly commentary, why are tax payers subsidising church? Sarah Schulman is the author of seventeen books, including modern classics like the novels Rat Bohemia and People in Trouble, and the nonfiction Israel/ Palestine and the Queer International, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. Her newest novel, The Cosmopolitans, is out this month. Lupe Fiasco, aka Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, is a grammy award-winning artist whose critically-acclaimed albums have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. He has also made headlines with his brave political statements, like criticising President Obama for his lack of action for Palestinian human rights.