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We're very excited to announce the lineup for Live From Main Street Seattle: Beyond Hockey Moms and Palin Politics. Join us in Seattle or online as Laura Flanders and these panalists discuss what real national security looks like.

 

The Lineup:

 

•    Martha Burk, Author, Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women Voters in '08 and Beyond. Martha Burk is a political psychologist and women's issues expert who is co-founder of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, a research and policy analysis organization in Washington, D.C.
•    Rosalinda Guillen, Community to Community Development, a women-led place based, grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities.
•    Carol Kessler, Director of the Center for Global Security for Pacific Northwest National Lab. The Center’s mission is to address the full range of global security issues by probing the impact of economic, social, institutional energy and environmental conditions that affect it.
•    Sarah Rich, mother of Suzanne Swift—the Army Specialist who spoke out on rape and sexual harassment by her commanders in Iraq. She went AWOL was court marshalled and served 30 days in prison. She is back in the army again and will be out in January 2009.
•    Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is an author, freelance journalist, and consultant in the field of environmental policy and political strategy. She is the Executive Director of MomsRising.org.
•    Erin Solaro, Author, Women in the Line of Fire: What you should know about Women in the Military.
•    Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and executive editor of YES! Sarah has edited issues of YES!, written, and spoken on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only possible, it is being created.
•    and more…

Hi all, the LFMS team is excited to share with you the final version of Live From Main Street Columbus Ohio: Will Your Vote Count?:

We are extremely happy with the results from last week and would like to extend a special thanks to Media Consortium members that promoted/ran LFMS Columbus on their sites:

 

-GRITtv

-Alternet

-American Forum

-ColorLines

-Colorado Independent

-In These Times

-The Nation

-OneWorld

-The Real News

-Yes!

-National Radio Project

-Free Speech TV

-Link TV

 

Stay tuned for updates on our next town hall, Live From Main Street Seattle: Women on Real National Security.

Video the Vote, was featured on Live From Main Street Columbus: Will Your Vote Count? this week. They are an organization working hard to protect voting rights by documenting the voting process. Anyone can sign up and upload their videos. Watch already uploaded videos here, or sign up to upload your own.

 

 

Check out coverage of LFMS Columbus that Public News Service, a partner of the Media Consortium, is providing for Election Protection Investigation Week. Stay tuned for more coverage and updates from MC members all this week!

The article and podcast are available here.

What does it take to vote in this critical election? Did you know that Arizona is the only U.S. state to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote? Or that Florida and Michigan require photo IDs at the polling machines? New American Meadia is here to help sort out these rules and conditions in many battleground states. 

 

New America Media, the country’s first and largest collaboration of ethnic news outlets, presents a series of print and radio public service announcements to inform ethnic media audiences with what they need to cast a vote on Election Day. NAM is partnering with voter-engagement groups to execute a succinct, attention-getting public guide to voting. This initiative is founded on the belief that no voting information should be taken for granted as common knowledge in an election year—especially when threats to American election integrity are widespread, and when election laws vary dramatically on a state-by-state basis.  

 

Focusing on nine states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—New America Media will create multi-lingual pre-produced public service announcements that tell readers “What to Bring to The Polls on Election Day.”  

 

For more information on how to run one of these PSA's, or to learn more about “What to Bring to The Polls on Election Day," contact Dan Rader or Laura Goode at New America Media:

 

Dan Rader: drader@newamericamedia.org       
Laura Goode: lgoode@newamericamedia.org
New America Media: 415-503-4170

Two weeks ago, the Michigan Messenger ran a story about the GOP’s plans to use a list of foreclosed homes to stop people from voting. Now the Michigan Republican Party is threatening to sue the Messenger for Libel. The Messenger is holding their ground, but unfortunately this is just one of many stories of voter disenfranchisement appearing as the 2008 election nears.

 

From voter caging and disenfranchisement, to youth organizing, voter registration, suppression and unreliable electronic voting machines, preserving the integrity of the vote is of critical concern this election season.

 

This is why Live From Main Street Columbus will devote an entire week to revealing and discussing these issues, and help prevent 2004 from happening again.

 

Live From Main Street Columbus: Will Your Vote Count? will be a week-long virtual town hall series, hosted by radio personality Laura Flanders, that kicks-off on September 29. Each day, Live From Main Street's virtual town hall will broadcast Ohio-based news on election protection issues to a national audience via television segments, articles, blogs, live chats, radio pieces, short investigative documentaries, panel discussions, one-on-one interviews and a statewide conference call with local leaders.

We're looking for volunteers to help with the Denver Live From Main
Street! This event will be the third in a series of 5 town hall events
hosted by Laura Flanders that will be broadcast on multiple television,
radio and satellite stations. Live Form Main Street is dedicated to
putting the voices of everyday Americans back into the national
political dialog. For more information, click here.

We're looking for 10-15 friendly faces to act as ushers, distribute
promotional materials, track RSVPs and help with set-up/tear-down. All
volunteers will get Progressive Media goodies and will be have seats to
the show!

If you'll be in Denver and are available from either 1:00 pm to
6:00 pm or 3pm to 8pm Sunday, August 24, please email your name and
phone number to Becki Scholl at becki AT themediaconsortium DOT com.

To ease the load on volunteers, we plan to have two groups, one to help
with set-up and one to help with tear-down--this is the reason for the
different times. However, you are more than welcome to help all day!

Live From Main Street is coming to Denver during the DNC. Please join us on August 24 at 4 p.m. at The Big Tent for "So You Say You Want Change? Exploring the Conflicts and Opportunities Ahead."

 

We're taking a closer look at what "change" means and discussing what real, sustainable change would look like. Is a new, more progressive era on the horizon? And what impact will this new era have on education, security, the environment, immigration reform and other issues critical to the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans?

 

Join the discussion with community leaders and make your voice heard.

Special Guests include Van Jones, Rep. Donna Edwards, Polly Baca, David Sirota, Laughing Liberally and more!

 

WHEN: Sunday August 24, 4pm (doors open at 3pm)

 

WHERE: The Big Tent 1536 Wynkoop Street Denver, CO

FREE OF CHARGE and open to the public. Seating is limited so please arrive early -doors open at 3pm.

RSVP for preferred seating here: http://livefrommainstreet.com/content/RSVP

RSVP is not necessary to attend- there will be general admission seating available on the day of the event.

Sunday August 24 4pm @ The Big Tent
This event is open to the public