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Here's a lineup of the five Live from Main Street town hall events. Keep checking in for more details regarding event dates, content and locations, or sign up for our enewsletter to get the latest news delivered to your email inbox!
Getting Heard this Election Season: What Stands Between the Public and a True Story?
Minneapolis, Minnesota June 8, 2pm at The Women’s Club of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota June 8, 2pm at The Women’s Club of Minneapolis
Magic City, Hard Times: How is Miami Facing the Economic Crisis and Working Toward a Sustainable Future?
Miami, Florida July 12 in partnership with the Miami Workers Center
New Territory, New Faces: The Emerging Progressive Majority
Denver, Colorado, during the DNC in August.
Voting Rights, Voter Engagement
Columbus, Ohio, mid-September
Women on Real National Security
Seattle, WA, mid-October
Get Heard this Election Season!
We’re happy to announce the line-up for our first televised town hall event.
Getting Heard this Election Season: What Stands Between the Public and a True Story?
Live From Main Street’s first town hall will explore what it takes to get heard in the era of big media and diminished civil liberties.
Hosted by Laura Flanders, author of Blue Grit and host of Free Speech TV’s Grit TV and KFAI and Insight News’s Al McFarlane.
Featuring:
Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now!
John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation
Malkia Cyril, Director of The Center for Media Justice
Colleen Rowley, FBI Whistle Blower and2006 Congressional Candidate
Joel Kramer, Founder of The Minneapolis Post
Paul Schmelzer, Managing Editor of Minnesota Monitor
Marlina Gonzalez, Program Director of the Unconvention and Intermedia Arts
And more of your Twin City favorites!
This interactive town hall event will be distributed by an unprecedented collaboration of Independent media including LinkTV, Free Speech TV, The National Radio Project and many more – come be part of the fun!
The first 150 guests to arrive will receive a free copy of Amy Goodman’s Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times courtesy of Progressive Book Club!
If you are in Minneapolis please join us Sunday June 8, 2 p.m. (doors open at 1 p.m.)
The Women’s Club of Minneapolis
410 Oak Grove Street, Downtown Minneapolis
This event is FREE OF CHARGE and open to the public. Seating is limited so please arrive early. Doors open at 1pm.
RSVP for preferred seating with your name and number of guests by clicking here.
