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Sorry! We're down to day-of seating for the
Minneapolis Live from Main Street. We cannot honor any RSVPs entered after 12:00 PM CST on Friday, June 6.

 

Don't worry--seating is still available--but you'll
need to get there early to guarantee. Doors open at 1:00 PM on Sunday,
June 8.

 

Thanks and we can't wait to see you there!

 

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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

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

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.

Welcome to Live From Main Street, a series of live, public gatherings that will bring real people’s voices to the table in the 2008 Election season. We know the candidates want people’s votes, but what do the people want? More importantly, what solutions to today’s problems are local people finding? And what are independent media outlets reporting that their profit-driven contemporaries are not?

I’m so excited to be hosting this dynamic series. Live From Main will be in five cities leading up to the election, including Minneapolis, Denver, and Miami. Produced by the Media Consortium and featuring the work of independent journalists, bloggers and the people they cover, these town-hall style events will offer a different snapshot of the country this election season—the snapshot from the bottom up.

Keep checking back on LiveFromMainStreet.com for blog posts and updates leading up to our first town hall in Minneapolis in June. After which, we’ll re-launch the site to bring bringing you the latest video, audio and text from our show.

Don’t let the presidential campaign horse-race run you down. Come out to find facts, make friends, share stories and celebrate the independent media. We look forward to seeing you there, and we appreciate your support.