Episodes

Live From Main Street Minneapolis: Getting Heard This Election Season
Location: 
Minneapolis, MN
Date of Taping: 
Jun 8 2008


What Stands Between the Public and a True Story?

What does it take to get heard in the era of big media and diminished civil liberties? Join us as we talk with journalists, national leaders and Minneapolis locals and explore how everyday people are confronting these challenges and working to get the truth out far and wide.

Inspired by the work of everyday activists, Live From Main Street’s premiere town hall will take place in downtown Minneapolis at the close of the National Conference for Media Reform. We’ll talk to reporters speaking from personal experience to find out what stories get told in the age of corporate media, and which get cut out of fear and favor. We’ll explore how independent media is flourishing in the face of growing challenges. LFMS will also look at Federal Government censorship and the PATRIOT Act. What do these restrictions mean for the press and dissenters trying to speak out? And, how are these issues playing out locally around plans for this Fall’s Republican National Convention in Minneapolis and Saint Paul?

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!





Live From Main Street Miami: Magic City, Hard Times
Location: 
Miami, FL
Date of Taping: 
Jul 12 2008


How is Miami Facing the Economic Crisis and Working Toward a Sustainable Future?

With its diverse population, disparate levels of wealth and innovative Green Commission, Miami is often cited as a “window to the city” of the future. Known as the Magic City, Miami has a unique international flavor while sharing a focus on the foreclosure crisis, lost jobs and the environment with Gulf Coast neighbors like Atlanta and New Orleans. Live From Main Street’s Miami town hall will explore the work of Miami’s young leaders. How are they facing hard times and working to build a stronger sustainable city for generations to come? What is and isn’t working for the economy’s unrewarded stakeholders? And how are the most innovative ideas becoming action?

In partnership with the Miami Workers Center.





Live From Main Street Denver: So You Say You Want Change? Exploring the Conflicts and Opportunities Ahead
Location: 
Denver, CO
Date of Taping: 
Aug 24 2008
So You Say You Want Change? Exploring the Conflicts and Opportunities Ahead
Denver, Colorado at the DNC
Tens of thousands of volunteers, delegates from the Democratic Party and the presumptive presidential nominee will be hitting Denver for the DNC championing “change.”

But do they all agree on the best kind of changes for this country? With the help of local and national leaders and activists, Live From Main Street Denver is taking a closer look at what this buzzword means and 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?

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

Sunday August 24, 4pm @ The Big Tent
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Live From Main Street Columbus: Will Your Vote Count?
Location: 
Columbus, OH
Date of Taping: 
Sep 29 2008
Voting Rights, Voter Engagement
Columbus, Ohio, September 29

Voter turnout in the 2008 primaries is at an all time high with young people registering to vote in unprecedented numbers. After two presidential elections with widespread voter disenfranchisement and many, including Ohio election officials, reporting that Ohio's voting system remains flawed--will every vote will get counted this year?
Live From Main Street's Columbus town hall is a weeklong virtual town hall series that kicks-off on September 29. Each day, Live From Main Street's virtual town hall will feature Ohio citizens and news to a national audience through televised, print and online stories. Content will include live chats, short investigative documentaries, one-on-one interviews and more. Topics include: fights around voter registration, youth organizing, voter suppression, unreliable electronic voting machines and how not to get turned away at the polls.

Beyond Hockey Moms and Palin Politics: Women on Real National Security
Location: 
Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA
Date of Taping: 
Oct 26 2008
Though National Security is a buzzword on the 2008 campaign trail, there has been virtually no discussion of what it means for everyday Americans to feel secure.

Join us, less then two weeks before the election, as we move beyond lipstick and hockey pucks to investigate what real national security looks like. Hosted by Laura Flanders (GritTV), Live From Main Street Seattle will convene an all-women panel to examine how issues of national security impact our daily lives and ask the tough questions about how we can build a better future. Does the solution lie in our military or social policies? What are women doing to ensure security in their communities and in the world at large? And how does the militarization of our budget affect security in other areas of our lives?

We will bring together the voices of women who have served in the military, foreign policy experts and more to explore how national security policy might change if a broader cross-section of society was at the decision-making table.