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Live From Main Street: Getting Heard this Election Season
June 11, 2008
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Live from Main Street takes us to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota where we explore what it takes to get heard this election year in the era of big media and diminished civil liberties. Hosted by popular journalist-radio personality Laura Flanders, produced by The Media Consortium and adapted for radio by Making Contact.
Event will feature:
Malkia Cyril, The Center for Media Justice director; Colleen Rowley, FBI Whistle Blower and 2006 Congressional Candidate; Joel Kramer, The Minneapolis Post founder; Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Monitor managing editor; Marlina Gonzalez, Unconvention and Intermedia Arts program director; Amalia Anderson, program director for the Main Street Project; Bruce Nestor, Minnesota National Lawyer's Guild; Chuck Olsen, the Uptake; and more national and local leaders.
Live From Main Street is a tour of the U.S. in election year 2008, hosted by Grit TV's Laura Flanders and produced by The Media Consortium and adapted for radio by National Radio Project.
Bonus Audio:
Want to hear the whole 90-minute Live from Main Street event? Listen here to the uncut program from Minneapolis, MN!
Part 1: Introducing Live from Main Street; Video clip: The Uptake with Chuck Olsen; (25 minutes) - Download/listen
Part 2: First panel including: Colleen Rowley, FBI Whistle Blower and 2006 Congressional Candidate; Marlina Gonzalez, Unconvention and Intermedia Arts program director; and more national and local leaders; Bruce Nestor, Minnesota National Lawyer’s Guild; Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!; (16 minutes) - Download/listen
Part 3: First panel continued; John Nichols, The Nation Magazine; Video from the American News Project: dogging Fox; (13 minutes)
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Part 4: Second panel: how is independent media looking at new challenges and giving voice to ordinary people. Including: Malkia Cyril, The Center for Media Justice director; Joel Kramer, The Minneapolis Post founder; Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Independent managing editor; Amalia Anderson, program director for the Main Street Project; (23 minutes) - Download/listen
Part 5: Q&A with panelists (11 minutes) - Download/listen
Live From Main Street Crew:
Host: Laura Flanders, Grit TV
Co-host: Al McFarlane, Insight News
Produced by: The Media Consortium
Technical Assistant: Noah Kunin, The Uptake
Making Contact Crew:
Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Guest Host: Sandina Robbins
Producer: Andrew Stelzer
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Elena Botkin-Levy and Aubrey Green
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
For more information:
Democracy Now!
100 Lafayette Street, Suite 604
New York, NY 10013
www.democracynow.org
Free Press
Washington Office
501 Third Street, NW, Suite 875
Washington, DC 20001
202-265-1490
www.freepress.net
Grit TV
laura@lauraflanders.com
www.lauraflanders.com
Insight News, Inc.
1815 Bryant Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55411
612-588-1313
info@insightnews.com
www.insightnews.com
Live From Main Street
323-424-3010
Tracy Fleischman
tfleisch@themediaconsortium.com
www.LiveFromMainStreet.com
Minnesota Monitor
www.minnesotamonitor.com
The Center for Media Justice
1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 510
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-0640
info@centerformediajustice.org
http://cmj.centerformediajustice.org/home
The Media Consortium
c/o The Foundation for National Progress
222 Sutter Street, 6th floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
312-315-1127
www.themediaconsortium.org
The Minneapolis Post
www.minneapolispost.com
The Nation
33 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
212-209-5400
www.thenation.com
Unconvention and Intermedia Arts
volunteer@theunconvention.com
www.theunconvention.com