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Live From Main Street: Miami’s Economic Crisis and Sustainable Future
July 16, 2008
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Live from Main Street takes us to the streets of Miami, Florida for a town hall discussion of how local communities and grassroots groups are facing the economic and housing crunch while working to build a stronger sustainable city. Hosted by journalist-radio personality Laura Flanders, produced by The Media Consortium and adapted for radio by Making Contact.
Event will feature:
Gihan Perera, Miami Workers Center co-founder and executive director; Max Rameau, Take Back the Land founder and author; Carolina Delgado, Jobs with Justice membership director; Sonia Succar, Emerging Green Builders of South Florida chairperson; Francisca Cortez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers farmworker; Meghan Cohorst, Student/Farmworker Alliance translator; Latasha Jones, tenant organizer; Darin Woods, Countywide Financial Home Loans sales manager; Denise Perry, Power U Center for Social Change director and co-founder; Edith McClintock, Dream in Green executive director.
Live From Main Street is a tour of the U.S. in election year 2008, hosted by Grit TV's Laura Flanders, produced by The Media Consortium and adapted for radio by National Radio Project.
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Want to hear the whole 100-minute Live from Main Street event? Listen here to the uncut program from Miami, FL!
Part 1: Introducing Live from Main Street; First Panel "State of the Economy in Miami" including: Gihan Perera, Miami Workers Center co-founder and executive director; Carolina Delgado, Jobs with Justice membership director; Francisca Cortez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers farmworker; Meghan Cohorst, Student Farmworkers Alliance organizer/translator. (24 minutes) - Download/listen
Part 2: spoken word performance by Rebecca Butterfly Vaughns; Second panel "State of the National Economy" including: Max Rameau, Take Back the Land founder and author; Latasha Jones, tenant organizer; Darin Woods, Countywide Financial Home Loans sales manager; Denise Perry, Power U Center for Social Change director and co-founder. (26 minutes) - Download/listen
Part 3: Spoken word performance by Poetic Vibes; Third panel on "What is Sustainability?" including: Sonia Succar, Emerging Green Builders of South Florida chairperson; Edith McClintock, Dream in Green executive director; Gihan Perera, Miami Workers Center co-founder and executive director. Audience Q and A including: Darin Woods, Countywide Financial Home Loans sales manager; Denise Perry, Power U Center for Social Change director and co-founder; Max Rameau, Take Back the Land founder and author. (26 minutes) - Download/listen
Part 4: Q and A continued including: Sonia Succar, Emerging Green Builders of South Florida chairperson; Edith McClintock, Dream in Green executive director; Gihan Perera, Miami Workers Center co-founder and executive director. Audience Q and A including: Darin Woods, Countywide Financial Home Loans sales manager; Denise Perry, Power U Center for Social Change director and co-founder; Max Rameau, Take Back the Land founder and author. (23 minutes) - Download/listen
Live From Main Street Crew
Host: Laura Flanders, Grit TV
Co-host: Cheryl Mizell, WEDR/ 99 JAMZ
Produced by: The Media Consortium
Making Contact Crew
Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Producer: Andrew Stelzer
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Elena Botkin-Levy and Aubrey Green
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
For more information:
Grit TV
laura@lauraflanders.com
www.lauraflanders.com
Miami Dade Board of County Commissioner
Commissioner Barbara J. Jordan
District 1
Stephen P. Clark Center
111 NW 1st Street, Suite 220
Miami, Florida 33128
305-375-5694
305-474-3011
bjordan@miamidade.gov
www.miamidade.gov/district01/
Miami Workers Center
6127 NW 7th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
305-759-8717
305-759-8718
info@theworkerscenter.org
www.miamiworkerscenter.org
South Florida Emerging Green Builders
info@egbsouthflorida.com
www.egbsouthflorida.com
South Florida Jobs with Justice
1671 NW 16th Terrace
Miami, FL 33125
305-324-1107
www.sfjwj.org
Take Back the Land
http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com
Additional information:
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
PO Box 603
Immokalee, FL 34143
239-657-8311
workers@ciw-online.org
www.ciw-online.org
Countrywide Financial
http://my.countrywide.com
Dream in Green
2000 Ponce de Leon, Sixth Floor
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305-781-7424
ngunia@dreamingreen.org
www.dreamingreen.org
Live From Main Street
Tracy Fleischman
323-424-3010
tfleisch@themediaconsortium.com
www.LiveFromMainStreet.com
Power U Center for Social Change
1633 NW 3rd Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
305-576-7449
info@poweru.org
www.poweru.org
The Main Street Project
PO Box 80066
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-879-7578
info@mainstreetproject.org
www.mainstreetproject.org