Around the Nation: June 8, 2008

For twenty-nine years, The Straphangers Campaign has played a leading role in building a consensus for $53 billion in new investments in metropolitan transit—through their rider organizing, coalition building, research, reports and media savvy. Standing Clear is an ode to NYC’s beloved subway, presented by the theater company Coffee Cup. The event takes place at The Access Theater (380 Broadway on the 4th floor). $20 ticket includes post-show talkback with NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign. More info visit online.

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Reading, Q&A and book signing sponsored by the Valley Democrats United. Location: Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Senior Citizens Center (a k a Bernardi Center), 5040 Van Nuys Blvd. Contact: Brad Parker at 818-501-7127 or via e-mail. Event is open to the public and books will be on sale on site.

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Be part of the filming of a televised town hall! "Getting Heard This Election Season: What Stands Between the Public and a True Story?" Live from Main Street Minneapolis. Join Laura Flanders host of Free Speech TV's new Grit TV and KFAI/Insight News's Al McFarlane for the first in a series of televised town hall events with: Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!; John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation; Colleen Rowley, FBI whistle-blower/2006 Congressional candidate; Joel Kramer, founder of the Minneapolis Post; Paul Schmelzer, managing editor of Minnesota Monitor; Marlina Gonzalez, program director of the Unconvention/Intermedia Arts; and more of your Twin City favorites! RSVP. 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. Free of charge and open to the public. Seating limited. Doors open at 1--please arrive early. At the Women's Club of Minneapolis, 410 Oak Grove Street (downtown, near Loring Park, a short cab ride or twenty-minute walk from the NCMR).

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For the third straight year, Sundance Institute has packed up its bags and is moving into the Brooklyn Academy of Music for eleven days to present 22 features and 36 short films from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, lively music concerts, Q&As with the artists, works in progress, art installations, and special events that bring the creative energy of the Institute's artists and programs to New York audiences. Among the films screening in this year's series are the NY premieres of the documentaries American Teen, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Hunter S. Thompson, The Linguists, Made in America and Stranded: I've come from a plane that crashed in the mountains. 718-636-4100

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