Around the Nation: June 8, 2008

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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