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Making Contact for July 22, 2008
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Live From Main Street:: Miami's Economic Crisis and Sustainable Future"
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.
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
Utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics, the connections between local and global events, and creative possibilities for people to engage in hopeful democratic change. Supported by independent funding sources, Making Contact is free to explore corporate connections to national and international policies.
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