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"So You Say You Want Change: Exploring the Conflicts and Opportunities Ahead" is the theme for this month's Live From Main Street event, which will kick off activist and media activities at the Democratic National Convention. The live conversation © The Media Consortiumwith local and national leaders and activists will ask what the buzzword CHANGE really means and what impact a new progressive era could have on education, security, the environment, immigration reform, and other issues critical to the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans.

Watch the live Web stream below Sunday, Aug. 24, 6-7:30pm ET (10-11:30pm GMT).

Laura Flanders host of Free Speech TV's GRITtv and The Nation's RadioNation will moderate this televised town hall discussion featuring:

Van Jones - Founder and President of Green for All
Rep. Donna Edwards - (MD-4th District)
David Sirota - Journalist and Bestselling Author of The Uprising
Polly Baca - former Colorado State Senator and President of the Latin American Research and Service Agency
Jim Hightower - National Radio Commentator, Public speaker and Author of Swim Against The Current
Andre Banks - Deputy Director of Color of Change
Faye Wattleton - Founder of the Center for the Advancement of Women
David Barsamian - Founder of Alternative Radio
The Comedy of Laughing Liberally's Lee Camp

When: Sunday Aug. 24, 6-7:30pm ET (10-11:30pm GMT)

Where: Right here. Live stream will be carried below. If you're in Denver, the event is free and open to the public at The Big Tent (1536 Wynkoop Street).

Streaming Video by Ustream.TV

Upcoming Live from Main Street events:

• Sep. 28: Columbus, Ohio: Voting Rights and Voter Engagement.
• October 2008: Seattle, Washington: Women on Real National Security

Look for more info on those episodes on OneWorld.net in the coming weeks.

For more on the major presidential candidates and where they stand on key global issues including foreign aid, Iraq, Iran, torture, national security, global health, immigration, reproductive rights, and more, check out OneWorld.net's Perspectives Magazine: Campaign '08.

Previous Live from Main Street events

Live from Main Street Miami: Magic City, Hard Times

How is Miami Facing the Economic Crisis and Working Toward a Sustainable Future?

With its diverse population, disparate levels of wealth and innovative Green Commission, Miami is often cited as a “window to the city” of the future. Known as the Magic City, Miami has a unique international flavor while sharing a focus on the foreclosure crisis, lost jobs and the environment with Gulf Coast neighbors like Atlanta and New Orleans. Live From Main Street’s Miami town hall explores the work of Miami’s young leaders. How are they facing hard times and working to build a stronger sustainable city for generations to come? What is and isn’t working for the economy’s unrewarded stakeholders? And how are the most innovative ideas becoming action?

Hosted by GRITtv's Laura Flanders and Miami's own WEDR/ 99 JAMZ's Cheryl Mizell, with:
Gihan Perera, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center
Max Rameau, Founder/ Author Take Back The Land
Darin Woods, Countrywide Mortgage Sales Manager
Denise Perry, Director of the Power U Center for Social Change
Carolina Delgado, Jobs with Justice Campaign Membership Director
Sonia Succar, Chairperson of Emerging Green Builders of South Florida
Francisca Cortés, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Latasha Jones-Tenant, Organizer with the Worker's Center
Edith McClintock, Executive Director of Dream in Green
Rebecca Butterfly Vaughns
Poetic Vibez

Live from Main Street Minneapolis: Getting Heard This Election Season

What Stands Between the Public and a True Story?

Live From Main Street’s first town hall explores what it takes to get heard in the era of big media and diminished civil liberties.

Hosted by Laura Flanders, author of Blue Grit and host of Free Speech TV’s GRITtv and KFAI and Insight News’s Al McFarlane.

Featuring:

Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now!
John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation
Malkia Cyril, Director of The Center for Media Justice
Colleen Rowley, FBI Whistle Blower and2006 Congressional Candidate
Joel Kramer, Founder of The Minneapolis Post
Paul Schmelzer, Managing Editor of Minnesota Monitor
Marlina Gonzalez, Program Director of the Unconvention and Intermedia Arts