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• Please use the drop down menu to select a certain speaker. • Jim Wallis • Tim Mitrovich • Max Boot • Dick Fleming • The Honorable Diana DeGette • The Honorable Mitch Morrissey • Hedrick Smith • Michael Lind • Don Childears • Peter Edelman • Steve Coll • The Honorable Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend • Ted Leitner • David Rothkopf • The Honorable John Hickenlooper • Bob Baron • The Honorable Michael Hancock • Tony Perry • Andrew Romanoff • The Honorable Mark Udall • John Aloysius Farrell • Talmage Boston • US Senator Michael Bennet and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper • George Mitrovich • The Honorable Alan K. Simpson • Mike Moran • Mary Alice Williams • The Honorable Gary Hart • The Honorable Ed Perlmutter • The Honorable Jim Leach • Christine Brennan • Helen Thorpe • Jim Wallis • Richard Reeves • Doug Price • Steve Farber • James Hackett • Marty Meehan • T.R. Reid • The Honorable Michael Bennett • The Honorable Alan Bersin • Gretchen Peters • Lew Daly • Laura Flanders • Christine Brennan • Craig Mullaney • Dr. William E. Spriggs • Roy Blount Jr. • The Honorable Mitch Morrissey • The Honorable Ken Salazar • Dr. William R. Brody • A Special Luncheon Honoring Senator George McGovern for a Lifetime of Service to America • The Honorable Gary Hart • Red Cavaney • Dick Flavin • Fred Krupp • The Honorable Mary Peters • His Excellency Pierre Vimont • The Rt. Reverend John Bryson Chane • Walter Russell Mead • Branch Rickey III • Richard Reeves • Dick and Dottie Lamm • Tim Kurkjian • Naomi Wolf • The Honorable Diana DeGette • The Honorable Bill Ritter • Frank Deford • His Excellency Flavio Espinal • Dr. Marion Nestle • The Honorable Troy Eid • Dr. Harlan Kenneth Ullman • The Honorable Kathleen Kennedy Townsend • The Honorable Wellington Webb • James Quigley • John Hofmeister • The Honorable Ken Adelman • Ms. Lynn Sherr • The Honorable David Walker • Max Boot • Dr. J. Edward Hill • Kitty Dukakis • The Honorable Ben Barnes • James Fallows Wednesday, July 19, 2006 • Bonnie McElveen-Hunter Thursday, June 15, 2006 • 7th District Colorado Democratic Congressional Candidates Friday, May 19, 2006 • Rick Reilly Thursday, April 13, 2006 • The Honorable Robert S. Mueller III Wednesday, March 15, 2006 • Colonel Nathan Sassaman Thursday, February 23, 2006 • The Honorable George McGovern • Gary Smith Back to past speaker page... Tuesday, May 5, 2009 The Denver Forum Proudly Presents: Laura Flanders Author of & Speaking on: “Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Change in America” 12-Noon Luncheon Oxford Hotel 1600 17th Street Sage Room Members: $30, Non-Members, $45 Phone Reservations: 303-832-9030 Event Sponsor: Biographical Brief -- Laura Flanders Laura Flanders is the host of "GRITtv" the new, daily, news-discussion and take action program seen on Free Speech TV (Dish Network ch. 9415) and online at the popular blog site Firedoglake.com as well as at GRITtv.org. She also serves as the host of RadioNation, the nationally-syndicated weekly radio program of the Nation Magazine. In election year, 2008, she hosted a five-part series of live, town-hall events in five different states in the run up to the General Election. Live from Main Street with Laura Flanders is produced by the Media Consortium with GRITtv. Flanders is also the author of "Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians" (Penguin Books, 2007), an investigation into what people at the grassroots know that Democratic party leaders could learn, and "BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species" (Verso, 2004), an expose of women in George W. Bush`s Cabinet. Publisher`s Weekly called Flanders` New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent." She wrote on Hillary Clinton in "The Contenders" (Seven Stories Press, 2007) and edited "The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush," in 2004 for the Feminist Press. Before joining Air America when it launched in March 2004, Laura hosted the award-winning " Your Call," Monday-Friday, on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco. Flanders` TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and " Larry King Live " on CNN as well as "The O`Reilly Factor," and "Hannity and Colmes," (FOX News) "Washington Journal," "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and the CBC news discussion program, "CounterSpin." Her writing appears in The Nation, Alternet, Ms. Magazine, and elsewhere and her op-ed pieces have appeared in papers including The San Francisco Chronicle. Flanders was founding director of the Women`s Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR`s nationally-syndicated radio program. She is also the author of "Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting" (Common Courage Press, 1997) about which Susan Faludi wrote, "If only there were a hundred of her." Katha Pollitt called it "Funny, angry, fact filled and brilliant." *For more information and to contribute video to GRIT TV go to http://.grittv.org.