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Related: About this forumFighting Bob Fest Kick-Off Event at the Barrymore Theatre 9/6 -Bernie, Hightower and others
From my email .... What a lineup!!!!
Friday, September 6, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
FightingBob.com, The Capital Times, & The Progressive host
WORT 89.9 FM and The MIC 92.1 FM welcome
FIGHTING BOB FEST
2013 KICK-OFF EVENT
RECLAIMING OUR DEMOCRACY
Get inspired by
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Jim Hightower,
Wis. Rep. Chris Taylor, Ruth Conniff,
Ed Garvey, John Nichols,
and Gordon C. Thayer of the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe.
and laugh along with comedian
Will Durst!
This is the place to recharge
your political batteries.
Hilarity and Solidarity!
Tickets are $10.00
On sale at Sugar Shack, Star Liquor, Mad City Music, B-Side, Frugal Muse (Northgate & Junction Rd), Strictly Discs, and barrymorelive.com
buy tickets
When Fighting Bob Fest takes place in less than two weeks, on September 7th at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Reclaiming Our Democracy in Wisconsin and the nation will be the topic we will focus on. Go to FightingBobFest.org for the current schedule. Register for Fighting Bob Fest today, and keep checking the site for updates and inspiration.
As usual, Bob Fest will kick-off on Friday night, Sept. 6th, at the Barrymore. Sen. Bernie Sanders will headline.
Doors open at 6:00 pm.
Program starts at 7:00 pm.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)The odds are at about 50-50 on my being able to make it.
mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)There's a link to a .jpg graphic that's good for free parking in the middle of that home page.
http://www.fightingbobfest.org/
I'd like to go but have to admit I haven't made it since the last year the event was held at
the county fair grounds in Baraboo. (One of the things holding me back being the unwhispered
question, "Where can I park?"
Here's a partial speaker's list:
Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Ruth Conniff
John Bonifaz
Ellen Bravo
Will Durst
Bill Fletcher Jr.
Ed Garvey
Jim Hightower
Mike McCabe
Barbara Miner
Christine Neumann-Ortiz
John Nichols
Mark Pocan
Chris Taylor
Scot Ross
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Paul Soglin
Gordon Thayer
Mike Wiggins
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)dembotoz
(16,739 posts)Lefta Dissenter
(6,617 posts)Did you sing with us?
mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)The "Native Rights" break-out session on opposition to G-Tac's open pit mine was really moving.
Here's Mike Wiggins, Jr addressing the whole assembly, a little earlier in the day: