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PNN - We present excerpts of speeches from the FRACKING SUMMIT excepts from Dr, Karen Dwyer, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Scott Smith CTO of Water Defense, and Megan Sorbo, Houston Cypress and more.

We as always will have our Senior Political Correspondent Brook Hines who will address our Florida Progressive Issues, and as a special guest commentator Courtney Horne who will share his thoughts on Black Lives matter and related issues.

TUNE IN Sunday 

7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific

PNN - Activist Round Table progressive activists and journalists discuss the issues that have been crowded off the table by the Punch & Judy Show.

Brook Hines will start us off with her report on the latest Florida Democratic Shenanigans. Anita Stewart will update us on the latest news on the Sable Palm Pipeline; Susan Smith will address Florida's Progressive Democratic Caucus 

We also have These Panelists:

Courtney Horne Essayist who will address Black Lives Matter,  Frank Day a Progressive with a remarkable history, Richard Silvestri another Florida Water activist. Drew Martin on a NEW land grab by Water Management

Some of the topics we will be discussing: 

The Pentagon Program to demanding bonuses be repaid, The Fresh and Necessary War on Yemen,  The Tiny Cola for Social Security, The Glorious War on Mosul, Obama Care Successes & Failures, Drug and Insurance prices soaring, rapid number of Extinct and Endangered Species, PIPELINE ISSUES from Florida to North Dakota to Pennsylvania, Chelsea Manning in solitary for her Suicide attempt, Assange tool of Marx and Engels - a Trotskyite Plot?, Israel's Continued Expansion, Island building by the Chinese, Philipines anti-drug solutions in Duterte's Manilla, Black lives and Indigenous Treaties

TUNE IN 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific

PNN  standing in the River of Wisdom - Welcomes the Indian River Keeper, The Truth Keeper Professor Mickey Huff and Striking Professors

Marty Baum Indian RiverKeeper, talks with us about the threats to Florida's Rivers and Florida's lives. The creatures of the Waters and the creatures of the land and air. Promises have been made and broken and he warns us that our battles to protect the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee and its many tributaries and estuaries is the same battle as our brothers and sisters who work to protect the Ohio (its being threatened with Fracking and our brothers and sisters who seek to protect the waters of the Standing Rock Souix.

Professor Mickey Huff director of Project Censored discusses the lates outrages against privacy and the first Amendment  Alerts us to their upcoming event in Northern California. Oct 21st

Professor Haverlac and Professor  Wendy Lynne Lee discuss the issues surrounding Bloomsburg University Faculty and Students in SOLIDARITY in a  APSCUF Strike Action! Educators and Students are EQUALITY at Risk  The Flow of Information and the CURRENT that Connects the Civilization of the Past and the Students who will lead the Future of Civilization

PNN Cantankerous Candidates - Reprehensible Republicans, Deplorable Democrats, Irredeemable Republicans, Disingenuous Democrats, What's a Voluble Volunteer Voter to do? Denounce the Dems, Renounce the Republican - LEAN LIBERTARIAN? GO GO GO GREEN?  Are you fine with Dr. Stein? Brook will share her insights on the current Democratic Party paradigms. TUNE IN Tonight!

News Director Rick Spisak, and Senior Political Commentator Brook Hines welcome these contributors:

 Cris Costello of Sierra Club discusses the recent Sugar Summit. Will we continue to allow polluters to destroy the water quality in the Lake and can we seriously continue to refuse to release the water that the Everglades south of Lake Okeechobee is thirsty for. Can we seriously continue to allow the US Army Corps of Engineers to vent currently poisonous otherwise (if treated) precious fresh water out through the Caloosahatchee and St Lucie River Estuary system.

We will be joined by Panhandle Progressive leader Frank Day who has brought important insight into the progressive wilderness that is the REAL “SOUTHERN” Population of Florida. Frank shares his perspective on the voices he hears and the political forces that shape the Florida Panhandle and points north from the coast to the Alabama/Georgia border.  

We also will be joined by Reid Frieidson Human Rights Activist and Progressive, who will discuss a range of issues from Native American Rights to the choices offered by the candidates of the two major political parties. He also touches on the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders, Dr. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.

Solidarity & Peace

Rick Spisak, News Director

TUNE IN 7pm

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This week Brook Hines and Rob Abston discuss the political landscape after the first Presidential Debate, as Rick recovers from the Back-To-School Flu. Guests include Meredith Ockman and Kartik Krishnaiyer who bring their special perspective on how the General Election is shaping up. Special surprise guests may also call-in to share what's up in their part of the progressive workings in Florida. Tune in at 7pm.

LINKS:

http://www.firedupflorida.org -- for the events calendar for Florida Institute for Reform and Empowerment

https://thefloridasqueeze.com -- for the latest opinion and analysis from Kartik Krishnaiyer, musings from Brook Hines, and offerings from the mysterious blogger, Salsagator.

PNN - The Media Merengue

We talk with our political commentator Brook Hines we start our discussions in Florida 

then we are joined by a special guest Reid Friedson, PhD was Visiting English Speaking Union (ESU) Scholar at the University of Oxford and James Madison Memorial Foundation Constitutional History Teaching Fellow at George Mason University. A leading grassroots movement activist since 1988, Dr. Friedson organized amendment of the Florida Constitution in 2010.  In 2013, with the aid of social media, Dr. Friedson established the Adjunct Faculty Union (AFU) in 32 states and 6 countries. A professor of comparative government in the United States and Jamaica, Dr. Friedson was public educator on Capitol Hill with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Legislative Headquarters.

We will then entertain a regular guest Professor Wendy Lynn Lee who will discuss the media and the upcoming "Faux Debate" . 

Then our final Guest of the night Jon Stout founder of Free Speech TV - He will address the work of FREE SPEECH TV and the future on News in the decades ahead

TUNE IN - Live 7pm (Eastern) Sunday Sept. 25th - or Anytime

PNN the Circle of Waters, whether dividing us or linking us, we must drink deep. We find ourselves discussing how we come together to protect each other and the sacred waters in a wonderful heart to heart with Nicole Williams  a deeply committed member of the First Nations who has committed so much of her life as has her family to protecting the waters that surround and nurture us. She talks with us about the Standing Rock confrontation where the PROTECTORS have faced vicious dogs and pepper-spray and bulldozers are they try to awaken an understanding of the seriousness of the threats to their sacred burial lands, their precious water and the waters that ultimately nourish millions who depend on the Missouri River. We stand with her and with all those who oppose the poisoning of our Earth and her Sacred Waters upon which we all depend.

Brook and I will also be joined by Lucy Garin a psychologist whose family fled Armenia during the Turkish genocide and found refuge in Syria and Lebanon. Her young life was spent in these countries and she offers us a very different perspective than you might obtain from CNN or MSNBC.

Finally,  we have the great good fortune to welcome a Progressive webcaster Gwendolyn Holden Barry who will share her insights both spiritual and political sharing with us the benefit of her long experience defending the Earth and her family.

Brook will as always share her political insight on the democratic party and the party movers and molders.

(Some much moldier than others)

TUNE IN Sunday 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific

PNN Salutes our brothers and sisters of the First People who stand to protect our waters.

PNN Salutes the Standing Rock Sioux and all those who have joined them.

Brook Hines, our Senior Political Columnist will discuss the latest political news in Florida and beyond.

Lori Price of Citizens for Legitimate Government will bring her international journalistic perspective to share on the latest issues of the day.

Professor Wendy Lynn Lee will discuss the latest political news and the state of the Fracking and TPP fight.

And a very special guest Lucy Garin whose background in the Middle East gives her a unique perspective on the issues facing Libya and Syria.

PNN Green Harvest Time - Discussions on the Green Team of Florida

News Director Rick Spisak and Senior Political Commentator Brook Hines welcome two leaders of Florida's Green Revolution.

Cris Costello of the Sierra Club,  one of the stellar leaders of the Sierra Clubs WATER ACTION Group will join us to discuss the recent Sugar Summit. She'll talk about the leaders who came, the regular voices who joined in, and the new voices that made this event so very special. This event was so well received that they sold out to the rafters and it was standing room only.

Then Matthew Schwartz of South Florida Wildlands Association joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of Florida's Habitat. The discussions range from the watershed that feeds Lake Okeechobee to the trickle that feeds the now highly salty Florida Bay.

PNN Presents August Triumph

Brook Hines Senior Political Commentator and News Director Rick Spisak welcome these Political Activists  and one Civil Servant

Yvette St. Onge Senator Sanders Advocate, Gayle Ryan Environmental Activist, Mark Pafford democratic Progressive Leader in the Florida House and Frank Day long time Panhandle Progressive. Tune in to hear the good news aboout the work being done to protect our environment and our political system

Solidarity & Peace

Rick Spisak

News Director

Progressive News Network