KPFK Speaker Series: A Conversation with Thom Hartmann

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Time
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Venue
The Warner Grand Theatre, San Pedro, CA, 90731
Price
$25-$100

A TOWN HALL STYLE CONVERSATION WITH AMERICA’S #1 PROGRESSIVE TALK SHOW HOST
Join Thom with special guest Greg Palast for an afternoon of lively discussion on our current political landscape.

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KPFK SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTS THOM HARTMANN:

The Warner Grand Theatre is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs 

ABOUT THOM HARTMANN:
Thom can be heard on KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles (globally at KPFK.org) at 9AM PT Monday – Friday. The program is also simulcast on Free Speech TV, carried on DISH and DirectTV satellite networks, Hulu and AppleTV. It's also live on YouTube and Facebook.

Talkers Magazine ranked Thom as the #1 progressive talk show host in America, with a cumulative audience of 6.5 million (excluding his TV audience). For 9 years he also hosted an evening TV program that was first carried by Free Speech TV and later picked up by RT TV out of Washington, DC. He separated from RT in 2017.

Thom is also the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of 25 books in over a dozen languages in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, politics, and economics, and the
 
In the field of environmentalism, Thom has co-written and starred in 4 documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and is also featured in his documentary theatrical release The 11th Hour. His book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, about the end of the age of oil, is an international bestseller and used as a textbook in many schools.

ABOUT GREG PALAST:
Greg Palast has been called the “most important investigative reporter of our time – up there with Woodward and Bernstein” (The Guardian).  Palast has broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, Nation Magazine and now Rolling Stone Magazine.

In September 2016, before US Presidential Elections, Palast released his movie The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, based on his New York Times bestselling books, predicting Donald Trump’s election. The film turned out to be a hit and continues to be shown all around the US as well as being used by grassroots activists as an organizing tool to fight voter suppression. The updated, post-election edition of the film, now titled The Best Democracy Money Can BuyThe Case of the Stolen Election was released in November 2017.

Palast is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse , The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review. His books have been translated into two dozen languages.

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The Warner Grand Theatre
478 W. 6th St
San Pedro, CA
90731

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