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On Sept 20, our guests will be directors and members of Y.O.U.R.S., which stands for Youth Organizing Urban Revitalization Systems, a Baltimore grass roots organization linking Baltimore city students to community and economic development activities, public advocacy and debate, and entrepreneurship. You can read more about Y.O.U.R.S. in this Baltimore City Paper article: http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=16236. Call in. Stand up. Speak out. Our call-in number is 347-327-9615.

Robert Richie will be our guest on Sept 13. Mr. Richie is an expert on international and domestic elections and electoral reform, Rob Richie has directed FairVote since its founding in 1992. He has * co-authored two books, "Every Vote Equal" (2006) and "Whose Votes Count" (2001), worked with congressional and state legislative staff in writing numerous pieces of legislation, helped organize eight well-attended national conferences on electoral system reform and worked with hundreds of state reformers supporting fair election methods, toured New Zealand at the invitation of electoral reformers during a successful referendum campaign in that country in 1993 to adopt a proportional voting system, and edited FairVote's publications, such as its bi-annual analyses of congressional elections that have received prominent news coverage around the nation. You can visit FairVote’s website at www.fairvote.org.

Gordon Clark, Green Party candidate for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, will be our guest on Sept 6. Mr. Clark is a citizen-politician—a lifelong activist, advocate and community organizer for peace, social justice and the environment who is now running to make a difference in government. He has many accomplishments including: Founding in 1984 the Doylestown (PA) Peace Force, a community organization combating the nuclear war fighting policies of the Reagan Administration, Founding in 2002 the Iraq Pledge of Resistance (now the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance), a national non-profit network devoted to using the nonviolent methods of Gandhi and King to oppose the war in Iraq. Mr. Clark is proud to serve his community and country. He looks forward to continuing this history of service in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Clark is running as a Green, a party whose principles are fundamentally aligned with what most Americans want and believe we need to get our country back on the right track. You can visit his website at www.clarkforcongress.net.