Dear Friend,

I'm writing you today because the network on which my show airs, Free Speech TV, is only a few days away from the end of its fiscal year.

They have to raise $65,000 in order to be in a solid financial position for the rest of 2015. This is a crucial time for them during the year because the funds they have heading into the new fiscal year will determine what documentaries, programs, and special events they are going to be able to bring to you over the next 12 months.

Free Speech TV has been a loyal partner of mine for some time now and I am an ardent supporter of their programming, and you should be too.

Their programming director, Alexander, is waiting to find out what their budget is going to be, and, Caroline, the documentary acquisitions manager is waiting to find out if she can buy the rights to air some of the most ground breaking documentaries of the year.

So, in these last few days of the fiscal year, please give what you can and help to ensure that an independent progressive television network has a leg up as we move into a critical election year.

Your support means that I get to stay on the air. It would mean that you get to continue to watching some of the other amazing programming that they air--such as Democracy Now!, Ring of Fire with Mike Papantonio, The Stephanie Miller Show, and a vast selection of incredible documentaries created by passionate independent filmmakers and producers.

If you give in the next 24 hours, a generous donor has offered to match your donation dollar-for-dollar up to $5,000.

Here is a message from our matching grantor:

It's time to stand up and be counted. Free Speech TV is accurate and real information. People need to be able to think critically about what 'we the people' need to do to change the present status quo. Free Speech TV is the stimulus for developing the think tank for the people who are not the status quo. If you are a critical thinker this is your time to make a difference. I am rising to make that difference by making a $5000 matching grant. Every dollar you donate will be officially doubled by this gift. It is my hope that this amount will be matched by you. Join me and get involved NOW in Free Speech TV!

So please, turn this $5,000 matching grant into a $10,000 boost for the network.

Yours sincerely,

Thom Hartmann

The Thom Hartmann Program

P.S. Thank you to everyone who called in and made donations to honor and share their heartfelt condolences to the staff of Free Speech TV as they mourn the tragic and unexpected death of Development Director, Jason McKain.

 

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Greece vs. Europe...Day of Destiny Approaches (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

Be sure to check out our newest video: RESTORATION - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners / Visit GreenWorldRising.org to check out all the videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners

 

Need to Know: Greece vs. Europe...Day of Destiny Approaches
- Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour (radio)      

 

Screwed: America's Day of Reckoning...Reparations Now
- Carl Higbie, Former Navy Seal/Conservative Commentator  

 

PLUS, Coming To Your Plate...Diseased Meat?
- Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch  

 

Best of the Rest: Will Former A.G. Ashcroft Finally Face Justice?
- Rachel Meeropol, Center for Constitutional Rights  

 

How Scott Walker Gave $124 MILLION to His Friends
- Brendan Fischer, The Center for Media & Democracy/ALEC Exposed 

 

Ellen Ratner celebrates in front of the Supreme Court Building (Photo courtesy of Ellen Ratner)

Monday's Daily Stack 

Quote: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Article: "SCOTUS Upholds Controversial Lethal Injection Method" by Loree Lewis.

Article: "Supreme Court Upholds Creation of Arizona Redistricting Commission" by Adam Liptak.

Article: "SCOTUS Overturns EPA Air Pollution Rule" by Sydnee Fried.

Article: "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units; Proposed Rule" by EPA.

Article: "Investigators Probe Fires At 6 Black Churches In 5 Southern States" by Sam Sanders, Will Huntsberry.

Article: "Everything to Know About Greece's Economic Crisis" by Geoffrey Smith.

Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.

Article: "Amid Cutbacks, Greek Doctors Offer Message to Poor: You Are Not Alone" by Liz Alderman, October 24, 2012.

Article: "Greek PM Alexis Tsipras calls referendum on bailout terms" by Helena Smith.

Article: "After Gay Marriage Decision, Mississippi May Stop Issuing All Marriage Licenses" by Polly Mosendz.

Article: "US gay marriage: Texas pushes back against ruling" by BBC.

Article: "Manifest destiny" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders" by Sam Frizell.

Article: "London Agreement on German External Debts", 1953.

Article: "Thorium-based nuclear power" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Barack Obama turns tables in David Attenborough climate change interview" by Reuters.

Article: "Sir David Attenborough" by Wikipedia.

Article: " Full Episode: President Obama Meets David Attenborough" by BBC America.

Article: "Obama's Charleston eulogy: 'Amazing Grace'" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Nation's Wealthiest Families Behind the Effort to Kill the Estate Tax" by Public Citizen.

Article: "Republicans Want to Cut Social Security Disability Benefits, Sanders Warns" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Claire McCaskill, a major Clinton ally, unloads on Bernie Sanders" by Daniel Strauss.

Hour Two: Uncle Sam Wants You to Eat Your Veggies & Conservatives Hate It
- Jeff Stier, National Center for Public Policy Research  

Article: "Obama administration pollutes guidelines for healthy eating with unhealthy ideologies" by Jeff Stier.

Article: "The Republican war on vegetables: How new dietary guidelines brought out the GOP's inner petulant child" by Lindsay Abrams.

Article: "2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Submits Report" by USDA.

 

Article: "Insult To Injury? GA Kills Electric-Car Incentive, Adds Last-Minute Luxury-Car Tax Break" by John Voelcker.

Article: "SC gas-tax opponents say fight just beginning" by Jamie Self.

Article: "Civilian Conservation Corps" by Wikipedia.

Site: New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV)

Article: "The New FCC Rule Could End Polling as We Know It" by Kristen Soltis Anderson.

Article: "Quarterly Update: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Assets" by Dinah Walker.

Geeky Science alert: "Clocks to read 11:59:60 as time lords add leap second" by Sarah Knapton.

Crazy Alert: "CNN mistakes sex toy sign for Islamic State flag" by Brooks Hays.

Article: "Pat Haden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Higher carbon dioxide reduces plants' ability to absorb nutrients" by Stephen Feller.

Case: "Carter v. Carter Coal Co.", 1936 (coal mining, interstate commerce).

Article: "Greece Seeks $305 Billion in WWII Reparations From Germany" by Dan Kedmey.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "Worldwide Stocks Fall After Greek Debt Talks Breakdown" by William McDonald.

Article: "SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission" by William Hadden.

Article: "Supreme Court rules Oklahoma lethal injection drug doesn't violate Constitution" by Lawrence Hurley.

Article: "On the Death Sentence" by John Paul Stevens.

Article: "If execution by torture isn't 'cruel and unusual' punishment, what is?" by Scott Lemieux.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 6/29" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "10 Things You Didn't Know About Hillary Clinton" by Carol S. Hook, Jan. 30, 2007.

Article: "Obama signs bill giving himself fast-track powers for trade deals" by RT.

Article: "Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage Nationwide" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "White Extremists Have Killed More Americans Since 9/11 Than Jihadists" by Democracy Now!

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.

Book: Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy.

Article: "WTO Says U.S. Consumers Don't Need to Know Where Meat Comes From" by Anastasia Pantsios.

Article: "Ann Coulter Attacks Gov. Nikki Haley As "An Immigrant" Who "Does Not Understand America's History"" by Thomas Bishop.

Article: "Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank" (AIIB) by Wikipedia.

Article: "I helped invent the Internet of Things. Here's why I'm worried about how secure it is." by Sanjay Sarma.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)

Cartoon: "There's no need to fear, the guy in the Underdog T-shirt is here!" by Harry Bliss.

Case: "Loving v. Virginia", 1967 (miscegenation).

Book: Injustices: The Supreme Court's Nearly Unbroken History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Corrupt Scott Walker Gave $124 Million Of Taxpayer Money to His Corporate Donors" by Rmuse.

Article: "Budget panel rejects Walker's plan on deer carcass removal" by Patrick Marley and Lee Bergquist.

Article: "Smaller businesses struggle to make it in the U.S.A." by Jennifer Alsever.

 

Article: "Barack Obama given 'fast-track' authority over trade deal negotiations" by Paul Lewis.

Article: "Pope says weapons manufacturers can't call themselves Christian" by Philip Pullella.

Article: "Judge Rules Woman Living On $10,000 Income Isn't Facing 'Undue Hardship,' Can't Cancel Student Loans" by Casey Quinlan.

Article: "Why It's Time for Interns to Unionize" by Randi Weingarten.

Article: "Legalizing Weed Could Save California Half A Billion Dollars A Year" by Jeremy Daw.

  

Tomorrow on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET 

 

I'll be talking with Peter Kiernan, author of "American MoJo: Lost and Found...Restoring our Middle Class Before The World Blows By"

 

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