First Online With Fran

Are you a leader? Yes or No? Do you have stuff, your creative Superpowers -- the thing that made you successful in your creative life, whatever that does, whatever that is that we need in our public life? And I say, "Hell, Yes!" ~Tom Tresser Tom Tresser is a Chicago based civic educator, creativity champion, and public defender with over 50 years grassroots democracy experience.

"Many people have the misunderstanding that the boat lift was initiated by the U.S. Coast Guard—that boats only started the evacuation after the Coast Guard called for all available boats. Instead, that call went out nearly two hours after mariners had independently made the choice to help. Rather than coming in to take charge of the evacuation that was already operating successfully, the highest-ranking USCG officer, then-Lt. Michael Day, made the tremendous decision to FACILITATE and support t

What I hope to do with this show is to talk about my life...about always trying to belong, but then the ultimate challenge of belonging which is becoming a wheelchair user because you're going to stand out in any kind of way. I hope with audiences what comes out is a partnership which is the theme. Let me tell you what I'm talking about, what you won't know unless you're a wheelchair user. I want people not to feel like I'm preaching at them. I'm coming to tell you what it's like and that's my g

What I hope to do with this show is to talk about my life...about always trying to belong, but then the ultimate challenge of belonging which is becoming a wheelchair user because you're going to stand out in any kind of way. I hope with audiences what comes out is a partnership which is the theme. Let me tell you what I'm talking about, what you won't know unless you're a wheelchair user. I want people not to feel like I'm preaching at them. I'm coming to tell you what it's like and that's my g

What I hope to do with this show was to talk about my life, about always trying to belong, but then the ultimate challenge of belonging which is becoming a wheelchair user because you're going to stand out in any kind of way - not fit in being a wheelchair user. I hope with audiences what comes out with me is a partnership which is the theme. Let me tell you what I'm talking about, what I'm realizing you won't know unless you're a wheelchair user. I wanted people not to feel like I'm preaching a

The choices we have here in America are different from the choices people have in Russia. We can vote. That is the most important right that has not been taken away. In Putin’s Russia, elections have not been free for decades. Opposition candidates are barred from running, and even then the results are manipulated to deliver Putin a staggering victory. So this is what I can tell my American listeners: vote. – Svetlana Satchkova Svetlana Satchkova is a Russian-born journalist and novelist who i