<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">HEDRICK SMITH ON KMEC RADIO, MONDAY, JUNE1, AT 1 P.M. PACIFIC TIME -- RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">Hedrick Smith, perhaps America's leading journalist, joins John and Sid at KMEC Radio on Monday, June 1, at 1 p.m.. Pacific Time, to talk about "Reclaiming the American Dream".</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">KMEC Radio, your community radio, can be heard at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, California. We stream live from the web at <span style="color: #3b5998;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://www.kmecradio.org" target="_blank">www.kmecradio.org</a></span></span><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kmecradio.org%2F&h=sAQF1ONs0&enc=AZOIq05k6r_mbeNQvZ-X5aSLFLYGMAab9HwPha-fQ5_fFayZeIk6xs2ZUFR7YWCwJhpMa5hEaU9O8qrWvzs7z9zHajdaKX2T2COFEiM4teinaUIM3pSo5TH2fbUHuY6gsM7yjd8TxXvenPUWXfB7qUc0ceG8FSs8hx-0lNtOUwRhe5F9cmhQgdb_jpPIRnGmi9LWRlApsnbAfnkb2f3yZEt4&s=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #3b5998;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">Our shows are archived at KMEC Radio and are posted to Youtube.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #3b5998;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">HEDRICK SMITH -- PULITZER PRIZES AND EMMY AWARDS</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">See: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; color: #3b5998;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://hedricksmith.com/" target="_blank">http://hedricksmith.com/</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent, has established himself over the past 50 years of his career as one of America’s most distinguished journalists.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">In 1971, as chief diplomatic correspondent, Smith was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that produced the Pentagon Papers series. In 1974, Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting from Russia and Eastern Europe.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">Smith's Frontline shows, "The Wall Street Fix" and "Can You Afford to Retire?", won Emmies and two other awards, and his Frontline shows, "Critical Condition" and "Tax Me If You Can", were nominated. He has won or shared the Columbia-Dupont Gold Baton for the year’s best public affairs program on U.S. television twice. He has also won the George Polk, George Peabody and Hillman awards for his excellence in reporting along with two national public service awards</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">Smith's book "The Russians", based on his years as New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief from 1971-74, was a No. 1 American best-seller. It has been translated into 16 languages and has been widely used in university and college courses. His next book, "The Power Game: How Washington Works", was also a major best-seller. It became a bible for newly elected members of Congress and their staffs and was bedside reading for President Clinton. His newest book, "Who Stole the American Dream?", published by Random House in September 2012 , has been hailed by critics for brilliant analysis of political and economic trends and changes in the U.S. over the past 30-40 years.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">See: <span color="#3b5998" data-mce-style="color: #3b5998;" style="color: #3b5998;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://reclaimtheamericandream.org/" target="_blank">http://reclaimtheamericandream.org/</a></span></span><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Freclaimtheamericandream.org%2F&h=5AQGR-fOg&enc=AZOxFjpXp2Yms7Wrp0HGJM12IVYysAWRiE7ikktiaeOW5-iiVSHu672f9XuM6CvfzNTZvoWAGTL2YO77n2OCcs8MTrT37X6qYQLRl-U0tn0svlfaDI4nDhKYoL7hvd2YyIlh9vmb0aXYh8-iEy1yRcfxjARa1roCAPJoqV8lsKyS6eXaKogRO3PfAVoxqSrpDWs8sLxX79-wFEUBYvQZHuiL&s=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span color="#3b5998" data-mce-style="color: #3b5998;" style="color: #3b5998;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">Our political system is broken. Our economy isn’t fair. We keep telling Washington to fix things, but Washington has been corrupted by MegaMoney and captured by crony capitalism. We can’t wait any longer. It’s time for us to take action.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">We get it, but we’re not sure where to begin. People worry that reform is impossible. Not true. It’s already happening in many places. Average Americans are making change happen at the grass roots. Their stories are inspiring. We can learn from them. Working together in our home states and communities, We the People can reclaim the American Dream.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">That’s what this website is for – for sharing progress, restoring democracy, making our economy fairer. Our mission is to help you make change. We are non-partisan. We don’t have one pet solution we’re pushing. We’ve profiled several issues. We’ll do more. You decide. The main point is for you to get engaged, get active.</p><p style="margin: 0px; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; display: inline; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; background-color: #ffffff;">Our goal is to help you get started. Newcomers need an entry point to various pathways of reform. So we’re your gateway. We’re here to explain the issues. To show you where things are happening. To tell you success stories. To help you connect with organizations already at work on reform. So let’s get started.</p></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>