Subject: Register for Feb. 28 Conference on the Next Progressive Agenda
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:09:23 -0500 From:
“Campaign for America’s
Future” <spindler@ourfuture.org>
To: <spindler@ourfuture.org>
To: Progressive
leaders, activists, organizations, and individuals
From: Campaign/Institute
for America’s Future
Re: The
Next Agenda Conference
John Sweeney, Jesse Jackson, Paul Wellstone,
Jan Schakowsky, Julian Bond,
Patricia Ireland, George Becker
and other progressive
leaders invite you to join activists, policy experts, Members of Congress and
leaders of labor and citizen organizations at a national conference on
The Next Agenda
National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW
8:30 am to 10 pm
February 28, 2001
Conference presentations will include:
Jesse Jackson, Jan Schakowsky, John Sweeney on Strategies
for Progressives
Heidi Hartmann on Economic Security for Women and Children
NAACP Board Chair Julian Bond on the Imperative of Voting Reform
SEIU President Andrew Stern, Yale’s Ted Marmor, and Senator
Paul Wellstone on Health Care for All.
Carl Pope on Green Growth: the Challenge and Opportunity of
Global Warming
Jeff Faux on Responding to the Coming Economic Crisis
William Greider on the Global Economy.
We
invite Americans who want to move our country Forward.
The
Conference will feature discussion of a core progressive agenda that can help
forge a new majority for significant reform. It will dissect the message of
election 2000, highlight pressing economic and political reforms, and feature
leading progressive legislators, citizen leaders and analysts.
The
accidental presidency of George W. Bush presents progressives with a dual task:
fighting against a new reaction while putting forth a clear vision and bold
agenda for progressive reform.
George
Bush may be in the White House, but he did not win this election.
The
total vote for Vice President Al Gore and Green Party nominee Ralph Nader was
52%, the largest center left vote since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. As Senator Paul
Wellstone notes, “this election confirms what we already knew:
progressive
politics are winning politics. Health care, education, retirement security and broadening
our prosperity are the issues foremost on voters’ minds. The challenge facing
us now is to translate the dominance of our issues into a winning progressive
agenda.
Also,
at the conference the Campaign for America’s Future will release a new book:
THE NEXT AGENDA: BLUEPRINT FOR A NEW PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT published by Westview
Press.
Join
us as we begin at the National Conference on the Next Agenda.
For more detailed information and to register go to www.ourfuture.org.