Just five months before what could be the most important set of elections in our lifetimes, thousands of progressives will convene in the nation’s capital to energize the movement to Take Back the American Dream.
This is where you need to be to forge the relationships and develop the strategies to change the direction of the country.
Courtney Foley, the Starkville, Miss. native responsible for making sure that a referendum to bring down an anti-worker bill in Ohio qualifies for the ballot, received this year's Maria Leavey Tribute Award at the Take Back the American Dream conference on Wednesday. more »
So tell me is this fair? We've got worker's rights in the air, and Congress hasn't put one jobs bill there.
What's up, Boehner? Now I catch feeling that you don't even care about a debt ceiling. more »
After the Take Back The American Dream conference I attended a Jobs Not Cuts rally at the capitol. A few hundred people came from the conference to attend this rally, asking Congress to fix the country's problems by creating jobs to modernize our country's infrastructure instead of cutting essential social services. more »
On Sunday, February 13, 2011, a few hundred union members gathered at the state capitol building in Madison, WI to confront Gov. Scott Walker over a bill designed to strip public employees of their right to organize. The next day, they were joined by over a thousand teaching assistants from the state's two public universities. more »
The Annual Gala Dinner at the Take back the American Dream conference honored several people at the front lines of the progressive movement's most critical battles.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America was designated this year's "Progressive Champion" for its courageous push-back against conservative efforts to strip government funding for its women's health clinics. The organization was able to mobilize over a million new people to the cause of defending women's access to reproductive health services and rebutting a smear campaign against the organization. Kate Michelman, former head president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, presented the award to Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's president.
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