CAF At Netroots Nation

Campaign for America's Future staff members, fellows and associates appear at several key panels during Netroots Nation, July 22-24 in Las Vegas. This page aggregates blog posts about these panels and other Netroots Nation happenings.

Manufacturing Strategy Idea Gets A Boost

By Dave Johnson

July 26, 2010

Over the weekend I wrote about Speaker Pelosi talking at Netroots Nation about the upcoming "Making It In America" initiative that the Congress will be taking up after the summer recess. more »

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Pelosi: Congress' Coming 'Making It In America' Initiative

By Dave Johnson

July 24, 2010

At the Netroots Nation convention today in Las Vegas, Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked about an upcoming Congressional initiative to help restore American manufacturing. The initiative, called “Making It In America” will include a series of bills to be introduced after the summer recess. more »

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"This Thing Is Not Over": There Always Has Been a Plan B For The Climate Bill

By Bill Scher

July 23, 2010

At Netroots Nation today, Van Jones sought to rally attendees after the Senate leadership put plans for a climate protection bill on the back burner: "This thing is not over." more »

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What the President Didn't Seem to Learn From the Shirley Sherrod Incident

By Richard (RJ) Eskow

July 23, 2010

The "teachable moment" cliché may be overused, as Jason Linkins observed the other day, but what the White House really needed this week was a learnable moment. The Administration and other leading Democrats had an opportunity this week to understand the nature of the opposition they face. The President's remarks about Shirley Sherrod's firing suggest that this "learnable moment" may have been lost. Let's hope not. more »

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Kick the Old and the Disabled to Show We're Serious About Deficits?

By Robert Borosage

July 21, 2010

In the deficit hysteria now sweeping Washington, Social Security has emerged in the bull's-eye as a target for cuts. Perpetually tanned Republican House Minority leader John Boehner, called for hiking the retirement age to 70. more »

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Netroots Nation Panel: The 2010 Elections: Channeling the Power of Jobs, Populism and the Angry Voter

By Dave Johnson

July 19, 2010

Will you be at Netroots Nation in Las Vegas later this week? I will be on a panel, The 2010 Elections: Channeling the Power of Jobs, Populism and the Angry Voter, Thursday at 10:30am. Come on by and attend the panel!

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PANELS FEATURING CAF MEMBERS

THURSDAY, JULY 22

10:30 a.m. — The 2010 Elections: Channeling the Power of Jobs, Populism and the Angry Voter
Fellow Dave Johnson joins a discussion of current public attitudes and ideas for steering opinion and action in a more progressive direction.

3 p.m. — Obama’s Social Security "Death Panel": Engaging Activists to Defeat the Drive to Cut Critical Social Programs
CAF co-director Robert Borosage and leading progressive blogger Digby help expose the conservative hypocrisy of deficit reduction and describe how activists can get involved in protecting Social Security and other safety-net programs.

4:30 p.m. — Curbing Wall Street: The Next Stage
CAF co-director Robert L. Borosage joins an exploration of the next round of citizen protests, criminal prosecutions, and congressional policy reforms needed to make Wall Street once more the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

FRIDAY, JULY 23

3 p.m. — Can Unconscious Bias Derail the Progressive Agenda?
Alexis McGill Johnson, the executive director of Americans for American Values, a project of the Institute for America's Future, and john powell, a member of AAV's board of experts, help lead a discussion of how unconscious prejudice works in the mind, how it is used to derail positive change and what progressives can do about it.

4:30 p.m. — Think Tanks and Netroots: Best Practices for Working Together
CAF senior writer Bill Scher shares his expertise in demonstrating how think tanks and bloggers can keep working together to build pipelines for progressive ideas, policies and messages.