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Agenda for Take Back America 2007
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Monday, June 18, 2007
11:00AM-12:15 PM
Robert Borosage
Representative Keith Ellison
Eli Pariser
Representative Jan Schakowsky
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
12:30PM-2:00 PM
Phil Angelides
Kathleen McGinty
Carl Pope
Jerome Ringo
12:45PM-1:45 PM
It's true. America's political inaction on the climate crisis shares an institutional cause with the growing ranks of apathetic voters. Indeed, our countrymen are more and more ...
Self-Organizing Session
Mr. Corbett Kroehler
This year, Take Back America has partnered with Confabb.com to bring you a new, fully interactive conference experience. Join us to learn how to use all of the the social media,...
Self-Organizing Session
Jon Mandell
Jason Rozenblat
2:15PM-3:30 PM
Robert Borosage
John Cavanagh
Mel Goodman
Anita Sharma
Rep. Lynn Woolsey
Featuring "CPAC: The Unauthorized Documentary" by Max Blumenthal, The Nation
Melody Barnes
Harold Meyerson
Rick Perlstein
Connie Rice
Cecile Richards
Progressive Majority: Candidate and Elected Official
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
2:30PM-3:30 PM
This session will provide information about the impeachment process and provide a forum to discuss the possibility of impeaching current officials.
Self-Organizing Session
Mrs. Jane Dugdale
Bob Fertik
Glen Ford
David Swanson
You know the problem - campaign cash is the currency of our democracy. Money drowns out the votes and voices of ordinary Americans resulting in policies that benefit the wealthy...
Self-Organizing Session
Angela Canterbury
Arn Pearson
Aimee Tavares
3:45PM-5:00 PM
Ellen Bravo
Irasema Garza
EJ Graff
Cecile Richards
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Representative Barbara Lee
Tom Matzzie
Rep. Patrick Murphy
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter
Jon Soltz
Ellynne Bannon
Jon Hoadley
Eddy Morales
Juan Pacheco
Madhuri Singh
Jessy Tolkan
Elandria Williams
Progressive Majority: Candidate and Elected Official
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
4:00PM-5:00 PM
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Self-Organizing Session
Dan Ancona
Jenifer Fernandez Ancona
Ways to reach the public to promote core progressive values and create DEMAND for progressive ideas and candidates.
Self-Organizing Session
Jeffrey Feldman
Dave Johnson
Conor Kenny
5:00PM-5:15 PM
5:15PM-6:15 PM
Maryland State Senator Jamin Raskin and Ryan O'Donnell of FairVote will discuss the exciting campaign for a National Popular Vote, which was just passed into law in the state of...
Self-Organizing Session
Jamin Raskin
We'll review the challenges we face with electronic voting machines, caging lists, voter intimidation and so much more in 2008. We'll organize to protect the vote.
Self-Organizing Session
Allegra Dengler
Ana Henderson
Lynn Landes
Dr. Jonathan SimonJD
Jonathan Simon
6:00PM-7:00 PM
Donna Brazile
6:30PM-8:00 PM
6:30PM-7:30 PM
Film-screening and discussion. Hosted by Emmy award-winning actor Bradley Whitford, Quiet Revolution is a short documentary that features congressional leaders like Barack O'bam...
Self-Organizing Session
Nan Aron
Kellye McIntosh
Join Foreign Policy In Focus and the Institute for Policy Studies in a discussion of how to take back American foreign policy. Americans went to the polls last November to elect...
Self-Organizing Session
John Cavanagh
8:00PM-9:30 PM
Senator Sherrod Brown
Roger Hickey
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Senator Bernie Sanders
Katrina vanden Heuvel
9:30PM-12:00 AM
Alex Gibney examines the Bush administration's policy on torture in his film Taxi to the Dark Side which investigates the death of an Afghani taxi driver who died from in...
Alex Gibney
Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation present the world premier of Lift the Ban, which tells the story of Stephen Benjamin who served in the Navy as a much need Arabi...
Robert Greenwald
Sponsored by Young People For, Living Liberally, and Progress With Friends Featuring "Greyhound Diaries"-a rolling snapshot in words, images, and song of people struggling to...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
7:30 AM-8:30 AM
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
In the globally competitive economy of the 21st century, state economies in large part will thrive or decline based on how well they identify, recruit, cultivate and retain “k...
Self-Organizing Session
Mr. Matthew Cohen
Come join an early morning group discussion of the many and varied frustrations of grassroots activists and learn how to harness negative energy and turn it into a positive forc...
Self-Organizing Session
Shawn O'Donnell
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Sen. Mike Gravel
9:00 AM-9:30 AM
Gov. Bill Richardson
9:30 AM-9:45 AM
Thom Hartmann
9:45 AM-10:45 AM
Robert Brandon
Rep. Joe Courtney
Anthony Daniels
Tamara Draut
Jennifer Pae
Karl Agne
Julie Bergman Sender
Laura Nichols
Will Robinson
Simon Rosenberg
Jon Soltz
Ron Blackwell
Ellen Bravo
Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Alicia Russell
Greg Squires
Rep. Roberta Abdul Salaam
Del. Adam Ebbin
Rep. Jessica Farrar
Celinda Lake
Rep. Jim Marzilli
Rep. Joe McDermott
Tim McFeeley
Nathan Newman
Joel Rogers
Chris Bowers
Jim Dean
Jane Hamsher
Isaiah Poole
Matt Stoller
Oliver Willis
9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Progressive Majority: Candidate and Elected Official
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
9:45 AM-10:45 AM
'More Career Women Are Opting - Out,' 'Career Moms and Stay-At-Home Moms At War,''Women Can't Really Have It All.' Label it what you will, the mainstream media has been skewing ...
Self-Organizing Session
Lori Sokol
We all worked very hard to win a majority of both houses of Congress in the 2006 Election. It is important to balance holding the Democratic Leadership on issues important to t...
Self-Organizing Session
Lane Hudson
10:45 AM-11:00 AM
10:50 AM-11:50 AM
Invest in Our Future: Challenging Austerity Economics 
Ross Eisenbrey
Jeff Madrick
Beth Shulman
Adam Green
Mark Green
Robert Greenwald
James Rucker
Rand Beers
Robert Borosage
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee*
Guy Saperstein
Susan Shaer
Peter Edelman
Vanessa Gueringer
Arlene Holt
Maude Hurd
Rinku Sen
Rep. Maxine Waters
Gar Alperovitz
Vickie Johnson
John Logue
Harold Simon
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
This session will describe exciting new work in several states and cities around the US to win sweatfree procurement legislation for all government procured goods, ending the pr...
Self-Organizing Session
Bama Athreya
Jon Hunt
Four years of the Iraq war with no end in sight. Our politicians and old methods have failed. Not Acceptable!Time for a new strategy for peace. This new strategy is easy, bypas...
Self-Organizing Session
Robert Dodge
Michael Phillips
Leadership Development
Leadership Development
12:00 PM-12:30 PM
Sen. Barack Obama
12:30 PM-1:00 PM
Senator John Edwards
1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Take Back America goes to Capitol Hill! (corner of Delaware Ave. & C St., NE) Board free buses at Terrace level, T street entrance; Box lunches on buses Take Back America ...
Roger Hickey
William McNary
1:15 PM-2:15 PM
The Walter Reed scandal is just the tip of the iceberg in the Bush administration's failure to care for our returning veterans and their families. Tens of thousands of ...
Self-Organizing Session
Stacy Bannerman
2:45 PM-3:45 PM
There will be no Taking Back America without an honest election. To have one it's up to all of us to fully comprehend the threats and ratchet up the level of scrutiny to 10 on a...
Self-Organizing Session
Sally Castleman
Dr. Jonathan SimonJD
Calling all online organizers, cyber politicos, bloggers, techie field types, all-around geeks, and anyone else interested in plotting a massive online voter registration campai...
Self-Organizing Session
Adam Klaus
4:15 PM-5:30 PM
John Arensmeyer
Chuck Collins
Bill Foster
Lee Iacocca
Holly Sklar
Judy Wicks
David Donnelly
Mark Green
Wade Henderson, Esq.
Ellen Miller
Michael Waldman
Biko Baker
Adam Klaus
Anna Lefer
Shamako Nobel
Gabe Pendas
Jefferson Smith
State Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan
Jeff Blodgett
Michael Huttner
Robert Kraig
Gloria Totten
Kristina Wilfore
Progressive Majority: Candidate and Elected Official
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Includes musical presentation by Julie... It's time to win the culture wars, without heavy-han...
Self-Organizing Session
Julie Christensen
Hip Hop is a culture and art form encompassing music, visual art, dance and the word, born out of the struggle of underserved people of color in America's urban areas. Since its...
Self-Organizing Session
Billy Wimsatt, League of Independent Voters
J.Period, DJ
D Labrie, Hip Hop Congress
Cherryl Aldave, Moderator
Davey D, DJ, Hip Hop Journalist
Grime, Hip Hop Artist
Lauren Harkrader
Jay Woodson, NHHPC
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
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7:00 PM-9:30 PM
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Jason Alexander
Progressive Bloggers
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Roger Wilkins
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
8:00 AM-8:30 AM
Sen. Hillary Clinton
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Representative Dennis Kucinich
9:15 AM-9:25 AM
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
9:15 AM-10:15 AM
This session will provide information on single-payer national health insurance (HR 676) with experts from Physicians for a National Health Program.
Self-Organizing Session
Nicholas Skala
Quentin Young
Features Laura Flanders, Tim Carpenter & Matt Rothschild. A war based on lies. A pre-emptive attack that violated the Nuremberg principles. Torture. Wiretapping. Signing ...
Self-Organizing Session
Tim Carpenter
Steve Cobble
Laura Flanders
Matt Rothschild
9:45 AM-10:45 AM
Michael Moore
Chung-Wha Hong
Alan Jenkins
Ali Noorani
Angelica Salas
Gustavo Torres
11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Anita Dancs
Senator Nan Grogan Orrock
Lawrence Korb
Duane Peterson
Duncan Black
Keith Boykin
Craig Crawford
Jon Elliot
Dan Froomkin
David Shuster
Marisa Treviño
Cenk Uyger
Richard Wolffe
Katie Barge
James Salt
Rev. Ron Stief
Adam Taylor
Mara Vanderslice
David Brock
Carol Jenkins
Chris Rabb
Josh Silver
Tracy Van Slyke
Majora Carter
Anthony "Van" Jones
Jane McDonald-Pines
Representative Hilda Solis
Progressive Majority: Candidate and Elected Official
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
Progressive Majority: Leadership Development
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
This session will address why progressives must focus efforts on rural America. Important issues will be discussed. Organizing techniques will be brainstormed. The time is n...
Self-Organizing Session
Tony Barr
Join CODEPINK founders Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, and other activists in conversation on improving our tactics for bringing our troops home this year.
Self-Organizing Session
Medea Benjamin
Jodie Evans
Sara Nichols
Joan Stallard
12:15 PM-12:45 PM
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Featuring "Panning Left: The Take Back America Video Tour" by Max Blumenthal, The Nation
1:00 PM-1:30 PM
1:30 PM-3:30 PM
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