Monday, June 12
The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It
Stanley Greenberg, author
The Dictionary of Republicanisms
Katrina vanden Heuvel, author
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right
John Javna, author
Apollo: New Energy, New Jobs, 
New Independence for America
Jerome Ringo, President, Apollo Alliance 
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nevada
Larry J. Schweiger, National Wildlife
Federation President
Robert Redford, Actor, Environmental
Activist to present Apollo Alliance "Right Stuff" Award to:
Leo Gerard, President, United Steelworkers
2:15-3:45
Progressive Agenda For the Common Good
An Economy that Works
Jeff Faux, author, The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take
to Win It Back
Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win, International Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union
Heath Care for All
Jacob Hacker, Professor of Political Science Yale University
Representative Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois
Common Sense on Security
Senator Gary Hart, Co-Chair,
National Commission on Terrorism
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA
Revive the Gulf, Rebuild America
Representative Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi
Stephen Bradberry, Lead Organizer of ACORN New Orleans Chapter and 2005 RFK Human Rights Award Laureate
Representative Maxine Waters, D-California
John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons
Gary Hart, author
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy
Jacob Hacker, co-author (with Paul Pierson)
The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future—and What It Will Take to Win It Back
Jeff Faux, author
4:00-5:30
Breakout Sessions, Progressives on the March
Taking Back the States
Gloria Totten, Executive Director, Progressive Majority (Moderator)
Lisa Turner, Turner and Associates
Jeff Blodgett, Minnesota Roadmap and Wellstone Action
Heather Booth, Strategic Director, Blueprint Project of Proteus Fund
William McNary, President, USAction
Senator Polly Baca, Member of Progressive Majority Colorado Advisory Council
Taking Back the Country: Building Progressive Capacity
Karen Nussbaum, Executive Director, Working America / AFL-CIO
Maggie Fox, President, America Votes
Dan Carol, Co-founder, The Cause
Lorena Chambers, CEO and co-founder of Chambers Lopez & Gait?n LLC
New Ballot Initiative Battlefield in the States
Kristina Wilfore, Executive Director, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center and Foundation (Moderator)
Kay Coles, National Education Association on TABOR and the "65% Solution"
Daniel Gotoff, Lake Research Partners on Minimum wage campaigns
Will Robinson, MacWilliams Robinson & Partners on Initiatives as wedge issues
Alexander Robinson, National Black Justice Coalition on Marriage initiatives
Taking Back the Media: The Building of the
New Progressive Media Infrastructure in the
New Media Environment
Jay Harris, publisher, Mother Jones (Moderator)
Alexandra Walker, Executive Editor, TomPaine.com
Robert Greenwald, Filmmaker, Brave New Films
Julie Bergman Sender, The Cause: Progressive Echo Chamber
Roberto Lovato, New America Media
Tracy Van Slyke, In These Times: The Media Consortium
Cenk Uygur, co-host of The Young Turks on Sirius Satellite Radio
New Leaders, New Energy
Iara Peng, Young People For
Quinn Wilhelmi, Roosevelt Institution
Biko Baker, National Hip Hop Political Convention
Maria Teresa Petersen, Executive Director, Vota Latina
Elana Berkowitz, Campus Progress
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of America Democracy
Jacob Hacker, Co-Author (With Paul Pierson)
7:00-9:00
Take Back America Concert: Take Back "The Party"
Co-Sponsored by Rock the Vote, Democratic GAIN, Air America Radio and Brave New Films
Emcee: Peter Rosenberg, Radio DJ, WJFK Free FM, Washington DC
Rana Mansour
"A large entourage of friends and family turned out to see Rana Mansour perform on Tuesday night and they—and the rest of the crowd—weren't disappointed. With a voice that one judge said reminded them of Tori Amos, Mansour captivated the room. The lone pianist to perform on this evening, Mansour proved a highly talented player and her soulful, romantic ballads put her on the top of all of the judges' scorecards." –On Tap Magazine
Flex Mathews
"Flex Mathews has been a rising star in the Mid Atlantic regional Hip Hop scene for much of the last 5 years. He was named one of URB Magazine's Next 100 Artists in 2005, and his transition from the local DC underground to national recognition has been the product of his dedication, quality live show performance, as well as his numerous victories in MC battles." –Virginiabeats.net
Honor by August
"Anyone who saw these guys open Bon Jovi's sold-out show at MCI Center knows why they're one of the most buzzed-about bands on the East Coast. Their award-winning songwriting, strong vocals, catchy melodies, and a dynamic live performance are not to be missed." –OnTap Magazine
With Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream courtesy of TrueMajority.org
The Big Buy: TomDeLay's Stolen Congress
Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films Filmmakers Mark Birnbaum & Jim Schermbeck
Motherhood Manifesto – Film Based on Book by Joan Blades
Tuesday, June 13
7:00-8:00
Breakfast: Regional Gatherings
8:15-8:45
Senator Hillary Clinton, D-New York
Watch video and download transcript (PDF)
8:45-9:15
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-CA
Watch video and download transcript (PDF)
9:15-9:45
Senator John Kerry, D-Massachusetts
Watch video and download transcript (PDF)
9:50-10:45
Agenda for the Common Good
The Motherhood Manifesto:
Joan Blades, President, MomsRising and co-author, The Motherhood Manifesto
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director, Moms Rising and co-author, The Motherhood Manifesto
Quality Education for All
Wendy D. Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network
Representative George Miller D-California
Clean Out the Stables: Reform the Political Process
Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action & MoveOn.org Civic Action
Solange Bitol-Hansen, National Program Director, Public Campaign
Chellie Pingree, President, Common Cause
Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush
Eric Boehlert, author
Cultural Politics and Social Movements
Marcy Darnovsky
What Women Really Want: How American Woman Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live
Celinda Lake
How Would a Patriot Act?
Glenn Greenwald
Press Conference: Motherhood Manifesto: The Book, The Film, The Movement
The Emerging Progressive Majority 
Celinda Lake, President, Lake, Snell, Pery, Mermin & Associates, Inc. and co-author, What Women Really Want : How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live
Dee Brown, President, Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies
Karen Ackerman, Political Director, AFL-CIO
Ruy Teixeira, Joint Fellow, Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Katrina: America's Test
Oliver Thomas, President, New Orleans City Council
Tanya Harris, Lead Organizer for the Lower 9th Ward, ACORN New Orleans Chapter
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Hip Hop Caucus and Institute for Policy Studies
Wyatt Closs, Director, SEIU Community Strengths Division
Blogs: The Insurgent Voice
Glenn Greenwald - Unclaimed Territory (Moderator)
Chris Rabb, Afro-Netizen
Jerome Armstrong, Co-author, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
Matt Stoller, MyDD.com
Liza Sabater, Culture Kitchen
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake
Action Movies: Brave New Films Putting Movies Into Motion
Mark Birnbaum, Filmmaker
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films
Rick Jacobs, Courage Campaign and Brave New Films
Chellie Pingree, President, Common Cause Jim Schermbeck, Filmmaker
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and The Rise of People-Powered Politics
Jerome Armstrong
What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live
Celinda Lake
Filmmmakers: The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress
12:30-12:45
Governor Tom Vilsack
Download speech transcript (PDF)
The Motherhood Manifesto
Joan Blades & Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Barbara Ehrenreich
2:15-3:30
Parallel Tracks: Progressive Challenges
Devalued: The Anti-American Right
Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood
Representative Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts
Marcy Darnovsky, Associate Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society
Joe Solmonese, President, Human Rights Campaign
Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Take Back the Workplace: A Progressive Strategy for a 21st Century Economy
Teresa Joyce, Customer Service Representative for Cingular Wireless
Hon. David Bonior, Chair, American Rights at Work
Jeffrey A. Rechenbach, Executive Vice President, Communications Workers of American Rights at Work
Maria Elena Durazo, Executive Secretary Treasurer, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
New Immigrants' Movement
Deepak Bhargava, Exec. Dir., Center for Community Change
Rudy Lopez, Wellstone Action National Field Director and Former Field Director for the US Hispanic Leadership Institute
Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coaliation for Humane Immigrant Rights of LA
Roberto Lovato, New America Media
Jaime Contreras, President, National Capital Immigration Coalition and SEIU
Sonia Ramierz, Legislative Representative, AFL-CIO
Hostile Takeover, Common Sense, and Populism
Harvey J. Kaye, Author, Thomas Paine & the Promise of America
David Sirota, Author, Hostile Takeover
Michael Kazin, Author, Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
Eruptions: Challenging a Lawless President
Steve Cobble, Co-Founder, AfterDowningStreet.org
Representative John Conyers, D-Michigan
Sarah Anderson, Director, Global Economy Program Institute for Policy Studies
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
Harvey J. Kaye
A Gody Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
Michael Kazin
Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government - and How We Take It Back
David Sirota
4:00-5:15
Simultaneous Plenaries
Progressives Rock the States: Reform on the March
Rep. Joyce Elliott, Arkansas House of Representatives
Dan Petegorsky, E/D, Western States Center
Senator G. Spencer Coggs, Wisconsin Senate
Representative Dave McAlpin, Montana House
Ron Sims, King County Executive, Washington
Apollo: New Jobs and Energy for States, Cities and Campuses
Billy Parish, Coordinator, Energy Action
Joel Rogers, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joanne Derwin, Director, Urban Agenda
Rich Feldman, Executive Director, Workers Center-King County Labor Council, Washington State Coordinator Apollo Alliance
Jennifer Ito, CIPHER Director, Strategic Concepts in Organizing Policy Education (SCOPE)
We the People: The Coming Majority
Malia Lazu, Progressive Majority (Racial Justice Campaign Fund)
Belen Mendoza, America Votes
Walter Mosley, Author, Life Out of Context
Tyson King-Meadows, Author, Devolution and Black State Legislators
Christine Chen, National Director, APIA Vote
Raise the Floor by Raising the Roof: The Minimum Wage Campaigns
Rev. Paul Sherry, Coordinator, the Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign
Julie Smith, ACORN Leader, Cleveland OH
Jen Kern, Director, ACORN Living Wage Center
Beth Shulman, author, The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans (New Press)
Life Out of Context
Walter Mosley
The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans
Beth Shulman
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right
John Javna
6:15-7:15
Gala Dinner Reception
7:15-9:30
Campaign for America's Future Gala Dinner
Master of Ceremonies:
Arianna Huffington, Author, Columnist,
and co-Founder and Editor of the HuffingtonPost.com
Remarks
Robert L. Borosage, Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future
Roger Hickey, Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future
Honorees
Bernard Rapoport
America's Future Lifetime Leadership Award Presented by the Honorable Tom Harkin
Gloria A. Totten
America's Future Progressive Champion Award Presented by Cecile Richards
Angelica Salas
Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award Presented by the Honorable Hilda Solis and Maria Elena Durazo (2003 Wellstone Award Honoree)
Wednesday, June 14
7:30-8:50
Continental Breakfast & Discussion of CAF-MoveOn campaigns on Energy, Democracy, Health Care
9:00-9:30
Senator Russ Feingold
Watch video and download transcript (PDF)
Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush
Eric Boehlert
Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to Be Young
Anya Kamenetz
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Kevin Phillips
9:45-11:00
Emerging Challenges:
The Investment Gap: Put People First
John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress
Governor Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
Donna Edwards, Candidate for Congress, MD-4, on leave as Director, Arca Foundation
The Global Deficit: Good Jobs in a Global Economy
Kevin Philips, author, American Theocracy
Thea Lee, Assistant Director for Internal Economics, AFL-CIO
Representative Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio and candidate for Senate
Corporate Default: Curbing Corporate Lawlessness
William Lerach, partner, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP
Madeline Janis-Aparicio, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
MomsRising! Taking Back Family Values in the Workplace
Joan Blades, Co-Founder, MoveOn.org and MomsRising and President, MomsRising
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Co-Founder and Executive Director, MomsRising
Dr. Joan Williams, Founding Director, WorkLife Law (WLL), and Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Irasema Garza, Director, AFSCME Women's Rights Department, and Political Director, Working America
Carol Joyner, Former Head, 1199 Employer Child Care Fund (SEIU)
John DeGraaf, Director, Take Back Your Time and Motherhood Manifesto
Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, Co-Founders, CultureRx (Best Buy Workplace Innovators)
The Rev. Jennifer S. Butler, Executive Director, Faith in Public Life
Class Matters: Rebuilding America's Dream
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Executive Director, The Drum Major Institute
Tamara Draut, Director, Economic Opportunity Program at Demos, and author, Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute and Author, All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy
All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy
Jared Bernstein, author
Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead
Tamara Draut, author
11:15-12:30
Securing and Expanding the Common Wealth: The Next Best Thing
Helen Brunner, Media Democracy Fund (Moderator)
Gar Alperovitz, U. of MD. and author, America Beyond Capitalism
David Bollier, Editor, OntheCommons.org and Fellow, Tomales Bay Institute
Wayne Ford, State Representative, Iowa
Media Reform: A Critical Issue of Our Times
Frannie Wellings, Free Press (Moderator)
Representative Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and candidate for US Senate
Robert W. McChesney, President, Free Press
Adam Green, MoveOn.org Civic Action
The Cost of Corruption Campaign: the Defining Issue in 2006
Ellen Miller (Moderator)
Anya Kamenetz, author of book & blog Generation Debt
David Donnelly, Public Campaign Action Fund
David Bookbinder, Senior Attorney, Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program
Roger Hickey Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future
Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MOveOn.org Political Action and MoveOn.org Civic Action
Eruptions: The Public Moves Against the War
Representative Lynn Woolsey
Tom Matzzie, Washington Director for MoveOn.org
Joseph Wilson IV, Former US Ambassador, and author, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity
Ned Lamont, Candidate for US Senate
Building Power & Winning Elections: "Fusion" Politics and the Working Families Party
Congressman Tim Bishop, (D-WF), CD-1, NY
Zach Polett, ACORN
Eva Bonime, Working Families Party
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
Gar Alperovitz
Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture
David Bollier
Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to Be Young
Anya Kamenetz
Tragedy & Farce and The Problem of the Media
Robert McChesney
