New Populism Conference, Thea Lee
Thea Lee talked about liberal causes. Topics included global trade policy. “Balanced Trade: End the Fast Track to Nowhere” was part of the New Populism Conference held by Campaign for Ame…
210 viewsThea Lee talked about liberal causes. Topics included global trade policy. “Balanced Trade: End the Fast Track to Nowhere” was part of the New Populism Conference held by Campaign for Ame…
210 viewsRobert Borosage talked about liberal causes. Topics included wage stagnation and income inequality. “The Populist Moment; The Emerging Movement” was part of the New Populism Conference he…
123 viewsRepresentative Keith Ellison (D-MN) spoke about liberal causes. Topics included investment, growth, and sustainability, focusing on college debt, access to education, and the right to unioni…
267 viewsSenator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) talked about her book A Fighting Chance and rallying people to the liberal cause. Topics included regulating banks and reforming Wall Street. “The Rules Ar…
793 viewsSenator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) talked about liberal causes. Topics the 2008 financial crisis, his assignment to the Senate banking committee, and the political power of large banks. “Curb W…
295 viewsCelinda Lake talked about liberal causes. She used slides as she spoke about topics including the shrinking middle class, education, job creation, tax policy, and election turnouts. “The …
198 viewsJared Bernstein talked about liberal causes. Topics included employment policies. “Full Employment and Growth: Make Workers Scarce and Jobs Plentiful” was part of the New Populism Conferenc…
44 viewsParticipants called on progressives to vote in November, re-elect President Obama, and get more progressive candidates into Congress. Representative Schakowsky (D-IL) said the Republican Par…
350 viewsPanelists talked about the progressive movement and the 2012 elections. Each called on progressives to mobilize, and make their voices heard in the presidential election. Van Jones said that…
944 viewsComics and writers Lizz Winstead and Elon James White talked about the use of humor to convey political messages, as well as coverage of political issues by the mainstream news media. They u…
348 viewsFormer Obama administration Green Jobs Adviser Van Jones called on progressives to learn from the successes of the tea party movement, calling it a movement larger than any leader by “talkin…
893 viewsRobert Reich talked about job creation. In his speech he criticized the push to cut the deficit and said unemployment is a bigger crisis and and what lawmakers should be focused on. He also …
703 viewsRobert Borosage, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, and Representative Donna Edwards (D-MD) spoke at the Campaign for America’s Future conference on grassroots organizing, the progressive movement, an…
578 viewsKatrina Vanden Heuvel talked about the journalistic responsibility of the media, and urged progressives to speak out for fairness and balance in the news media. She also talked about a numbe…
201 viewsProgressive authors and bloggers spoke about the rise of the Tea Party movement and the influence of conservatives in the Republican Party. They also talked about the role of media personali…
472 viewsMarkos Moulitsas and Ilyse Hogue talked about the progressive movement’s role in the 2010 midterm elections Topics included upcoming primaries and the race between Senator Arlen Specter and …
237 viewsProgressive leaders talked about their agenda for the Obama administration at the America’s Future Now! conference. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins in her remarks urged progressives to support compreh…
683 viewsParticipants spoke about civic engagement and issues facing youth throughout the country. They focused on developing attractive messages and using different platforms to deliver those messag…
371 viewsAudience members at the participated in a group discussion moderated by Gloria Totten at the America’s Future Now! conference
165 viewsDarcy Burner and Deepak Bhargava talked about the status of the progressive agenda in the Obama administration. They both believe that the administration has not done enough and the movement…
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