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Session Name |
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7:30 AM
Ends: 8:30 AM
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How Valuable Are Your Sexuality and Your Sexual Free Speech?
You must be 18 or over to attend this session.
Enjoy a little spicy intercourse (conversation) with your breakfast croissant at this early morning session.
Along with a provoc...
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Self-Organizing Session
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Crystal Haidl
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7:30 AM
Ends: 8:30 AM
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Volunteers Gone Wild! House Party Activism and Member-Driven Events
Discuss best practices in developing and deploying a house party strategy for fundraising, listbuilding, member engagement, and media cultivation.
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Self-Organizing Session
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David Salie
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8:30 AM
Ends: 9:45 AM
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Progressive Movement in a Democratic Era: The Lessons of King and the Civil Rights Movement
 
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Plenary Session
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Taylor Branch
Reverend Jesse Jackson
Roger Wilkins
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Building Political Power from the Ground Up
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Doug Kelly
Greg Speed
Gloria Totten
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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The Emerging New Progressive Majority
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Page Gardner
Anna Greenberg
Eric Lotke
Cecilia Munoz
Karen Nussbaum
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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The Republic against the Rogue Presidency
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David Cole
Representative John Conyers
Christy Hardin Smith
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Blog Power: 2008 and Beyond
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Chris Bowers
Digby Digby
Terrance Heath
Ari Melber
Tracy Russo
Pam Spaulding
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Immigrants and the Soul of America
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Cristina Lopez
Adam Luna
Ali Noorani
Frank Sharry
Jamila Woods-Jones
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Relationship Building: Getting Endorsements and Support from Progressive Organizations and Constituency Groups
This session will cover strategies for reaching out to progressive communities (e.g. labor, reproductive choice, environmental, GLBT, etc.), garnering key endorsements and maxim...
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Crisanta Duran
Edie Gilliss
Peter Goldin
Anne Bomstad Miller
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Moving and Managing your Message: Enhancing Media Opportunities
This session will cover the basics elements of a strategic media communications plan, including message development and management and understanding media tools (from newspaper ...
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Adam Green
Ann Liston
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Advanced Progressive Values 201: Voicing Your Values to Persuade Voters
The purpose of this workshop is to explain how to use progressive values to persuade voters that you share their values and that you are on their side.
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Bernie Horn
Tim McFeeley
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
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Speaking American About Our Issues
Communicating successfully with mainstream Americans about progressive issues is our biggest challenge. We need to use language that can evoke the ideal American values we too s...
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Self-Organizing Session
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Susan C. Strong
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
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Change the Conversation
It's not about the candidate it's about us!
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Self-Organizing Session
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Anasa Troutman
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11:45 AM
Ends: 12:00 PM
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Book Signing
David Cole, Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
Bracken Hendricks, Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
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Book Signing
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12:00 PM
Ends: 1:30 PM
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The New Green Deal
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Luncheon
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Phil Angelides
Majora Carter
Joel Rogers
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1:30 PM
Ends: 1:45 PM
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Book Signing
Larry Korb, Reshaping America's Military: Four Alternatives
Jared Bernstein, Crunch: If the Economy's Doing So Well, Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?
Robert Pollin, A Measure of...
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Book Signing
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Race Matters: Progressive Transformation in the 21st Century
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Katherine Abisa
Dennis Parker
Maya Wiley
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Challenging the Second Gilded Age
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Chuck Collins
Barbara Ehrenreich
Bill Gates Sr.
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Healthcare: Building a Coalition to Win
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John Arensmeyer
Barbara Coufal
Roger Hickey
Richard Kirsch
Khalid Pitts
Marvin Randolph
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Empowering Workers: Progressive Imperative
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Stewart Acuff
Mary Beth Maxwell
Hilary Shelton
Greg Tarpinian
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Arguing our Case: Pros and Cons
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Martin Collier
John Halpin
Celinda Lake
Dr. Drew WestenPh.D.
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Voter Contact 101: Connecting with Voters, Part I
This session will cover the basics of connecting with voters by mail, phone, Internet and in the Field
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Ari Appel
Sharon Lettman
Ed Sanders
Marcos Vilar
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Finding Support, Seizing Opportunities and Addressing Challenges in Underserved Communities
This session will provide a forum for candidates and elected officials to share information, insights and stories about their experiences and perspectives as candidates or offic...
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Tressa Feher
Ramona Fonseca
Kweli Kitwana
Cherese Williams
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1:45 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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Advanced Fundraising 201: Practice your Pitches, Plans and More
This session is a follow-up to Voter Contact 101, and will provide an opportunity for participants to take the skills they learned to role-play and create their own mail, phone,...
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Ann Liston
Megan Van Ens
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1:45 PM
Ends: 2:45 PM
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Mobile Activism
Join CREDO Mobile and a group of successful practitioners for a discussion of the new frontier in progressive activism: the mobile phone. Find out how a variety of organizations...
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Self-Organizing Session
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Becky Bond
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1:45 PM
Ends: 2:45 PM
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Election Protection 2008
Experts on election fraud will discuss practical ways to insure that every voter that comes to the polls in November gets to vote, and that their votes are properly counted. In ...
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Self-Organizing Session
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Allegra Dengler
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3:00 PM
Ends: 3:15 PM
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Book Signing
Drew Westen, The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Bernie Horn, Framing the Future: How Progressive Values Can Win Elections and Influen...
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Book
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3:00 PM
Ends: 4:00 PM
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Consensus and Organizing Tent City Protests - Summer 2008
Food Not Bombs co-founder and developer of Formal Consensus, C.T. Butler, will host a workshop on the use of Formal Consensus in organizing this summer's tent city protests agai...
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Self-Organizing Session
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C.T. Butler
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3:00 PM
Ends: 4:00 PM
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Turning A Red State Blue
From core values to being part of the 50 state strategy ... participants will learn what it takes to turn a red state blue ... and leave with tools to make it happen
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Self-Organizing Session
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Shawn O'Donnell
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3:15 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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Imperial Sorrows: The Domestic Costs of Policing the Globe
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Jared Bernstein
Lawrence Korb
Robert Pollin
Susan Shaer
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3:15 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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New Media, New Motion: New Avenues for Activism
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Dr. Alan Bean
Adam Green
Robert Greenwald
Jane Hamsher
Michael Kieschnick
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3:15 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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The Courts: Your Constitutional Rights in Jeopardy
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Emily Bazelon
Simon Heller
Kathryn Kolbert
Bill Lurye
Nancy Zirkin
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3:15 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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The Housing Bust: Causes, Cures, and Impact on the Whole Economy
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Dean Baker
Theresa DiMartino
Al Meyerhoff
Lisa Ransom
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3:15 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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Advanced Campaign Planning 201: Practice, Plan and Learn
This session will offer more detailed information about budgeting and targeting, and will provide an opportunity for participants to apply what they’ve learned through mock bu...
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Nicholl Caruso
Kweli Kitwana
Mark Lotwis
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3:15 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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Managing Conflicts: Understanding How Healthy Conflict-Resolution Methods Can Advance Your Campaign
The goal of this workshop is to understand how people resolve conflicts in different ways and using that knowledge to build a strong campaign team.
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Bernie Horn
Tim McFeeley
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3:15 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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Online Communications: Using the Internet to Recruit and Communicate with Voters, Donors and the Press
This session will cover the basics of using the Internet (including blogs) as a campaign tool to communicate, educate, raise funds, organize, mobilize voters and network with ne...
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Progressive Majority Training Track
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Darcy Burner
Jen Caltrider
Jeff Coryell
Jeff Lucas
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4:15 PM
Ends: 5:15 PM
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A Review of Latino and African American Politics and the Impact in the 2008 Election
The session will review the political landscape of both communities in terms of minority-majority cities and state and federal districts, and analyze the prospects for electoral...
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Self-Organizing Session
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Cesar Moreno Perez
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4:15 PM
Ends: 5:15 PM
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Buiding a Youth Coalition
2008 is the first year in which the Millennial generation has asserted its powerful voice. The youth vote, of those aged 18 to 30, has already played a huge role in the 2008 ele...
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Self-Organizing Session
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Nate Loewentheil
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4:30 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Meet the Authors Coffee Break
Featuring CAF Authors:
Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
David Sirota, Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corr...
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7:00 PM
Ends: 9:00 PM
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Gala Awards Dinner
Master of Ceremonies: Kathleen Turner
Honorees:
Van Jones and Majora Carter
Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award
Presented by Jerome Ringo
The Honorable Jan Sc...
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Majora Carter
Anthony "Van" Jones
Norman Lear
Bill Moyers
Representative Jan Schakowsky
Kathleen Turner
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9:30 PM
Ends: 12:00 AM
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Come Party with CREDO Mobile and George W. Bush
If we’re going to take back America, we’ll need to take time
to laugh along the way. Close out your day with a drink and a
few laughs courtesy of George W. Bush—or at le...
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James Adomian
Michael Kieschnick
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