Date:

May 1, 2009 -May 2, 2009 

Full Description:

 

Founded in 1909 as La Follette's Weekly, on May 1-2, 2009, The Progressive magazine is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a major conference and festival.

 

Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. In particular, you'll want to check out:

 

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 4:00pm

Panel Discussion: EXTENDING DEMOCRACY

Ben Manski, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
Diane Farsetta, The Center Media and Democracy
Kevin Alexander Gray, author and former Jesse Jackson campaign staff
David Wellstone, Wellstone Action!

Additional Information:

For a full schedule of events, registration information, and more, please see:

http://conference.progressive.org/full/sched

 

Areas of Focus:

Ballot Access, Books not Bombs (Democratizing Education), Campus Democracy (Democratizing Education), Civic Education (Democratizing Education), Civil Rights and Liberties (Local Democracy), Corporations (Local Democracy), Corporations and Democracy (Liberty Tree), Corporatization: PMCs (Bring The Guard Home), Counts & Recounts, Debt Forgiveness (Democratizing Education), Defense Reform (Bring The Guard Home), Democratic Culture (Liberty Tree), Democratic Federalism (Liberty Tree), Democratizing Defense (Liberty Tree), Democratizing Education (Liberty Tree), Democratizing Elections (Liberty Tree), Democratizing Religion (Liberty Tree), Direct Democracy (Local Democracy), Economic Democracy (Liberty Tree), Election Officials, Election Reform, Free Speech (Democratizing Education), Full Funding (Democratizing Education), Gender and Democracy (Liberty Tree), Global Democracy (Liberty Tree), History of the Guard (Bring The Guard Home), Home Rule vs. Preemption (Local Democracy), Iraq (Bring The Guard Home), Law of Democracy (Liberty Tree), Local Democracy (Liberty Tree), Local Democracy Movement (Local Democracy), Community Media (Local Democracy), Media Democracy (Liberty Tree), Municipal Foreign Policy (Local Democracy), Neighborhoods (Local Democracy), Participatory Budgeting (Local Democracy), Polls & Media Coverage, Progressive Regulation (Local Democracy), Corporatization (Democratizing Education), Race and Democracy (Liberty Tree), Right to Organize (Democratizing Education), Services and Revenue (Local Democracy), Shortages at the Polls, Stolen Elections, Tuition Abolition (Democratizing Education), Utilities and Wealth (Local Democracy), Vote Suppression, Voting Machines, War Resistance (Bring The Guard Home), Affirmative Action (Democratizing Education)

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