It’s Time to ‘Take Back the American Dream’
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The middle class and the American Dream that created it are under attack as never before. But there is a real uprising sweeping the nation to save the middle class.
The Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) is teaming up with Van Jones’ “Rebuild The Dream” organization for the “Take Back the American Dream” conference Oct. 3-5 in Washington, D.C. This year, the CAF annual conference will focus on adding gas to the grassroots fire that has already been lit in Wisconsin and town halls all over the country.
(Online registration for the conference is now closed. You may still register on-site starting at 8 a.m. on Monday at the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave, N.W. For an agenda, list of speakers and other conference information, click here.)
Trumka, Progressive Panelists Will Explore Worker Anger and the Elections
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The anger that American voters feel, especially working-class voters, is well documented. But the unknown is how they will express that anger on Election Day.
This Friday in New York City, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum will take part in a panel discussion on “Which Way for the Working Class? Elections 2010 and Beyond.”
They will be joined by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert; Eric Alterman, journalist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; and moderator Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation.
Sponsored by Working America and the AFL-CIO, the discussion will center on the issues and viewpoints of working men and women at the tipping point and what can be done to shift the balance in the November elections and beyond.
America’s Future Conference: Restore the Middle Class with Employee Free Choice
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The nation’s economy is in a tailspin, and one of the best ways to help turn it around is by passing the Employee Free Choice Act, several speakers said this morning at a national gathering of progressive leaders.
Sponsored by Campaign for America’s Future, the previously titled “Take Back America” annual conference has been renamed “America’s Future Now” to emphasize that this could be the greatest period of progressive reform since the 1960s.
Opening the three-day conference in Washington, D.C., Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, told participants the Employee Free Choice Act is
essential to insuring that the blessings of the next prosperity will be widely shared, that the American middle class will expand, not decline, and that the progressive majority will be consolidated.
