Take Back the American Dream 2012
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June 18-20, 2012
Washington Hilton Hotel
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Two years ago, the corporate-backed Tea Party didn’t just win an election. It won the argument. Conservatives defined the agenda that we’ve had to fight against ever since.
This year, to save the nation, progressives must get back on offense and drive the agenda. We have to win not only in November … but also in December.
The first step to victory: The June 18-20 “Take Back the American Dream” conference.
At Take Back the American Dream, Van Jones, Paul Krugman, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ai-jen Poo, Sandra Fluke, Gov. Howard Dean, Melissa Harris-Perry, Chris Hayes, Katrina vanden Heuvel and many more shared ideas and helped forge the strategy to make sure that the 99% is heard.
We had leading activists from Rebuild the Dream, MoveOn.org, Occupy, 99% Spring, labor unions, civil rights and women’s rights groups who know how to win on the ground.
It's About November — and December
In November, we have to win the White House — and win a big progressive majority in Congress. It won’t be easy, but the American majority is coming together.
Then in December, watch out.
The extreme right is already promising to hold the country hostage once more over raising the debt ceiling in order to force a “grand bargain” — gut Social Security and Medicare, cripple everything from food stamps to food safety, and accept mass unemployment as a grotesque “new normal.”
WHAT WE DID AT #TAKEBACK11
After the three-day "Take Back the American Dream" conference in October 2011, a new movement was energized! Thousands came to Washington—or followed the action online—to help plan the take-off of the American Dream movement, building on the momentum of the Wisconsin workers' rights protests and the Occupy Wall Street actions to build an independent movement for change.
» Go to the 2011 conference page for videos, blogs and more.
» Go to the 2011 conference page for videos, blogs and more.
How do we stop this? Drive the debate. Mobilize our grassroots army. Make us impossible to ignore.
We will demand a “jobs first” strategy for recovery.
We will send the bill to those on Wall Street whose excesses made the mess we’re cleaning up.
We won’t ask working people to sacrifice when they’ve already swallowed needless cuts. We will insist on sacrifice from the multinationals still gaming the system, and the military still spending almost as much as the rest of the world.
We need you to bring the vision. You will shape the plan. And all of us will get it done.
The June 18-20 Take Back the American Dream conference was the first step toward making victory possible.
We are the 99%. If we organize, if we force the debate, we can win not only the election but the argument. Not only November, but December.
We can do this. We just need you.
Conference Partners
| 21st Century Democrats AFL-CIO Alliance for Justice Alliance for Retired Americans Alternet American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations American Values Institute Americans for Tax Fairness Americans United for the Separation of Church and State Asian America Action Fund Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote Barrios Unidos-Virginia Chapter Blue/Green Alliance Bolder Giving Brave New Films Center for American Progress Center for Media and Democracy Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Change.org Color of Change Community Engagement for Evergreen Cooperatives Congressional Progressive Caucus CREDO SuperPAC Darcy Scott Martin Democracy for America Democratic Gain/Atlas Project Demos Digby Direct Care Alliance Dream Defenders and Center for Community Change Earn Network Economic Policy Institute | Ellen Baker Center Energy Action Coalition Ethical Electric Fair Elections Legal Network Fenton Communications Global Policy Solutions Green For All Highlander Center Huffington Post Institute for Policy Studies Jobs With Justice Lake Research Partners Latino Engagement Fund Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Main Street Alliance Mother Jones National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Center for Lesbian Rights National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Black Women’s Roundtable National Council on La Raza National Domestic Worker Alliance National Education Association National Gay and Lesbian Task Force National Priorities Project National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance NationBuilder New Bottom Line New Organizing Institute NGP VAN PEAR-Energy People for the American Way Planned Parenthood Federation of America | Pride at Work Progress Now Progressive Change Champion Progressive Congress Progressive Majority Progressive States Network Public Campaign RawStory Resource Generation Roosevelt Institute Shelterforce/National Housing Institute Sierra Club Social Security Works State Voices Sunflower Community Action The Opportunity Agenda Tides Foundation Trail of Dreams UltraViolet United States Student Association United We Dream Upworthy USAction Voces de la Frontera Voter Participation Center Voto Latino WAND- Women’s Action for New Directions We Act Radio Westen Strategies LLC Women's Information Network Women's Media Center Working America Working Families Party Young Elected Officials Action |
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