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Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio) speaking at the America's Future Now Conference hosted by Campaign for America's Future.

Gabe Gonzalez of the Center for Community Change leads a panel discussion on how progressives can forge common ground on an immigration reform strategy. The panel includes Angelica Salas of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, former Labor secretary Ray Marshall and Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union.

Three people on the front lines of the fight for social and economic justice—John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO; Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus; and Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change—were honored Tuesday night at the America's Future Gala Awards Evening. Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., a rising progressive leader in Congress, was master of ceremonies.

Forging a strategy that brings the ideal of green energy and green-collar jobs into political and practical reality is the focus of a luncheon panel discussion with Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; Kate Gordon, co-director of the Apollo Alliance; Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club; Mark Ayers, president of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, chief executive officer of Green For All.

Is Scott Roeder, the man who was charged today in the murder of Dr. George Tiller, best understood as a lone-wolf extremist or as a member of a community that supported and encouraged his actions? We discuss that question with Dave Neiwert, who chronicles right-wing movements on the blog Orcinus and Rick Perlstein, the author of "Nixonland" and a former OurFuture.org blogger who launched "The Big Con."

As progressive organizations meet in Washington for the America’s Future Now conference, Laura Flanders of GRITtv asks probing questions about the role of the left in American politics. Darcy Burner, executive director of the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation; Isaiah J. Poole, executive editor of OurFuture.org; and Rick MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, discuss what the progressive strategy should be vis á vis President Obama.

Gov. Howard Dean, who recently became chairman of the board of the Progressive Book Club, joined organizers to announce details of the largest grassroots mobilization of progressives ever on behalf of health care reform on Monday at a news conference sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future. Progressive groups are poised to spend more than $82 million to support President Obama's goal of achieving quality, affordable health care for all this year. Also at the news conference was pollster Celinda Lake, Change to Win chair Anna Burger, Health Care for America Now national campaign manager Richard Kirsch and Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage.