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Hickey Challenges White House Deficit Commission

Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, testifies before the White House Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. At the hearing, Hickey says that while he supports smart economic policies to reduce our structural federal deficit over time, "we are in danger of killing or weakening needed growth in the name of reducing deficits." He warns that some of our deficit-reduction strategies are misguided. He also adds that "reducing the deficit cannot be our only economic policy goal. We also need to invest in the future."

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America's Future Now! 2010: "We Are The Change" Highlights

The 2010 America's Future Now! 2010 conference featured dozens of the leading activists and thinkers of the progressive movement working to rekindle grassroots energy around the economy, financial reform, health care and a host of other vital issues. This video shows how the theme of the conference, "We Are The Change," played out through the conference presentations and in the informal conversations of attendees. Among those featured here are House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Alan Grayson, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, NAACP President Ben Jealous and Green For All leader Van Jones. More conference videos are available at http://ourfuture.org/now.

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Sara Robinson: 'Up To Us Now'

Blogger Sara Robinson discusses what's ahead for movement progressives after the America's Future Now! conference in early June. In this interview, Robinson offers her take on the "We Are the Change" conference theme, how the front lines for activism are shifting, and the need for both "prophetic voices" and "fighters" to carry forward progressive change in the months ahead. She also announces a new project with the Progressive Ideas Network that will result in a series of forward-looking essays that will appear on OurFuture.org in the months ahead.

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'Infuriated' And Pushing For Change

Building the new economy and reinforcing the progressive majority were the top agenda items on Day 2 of the America's Future Now! conference, with speakers that included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Gov. Howard Dean, American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous.

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America's Future Now! We Are The Change

On the first day of the America's Future Now! conference in Washington, activists wrestled with how to respond to the Obama administration's first 17 months, and came to a consensus that rather than depending on President Obama's leadership to move progressive change, it is up to progressive activists to prod and set the stage for progressive action by elected leaders. Here are excerpts of some of the plenary session speeches at the conference and interviews with some of the participants.

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Challenging Money Politics

This plenary session of the 2010 America's Future Now conference features Scott Wallace, Co-Chair of the Wallace Global Fund, a private charitable foundation; Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.; Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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Progressive Strategy in the Obama Era Group Discussion

The second part of the "Great Debate: Progressive Strategy in the Obama Era" featured this exchange between conference participants moderated by Gloria A. Totten of Progressive Majority.

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The Great Debate: Progressive Strategy in the Obama Era

This session of the 2010 America's Future NOW! conference explores how progressives should relate to the Obama administration and Congress. Speakers are Darcy Burner, executive director of the Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation and Deepak Bhargava, executive director of Center for Community Change.

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America's Future Now: We Are the Change

America's Future Now: We Are the Change is the plenary opening session of the 2010 America's Future NOW! conference June 7. Speakers are Robert L. Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future; Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union; Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Chief Executive Officer of Green For All; and Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post.

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Progressives In The Obama Era: Driving Reform, Defeating Resistance

The third part of the "Great Debate: Progressives In The Obama Era" features Ilyse Hogue, Director of Political Advocacy and Communications for MoveOn.org and Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, discussing how progressives drive reform and overcome conservative opposition in the current political climate.

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