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news.firedoglake.com — I’m here on the ground at the America’s Future Now conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in DC, and just got up on the Internet. In front of a moderate-sized, Monday-morning-sleepy crowd, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future Robert Borosage called for an independent progressive movement, separate and apart from the White House, organizing independently for change.

peoplesworld.org — "There is a clear link between clean energy and economic development," Ron Ruggiero, field director for the Apollo Alliance, told workshop participants here at the America's Future NOW! conference June 8.

According to Ruggiero, "Clean energy can lead to a manufacturing revival in this country."

"First we need to create the market demand for green manufacturing through policy priorities," Ruggiero said. "Second, we need to invest in capacity to meet demand. Third, we need to capture the jobs and economic opportunity."

peoplesworld.org — "We are the change, we have the power," Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage told progressive leaders and activists from around the country today.

"We are headed into fierce battle" over the next few years, Borosage said, as the America's Future NOW! convened for three days of discussion and debate on the role of progressives in the Obama era, curbing Wall Street, ending corporate influence over politics, fighting for jobs and justice, and building a new, green economy.

spectator.org — As Congress considers the Democrats' unprecedented legislative assault on Wall Street, radical leftists say the bad economy gives them new opportunities to push America even farther down the road to socialism.

"The banking crisis is the next big thing," said George Goehl, executive director of the Chicago-based group National People's Action.

congress.org — Many audience members crowded to the front of the stage, standing and cheering loudly to support Pelosi and counter the fervent protests. The Speaker continued through her speech, touting several Democratic policy issues.

washingtontimes.com — Liberal activists and Democrats on Wednesday prodded supporters to push for changing the Senate's filibuster rule, saying it's the only way to ensure President Obama can move their agenda through a broken Congress.

Speaking at the final day of the America's Future Now conference, AFL-CIO lawyer Laurence E. Gold urged the activists to take that message back to their groups: The Senate, until it is changed, is standing in the way of progress on gay rights, Wall Street reform and protecting the environment.

washingtonpost.com — Progressive movement activists gathered in Washington on Monday declared themselves dismayed, even angry, at President Obama and Democrats in Congress for being too timid and compromising in pursuing change on issues from health care to the environment to the economy.
The speakers at the America's Future Now conference that began Monday called for a political uprising independent of the Democratic Party.

cnsnews.com — Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Union who now sits on President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said the United States needs an economic plan that does not include “worshipping” the free market.

google.com — Progressive activists who helped elect Barack Obama president complained on Monday that the administration and congressional Democrats have been too timid and too willing to compromise.

Even though Obama's major first-term achievement — an overhaul of the nation's health care system — passed without a single Republican vote, progressive leaders who gathered in Washington criticized the president for failing to create a government-run insurance option to compete with private industry.