AFN! 2010 Agenda

Speakers and Agenda are finalized.

Monday, June 7 [1] | Tuesday, June 8 [2] | Wednesday, June 9 [3]

Monday, June 7, 2010

Time	Session Name	Room	Track	Speakers
11:00 AM Ends: 11:50 AM	America's Future Now: We Are the Change	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Robert L. Borosage [4] Andy Stern [5] Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins [6] Arianna Huffington [7]
12:00PM Ends 12:20PM	Lunch	Regency Ballroom
12:20PM Ends 12:50PM	The Great Debate: Progressive Strategy in the Obama Era	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Roger Hickey [8] Darcy Burner [9] Deepak Bhargava [10]
12:50PM Ends 1:30PM	Progressive Strategy in the Obama Era	Regency Ballroom	Group Discussion	Gloria A. Totten [11]
1:30PM Ends 2:10PM	Driving Reform; Defeating Resistance	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Gloria A. Totten [11] Ilyse Hogue [12] Markos Moulitsas [13]
2:10PM Ends 2:30PM	Book Signing	Regency Foyer
2:30PM Ends 3:30PM	Curbing Wall Street: Strategies Going Forward	Palladian Room	Breakout	Heather McGhee [14] Heather Booth [15] Gerald L. Taylor [16] Robert Johnson [17]
2:30PM Ends 3:30PM	Health Care: Lessons Learned and Next Fights	Diplomat Room	Breakout	Roger Hickey [8] Diane Archer [18] Jennifer Ng'andu [19] Ethan Rome [20]
2:30PM Ends 3:30PM	Working Class Anger: Does it go Right or Left?	Empire Room	Breakout	Arlene Holt Baker [21] Karen Nussbaum [22] Celinda Lake [23] Drew Westen [24] Jorge Mursuli [25]
2:30PM Ends 3:30PM	Politics Beyond the Beltway: What Youth Are Talking On The Block	Congressional AB Room	Breakout	Rob Biko Baker [26] Tarik Ross [27] Chloé A. Hilliard [28] Elizabeth Méndez Berry [29]
2:30PM Ends 3:30PM	Immigration Reform: Our Movement’s Response	Senate Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Marissa Graciosa Kweli Kitwana [30]
2:30PM Ends 3:30PM	Winning Down Ballot	Forum Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Gloria A. Totten [11] Matthew F. Filner [31]
3:30PM Ends 4:20PM	Plenary: Challenging Money Politics	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Scott Wallace [32] Rep. Donna Edwards [33] Sen. Dick Durbin [34] Rev. Jesse L. Jackson [35]
All Day: Sign-up for appointment	Campaign One-on-Ones Consultations	TBA	Progressive Majority Training Track
All Day: Sign-up for appointment	Communications and Messaging One-on-Ones	TBA	Progressive Majority Training Track	Jennie Blackton [36]
4:20PM Ends 5:00PM	Book Signings & Networking Break	Ambassador Room
6:00PM Ends 7:30PM	Margarita Party	Diplomat Room & Terrace	Networking	Hosted by the Campaign for America's Future
8:00PM	Laughing Liberally Comedy Hour	Congressional AB Room	Networking	Lee Camp [37] Negin Farsad [38] Katie Halper [39] Seaton Smith [40] Elon James White [41]
9:00PM	Next Generation's Progressive Party	Palladian Room	Networking	* Generational Alliance * Voto Latino * Choice USA * Bus Federation * Black Youth Vote * Campus Camp Wellstone * Campus Progress * Drum Major Institute * Democracia USA * Center for Progressive Leadership * Generation Change, a program of Center for Community Change * NAACP Youth & College Division * The Gathering For Justice * The League of Young Voters Education Fund * Young People For, a program of People For the American Way Foundation * The United States Students Association Foundation

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Time	Session Name	Room	Track	Speakers
7:30AM Ends 8:30AM	Breakfast and Big Banks	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Robert Johnson [17] Simon Johnson [43]
8:30AM Ends 9:15AM	Making Change	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Roger Wilkins [44] Speaker Nancy Pelosi [45]
9:30AM Ends 10:40AM	Holding Congress Accountable	Diplomat Room	Breakout	Darcy Burner [9] Cenk Uygur [46] Stephanie Taylor [47] Jim Dean
9:30AM Ends 10:40AM	Social Networking Jeopardy: Tactics, Strategy and FUN	Empire Room	Breakout	Toby Chaudhuri [48] Garlin Gilchrist II [49] Scott Goodstein [50] Heather Holdridge [51] Lizz Winstead [52] Deanna Zandt [53]
9:30AM Ends 10:40AM	Making it in America: A Progressive Global Strategy	Congressional AB Room	Breakout	Scott N. Paul [54] Mark Mellman [55] Kate Gordon [56] Clyde Prestowitz [57]
9:30AM Ends 10:40AM	Tea Parties, Beck, Bachmann and Blarney	Palladian Room	Breakout	Eric Burns [58] John Atlas [59] Alex Zaitchik [60] John Amato [61] Digby [62] James Rucker [63]
9:30AM Ends 10:40AM	Six Steps You Should Take BEFORE Running for Office	Senate Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Dean M. Nielsen [63]
9:30AM Ends 10:40AM	You Should Run: What You Need to Know to Run for Office	Forum Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Matt Filner [31] Erin Vilardi [63] Rudy Lopez [64] Tracy Sturdivant [63]
10:50AM Ends 11:30AM	The Emerging Progressive Majority	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Carmen Berkley [65] Simon Rosenberg [66] Gov. Howard Dean, MD [67]
11:30AM Ends 12:15PM	Progressives: Organizing Winning Issues in an Election Year	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Robert Creamer [68] Denise Cardinal [69] William McNary [70] Karen Nussbaum [22] Gabe Gonzalez [71]
12:15PM Ends 1:15PM	Networking Lunch	Ambassador Ballroom	Open LUNCH	Lunch available for purchase in exhibit area
12:15PM Ends 1:15PM	America's Broken Retirement Plans and Retirement Systems: Another "Gift" From Wall Street	Congressional B Room	Special Issue Briefing	William S. Lerach [72]
12:15PM Ends 1:15PM	Wedge This: Race and the 2010 Political Debate	Congressional A Room	Special Issue Briefing	Alexis McGill Johnson [73] Maya Wiley [74] Celinda Lake [23]
1:15PM Ends 2:00	The New Economy: Demanding Jobs and Justice	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Angela Glover Blackwell [75] Richard L. Trumka [76] Jared Bernstein [77] Bob Herbert [78]
2:00PM Ends 3:00PM	The Next Agenda	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Alan Jenkins [79] Phil Angelides [80] Benjamin Todd Jealous [81] Leo W. Gerard [82] Janet Murguía [83] Carlos Saavedra [84]
3:10PM Ends 4:10PM	Afghanistan: Good War or Wrong Way?	Diplomat Room	Breakout	Karen DeYoung [85] Michael O'Hanlon [86] Juan Cole [87]
3:10PM Ends 4:10PM	Fixing Citizens United and Changing the Supreme Court	Empire Room	Breakout	Marge Baker [88] Robert Weissman [89] Lisa Gilbert [90] John Bonifaz [91]
3:10PM Ends 4:10PM	The Big Fix: Progressive Path to Growth Out of Deficits	Palladian Room	Breakout	Roger Hickey [8] Robert Kuttner [92] Rep. Jan Schakowsky [93] Susan Shaer [94] Nancy J. Altman [95]
3:10PM Ends 4:10PM	Green Jobs and Reversing Climate Change	Congressional AB Room	Breakout	Stewart Acuff [96] Ron Ruggiero [97] Peter Bahouth [98] Kari Fulton [99]
3:10PM Ends 4:10PM	Taking the Initiative: The Role of Ballot Initiatives in Shaping a Movement	Senate Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Joel Foster [100] Dean M. Nielson [101]
3:10PM Ends 4:10PM	Fundraising 101: The Basics of Fundraising for Candidates, Managers and Staff	Forum Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Stephanie Lurz Matt Filner [102]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	ART + ADVOCACY: How music, film, comedy, and pop culture are rocking the progressive movement	Palladian Room	Workshop	Organized by Air Traffic Control and Work in Progress Alexis McGill Johnson [73] Danny Goldberg [103] Paola Mendoza [104] Yosi Sergant [105] Elon James White [41]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	It's Meme Warfare: Using Humor & Creative Media to Move Your Message	Congressional A Room	Workshop	Organized by the Billionaires for Wealthcare Andrew Boyd [106] Marco Ceglie [107]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	Can Bloggers Bring Populism To The Potomac?	Congressional B Room	Workshop	Organized by the Bloggers of Campaign for America's Future Zach Carter [108] Digby [62] Richard RJ Eskow [109] Terrance Heath [110] Dave Johnson [111] Sara Robinson [112]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	Retirement Insecurity: The Next Big Issue	Cabinet Room	Workshop	Organized by the Pension Rights Center & Economic Policy Institute Steve Abrecht [113] Gail Dratch [114] Ross Eisenbrey [115] Maria P. Freese [116] Karen Friedman [117]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	Stemming the 2010 Drop-Off Vote	Council Room	Workshop	Organized by Women's Voices. Women Vote. Page S. Gardner [118] Celinda Lake [23] Maren Hesla [119] Frank Smith [120]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	2010 Youth Resurgence: Engaging on Youth issues	Capital Room	Workshop	Organized by Generational Alliance Calvin Wiliams [121] Robert Biko Baker [26] Carlos Saavedra [84] Gregory A. Cendana [122] Kelley Robinson [123]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	Fair Taxes for All	Chairman Room	Workshop	Organized by United for a Fair Economy Lee Farris [124] Jeannette Huezo [125] Mike Lapham [126]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	Rep. George Miller's Local Jobs for America Act	Embassy Room	Special Issue Briefing	Gordon Lafer [127]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	Movement Building: From Election to Advocacy	Senate Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Diallo Brooks Erin Vilardi [128] Page S. Gardner [118] Kweli Kitwana [129]
4:20PM Ends 5:20PM	Landing Your Perfect Political Job: Resume and Job Search	Forum Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Alexandra Acker Lyons [130] Emily Lamia [131] Matt Filner [31]
All Day: Sign-up for appointment	Campaign One-on-Ones Consultations	TBA	Progressive Majority Training Track
All Day: Sign-up for appointment	Communications and Messaging One-on-Ones	TBA	Progressive Majority Training Track	Jennie Blackton [36]
5:20PM Ends 6:00PM	Book Signings & Networking Break	Ambassador Ballroom
6:00PM Ends 7:00PM	Awards Gala Reception	Regency Ballroom Foyer
7:00PM	Awards Gala	Regency Ballroom

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Time	Session Name	Room	Track	Speakers
8:30 AM Ends: 9:00 AM	Speaking Frankly	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Hilary O. Shelton [132] Rep. Alan Grayson [133]
9:10AM Ends 10:10AM	The Congressional Fix: Can Congress Work in Polarized Age?	Diplomat Room	Breakout	David Waldman [134] Laurence E. Gold [135] Ellen Miller [136] Sen. Tom Udall [137]
9:10AM Ends 10:10AM	Remaking America from the Bottom Up	Palladian Room	Breakout	Andrea Batista Schlesinger [138] Angela Glover Blackwell [75] Joan Fitzgerald [139] Gar Alperovitz [140]
9:10AM Ends 10:10AM	Securing America: Progressive Perspectives	Congressional AB Room	Breakout	Tom Andrews [141] Rep. Keith Ellison [142] Sarah Anderson [143]
9:10AM Ends 10:10AM	Where RIghts went Wrong: What Happened to the Rights Revolution?	Palladian Room	Breakout	Nan Aron [144] Rea Carey [145] Adam Luna [146] Anthony D. Romero [147] Kierra Johnson [148]
9:10AM Ends 10:10AM	New Media Organizing: Using Cutting-Edge Online Advocacy Techniques	Senate Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Judith Freeman [149] Brandon Silverman [150]
9:10AM Ends 10:10AM	Six Fail Safe Steps to an Effective Stump Speech	Forum Room	Progressive Majority Training Track	Jennie Blackton [36]
10:45AM Ends 12:30PM	Closing Plenary: WE ARE THE CHANGE	Regency Ballroom	Plenary	Maria Leavey Tribute Award Presentation [151] Robert L. Borosage [4] Gregory A. Cendana [122] Rep. Barbara Lee [152] Van Jones [153]
12:30PM	March On The Treasury: We Want Our Money Back	Regency Ballroom (Metro to Treasury Building, 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW)	Plenary
All Day: Sign-up for appointment	Campaign One-on-Ones Consultations	TBA	Progressive Majority Training Track
All Day: Sign-up for appointment	Communications and Messaging One-on-Ones	TBA	Progressive Majority Training Track	Jennie Blackton [36]

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