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Self-Organizing Sessions for Take Back America 2007

UPDATE:  All available time slots for self-organizing sessions have been filled.  However, as detailed in our rules and guidelines, self-organizing sessions are intended to be collaborative.  So, if you’re registered to attend Take Back America, and want to speak at any of the scheduled sessions below, please contact the session host to coordinate a speaking spot.

Self-Organizing Sessions

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

Monday, June 18, 2007

Time	Session Name	Location	Attending?
12:45 PM Ends: 1:45 PM	Global Warming And Voter Apathy - Inextricable Linkage It's true. America's political inaction on the climate crisis shares an institutional cause with the growing ranks of apathetic voters. Indeed, our countrymen are more and more ... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
12:45 PM Ends: 1:45 PM	How to use the TBA 2007 website to follow all the action at the event This year, Take Back America has partnered with Confabb.com to bring you a new, fully interactive conference experience. Join us to learn how to use all of the the social media,... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
2:30 PM Ends: 3:30 PM	The Impeachment Process This session will provide information about the impeachment process and provide a forum to discuss the possibility of impeaching current officials. » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
2:30 PM Ends: 3:30 PM	Clean & Fair Elections Now You know the problem - campaign cash is the currency of our democracy. Money drowns out the votes and voices of ordinary Americans resulting in policies that benefit the wealthy... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
4:00 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Conservatives are to Supply-Side Economics as Progressives are to ________? You probably have never heard of Dan Ancona. But you may have never heard of Russell Kirk either, and his writings in the 1950s helped » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
4:00 PM Ends: 5:00 PM	Reaching the Public Ways to reach the public to promote core progressive values and create DEMAND for progressive ideas and candidates. » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
5:15 PM Ends: 6:15 PM	Creating a National Popular Vote for President: Organizing Insurrection in "Spectator States" Maryland State Senator Jamin Raskin and Ryan O'Donnell of FairVote will discuss the exciting campaign for a National Popular Vote, which was just passed into law in the state of... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
5:15 PM Ends: 6:15 PM	Election Protection 2008 We'll review the challenges we face with electronic voting machines, caging lists, voter intimidation and so much more in 2008. We'll organize to protect the vote. » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
6:30 PM Ends: 7:30 PM	The Quiet Revolution: Combating the Right Wing Attack on our Constitutuion Film-screening and discussion. Hosted by Emmy award-winning actor Bradley Whitford, Quiet Revolution is a short documentary that features congressional leaders like Barack O'bam... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
6:30 PM Ends: 7:30 PM	Do You Want a New U.S. Foreign Policy? Join Foreign Policy In Focus and the Institute for Policy Studies in a discussion of how to take back American foreign policy. Americans went to the polls last November to elect... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Time	Session Name	Location	Attending?
8:00 AM Ends: 9:00 AM	Youth Transitions & Workforce Readiness: Averting the Impending Crisis In the globally competitive economy of the 21st century, state economies in large part will thrive or decline based on how well they identify, recruit, cultivate and retain “k... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
8:00 AM Ends: 9:00 AM	Making an Impact Come join an early morning group discussion of the many and varied frustrations of grassroots activists and learn how to harness negative energy and turn it into a positive forc... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
9:45 AM Ends: 10:45 AM	Debunking Myths of the Working Mom 'More Career Women Are Opting - Out,' 'Career Moms and Stay-At-Home Moms At War,''Women Can't Really Have It All.' Label it what you will, the mainstream media has been skewing ... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
9:45 AM Ends: 10:45 AM	Holding the Democratic Majority Accountable We all worked very hard to win a majority of both houses of Congress in the 2006 Election. It is important to balance holding the Democratic Leadership on issues important to t... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
11:00 AM Ends: 12:00 PM	SweatFree Campaigns to End Sweatshop Procurement This session will describe exciting new work in several states and cities around the US to win sweatfree procurement legislation for all government procured goods, ending the pr... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
11:00 AM Ends: 12:00 PM	A New Strategy for Peace Four years of the Iraq war with no end in sight. Our politicians and old methods have failed. Not Acceptable!Time for a new strategy for peace. This new strategy is easy, bypas... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
1:15 PM Ends: 2:15 PM	Betrayed!: How the Failure to Care for the 21st Century Veteran is Endangering Families and Jeopardizing Communities. The Walter Reed scandal is just the tip of the iceberg in the Bush administration's failure to care for our returning veterans and their families. Tens of thousands of ... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
1:15 PM Ends: 2:15 PM	Winning Hearts and Minds: Why Rational Appeals are Irrational if Your Goal is Winning Elections Please join Drew Westen, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Emory University in a discussion about his new book, The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
2:45 PM Ends: 3:45 PM	Prevent Unwanted Presidencies (And Congresses): To-Do List For An Honest '08 Election There will be no Taking Back America without an honest election. To have one it's up to all of us to fully comprehend the threats and ratchet up the level of scrutiny to 10 on a... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
2:45 PM Ends: 3:45 PM	Web 2.0 and the Next Generation of Online Voter Registration Calling all online organizers, cyber politicos, bloggers, techie field types, all-around geeks, and anyone else interested in plotting a massive online voter registration campai... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
4:30 PM Ends: 5:30 PM	Make Something Pretty--Use Your Art to Advance a Progressive Agenda Includes musical presentation by Julie... It's time to win the culture wars, without heavy-han... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
4:30 PM Ends: 5:30 PM	Hip Hop Artists and Activists: Politically Empowering a Culture of Resistance Hip Hop is a culture and art form encompassing music, visual art, dance and the word, born out of the struggle of underserved people of color in America's urban areas. Since its... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Time	Session Name	Location	Attending?
9:15 AM Ends: 10:15 AM	Single-Payer National Health Insurance This session will provide information on single-payer national health insurance (HR 676) with experts from Physicians for a National Health Program. » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
9:15 AM Ends: 10:15 AM	The Crimes of Bush & Cheney--How Should We Respond? Features Laura Flanders, Tim Carpenter & Matt Rothschild. A war based on lies. A pre-emptive attack that violated the Nuremberg principles. Torture. Wiretapping. Signing ... » Add your review	Room 2	Log in
11:15 AM Ends: 12:15 PM	Why Progressives Must Take Rural America This session will address why progressives must focus efforts on rural America. Important issues will be discussed. Organizing techniques will be brainstormed. The time is n... » Add your review	Room 1	Log in
11:15 AM Ends: 12:15 PM	How Can Progressives Bring Troops Home in 2007? Join CODEPINK founders Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, and other activists in conversation on improving our tactics for bringing our troops home this year. » Add your review	Room 2	Log in