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WHAT WE STAND FOR:
Ideas and Values to Take Back America

May 14-15, 2004
NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts

Co-Hosts

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, MAY 14

4:00 – 4:30 pm 
Welcome: MARK GREEN
Keynote:  PAUL KRUGMAN
     
4:30 – 5:45 pm
Terrorism and War
Presenter: GARY HART
Commentators: JULIETTE KAYYEM and JIM FALLOWS

5:45 – 7:00 pm
Collective Security in a New World
Presenter: JAMIE RUBIN
Commentators: ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, STEVE SCHLESINGER & JEFFREY SACHS

7:00 – 8:00 pm
After Ashcroft: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Presenters: ELLEN CHESLER, DAVID COLE and CHRIS EDLEY 

8:00 – 8:30 pm
After Worldcom: Corporate Governance and Wall Street
ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER


SATURDAY, MAY 15

9:00 – 10:15 am
Economic and Fiscal Policies
Presenters: JAMIE GALBRAITH and BOB GREENSTEIN
Commentators: JARED BERNSTEIN, JEFF MADRICK and PETER ORSZAG

9:00 – 10:15 am
Trade and Globalization Policies that Work for Everyone
Presenters: LAEL BRAINARD and LORI WALLACH
Commentator: REP. SHERROD BROWN and MICHAEL WALDMAN

10:30 – 11:45 am 
Work and Wealth: Class Wars
Presenters: BARBARA EHRENREICH and KEVIN PHILLIPS
Commentator: ANDY STERN

10:30 – 11:45 am
Environment and Energy
Presenters: DEB CALLAHAN and BRACKEN HENDRICKS
Commentators: MARK HERTSGAARD

12:00 – 1:15
Welcome: KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
Lunch Keynote: REP. JESSE JACKSON, JR.

1:30 – 2:45 pm
Education
Presenter: RICHARD ELMORE
Commentators: DEBORAH MEIER, RICHARD KAHLENBERG

1:30 – 2:45 pm
Health Care
Presenters: RON POLLACK and DAVID HIMMELSTEIN
Commentators: SARAH BIANCHI

3:00 – 4:15 pm
Urban Policy
Presenters: BRUCE KATZ and JOEL ROGERS
Commentators: MAYOR BILL JOHNSON and REP. JERRY NADLER

3:00 – 4:15 pm
Democracy
Presenters: MARK SCHMITT and MILES RAPOPORT
Commentator: REP. GREG MEEKS and RICK HERTZBERG

4:30 – 4:50 pm
Closing Plenary Remarks: The Future of the Democratic Party
ROBERT REICH

4:50 – 6:00 pm 
Closing Plenary Panel: Strategies and Media -- Getting it Done
Presenter: ROBERT BOROSAGE
Commentators: STAN GREENBERG, BERTHA LEWIS, ELI PARISER and JOE TRIPPI


Co-Hosted By
Agenda for Children Tomorrow
Blacks in Government
Brennan Center for Justice
Center for New York City Affairs
Center for an Urban Future
Central Labor Council
Century Foundation
Citizen Action of New York
City Limits
City Project
DC-37 Local 371
Demos
Good Jobs New York
Gotham Center
Habitat for Humanity
NYC Employment and Training Coalition
NYCLU
OPEIU
People for the American Way
Planned Parenthood of NYC
Progressivegovernment.org
RWDSU
SEIU Local 32B-32J
UNITE!
United Federation of Teachers
Urban Justice Center
Working Families Party
Pratt Institute for Community and Environment

 
 
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