Labor & Employment Law

America?s Future Now Conference June 7-9

By Mike Hall

Join progressive activists next month at the America’s Future Now Conference to help forge a battle plan that takes on corporate power brokers, Wall Street banks and obstructionist Republicans and moves the economy into a job-creating mode.

The annual conference, sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), is set for June 7-9 in Washington, D.C., and the top issues on the agenda are:

• Curbing Wall Street with strong Wall Street reform legislation.
• Improving and expanding health care reform.
• Making it in America with a revived manufacturing base.
• Protecting the social contract, especially Social Security and Medicare.

Scheduled speakers include AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka; United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard; Jared Bernstein, chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden; Arianna Huffington; Gov. Howard Dean; MoveOn’s Ilyse Hogue; NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous; Markos Moulitsas, founder and publisher of Daily Kos; Gregory Cedena, president of the U.S. Student Association; and many more. Click here for the full list.

Along with the speakers, there will be dozens of break-out sessions, ranging from “Working Class Anger: Does it Go Right or Left?” to “The Big Fix: Progressive Path to Growth Out of Deficits.” Click here for the full agenda.

On June 8, the 2010 America’s Future Now Gala will honor Peter Lewis, chairman of the board of the Progressive Insurance Co.; Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and James Rucker, co-founder of ColorofChange.org. For more information and to purchase tickers to the Gala, click here.

Click here to find out more about the conference, accommodations, to register and more information.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).