The Backbone Campaign, Progressive Government, and a coalition of grassroots organizations have initiated a process to empower citizens to nominate, comment on, and rate progressive leaders to serve as a virtual Progressive Parallel Administration. We want to demonstrate that the progressive movement is not merely an oppositional, but also propositional movement, and that we are not content running campaigns, but preparing to run the country.
Phase II of this project is Conversations with the Cabinet a weekly webcast conference call and podcast, designed to create links between grassroots activists and our most effective policy and movement leaders. Join the email list to be notified of opportunities to participate in these calls.
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Housing Discrimination and Reparations for African Americans
Featuring Andrew Valls
Our conversation with
Professor Andrew Valls was about housing
discrimination and why it should form one of
the central
pillars in the argument for reparations to
African Americans. That was the conclusion of a
recent thought provoking article he wrote
with his colleague Prof. Jonathan Kaplan also
at Oregon State University.
Andrew Valls is an assistant professor of
political science and a nominee to Secretary
Housing and Urban Development on the
Progressive Cabinet. He's working on a book,
Color-Conscious Liberalism: An Argument for
Racial Justice, in which he will tackle one
of the central paradoxes of democratic theory
as it can be applied to the current American
political system. How can a political theory
grounded in egalitarianism accommodate public
policies that treat citizens differently
based on their race?
Listen to our discussion about race,
inequality, and housing.
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Be Progressive, Courageous AND Win!
Featuring Glenn Hurowitz
Glenn Hurowitz is the author of the
acclaimed new book, Fear
and Courage in the Democratic Party,
which has received rave reviews from
publications across the country. It has been
excerpted in The
Nation, The
Politico, and Alternet.
During this conversation, we picked the brain
of a guy who advises candidates that having a
backbone is a winning strategy. He gave us tips for our bird-dogging efforts to
persuade candidates to stand up for bold
progressive policies in 2008 and beyond.
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The Doomed US Occupation of Iraq - Will Sadr Succeed, Where We Have Failed? Will Congress Ever Pull the Plug?
Featuring Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis and others spoke with us about recent developments in Iraq. A moment of opportunity
may
be emerging to end the disastrous US occupation of and war upon Iraq,
and we must act swiftly to seize it. Read her recent article Opposing the Iraq Supplemental & Iran
Threats and her article three days later Iraqi
Government Fails in Challenging al Sadr Militia -"Surge" Exposed as
Failure But New Dangers Rise
at the United for Peace and Justice website. Then listen to our call
to learn how we can use these developments to force
Congress to end it's complicit financing of this disastrous occupation.
Phyllis
Bennis is a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and the
Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is also a nominee on the Progressive Shadow
Cabinet for Assistant Secretary of State of Near Eastern Affairs
and Ambassador to the UN. Click "Continue"
below to learn more about this call and what you can do to end the
occupation of Iraq.
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