Conversations with the Cabinet
Featuring policy leaders nominated to the Backbone
Cabinet
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Nominees:
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HUD
Andrew Valls & Esther John
May 5, 2008
Housing Discrimination and Reparations for African Americans
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Treasury, Fed. Reserve Chair
Ravi Batra
April 21, 2008
Understanding the Current Economic Crisis & Predicting the Future
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State- Near Eastern Affairs/UN Ambassador
Phyllis Bennis
April 7, 2008
The Doomed US Occupation of Iraq - Will Sadr Succeed, Where We Have Failed? Will Congress Ever Pull the Plug?
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Democracy & Election Integrity
David Cobb & Clint Curtis
March 10, 2008
Election Integrity: Free and Fair -or- Rigged from the Get-Go?
3.5-Minute Preview
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Health
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler
February 25, 2008
Curing a Sick Healthcare System
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National Drug Control Policy
Sanho Tree
February 18, 2008
Replacing Our Nation's Punitive and Coercive Drug Policy with a Public Health and Community Economic Development Model
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Democracy
Brad Friedman
May 28, 2007
On the Front Lines for Voting Rights and Election Integrity
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Education
Eric Cooper
May 21, 2007
Addressing Race and Class Disparities in Urban Schools
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State
Anthony Arnove
May 7, 2007
Occupation and the Language of Empire
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Justice
Jakada Imani
April 30, 2007
Books Not Bars
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State
Emira Woods
April 23, 2007
US-Africa Policy: Beyond Exploitation, Extraction & Neglect
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Health
Quentin Young, M.D.
April 16, 2007
Single Payer National Health Insurance
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Movement / Trade
Stan Sorscher Ph.D.
February 26, 2007
Government Protects Where Markets Fail
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Housing and Urban Development
Professor Christopher Alexander
January 22, 2007
Rebuild Neighborhoods, Rebuild the Country
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Peace, State
Tom Hayden
December 4, 2006
Iraq, the Middle East and the Peace Movement
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State- Middle East
Prof. Stephen Zunes
December 4, 2006
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Peace
Dal LaMagna
November 27, 2006
Stop the Killing! End the Kidnappings!
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Health and Human Services (HHS)
Byllye Avery
November 13, 2006
Health Care As a Human Right
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Education
John Taylor Gatto
November 6, 2006
Restoring Education, Healing Children, Creating Citizens
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Transportation
John Norquist of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU)
October 23, 2006
Reforming Transportation: Adding Value to America
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Labor & Citizenship and Immigration Services
Baldemar Velasquez
October 16, 2006
North to South: Justice Has No Boundaries, Del Norte al Sur: La Justicia No Tiene Limite
En Espanol
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State
Prof. Chalmers Johnson
August 21, 2006
Empire vs. Republic
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Citizenship and Immigration Services
Elena Herrada
June 26, 2006
Caring for Children, Picking Produce, Toiling in Factories:
Hardworking Residents and the Elusive American Dream
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Secretary of Labor
Holly Sklar
April 24, 2006
Honor America's Workers and Build a Healthy Economy: Raise the Minimum Wage
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Peace, Defense, State
Noam Chomsky
March 20, 2006
Dismantling Empire, Building Democracy
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Sustainability, Agriculture
Lester R. Brown
March 13, 2006
Envisioning a U.S. Department of Sustainability
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Homeland Security-FEMA
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
March 6, 2006
True Security for All:
Exposing American Disparities
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Agriculture, Commerce, FCC
Jim Hightower
February 27, 2006
Agriculture and Our Growing Movement:
A Progessive Harvest in the Heartland?
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State, Defense
Dr. Stephen Zunes
February 20, 2006
Democracy and
Nonproliferation
in the Middle East
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Energy
Jay Inslee and Dan Kammen
February 13, 2006
Energy Independence And The New Apollo Energy Act
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Education, Peace
Howard Zinn
January 16, 2006
Educating for Justice
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Labor
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
January 16, 2006
Labor and Justice
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FCC Chair
Ambrose I. Lane, Sr.
December 19, 2005
Reclaiming the Fourth Estate
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Federal Reserve
Dr. James Galbraith
November 28, 2005
A Progressive Approach to the Federal Reserve
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Agriculture, Labor
Dolores Huerta
November 14, 2005
The Intersections of Agriculture, Labor and Civil Rights
En Espanol
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Energy, Peace
Dr. Helen Caldicott
October 24, 2005
The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Those Who Won't Give Them Up
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Interior
Winona LaDuke
October 10, 2005
Land Recovery, Economic Development and Reversing Cultural Genocide
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Education
Jonathan Kozol
October 3, 2005
Educational Advocacy and Social Equity
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Defense, State, Treasury, and Homeland Security
Gary Hart
September 26, 2005
Balancing National Security and Social Investment
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Labor
Ruth Rosenbaum
September 15, 2005
Living Wages vs. Jobs, Battling Systemic Causes of Poverty
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Commerce
John Cavanagh
August 29, 2005
Alternatives to the Wal-Mart Economy
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Commerce
Judy Wicks
August 22, 2005
Building Economic Power in Our Local Communities
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State
Dr. Craig Eisendrath
August 15, 2005
On Articulating A Progressive Foreign Policy
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Justice
David Van Os
August 8, 2005
Fight for Separation of Church and State and Still Turn Red States Blue
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Sustainablility, Commerce
Hunter Lovins
July 18, 2005
Building a Sustainable Economy
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Energy
Ralph Cavanagh
July 11, 2005
Creating a Progressive Energy Policy, Part II
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Commerce, Treasury
Amy Domini
June 27, 2005
Investing In The Future We Want
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Ambassador to the UN
Phyllis Bennis
May 2, 2005
Crafting a Constructive Partnership, A Progressive Approach to the UN, Part II
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Secretary of State
Gayle Smith
April 23, 2005
Crafting a Constructive Partnership, A Progressive Approach to the United Nations
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U.S. Trade Representative
Lori Wallach
April 11, 2005
Trading for Justice, Progressive Strategies on Trade and Globalization
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Defense & Peace
Chuck Spinney & Dennis Kucinich
April 4, 2005
Progressive Approach to National Security
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Secretary - Department of Energy
Daniel Kammen
March 28, 2005
Crafting a Progressive Energy Policy
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Movement Matters
Creating links between grassroots activists and our most effective movement leaders
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Chuck Collins and Dean Baker
September 29, 2008
A Progressive Response to the Economic Crisis, Part 2
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Dean Baker and Doug Henwood
September 21, 2008
A Progressive Response to the Economic Crisis, Part 1
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Glenn Hurowitz
April 28, 2008
Be Progressive, Courageous AND Win!
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Luis Cuevas
May 14, 2007
Inside-Outside Organizing: Lessons from the Southeast States
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Healthcare Citizen Panel
April 16, 2007
Universal Single-Payer Comprehensive Health Insurance
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Alice Lovelace
April 9, 2007
Come to the US Social Forum!
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Steve Cobble
December 18, 2006
Progressive Priorities for the 110th Congress
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Professor Howard Zinn
October 9, 2006
On Convening a Progressive Shadow Cabinet
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Further Comments and Discussion
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Linda Schade
August 28, 2006
Voters for Peace,
Candidates for Peace
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Santiago Juarez
July 24, 2006
Organizing to Reclaim the Commons: Civic Participation, Shared Resources, and Public Spaces
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James Marriott of PLATFORM
April 17, 2006
The Republic of Our Imagination
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Joel Barkin
December 13, 2005
From Opposition to Proposition, Part II - PLAN's Progressive Strategy for the States
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood
December 5, 2005
Where Do We Go From Here?
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Kevin Danaher
November 21, 2005
From Opposition to Proposition, Readying Progressives for Power
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Tim Carpenter
September 26, 2005
Grassroots Strategy Day, Lobbying, and Demonstrations
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Paul Loeb
July 25, 2005
The Impossible Will Take a Little While
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Sheila Jackson Lee
June 15, 2005
Resolution of Inquiry - The Downing Street Minutes
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David Cobb
May 16, 2005
Building the Progressive Movement
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Medea Benjamin
May 9, 2005
Building the Progressive Movement
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Bill Fletcher, Jr.
March 14, 2005
Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow
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