Progressives Have a Mandate - Now What?

November 12, 2008, 1:00pm – 2:30pm

About This Event

 

 

In the past week, countless organizations-including ours-have shown that the 2008 election delivered a clear mandate for progressive change. The electorate chose not just a candidate but an agenda of economic security and opportunity, affordable qualtiy health care for all, the transformation to a low-carbon economy, ending two wars, and a new strategy for sustainable security. But now the question is: how do we actually accomplish such ambitious change? With an ongoing financial crisis and the looming prospects of a long and deep recession and sustained deficits, can we tackle these short-terms crises while moving ahead simultaneouosly on so many big issues?

Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for an important discussion of the practical path forward and the role that the enormity of our challenges could play in making more ambitious change possible.

Featured Speakers:
Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Judy Feder, Board Member, Center for American Progress Action Fund; Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Gene Sperling, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Moderated by:
Michael Ettlinger, Vice President for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Location

Center for American Progress Action Fund
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Resources

Read the full transcript here.