Monday, February 24 6:30-9:30pm The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street $10; free to students Call 212-817-8215 to pre-register or email continuinged at gc.cuny.edu
Drawing on the inspiring example of Paul and Sheila Wellstone, this symposium will explore strategies for transforming the Democratic Party. Well-known leaders of social movements and electoral politics will discuss the kinds of issues that a reformed Democratic party must address, and the language that will reach and persuade the American public. The speakers will assess social movement strategies for pressuring the Democratic party from the outside, as well as the Wellstone style of grassroots organization and campaigning to transform the party from the inside.
Stanley Aronowitz, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Deepak Bhargava, Executive director, Center for Community Change Jeff Blodgett, Wellstone campaign manager 1990-2002; Robert Borosage, Co-director, Campaign for America's Future; Gene Carroll, Director, Cornell Union Leadership Training Program; Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer; Hector Figueroa, Secretary-Treasurer, Local 32BJ/SEIU; Juan A. Figueroa, President, Anthem Foundation of Connecticut; Bob Muehlenkamp, Coordinator, U.S. Labor Against the War; John Nichols, Washington correspondent, The Nation Frances Fox Piven, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL); Deirdre Schifeling, Organizing Director, Working Families Party Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation
Cosponsored by the CUNY/Graduate Centers Independent Politics Group, Continuing Education & Public Programs, and the Center for the Humanities; The Nation; Working Families Party, NY Jobs with Justice and Cornell Union Leadership Training Program.