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President Obama's executive order on deportations was a major victory for progressive leaning forces in the immigrant rights community. This panel will analyze how grassroots organizing and elevating the voices...

For years, the progressive movement has avoided conversations about religion, leaving just a handful of progressive faith leaders to tackle the issue of how religion plays out in the public...

You've probably heard about first, second and third-wave feminism. You know that movements change and evolve over time. This panel is about expanding what's possible in the feminist movement by...

In 2010, Arizona conservatives passed a law banning ethnic studies. Similar bans have been proposed in other states, which is part of a right-wing plan to undermine education and create...

The GOP majority in Congress have made no secret of their hostility toward financial reform and their desire to dismantle the key reforms implemented by Dodd-Frank. With a GOP Senate...

For proponents, privatization is simply a transfer of ownership of a property or business from the government to the private sector. But for public education, it means the replacement of...

Despite efforts to create equal employment opportunities for women and people of color, the distribution of jobs remains unequal and biased. Racial and gender bias can exclude workers from a...

Progressives actively advocate for removing barriers that play a role in preventing minority groups from fully realizing their potential in society. But ironically, while this important work takes place daily...

This panel will provide an overview of life in the border regions, addressing three specific phenomena of life in a militarized zone: the criminalization of migrants through prosecution programs such...