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Posted by | May 5, 2014
Living Our Values: Building the Movement We Deserve

We're great at preaching, but do we practice? It's time for ALL progressive movement employers to commit to fair labor practices and gender and racial diversity. Come and learn how...

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Workers Organizing Online: What We’ve Learned and What We’re Learning

Digital organizing in the labor movement is finally hitting its stride. Organizing 2.0 is the only organization founded specifically to address this field, and we want to share some of...

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Student Debt and Wall Street: How Finance is Taking a Growing Share of Higher Education Spending and What We Can Do About It

Tuition rose more than 1000% in the last 30 years. Student debt now surpasses credit card debt, and this growth shows no sign of slowing. Where is all this money...

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Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Q&A on the 2014 Midterms

Before you know it, November will be upon us. Come join the editors of Daily Kos Elections for an in-depth Q&A about the 2014 midterms. There are NO presentations, NO...

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Progressives and the Midterms: Making Smart Investments to Build Progressive Power in 2014 and Beyond

What are the smartest plays that progressives can make in the upcoming mid-term elections? What are they key issues that progressives should be talking about? Join us for a lively...

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Posted by | May 5, 2014
Challenging the Dramatic Under-Representation of Women and People of Color in Political Office

What would it look like if the people who hold political power actually reflected the communities they are elected to serve? What structural barriers prevent the United States from having...

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48217: What One of the Country’s Most Polluted Zip Codes Can Teach Us about Environmental and Digital Justice

With only 8,200 residents, southeast Michigan's 48217 zip code is sandwiched between I-75 and giant industrial polluters. Smokestacks billow above schoolyards in River Rouge, MI, where more than 1.6 million...

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Climate Justice Against Koch’s Tar Sands from Detroit to New York

The Koch brothers' petrochemical empire is poisoning the world and the American political process. From Detroit, home of the Koch petcoke mountain, to Sandy-ravaged New York City, where David Koch...

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Iran: Diplomacy or War?

This panel will discuss the Obama administration's effort to achieve a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, with attention to recent progressive grassroots successes in beating back efforts by...

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Bro-Choice? Where Do Men Fit in the Reproductive Justice Movement?

Men have shown up as allies for women in politics since suffrage, but issues of reproductive, sexual, and family health continue to be seen as primarily the burden and responsibility...

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