9:00 am Brief reflections on Friday’s events. Vision for short-term and long-term movement building.
9:10 am Chuck Spinney on Grand Strategy followed by small group Discussions about strategy
10:00 am Surveying the Political Landscape – Assessing Strengths & Points of Weakness
Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Studies, Sanho Tree, Institute for Policy Studies, Lori Wallach, Global Trade Watch will assess current realities and explore potential strategies for progress and victory followed by small group discussions and the reports from the field. Moderated by Heather Booth, formerly of Americans for Financial Reform.
11:00 am Expanding Alliances – Building a Movement of Movements
A discussion about alliance-building across ideology, culture and borders followed by small group discussions. With Marty Cobenais, Indigenous Environmental Network, Ashley Hufnagel, United Workers , Dr. Margaret Flowers, Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, Kevin Zeese, Voters for Peace
12:00 pm Working Lunch Getting to Know Our Allies, with special guest Ralph Nader (bio)
1:00 pm Local Organizing Sessions: 90 minutes of breakout sessions on Local Organizing, including:
- Boston Eviction Defense and Principal Reduction – Steve Meacham, City Life Vida Urbana
- Anti-Corporate Personhood Local Ordinances, Community Resolutions, and State Resolutions by David Cobb, Move to Amend and Ruth Caplan
- Democracy Collaborative & Cleveland Coops – Delivering Jobs: Steve Dubb, Democracy Collaborative
- Organizing with Low Wage Workers and a Human Rights Framework, by Baltimore’s United Workers – Luis Larin, United Workers
- Localization – Community Health Clinics, Local Currencies, and more – Paul Glover, Patch Adams Free Clinic
- Alternatives to Wall Street Financial Institutions – Ellen Hodgeson Brown, author of Web of Debt on State Banks and other models.
2:30 pm Harvesting Ideas from (previous) Local Organizing Sessions
Facilitated by Walt Roberts of Changing the Game
3:00 pm New Media Tools for Movement Building
Four noted netroots innovators will discuss new deliberative democracy opportunities made possible by developing technology. Followed by small group discussions. Judith Freeman, New Organizing Institute, Nicole Aro, Sunlight Foundation, Jonathan Macchi, Visible Vote, Eric Byler, Coffee Party.
4:00 pm Building a National Network
Annabel Park, Coffee Party will facilitate a strategy session on how we can build a trans-partisan, national network of many organizations and many concerned citizens on the issue of money in politics. With Phil Aroneanu, 350.org, Eileen Toback, Common Cause, Angelo Carusone, Media Matters
5:00 pm Harvesting Ideas from the For the People Summit
Walt Roberts of Changing the Game will facilitate a collaborative session to discuss next steps. What have we taken away from the first For the People Summit. What are some effective ways for citizens to contribute to building a national network? What are the best ways for the participating organizations to work together going forward?
