Dem Convention - Boston Area Activities for free - - click to register

[papau]

Boston-area MoveOn Member,

Not sure why you've decided to stick around town next week during the convention? We've got a couple of reasons here.

Take Back America:

Come see Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, John Podesta, Robert Reich, Carol Browner, and many other progressive leaders at an exciting series of events hosted by our friends from the Campaign for America's Future. The events are free, and will take place next Tuesday through Thursday in Cambridge and Boston. Click here to register:

http://www.ourfuture.org/projects/dconrsvp.cfm

An invitation and draft agenda are below.

Grassroots training from Democratic GAIN:

Our friends at the Democratic Grassroots Action Institute & Network
are offering two training sessions in Boston. Their election
training seminars feature James Carville, Donna Brazille and Stan
Greenberg. Democratic GAIN is also offering a special training
program for youth activists.

More information on these sessions is below, and can also be found
at: http://www.democraticgain.org/convention/

We are pleased to invite you to 3 days of "Take Back America" events at the Democratic Convention in Boston, July 27-29. Our sessions will be the meeting place for progressive delegates, activists and national leaders at the Democratic Convention. All events are FREE of charge, but space is limited. So, please register today and help us spread the word.

You can reserve your FREE space and see the full agenda at:
http://www.ourfuture.org/projects/dconrsvp.cfm

Howard Dean, Robert Reich, Barbara Ehrenreich, Al Gore* and others will headline these events, organized by the Campaign for America's Future and partner groups working to Take Back America from the bankrupt conservative movement. We will address how, in the words of Howard Dean, to "change the White House, change Washington, and change the country." We hope you will join us!

Warmest regards, Roger Hickey and Robert Borosage
Co-Directors, Campaign for America's Future

* invited speaker

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TAKE BACK AMERICA! at the Boston Democratic Convention
July 27th-29th * Tuesday-Thursday
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DRAFT AGENDA
(details & updates at http://www.ourfuture.org/projects/dconrsvp.cfm)


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TUESDAY, JULY 27th 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, Grand Ballroom
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA -- 617.806.4200
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Standing Up to Take Back America (2 - 3 pm)
Gov. Howard Dean, Democracy for America

Issue Campaigns to Take Back America (3 - 4 pm)
Hear leaders and experts on "kitchen table" economic issues: Jobs,
Health Care/Medicare, Wages and Incomes, Education, the Apollo Project on Energy and Jobs.

Robert Reich, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Barbara Ehrenreich*, author, "Nickeled and Dimed"
Reg Weaver*, NEA President
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)

A Strong Coalition to Take Back America (4 - 5 pm)
A progressive majority of Americans is uniting around a program for
change. A dynamic new alliance - representing working families, women, people of color, the middle class and the poor - is working together in 2004 - and beyond - to advance that progressive program.

John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
Kim Gandy, President, National Organization for Women
Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28th 1:30 - 3:30 pm
State Room, 60 State St., Boston, MA
Reservations: 508.698.6810 or [e-mail]
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New Energy for America: Apollo Project for jobs & security
(reception: 1:30-2:00 -- town hall forum 2:00-3:30)

Join labor leaders, environmentalists, scientists engineers, business,Convention delegates and national political leaders in calling for a major U.S. investment in a new economy based on energy independence and good jobs. (note: forum is being held at a location near the fleet center in Boston.)

Gov. Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
Sens. Maria Cantwell (WA) and Richard Durbin (IL)
Leo Gerard, President, United Steel Workers
Andy Stern*, President, SEIU
Carol Browner, former EPA Administrator
John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress & Former White
House Chief of Staff


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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28th 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge,
Grand Ballroom, 5 Cambridge Pkwy, Cambridge, MA -- 617.806.4200
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Take Back America Debate: Iraq, the US and the World (Co-sponsored by the Nation magazine)

The debacle in Iraq has left America more isolated, more reviled and
less safe. Progressives discuss an alternative policy for Iraq and for American security.

Amb. Joe Wilson, Former US Charge D'affaires in Iraq and author "The
Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My
Wife's CIA Identity"
Sen. Gary Hart*, former Senator and former Presidential Candidate Rep
Dennis Kucinich* (D-OH), Presidential Candidate Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation Magazine

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THURSDAY, JULY 29th 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, Grand Ballroom
5 Cambridge Pkwy, Cambridge, MA -- 617.806.4200)
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Organizing to Take Back America
(Co-Sponsored by Progressive Majority)

This session will showcase the new progressive infrastructure -- the
groups waging the war on the ground, the air, and the web to Take Back America. The right-wing apparatus is finally being contested. Meet leaders who are making it happen.

Al Gore*
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.*
Gloria Totten, Executive Director, Progressive Majority
Donna Brazile*, Chair, DNC Voting Rights Institute
Cecile Richards, President, America Votes
Andy Stern*, President, SEIU
Steve Rosenthal, CEO, America Coming Together
Tom McMahon, Democracy for America
Greg Moore*, Executive Director, NAACP National Voter Fund
Joe Velasquez, Director, Moving America Forward
Arlene Holt Baker, President, Voices for Working Families

* = invited speaker

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Democratic GAINs Boston 2004 General Campaign Training
July 26-29
http://www.democraticgain.org/convention/
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This will offer basic campaign skill trainings on Ways to Win in November throughout the week on a stand-alone basis. Topics include:

- Ways to Win in '04: The Field Program
- Election Day: Promote and Protect
- Campaign Finance 101
- Online Activism
- Earned and Paid Media
- Grassroots Technology: Virtual to Reality
- Democratic Message
- Voter File Training

Sessions will be repeated so that individuals can pick and choose when to attend, given the busy convention and caucus schedule. Democratic GAIN will also offer keynote sessions on strategy and issues of the day by special guests James Carville, Donna Brazile, Stan Greenberg, and many more!

More info and registration at: http://www.democraticgain.org/convention/


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Democratic GAINs Boston 2004 Youth Campaign Training
July 23-25
http://www.democraticgain.org/convention/
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This training will be the largest convention training aimed at young activists ever, and will offer panel discussions and seminars with the nations top political professionals. Democratic GAIN will offer campaign skills training in Message Development, Earned and Paid Media, Volunteer Management, Voter Contact Tactics, Fundraising, Media Training, Targeting, Planning, Budgeting, Election Day Operations and MUCH MORE!

[gristy]

1. Good stuff, papau

And good to meet you at Clery's tonight.