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America’s Future Now!

June 1, 2009 thru Jun 3

We now have an organizer-in-chief in the White House. Community organizing helped get him there. Barack Obama’s election gives us new hope for the kind of values and policies we have sought for the last 3 decades.

Can progressive forces use the lessons of organizing to mount grassroots campaigns to give Obama the room for maneuver to be a transformational president like FDR? Do you want to know more about what organizers are doing across the country? Did organizing help to bring about progressive change? Do you want to know more about ACORN, Americas largest community organizing group? How it compares to other organizing efforts?

Hear several critical perspectives by seasoned, talented and creative organizers and activist authors, who’ve written books on ACORN and community organizing. We will share with you what’s working and what’s not.

Who Will Be Speaking?

Panelists include: organizers, activists, writers, as well as John Atlas, president of the National Housing Institute, former executive director of a legal services program, and tenant organizer, and Robert Fisher, professor of Community Organizing at the University of Connecticut—they just completed books on community organizing and ACORN; Heather Booth, founder of the Midwest Academy and one of Americans most prominent and successful organizers. She is presently organizing a national campaign to regulate the financial services industry.

What is the America’s Future Now Conference?

It’s the largest gathering of progressive activists and leaders from across the country. Join other progressives to discuss critically how we have worked together the first 100 days after Obamas election. And how we can mobilize a democratic majority to make progressive change that can shape Americas Future Now!

Join the grassroots organizing networks, issue coalitions and national and local leadership organizations that make up the growing progressive movement—from students to women, to civil rights and environmental activists, to labor, elected officials and young visionaries.