An Action Agenda
for
Electoral Reform
Washington DC, January 19
Date/Time:
January 19, 2001, 10:00am-5:30 pm
Place:
Capitol Hill, Washington, DC Hart Senate Office
Building, Room 902 (take North Elevators to 9th Floor) 2nd and C
St, NE, Washington, DC (5 blocks from Union Station
Metro)
Free and open to the public. No
pre-registration required.
Sponsored by:
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
including Barbara Lee, Bernie Sanders, Earl Hilliard, the
Institute for Policy Studies, the Center for Voting and Democracy,
the Nation Institute, and the member groups of the Progressive
Challenge Network
Schedule
10am-11:30pm The Legacy of Dr. King: A
Progressive Vision
Moderator: John Cavanagh, Director of the
Institute for Policy Studies
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Opening remarks Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Chair
of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
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Ron Dellums*: The Legacy of Dr. King
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Marcus Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies
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Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Rev. Walter Fauntroy, National Black
Leadership Roundtable Rep. Barbara Lee*
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Rep. Bernie Sanders
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Bob Borosage, Campaign for America's Future
(* indicates invited speaker)
11:30-1:00 Plenary on Electoral Reform
and Clean Money Elections
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Moderator: Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
Magazine
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Rep Jesse Jackson Jr.*
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Rep. Cynthia McKinney
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Rob Richie, Center for Voting and Democracy
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Elaine Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and
Education Fund*
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Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School
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Nick Nyhart, Executive Director, Public
Campaign
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Stephanie Wilson, Fannie Lou Hamer Project
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Ron Daniels, Center for Constitutional
Rights
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 1 of Workshops on
Electoral Reform
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Clean Money, Clean Elections, Alliance for
Democracy and Public Campaign
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2000 Electoral Rights Violations and
Strengthening the Voting Rights Act, Anita Hodgkiss, Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights
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Organizing strategies for Instant Runoff
Voting and Proportional Representation, Center for Voting and
Democracy
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Independent Electoral and Debates
Commissions, Jamin Raskin, American University Law School and
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
3:45-5:15 Session 2 of Workshops on
Electoral and Campaign Finance Reform
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The Voters' Bill of Rights: Building a
Broad-based Pro-Democracy Movement, Ted Glick of theIndependent
Progressive Politics Network, and Medea Benjamin of Global
Exchange
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"Taxation Without Representation": Voting
Rights for Washington, DC, Martin Thomas, Stand Up for Democracy
Coalition
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Building Pro-democracy Commissions: The
DeFazio/Leach bill and local strategies
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Fusion and Instant Runoff Voting: a strategy
for complementary action, ACORN
For more information:
Call the Progressive Challenge Project at IPS
(202-234-9382, x238) or email [email protected]
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