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Building a Movement: Highlights From the Conference

For those of you that came to the Campus Progress National Student Conference, you felt the energy and enthusiasm of the students and speakers. This video completely captures the sentiment of this year’s conference: inspiring, passionate, and just plain awesome. If you have about 3 minutes, we encourage you to check it out (if you were there, you might see yourself in this video!).

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Morning Plenary

Featuring David Halperin, Director, Campus Progress, and Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress; Maria Teresa Petersen, Executive Director, Voto Latino; Adrienne Maree Brown, Executive Director, Ruckus Society; Nathan Dickerson, student, The University of Kentucky; and Reverend Dr. James Alexander Forbes, Jr., Senior Minister, The Riverside Church, New York

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Read the opening remarks from Campus Progress’s director, David Halperin

Making Change a Career: What are you doing with the rest of your life?

Featuring Majora Carter, Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx, 2005 MacArthur Fellow; Tom Matzzie, Washington Director, MoveOn Political Action Committee; Samantha Power, Harvard Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide; Sonal Shah, Vice President for Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability, Goldman Sachs; Jefferson Smith, Executive Director, Oregon Bus Project; and Christopher Hayes, Senior Editor, In These Times

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Lunch: Campus Progress Awards/Keynote Address

Featuring Hollie Russon Gilman, student, University of Chicago; Paul Begala, Political Analyst and CNN Commentator; JaMeese Mangum, student, North Carolina Central University; John D. Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress; Lauren Patrizi, student, Loyola University Chicago; and Senator Barack Obama

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Senator Obama kicks off the Kick the Oil Habit Campaign with Mark Pike

Transcript of Senator Obama’s remarks

Media Bootcamp: How to work with the press to get out your message

Featuring Joe Lockhart, Former Press Secretary to President Bill Clinton; Grant Ginder, Associate Editor, Mic Check Radio, Center for American Progress; and Daniella Gibbs Leger, Director of Press Relations, Center for American Progress

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Read the information handouts from the panel:
Bad Press Release (PDF)
Talking to the Press: Developing Your Press Lists (PDF)
Media Tips for TV Interviews (PDF)

Words That Move: Advocacy writing and blogging

Featuring John Aravosis, Blogger, AmericaBlog; John Burton, Research Associate, Center for American Progress; Ken Silverstein, Washington DC Editor, Harper’s Magazine; Lisa Witter, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Fenton Communications; and Nico Pitney, Assistant Editor, ThinkProgress.org, Center for American Progress

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View Lisa Witter’s slideshow (PDF)

Designing Progress: How to make your message pop and your campaign take off

Featuring Bronwyn Keenan, Associate Director of Special Events, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Professor of Design, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; S. Christina Raia, SVP and Director of Brand Planning, Arnold Worldwide Advertising; and Jehmu Green, National Director, Project Vote, and Former President of Rock the Vote

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The New Muckrakers: Investigative journalism, research, and fact-checking in the digital age

Featuring Emily Biuso, Intern Coordinator, The Nation; Josh Kalven, Senior Researcher, Media Matters for America; Justin Rood, Blogger, TPMMuckraker.com; Laura Rozen, Senior Correspondent, The American Prospect and Blogger, WarandPiece.com; and Amanda Terkel, Research Associate, ThinkProgress.org, Center for American Progress

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Beyond the Great Society: Addressing poverty in the 21st century

Featuring Richard P. Appelbaum, Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara; Mark Greenberg, Executive Director, Task Force on Poverty, Center for American Progress; Jen Kern, Director, ACORN Living Wage Resource Center; Almas Sayeed, Congressional Hunger Center Research Fellow, Center for American Progress; and Cassandra Q. Butts, Senior Vice President for Domestic Policy, Center for American Progress

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Get In? Get Out?: When and how should the U.S. and other nations intervene across borders?

Featuring Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Transnational Institute and The Institute for Policy Studies; Salih Booker, Executive Director, Global Rights; Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Adam Taylor, Director of Campaigns and Organizing, Sojourners; and Heather Hurlburt, Writer and Consultant

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Dangerous Professors, Dangerous Ideas?: A conversation about academic freedom

Featuring Jacob Laksin, Senior Editor, FrontPage Magazine; Samuel Richards, Professor of Sociology, Penn State University, and one of David Horowitz’s “101 Most Dangerous Academics in America”; and Adam Jentleson, Policy and Advocacy Manager, Campus Progress, Center for American Progress

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The War on Science: How conservatives distort debate and policy on global warming, women’s health, evolution…

Featuring Daniel A. Lashof, Science Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council; Judd Legum, Research Director, Center for American Progress; Chris Mooney, Author, The Republican War on Science; Susan Wood, Former Director, Office of Women’s Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and Amanda Angelotti, Special Assistant, Campus Progress, Center for American Progress

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Shrinking Access, Growing Debt: Restoring America’s commitment to making college affordable for all

Featuring Tamara Draut, Director, Economic Opportunity Program, Demos; Frederick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Jennifer Pae, Vice President, United States Student Association; Luke Swarthout, Associate Director, State PIRG Higher Education Project; and Heather McGhee, law student, University of California, Berkeley

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Making Truth Convenient: Ending our oil addiction, building sustainable communities

Featuring John Holtzclaw, Transportation Committee Chair, The Sierra Club; Aaron Naparstek, Project Director, Open Planning Project; Shin-pei Tsay, Chief Operating Officer, Project for Public Spaces; and Ben Adler, Associate Editor, CampusProgress.org, Center for American Progress

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Read the information handout from the panel (PDF)

Is It Bigger Than Hip-Hop?: A generation’s voice simultaneously heard and ignored

Featuring Joseph “Fat Joe” Cartagena, Rapper, Actor, Entrepreneur; Bakari Kitwana, Director of Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip Hop, and Author of The Hip Hop Generation; Alexis McGill, Executive Director, Citizen Change; Amina Norman-Hawkins, President, Chicago Hip Hop Initiative; Billy Wimsatt, Executive Director, League of Young Voters; and Jeff Johnson, Senior Advisor for Youth and Urban Outreach, People for the American Way

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Crossing the Divide: What’s next for immigration policy?

Featuring Melody Gonzalez, National Co-Coordinator, Student Farmworker Alliance; Roberto Lovato, Writer, New America Media; Frank Sharry, Executive Director, National Immigration Forum; and Dan Restrepo, Senior Policy Advisor, Center for American Progress

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Closing Plenary

Featuring Kira Sparks, student, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin

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Miscellaneous

A fun and candid look at some of the stuff that happened in between the panels and plenaries.

July 11 & 13 Events

A look at some of the panels and events before and after the conference.

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