Events Archive - Fall 2005


  • The Alito Nomination: What’s at Stake for Women? Featuring: Judy Applebaum, National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and Carolyn Treiss, NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut. The event will include a legal briefing by the NWLC. Lunch Provided! Wednesday, Dec. 14, 12-1:30pm at Yale Law School – 127 Wall Street, Room 127, New Haven, CT. Please RSVP to Theresa.Sgobba@yale.edu if you plan to attend. Co-sponsored by The American Constitution Society and Law Students Against Alito. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • The Alito Nomination: What’s At Stake. Featuring: Professor Nathaniel Persily and Assistant Professor Theodore Ruger. Campus Progress has launched a student campaign called Alito’s America, Our Future. The campaign will highlight how Samuel Alito’s confirmation for the Supreme Court could affect the direction of the Court, the course of our country, and the future of young Americans. Campus Progress will be hosting campus events across the country discussing the Alito nomination. Wednesday, December 7th, 5:30-7:30 PM at University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson B3. Pizza will be served. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • The Alito Nomination: What’s At Stake. Featuring: Professor Robert Gordon. Campus Progress has launched a student campaign called Alito’s America, Our Future. The campaign will highlight how Samuel Alito’s confirmation for the Supreme Court could affect the direction of the Court, the course of our country, and the future of young Americans. Campus Progress will be hosting campus events across the country discussing the Alito nomination. Tuesday, December 6th, 7:00-8:15 PM at Wesleyan University, PAC 001. Food served at 6:45 PM. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” by filmmaker Keith Beauchamp. A compelling documentary that finds new evidence surrounding the murder of Emmett Till. As a result, a new investigation was launched by the Department of Justice in May 2004 to reopen the fifty-year-old case. Campus Progress will host a screening of the film on Wednesday, November 30th, 5-8:30pm at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Student Center Auditorium. Co-sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. There will be a discussion with director Keith Beauchamp immediately following the screening. Click here to read more.

  • Conversations With Daschle: Disaster Response in the Wake of Katrina. Either online or in person, please join us on November 30th at 7:00pm as we webcast our town hall from Washington, DC with Sen. Tom Daschle and former FEMA director James Lee Witt.

  • Brian Katulis at Cornell University – Brian will discuss matters related to his work as Director of Democracy and Public Diplomacy at the Center for American Progress, including progressive alternatives for Iraq and his work on “Integrated Power: A National Security Strategy for the 21st Century.” November 17, 5:30pm at Cornell University, 122 Rockefeller Hall. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Caroline Wadhams at Ursinus College – Caroline will speak as part of World Youth Peace Vigil campaign to host events on peace and ways to promote and achieve more peaceful solutions to global problems. Tuesday, November 15, 4:30pm to 6:30pm at Ursinus College, Olin 107. Co-sponsored by World Youth Peace Vigil. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • What does it mean to be Progressive? – A discussion with John Halpin. Hosted by the Princeton Progressive Nation. Tuesday, Nov. 15th at Princeton University. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Diane Wilson, author of An Unreasonable Woman. Tuesday, November 8, 2:30pm at George Washington University, Marvin Center 307. Meet this dynamic activist and hear her story of how she took on giant corporations in Texas. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Progressive Solutions For A Growth Economy with speaker Gene Sperling, former Chief Economic Advisor to President Clinton and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Friday, November 4, 12:00-1:30pm at Yale Law School, room 128. Lunch will be served. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • U.S. Campuses Up For Grabs: What’s At Stake As Progressive and Conservative Groups Intensify Campus Organizing? with speaker David Halperin, director, Campus Progress. November 3, 2005, 4:30pm at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 28, 2005 at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Please contact jamiek@email.unc.edu for more information.

  • “The Education of Shelby Knox.” Co-sponsored by College Democrats, ACLU and Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom. Thursday, October 27th, 7:00 pm at Case Western Reserve University, 1914 Lounge. For more information, please contact speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 27, 2005 at Florida A&M. Please contact Adrian Abner for more information.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 26, 2005 at University of Wisconsin at Madison. Please contact Brian Shactman for more information.

  • A New Supreme Court: What’s At Stake for Us with speakers Pam Karlan, Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest – Stanford Law School, and Melody Barnes, Executive Vice President for Policy – Center for American Progress. Tuesday, October 25, 6:45-8:00 P.M., Stanford Law School, Room 290. Dinner will be served! Co-sponsored by the Roosevelt Institution and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • What does it mean to be Progressive? – A discussion with Ruy Teixeira. Tuesday, October 25th, 6:30 – 8:30 PM at the University of Delaware, Wolf Hall 100 auditorium. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 25, 2005 at University of California at Berkeley. Please contact Andy Solari for more information.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 24, 2005 at University of Texas at Austin. Please contact Marcus Ceniceros for more information.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 21, 2005 at Dartmouth College. Please contact Elise Braunschweig & Sophie Ryan for more information.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 20, 2005 at Harvard University. Please contact Brittani Head & Chas Beasley for more information.

  • U.S. Campuses Up For Grabs: What’s At Stake As Progressive and Conservative Groups Intensify Campus Organizing? with speaker David Halperin, director, Campus Progress. October 19, 2005, 4:00 PM at Berkeley College Master’s Tea, Yale College. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 19, 2005 at Yale University. Please contact Alissa Stollwerk for more information.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 18, 2005 at University of Missouri at Columbia. Please contact Megan Block for more information.

  • Gender, Power and Politics featuring: Katie Desmond, Public Affairs Director, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte; Stephen Ducat, author of The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity; and Tracy A. Weitz, MPA, Director, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). October 18, 2005, 7:00 PM in Wallenberg Hall, Building 160, Rm. 124 at Stanford University. Sponsored by Choice and Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. For more information contact speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Opportunity Rocks College Tour with Senator John Edwards – Senator Edwards will travel to schools across the country for this student-led effort to encourage young people to make the elimination of poverty the cause of their generation. October 17, 2005 at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Please contact Jamie Kirk for more information.

  • John Podesta discusses his experience and responsibilities as White House Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton. Monday, October 10th, 2:00 – 3:00 pm at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Social Sciences building room 8108. Attendance by invitation only. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org. Read John Podesta’s remarks here.

  • What does it mean to be Progressive? – A discussion with John Podesta. Co-sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha. Monday, October 10th, 4:00 – 5:45 PM at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1121 Humanities. Free pizza will be served! For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Media That Matters Film Festival followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers. A compilation of films that make you laugh and inspire you to take action! Short films by young, independent, artist-activists that tackle gay rights, juvenile crime, multiracial families, and tons more. Co-sponsored by Columbia Political Union on Monday, October 10, 2005, 7:45-10PM at Columbia University, Roone Arledge Cinema. Food will be served. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • “The Education of Shelby Knox” followed by a panel discussion with Shelby Knox immediately following the screening. A coming of age story about a teenage girl who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas, an area that boasts some of the nation’s highest teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates in the country. This is event is co-sponsored by The Women’s Student Assembly at the University of Southern California on Thursday, October 6, 2005, 6-9PM at University of Southern California, room GFS 106. Food will be served. For more information please email speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Remembering Rwanda: Ending Darfur with Special
    Guest Speaker Stephanie Nyombayire. Sponsored by CampusProgress.com and The Genocide Intervention Fund. Thursday, September 22, 2005, at St. Louis University. 7:00pm, David-Shaughnessy 173. For more information, please contact speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • Cancelled Due to Hurricane Rita – “Middle Class Revival: How Thoughtful Labor Market Policies Can Strengthen America’s Economic Backbone,” featuring Christian Weller at the University of Miami in Storer Auditorium on Tuesday, September 20, at 7PM. This event is co-hosted by Students Toward A New Democracy (S.T.A.N.D). For more information, please contact speakers@americanprogress.org.

  • A New Supreme Court: What’s At Stake For Us? Featuring Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice. Tuesday, September 20, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Jack Morton Auditorium, George Washington University, 805 21st St. NW (Corner 21st St. and H St.) Washington, DC. For more information, contact Keisha Senter.

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