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TIDES Momentum Conference

Eight topics covered at the recent Tides Momentum Conference. Two listed here for your enjoyment.

Power Plenary
Pathways to opportunity and prosperity in America continue to be blocked by racism, homophobia, and elitism. Who defines the rules of engagement? How do private perceptions inform public choices and vice versa? How can we use ideas, network, and technology to reformulate hierarchies and enact progressive values? What does it mean to speak truth to power in the Obama era?

Capital Plenary
Policies based on blind belief in perpetual growth have led our country and the world down an economic rabbit hole. But the system is our creation and we can change it. This plenary examines how we might refine the allocation of our resources—human, financial, governmental, and material—to leverage our collective capital for the benefit of all.

found at:
http://www.momentumconference.org/the-c ... index.html

Progressives to Gather at Tides Momentum Conference with Frustration with Obama on Their Minds
By Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted September 4, 2009.

Progressives needed to move the discussion in our direction by strong advocacy for deep change and reform. Take health care: progressives have made a mistake on health care by cooperating with the Administration’s idea of a ‘bi-partisan’ approach to reform.

In so doing, they gave up on a single payer system at the very beginning. The argument was that the “public optionâ€

You are absolutely right. Great Post! The Tides Momentum conferences are attended by the big shot liberals, eager to push their big government, OBL agenda through. Of course...how else will they keep paying for their speakers?

Tides, Apollo Alliance, SEIU, ACORN.

birds of a feather flock together