Presented by the Jamaica Plain Forum & Institute for Policy Studies
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In its first 100 days in office, President Obama has begun to move the country forward. Bold plans for economic recovery, drawing down troops in Iraq, and reforming health care have been put on the table. But is this the makings of a new era for progressive politics or just a new face on politics as usual in Washington?
Join the Jamaica Plain Forum and the Institute for Policy Studies for a discussion featuring prominent experts and scholars in the progressive community to assess the beginnings of the Obama administration and the chances for long term reform. The speakers will draw on essays from a new
book, Mandate for Change: Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond, edited by Chester Hartman, a collaboration of over 70 authors and activists that offers a set of specific policy proposals for the new national administration on every important domestic and international issue.
The ideas, policies, and resources presented in this volume set forth a fundamental, badly needed “mandate for change” to reinvigorate government and rethink the role of markets and civil society.
About Our Speakers:
Chester Hartman, an Associate Fellow at IPS, is Director of Research for the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, DC and founder/former Chair of The Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers.
Chuck Collins is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good and the Working Group on Extreme Inequality. He is a contributor to Ten Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes (New Press, 2008).
Janet Redman is the Co-Director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies where she provides analysis of the international financial institutions’ energy investment and carbon finance activities. Her recent studies on the World Bank’s climate activities include World Bank: Climate Profiteer, and Dirty is the New Clean: A critique of the World Bank’s strategic framework for development and climate change. She has appeared on several radio programs and C-SPAN sharing positive visions for fair and equitable climate action in the United States and overseas. As a founding participant in the global Climate Justice Now! network, Janet is committed to bringing hard-hitting policy analysis into grassroots and grasstops organizing.
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