SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
2:15pm: “Closing Keynote: Darcy Burner.” Saturday night’s closing keynote will be headlined by Darcy Burner, director of the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation. After three days of strategizing around progressive change, Burner will close out the convention with a message on how we make that a reality after everyone has left Pittsburgh. She believes activists must strike a balance between applying sophisticated pressure on their elected leaders and amplifying their efforts to create space for progressive policy.
Two of Pittsburgh’s own will also speak, Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo and Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO. Ferlo is a respected progressive leader in Pittsburgh and a strong advocate for a single-payer healtch care system. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer of AFL-CIO and candidate to become its next President, gained notoriety in the 2008 election by confronting head-on the challenges faced by the nation’s first African-American Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama.
Netroots Nation staff will also reveal the host city for 2010.
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