What is the Progressive summit?

The Pennsylvania Progressive Summit is the largest gathering of progressive activists and leaders in Pennsylvania. We’re coming together to build the progressive movement and to prepare for the legislative and electoral battles of 2010.

We believe that together we can build a permanent progressive majority in Pennsylvania. The Summit is bringing together hundreds of Pennsylvanians to discuss environment, energy, health care, home foreclosures, civil rights, state finances and budget, labor organizing and other progressive issues. It will include panels led by state and national experts; identity, issue and regional caucuses; prominent political, issue and policy-oriented speakers; and the most concentrated gathering of progressive bloggers and field organizers in Pennsylvania to date.

Some of the features of the Summit will be:

Networking of netroots and grassroots activists, including stakeholders, decision makers, policy makers, activists and providers
A gubernatorial debate and a U.S. Senate debate
Inspirational keynote speakers
Informative and educational workshops
Creation of issue, identity and regional caucuses
Beginning the development of progressive policy recommendations for state and local government issues
Beginning the development of strategies for policy implementation

In the short term, we hope to create policy solutions and action plans to attract support for their implementation. In the long-term, however, the partnerships formed through the Summit have the potential to dramatically alter the political landscape in PA. By connecting the communications, research and organizing capacity of the participating organizations, Pennsylvania progressives may finally be able to produce, campaign around, and implement progressive policy solutions in a way that they were never capable of before.

Register Online Now: $75 before November 30th, 2009

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2010 Gubernatorial Debate

The Summit will feature a debate among the candidates for governor in 2010 on Friday night. Admission to the debate is included in your registration fee. Already committed to attend are:

Chris Doherty

Joe Hoeffel

Tom Knox

Dan Onorato

Jack Wagner

2010 U.S. Senate Debate

Saturday night’s closing event is a debate among the U.S. Senate candidates. Invited to attend are Bill Kortz, Peg Luksik, Joe Sestak, Doris Smith-Ribner, Arlen Specter, Pat Toomey. Admission to the debate, and dinner, is included as part of your registration.

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