Bold Ideas symposium

 

Bold Ideas For A New Progressive Majority
The Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation, and Public Citizen in partnership with the Wallace Global Fund present the 2nd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium.

July 17 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Live streamed from the University of California Washington Center in Washington, DC

The Institute for Policy Studies, alongside The Nation and Public Citizen, is hosting its second annual Wallace Symposium on Thursday, July 17th. This symposium is a capstone event of IPS’s Henry A. Wallace Fellowship Program, supported by the Wallace Global Fund.

As FDR’s vice president in 1944, Henry Wallace presciently warned about how racism, oligarchy, and media manipulation were nurturing the conditions for fascism in the United States. In order to defeat American fascism, Wallace wrote, we must boldly “go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic, and social democracy a practical reality.”

As the fascism Wallace warned about becomes a reality, progressive movements are fighting back on multiple fronts. But as Wallace pointed out, only a bold vision for the future can gather the forces necessary to preserve and rebuild our democratic institutions, rein in the oligarchs, and achieve a once-in-a-generation transformation.

How can we inspire the nation to build anew after the Trump administration? How can we replace the GOP’s cruel, militaristic budget for the few with a budget for people and the planet?

How do we expand democracy, transition to a green economy that lifts all workers, and advance a progressive rural agenda that actually comes from rural America? How can the U.S. be a good neighbor internationally, not a global cop or bad actor?

Bringing together elected officials, movement leaders, policy experts, and grassroots activists, this year’s Wallace Symposium will offer vigorous conversation about those big questions — and how to unite our different movements around the answers.

Learn more and register at https://ips-dc.org/event/2nd-henry-wallace-symposium