• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA), former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD), founder of Democracy Summer
• Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies
• Ben Beachy, Global Fund for a New Economy
• Cathy Feingold, AFL-CIO
• Tope Folarin, Institute for Policy Studies
• Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen
• Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
• Faiz Shakir, More Perfect Union
• Erica Smiley, Jobs With Justice
• Kate Hess Pace, Hoosier Action

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.”

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.

Join us on July 17 from 10 AM to 6 PM eastern at the University of California Washington Center. The event will be live streamed. Register for in-person or virtual attendance here!

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