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of [[Wellstone Action]], a Minnesota based organization based on the political legacy<ref>http://www.wellstone.org/about-us/our-mission-goals</ref> of that state’s late ‘progressive” Senator [[Paul Wellstone]]. | of [[Wellstone Action]], a Minnesota based organization based on the political legacy<ref>http://www.wellstone.org/about-us/our-mission-goals</ref> of that state’s late ‘progressive” Senator [[Paul Wellstone]]. | ||
Revision as of 03:03, 23 September 2009
Peter Edelman...
DSA connections
In 2002 Democratic Socialists of America organised[1]a September 20-22 event in Washington DC entitled “Confronting America’s Low-WageEconomy.” The conference also kicked off DSA’s national campaign to focus attention on the problems of low-wage workers with a series of presentations and workshops setting forth the issues and possibilities for activism.
Friday night’s outreach event, “The Other America: What has changed in 40 years,” featured DSA vice chair and welfare expert/author Frances Fox Piven, Lawrence Mishel, Executive Director of the Economic Policy Institute, Peter Edelman of Georgetown University Law Center, a Clinton administration official who resigned in protest against Clinton’s signing the welfare “reform” bill and Tom Woodruff, Executive Vice President of SEIU.
Center for American Progress
In 2005 Peter Edelman served on the action fund and a trustee[2] of Center for American Progress. Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Wellstone Action
In 2009 Peter Edelman was listed as a member of the Advisory Board[3] of Wellstone Action, a Minnesota based organization based on the political legacy[4] of that state’s late ‘progressive” Senator Paul Wellstone.
- Wellstone Action and Wellstone Action Fund combine to form a national center for training and leadership development for the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action's mission is to honor the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations.