New Directions
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New Directions
Supported DSA conference
In May 1986, Democratic Socialists of America "supported" a New Directions conference in the Washington DC Convention Center. Conference organizer was Jo-Ann Mort of DSA.
- The conference, supported by DSA, will bring together activists, analysts and elected officials to develop new directions for the Democratic Party and the broad democratic left.
Initial sponsors of the event included Reps. Charles Hayes and Barney Frank, labor leaders William Winpisinger and Jack Sheinkman (ACTWU), Joyce Miller (ACTWU and CLUW) and Jack Joyce, (Bricklayers), feminist leaders Gloria Steinem and Judy Goldsmith and policy analysts Robert Kuttner, Jeff Faux and Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Initiators
Speakers
- Jesse Jackson
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Michael Harrington
- Rep. Lane Evans
- Robert Kuttner
- Julian Bond
- Heather Booth
- Gerald McEntee
- Ruth Messinger
- Rep. Charles Hayes
- Suzanne Gordon
- Gordon Adams
- Gloria Steinem
- Michael Manley
- Ann Lewis
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Rep. Ron Dellums
- Jeff Faux
- Morton Bahr
- Emma Rothschild -( invited)
- Frances Fox Piven
- Robert Reich
- William Winpisinger
- Roger Wilkins
- Carol O'Cleireacain (AFSCME)
- Lynn R. Williams (Steelworkers)
- Jan Pierce (CWA)
- Ken Blaylock (AFGE)
- Hilda Mason
- Rep. Ted Weiss
- Rep. Major Owens
- David Dinkins Manhattan Borough president
- William Hutton
