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The People's Summit 2017 was held at the McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois in June 9-11, 2017.
People's Summit 2017
Peoples Summit 2017 Facebook Ad featuring Jane Sanders and Bernie Sanders, Rose Ann DeMoro, Nina Turner
The 2017 People's Summit will be held at the McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois in June 9-11, 2017. According to their website,[1]
- The 2017 People's Summit "will include plenary and workshop sessions devoted to key issues such as the Fight for 15, mass incarceration and criminal justice reform, voting rights and expanding democratic participation, a tax on Wall Street speculation to fund human needs and jobs, climate justice toward a sustainable economy, improved Medicare for All, the fight for free and debt-free higher education, secure retirement through expanding social security, ending HIV/AIDS, achieving Constitutional pay equity for women, and ending deportations and support for DREAMers, among others."
Speakers
- Sen. Bernie Sanders
- Jane Sanders, educator
- Rosario Dawson, actress
- Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director, National Nurses United
- Jesse Eisenberg, actor
- Eve Ensler, playwright/activist
- Frances Fisher, actress
- Josh Fox, filmmaker. Emmy-winning writer/director of GASLAND Parts I and II
- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
- Danny Glover, actor
- Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now
- Glenn Greenwald, journalist
- Brian Jones, actor
- Van Jones, CNN commentator
- Shaun King, journalist
- Naomi Klein, author
- Nomiki Konst, journalist
- Bill McKibben, activist
- Michael Moore, filmmaker
- Susan Pourfar, actress
- Frances Fox Piven, educator
- Mark Ruffalo, actor
- Kendrick Sampson, actor
- Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of MPOWER Change/Racial Justice and Civil Rights Activist
- David Sirota, journalist
- Nina Turner, former Ohio State Senator, and Sanders Campaign Surrogate
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor, The Nation[2]
Extended list As of June 12, 2017;[3]
- Wallace Shawn, actor
- Frances Fox Piven
- Shani Smith, Democracy Spring
- Jesse Eisenberg
- Laura Gomez, Actress
- Winnie Wong, Co-Founder, People for Bernie
- Ro Khanna
- Lina Khan, New America
- Gigi Sohn, Special Counsel FCC
- David Segal, Director, Demand Progress
- Belen Sisa, Activist Dreamer, Young Progressive Democrats of America
- Melanie Garunay, Digital Organizing Director, ACLU
- Marisa Franco, Director and Co-Founder of Mijente
- Zach Malitz, Knock on Every Door
- Otis Taylor
- Zephyr Teachout
- Dominique Scott, Activist, Student, United Students Against Sweatshops
- Jorge Aguilar, Southern Region Director, Food & Water Watch/Food & Water Action Fund
- Bree Carlson, Deputy Director, People's Action
- Mary Le Nguyen, Executive Director of Washington Community Action Network
- Elisheva Johnson,Kalamazoo Membership Organizer, Michigan United/Michigan People's Campaign, People's Action
- Michele Merkel, Climate & Energy Program Co-Director, Food & Water Watch/Food & Water Action Fund
- Hong Chau, Actress
- George Goehl, Co-Director, Peoples Action
- Claire Sandberg, Co-Founder #AllOfUs, Digital Organizing Director, Bernie 2016
- Patty Lovera, Assistant Director of Food & Water Watch
- Mark Schlosberg, Organizing Co-Director, Food & Water Watch / [[Food & Water Action Fund
- David Hunt, Chief Strategist, Food & Water Watch /]] Food & Water Action Fund
- Harmony Goldberg, Bertha Foundation & People's Action
- Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., President and CEO, Hip Hop Caucus
- Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor
- Judith LeBlanc, Director, Native Organizers Alliance
- Heather Pearson, CCI Action
- Rhonda Perry, Program Director, Missouri Rural Crisis Center
- Alexandra Gallo, Development Director, West Virginia Citizen Action Group
- Nick Tilsen, Executive Director, Thunder Valley CDC
- Pam Campos-Palma, Executive Director, Common Defense (Beyond The Choir Action Fund)
- Khalid Kamau, Councilman, City of South Fulton
- Juan Martinez, Outreach Director, Greenpower
- Charles Goodman, Polical Education Director, NAACP Atlantic City
- Brenda Chorsei Carter, Director, Reflective Democracy Campaign
- Laurel Wales, Deputy Director of Movement Politics, People's Action
- Catherine Flowers, Director and founder of Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise
- Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works
- Azzi Momenghalibaf, Program Officer, Open Society Foundation, Public Health Program
- Maria Svart, National Director, Democratic Socialists of America
- Thomas Frank, Historian, Author of Listen Liberal
- Bianca Cunningham, Verizon Wireless Striker, CWA, DSA NYC
- Mary Clinton, Organizer, CWA
- Tomas Robles, Jr., Co-Executive Director, LUCHA
- Shamaka Schumake, Climate Justice Organizer, Gulf Coast
- Rev. Tony Pierce, Co-Senior Pastor, Heaven's View Christian Fellowship Church
- Lashaya Darisaw, organizer, Michigan United
- Kelly Grimes, Reclaim Chicago
- Larry Cohen, Board Chairman, Our Revolution
- Diana Truong, Student Action
- Joe Demanuelle-Hall, Brooklyn Democratic Socialists of America
- Ja’mal Green, Activist
- Melissa Tomlinson, Edcucator, Badass Teachers Association
- Katherine Brezler, Educator, National Digital Director, People For Bernie
- Aixa Rodriguez, Educator, Founder, Bronx Educators United for Justice
- Maria Elena Letona, Executive Director, Neighbor to Neighbor Action & Vice President, People's Action
- LeeAnn Hall, Co-Executive Director, Peoples Action
- David Duhalde, National Deputy Director, Co-Founder, Democratic Socialists of America
- Rep. Joe Salazar, Colorado State Representative (House District 31)
- Amanda Weaver, Executive Director, Reclaim Chicago
- Carmen Perez, Executive Director, Justice League, National Co-Chair, Womens March
- Sean Sweeney, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
- Larry Stafford, Executive Director, Progressive Maryland
- Becky Bond, Knock on Every Door
- Kendrick Sampson, Actor
- Brian Jones, Actor
- Kai Newkirk, Mission Director, Democracy Spring
- Dante Barry, Director, Million Hoodies for Justice
- Richard (RJ) Eskow, Host and Managing Editor, The Zero Hour
- Tobita Chow, Board Chair, The People's Lobby
- Dave Zirin, The Nation
- Jovanka Beckles, [Richmond City Council] member
- Sarah Leonard, Editor, The Nation
- Roger Hickey, Co-founder of the Campaign for America's Future
- Joe Dinkin, National Director of Communications, Working Families Party
- Shannon Jackson, Excecutive Director, Our Revolution
- Benjamin Jealous, Civil Rights Activist, Former President, NAACP
- Hon. Mark Pocan, Congressman, 2nd District of Wisconsin
- Lucy Flores, Former Nevada Assembly Woman
- James Zogby, President, Arab-American Institute
- Catalina Vasquez, Our Revolution Co-Vice Chair/President and founder of Consult Catalina
- Commissioner Chuy Garcia, Cook County Board of Commissioners
- Christine Pellegrino , NY State Assembly Woman
- Jim Keady, Candidate, US House of Representatives, NJ04
- Craig Hodges, Author, Retired Professional Basketball Player
- Pramila Jayapal, Congresswoman
- Larry Krasner, Democratic Nominee for Philadelphia District Attorney
- Phillip Kim, Activist
- Rob Quist, Politician / Folk Singer
- Rukia Lumumba, Activist
- Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Mayor Elect of Jackson, Mississippi
- Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Sponsors
- National Nurses United
- Our Revolution
- Food & Water Action Fund
- People's Action
- People Demanding Action
- People for Bernie
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Reclaim Chicago
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- Democratic Socialists of America
- United States Student Association
- The People's Lobby
- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America[4]