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'''Peter Dreier'''is a professor of politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program, at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
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'''Peter Dreier'''is a professor of politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program, at [[Occidental College]] in [[Los Angeles]].
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He is a member of [[Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America]] and coeditor, with [[Kate Aronoff]] and [[Michael Kazin]], of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism American Style, forthcoming, New Press, January 2020.<ref>[https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/less-rent-more-control/]</ref>
  
 
==Education==
 
==Education==
 
Ph.D,  University of Chicago, 1977.
 
Ph.D,  University of Chicago, 1977.
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==Fight for Racial and Economic Justice==
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[[File:Mmm0087.jpg|thumb|400px]]
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The Fight for Racial and Economic Justice: A Virtual Discussion with [[Darrick Hamilton]], [[Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor]], [[Symone Baptiste]], [[Olufẹemi Taiwo]], and [[Bianca Cunningham]]. Wednesday, December 16th at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT.
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Edited by [[Kate Aronoff]], [[Peter Dreier]] and [[Michael Kazin]].
  
 
==Democratic Socialists of America Urban and Community Commission==
 
==Democratic Socialists of America Urban and Community Commission==
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In 1982 the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] Urban and Community Commission, was co-chaired by;.<ref>DSA Keylist newsletter, July 1982</ref>
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In 1982 the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] Urban and Community Commission, was co-chaired by:<ref>DSA Keylist newsletter, July 1982</ref>
  
 
*[[Peter Dreier]] Dept of Sociology, Tufts University, Massachusetts
 
*[[Peter Dreier]] Dept of Sociology, Tufts University, Massachusetts
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==DSA Conference delegate==
 
==DSA Conference delegate==
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In 1983 Peter Dreier, Dept. of Sociology, Tufts University was a Boston, Massachusetts delegate to the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] conference in New York City, October 14-16, 1983 <ref>DSA Conference delegate list Oct. 12 1983 update</ref>
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In 1983 Peter Dreier, Dept. of Sociology, Tufts University was a Boston, Massachusetts delegate to the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] conference in New York City, October 14-16, 1983<ref>DSA Conference delegate list Oct. 12 1983 update</ref>
  
 
==DSA activist==
 
==DSA activist==
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In 1994 [[Peter Dreier]] was a member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]. At the time he was teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles.<ref>Revised list of committees of the 1994-1995 DSA National Political Committee</ref>
 
In 1994 [[Peter Dreier]] was a member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]. At the time he was teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles.<ref>Revised list of committees of the 1994-1995 DSA National Political Committee</ref>
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==Working for Ray Flynn==
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When [[Democratic Socialists of America]] leader [[Michael Harrington]] was dying of cancer, in the late 1980s, he came to Boston to give a speech at an anti-poverty organization. DSA member [[Peter Dreier]] asked then Mayor [[Ray Flynn]] [whom he worked for at the time and had previously introduced to Harrington] if he wanted to go to hear him speak because he probably wouldn’t be alive for very much longer, and if he wanted to get together with him afterwards.
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[[Ray Flynn]] said, “I got a better idea. Let’s proclaim Michael Harrington Day, and give him a key to the city.” Wrote Dreier, "how many big city mayors will make a day for a leading socialist? Ray  did that because he was so taken with Mike. In fact, lots of times when Flynn would ask me about different issues he would say, “What would your friend Mike do about this?"<ref>http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Winter_2006.pdf Democratic Left,  Winter, 2006]</ref>
  
 
==Campaign for America's Future==
 
==Campaign for America's Future==
 
In 1996 Peter Dreier, Occidental College  was one of the original 130 founders of [[Campaign for America's Future]].<ref>[http://www.undueinfluence.com/caf-co-founders.htm CAF Co-Founders]</ref>
 
In 1996 Peter Dreier, Occidental College  was one of the original 130 founders of [[Campaign for America's Future]].<ref>[http://www.undueinfluence.com/caf-co-founders.htm CAF Co-Founders]</ref>
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==Socialists organize to "challenge for power" in Los Angeles==
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[[Image:Trevor email 1 (3).jpg|thumb|600px]]
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On March 11, 1998, [[Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America]] leader [[Steve Tarzynski]] wrote an email to another Los Angeles DSA leader [[Harold Meyerson]].
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Tarzynski listed 25 people he thought should be on an "A-list" of "25 or so leaders/activists/intellectuals and/or "eminent persons" who would gather periodically to theorize/strategize about how to rebuild a progressive movement in our metropolitan area that could challenge for power."
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Tarzynski listed himself, [[Harold Meyerson]], [[Karen Bass]], [[Sylvia Castillo]], [[Gary Phillips]], [[Joseph Hicks|Joe Hicks]], [[Richard Rothstein]], [[Steve Cancian]], [[Larry Frank]], [[Torie Osborn]], [[Rudy Acuna]], [[Aris Anagnos]], [[Abby Haight Arnold|Abby Arnold]], [[Carl Boggs]], [[Blase Bonpane]], [[Rick Brown]], [[Stanley Sheinbaum]], [[Alice Callahan]], [[Jim Conn]], [[Peter Dreier]], [[Maria Elena Durazo]], [[Miguel Contreras]], [[Mike Davis]], [[Bill Gallegos]], [[Bob Gottlieb]], [[Kent Wong]], [[Russell Jacoby]], [[Bong Hwan Kim]], [[Paula Litt]] (and [[Barrett Litt|Barry Litt]],  with a question mark), [[Peter Olney]], [[Derek Shearer]], [[Clancy Sigal]] and [[Anthony Thigpenn]].
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Included in a suggested elected officials sub-group were [[Mark Ridley-Thomas]], [[Gloria Romero]], [[Jackie Goldberg]], [[Gilbert Cedillo|Gil Cedillo]], [[Tom Hayden]], [[Antonio Villaraigosa]], [[Paul Rosenstein]] and Congressmen [[Xavier Becerra]], [[Henry Waxman]] and [[Maxine Waters]].
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Tarzynski went on to write "I think we should limit the group to 25 max, otherwise group dynamics begins to break down....As i said, I would like this to take place in a nice place with good food and drink...it should properly be an all day event."
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==The Next Agenda Conference==
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[[Progressive LA: The Next Agenda Conference]] was held On October 20, 2001  in Los Angeles at the California Science Center.
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The [[Progressive Los Angeles Network]] (PLAN) and the [[Institute for America’s Future]] "will co-sponsor an important conference -- the Next Agenda Conference -- designed to celebrate recent victories, build upon Los Angeles’ progressive momentum, and link local issues with a national progressive agenda. The conference will also help solidify a more strategic and integrated progressive movement in Los Angeles".
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Speakers included [[Peter Dreier ]], [[Occidental College]]<ref>[http://comm-org.wisc.edu/pipermail/announce/2001-October/000186.html, [Announce] Oct. 20: Progressive LA Conference announce-admin at comm-org.utoledo.edu announce-admin at comm-org.utoledo.edu. Tue Oct 16 10:22:22 CDT 2001]</ref>
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[[Category:Progressive LA: The Next Agenda Conference]]
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[[Category:Progressive Los Angeles Network]]
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==Progressive Los Angeles Network==
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Circa 2002 , Peter Dreier, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, PLAN Co-Chair , served on the Advisory board of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] dominated [[Progressive Los Angeles Network]].<ref>[http://dornsife.usc.edu/cdd/civic/bmus/The%20Progressive%20Los%20Angeles%20Network%20%28PLAN%29.html#TheProgressiveLosAngelesNetwork%28PLAN%29-PLAN%27sAdvisoryBoard, PLAN website, accessed October 2011]</ref>
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[[Category:Progressive Los Angeles Network]]
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==Villaraigosa "talent pool"==
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According to [[Harold Meyerson]] of the [[LA Weekly]], newly elected Mayor [[Antonio Villaraigosa]] can call on a "locally based progressive talent pool" that includes such policy activists as Occidental government professor [[Peter Dreier]] and nonprofit housing advocate [[Jan Breidenbach]] (in housing), [[Roxana Tynan]] of the [[Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy]] (in development), [[Larry Frank]] of UCLA’s Labor Center (in work-related issues), and the [[Liberty Hill Foundation]]’s [[Torie Osborn]] (for general administrative genius).<ref>[http://www.laweekly.com/2005-05-19/news/new-mayor-new-city/LA Weekly, New Mayor, New City, By Harold Meyerson Thursday, May 19 2005]</ref>
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==Democratic Socialists of America conference==
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An "insurgent" [[Hilda Solis]] was a keynote speaker at the 2005 [[Democratic Socialists of America]] national conference "Twenty-First Century Socialism" in Los Angeles, with DSA leaders [[Peter Dreier]] and [[Harold Meyerson]].
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:''Saturday evening delegates recognized the contributions of DSA vice chair and Washington Post]columnist Harold Meyerson, Occidental College sociologist and longtime DSAer Peter Dreier and insurgent California Congress member Hilda Solis (D) who in turn provided in-depth perspectives of the political scene.''
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Other speakers included  [[ACORN]] chief organizer [[Wade Rathke]], [[Kent Wong]] of the [[UCLA Labor Center]] and [[Roxana Tynan]] of the [[Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy]].<ref>http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Winter_2006.pdf</ref>
  
 
==Progressives for Obama==
 
==Progressives for Obama==
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The Editorial Advisory Group of the magazine [[Social Policy]] includes<ref>http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=804</ref>;
 
The Editorial Advisory Group of the magazine [[Social Policy]] includes<ref>http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=804</ref>;
  
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[[Noam Chomsky]], [[Janice Fine]], [[S.M. Miller]], [[Peter Olney]], [[Frances Fox Piven]], [[ Heather Booth]], [[Peter Dreier]], [[Maya Wiley]], [[Robert Fisher]], [[Ashutosh Saxena]], [[Ken Grossinger]]  
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[[Noam Chomsky]], [[Janice Fine]], [[S. M. Miller]], [[Peter Olney]], [[Frances Fox Piven]], [[Heather Booth]], [[Peter Dreier]], [[Maya Wiley]], [[Robert Fisher]], [[Ashutosh Saxena]], [[Ken Grossinger]]
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==Cry Wolf Project==
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The [[Cry Wolf Project]] was established in 2010 to counter conservative attempts to stop or discredit "progressive" policy options.
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[[Cry Wolf Project]] Coordinators
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*[[Peter Dreier]], E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program, Occidental College
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*[[Donald Cohen]], Executive Director, Center on Policy Initiatives 
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*[[Nelson Lichtenstein]], Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy   
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Project Advisory Board
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*[[Robert Kuttner]], Co-founder & Co-editor, American Prospect 
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*[[Gerald Markowitz]], PhD, John Jay College, CUNY 
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*[[David Rosner]], PhD; Co-Director, Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health 
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*[[Alice O’Connor]], PhD, UC Santa Barbara 
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*[[Janice Fine]], PhD, Rutgers University 
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*[[Andrea M. Hricko]], MPH; Southern CA Environmental Health Sciences Center 
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*[[Jennifer Klein]] PhD, Yale University
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*[[Meg Jacobs]] PhD, MIT
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*[[William Forbath]] JD, PhD, University of Texas Law School
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*[[Tom Sugrue]] PhD, University of Pennsylvania
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*[[Lizabeth Cohen]] PhD, Harvard University<ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/127203.html] George Mason University History News Network, accessed June 13, 2010</ref>
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==Stand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez==
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[[We Stand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] was a 2018 letter signed by several [[Democratic Socialists of America]] members mainly from the [[DSA North Star]] in response to attacks on Ocasio-Cortez over remarks she made on Palestine.
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:''A recent petition circulated by some DSA members criticizes Ocasio-Cortez for supporting a two state solution to the Palestine-Israel question and not aligning with a long list of demands regarding Palestine and Israel. Should Ocasio-Cortez fail to agree with this list of demands, the petitioners are calling for DSA to revoke her endorsement. These attacks on Ocasio-Cortez have come despite the fact that she has staked out positions which will make her one of the strongest advocates of Palestinian rights and self-determination in Congress.''
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:''We stand with [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]. The position she has taken on Israel and Palestine are principled stances, worthy of a democratic socialist, in its recognition of both Palestinian humanity and rights and Israeli humanity and rights. On this issue, as many, she will be a voice for the voiceless in Congress.''
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Signatures included '''{{PAGENAME}}'''.<ref>[https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog]</ref>
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==DSA North Star==
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In 2018 '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was an original signatory of the [[DSA North Star]] founding principles statement.
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[[Category:DSA North Star]]
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==References==
 
==References==
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[[Category:Social Policy]]
 
[[Category:Progressives for Obama]]
 
[[Category:Progressives for Obama]]
 
[[Category:Democratic Socialists of America]]
 
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[[Category:Liberty Hill Foundation]]
 
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[[category:Cry Wolf Project Coordinators]]

Revision as of 14:37, 10 December 2020

Peter Dreier

Template:TOCnestleft Peter Dreieris a professor of politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program, at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

He is a member of Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America and coeditor, with Kate Aronoff and Michael Kazin, of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism American Style, forthcoming, New Press, January 2020.[1]

Education

Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1977.

Fight for Racial and Economic Justice

Mmm0087.jpg

The Fight for Racial and Economic Justice: A Virtual Discussion with Darrick Hamilton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Symone Baptiste, Olufẹemi Taiwo, and Bianca Cunningham. Wednesday, December 16th at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT.

Edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier and Michael Kazin.

Democratic Socialists of America Urban and Community Commission

In 1982 the Democratic Socialists of America Urban and Community Commission, was co-chaired by:[2]

DSA Conference delegate

In 1983 Peter Dreier, Dept. of Sociology, Tufts University was a Boston, Massachusetts delegate to the Democratic Socialists of America conference in New York City, October 14-16, 1983[3]

DSA activist

John Atlas and Peter Dreier were active Democratic Socialists of America members[4]in New Jersey in the mid-1980s.

In 1994 Peter Dreier was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. At the time he was teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles.[5]

Working for Ray Flynn

When Democratic Socialists of America leader Michael Harrington was dying of cancer, in the late 1980s, he came to Boston to give a speech at an anti-poverty organization. DSA member Peter Dreier asked then Mayor Ray Flynn [whom he worked for at the time and had previously introduced to Harrington] if he wanted to go to hear him speak because he probably wouldn’t be alive for very much longer, and if he wanted to get together with him afterwards.

Ray Flynn said, “I got a better idea. Let’s proclaim Michael Harrington Day, and give him a key to the city.” Wrote Dreier, "how many big city mayors will make a day for a leading socialist? Ray did that because he was so taken with Mike. In fact, lots of times when Flynn would ask me about different issues he would say, “What would your friend Mike do about this?"[6]

Campaign for America's Future

In 1996 Peter Dreier, Occidental College was one of the original 130 founders of Campaign for America's Future.[7]

Socialists organize to "challenge for power" in Los Angeles

Trevor email 1 (3).jpg

On March 11, 1998, Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America leader Steve Tarzynski wrote an email to another Los Angeles DSA leader Harold Meyerson.

Tarzynski listed 25 people he thought should be on an "A-list" of "25 or so leaders/activists/intellectuals and/or "eminent persons" who would gather periodically to theorize/strategize about how to rebuild a progressive movement in our metropolitan area that could challenge for power."

Tarzynski listed himself, Harold Meyerson, Karen Bass, Sylvia Castillo, Gary Phillips, Joe Hicks, Richard Rothstein, Steve Cancian, Larry Frank, Torie Osborn, Rudy Acuna, Aris Anagnos, Abby Arnold, Carl Boggs, Blase Bonpane, Rick Brown, Stanley Sheinbaum, Alice Callahan, Jim Conn, Peter Dreier, Maria Elena Durazo, Miguel Contreras, Mike Davis, Bill Gallegos, Bob Gottlieb, Kent Wong, Russell Jacoby, Bong Hwan Kim, Paula Litt (and Barry Litt, with a question mark), Peter Olney, Derek Shearer, Clancy Sigal and Anthony Thigpenn.

Included in a suggested elected officials sub-group were Mark Ridley-Thomas, Gloria Romero, Jackie Goldberg, Gil Cedillo, Tom Hayden, Antonio Villaraigosa, Paul Rosenstein and Congressmen Xavier Becerra, Henry Waxman and Maxine Waters.

Tarzynski went on to write "I think we should limit the group to 25 max, otherwise group dynamics begins to break down....As i said, I would like this to take place in a nice place with good food and drink...it should properly be an all day event."

The Next Agenda Conference

Progressive LA: The Next Agenda Conference was held On October 20, 2001 in Los Angeles at the California Science Center.

The Progressive Los Angeles Network (PLAN) and the Institute for America’s Future "will co-sponsor an important conference -- the Next Agenda Conference -- designed to celebrate recent victories, build upon Los Angeles’ progressive momentum, and link local issues with a national progressive agenda. The conference will also help solidify a more strategic and integrated progressive movement in Los Angeles".

Speakers included Peter Dreier , Occidental College[8]

Progressive Los Angeles Network

Circa 2002 , Peter Dreier, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, PLAN Co-Chair , served on the Advisory board of the Democratic Socialists of America dominated Progressive Los Angeles Network.[9]

Villaraigosa "talent pool"

According to Harold Meyerson of the LA Weekly, newly elected Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa can call on a "locally based progressive talent pool" that includes such policy activists as Occidental government professor Peter Dreier and nonprofit housing advocate Jan Breidenbach (in housing), Roxana Tynan of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (in development), Larry Frank of UCLA’s Labor Center (in work-related issues), and the Liberty Hill Foundation’s Torie Osborn (for general administrative genius).[10]

Democratic Socialists of America conference

An "insurgent" Hilda Solis was a keynote speaker at the 2005 Democratic Socialists of America national conference "Twenty-First Century Socialism" in Los Angeles, with DSA leaders Peter Dreier and Harold Meyerson.

Saturday evening delegates recognized the contributions of DSA vice chair and Washington Post]columnist Harold Meyerson, Occidental College sociologist and longtime DSAer Peter Dreier and insurgent California Congress member Hilda Solis (D) who in turn provided in-depth perspectives of the political scene.

Other speakers included ACORN chief organizer Wade Rathke, Kent Wong of the UCLA Labor Center and Roxana Tynan of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.[11]

Progressives for Obama

In 2009 Peter Dreier was listed[12]as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website-Occidental College.

Liberty Hill Foundation

As at 2009, Peter Dreier was a member of the Advisory Board of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a Los Angeles based organization seeking to advance movements for social change through a combination of grants, leadership training and alliance-building.[13]

Social Policy

The Editorial Advisory Group of the magazine Social Policy includes[14];

Noam Chomsky, Janice Fine, S. M. Miller, Peter Olney, Frances Fox Piven, Heather Booth, Peter Dreier, Maya Wiley, Robert Fisher, Ashutosh Saxena, Ken Grossinger

Cry Wolf Project

The Cry Wolf Project was established in 2010 to counter conservative attempts to stop or discredit "progressive" policy options.

Cry Wolf Project Coordinators

  • Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program, Occidental College
  • Donald Cohen, Executive Director, Center on Policy Initiatives
  • Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy

Project Advisory Board

Stand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We Stand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a 2018 letter signed by several Democratic Socialists of America members mainly from the DSA North Star in response to attacks on Ocasio-Cortez over remarks she made on Palestine.

A recent petition circulated by some DSA members criticizes Ocasio-Cortez for supporting a two state solution to the Palestine-Israel question and not aligning with a long list of demands regarding Palestine and Israel. Should Ocasio-Cortez fail to agree with this list of demands, the petitioners are calling for DSA to revoke her endorsement. These attacks on Ocasio-Cortez have come despite the fact that she has staked out positions which will make her one of the strongest advocates of Palestinian rights and self-determination in Congress.
We stand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The position she has taken on Israel and Palestine are principled stances, worthy of a democratic socialist, in its recognition of both Palestinian humanity and rights and Israeli humanity and rights. On this issue, as many, she will be a voice for the voiceless in Congress.

Signatures included Peter Dreier.[16]

DSA North Star

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In 2018 Peter Dreier was an original signatory of the DSA North Star founding principles statement.

References

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  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ DSA Keylist newsletter, July 1982
  3. ↑ DSA Conference delegate list Oct. 12 1983 update
  4. ↑ http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng115.html
  5. ↑ Revised list of committees of the 1994-1995 DSA National Political Committee
  6. ↑ http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Winter_2006.pdf Democratic Left, Winter, 2006]
  7. ↑ CAF Co-Founders
  8. ↑ [Announce Oct. 20: Progressive LA Conference announce-admin at comm-org.utoledo.edu announce-admin at comm-org.utoledo.edu. Tue Oct 16 10:22:22 CDT 2001]
  9. ↑ PLAN website, accessed October 2011
  10. ↑ Weekly, New Mayor, New City, By Harold Meyerson Thursday, May 19 2005
  11. ↑ http://www.dsausa.org/dl/Winter_2006.pdf
  12. ↑ http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/
  13. ↑ Liberty Hill website: Advisory Board
  14. ↑ http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=804
  15. ↑ [2] George Mason University History News Network, accessed June 13, 2010
  16. ↑ [3]
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