All times are Eastern Standard Time. Take a Walk, Scott: Post-Mortem of the Wisconsin Recalls Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:30am, Ballroom A Citizens United, Super PACs and the Fight for Our Democracy Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 03:00pm,
June 8, 2012


All times are Eastern Standard Time.

Take a Walk, Scott: Post-Mortem of the Wisconsin Recalls
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:30am, Ballroom A

Citizens United, Super PACs and the Fight for Our Democracy
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 03:00pm, Ballroom A

That Will Never Work: What Progressives Can Learn from OWS
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 04:30pm, Ballroom A

Chairman’s Pub Quiz VI: Revenge of the Chairman
Special Event; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 06:00pm, Ballroom A

Blogging for Transgender Equality: History, Challenges and Progress
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:30am, Ballroom B

Bold Progressive 99% Candidates in 2012
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 03:00pm, Ballroom B

Iran 2012: Iraq 2003 All Over Again?
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 04:30pm, Ballroom B

Combatting Criminal Justice Violations: Challenging Assumptions and Winning Campaigns
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:30am, Ballroom D

Your Phone Is Political
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 03:00pm, Ballroom D

Mobile Organizing for 2012: From Elections to Occupy, Anti-Fracking to Arab Spring
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 04:30pm, Ballroom D

What Progressives Can Do to Stop the War on Public Education
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:30am, 552

Saving Public Transportation: A Matter of Social Justice
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 03:00pm, 552

Big Decisions: A Discussion of Recent and Upcoming SCOTUS Cases
Panel; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 04:30pm, 552

Ignite @ Netroots Nation
Special Event; Fri, 06/08/2012 - 06:00pm, 552

Watch live streaming video from fstv1 at livestream.com

2012 and the War on (and for) Women

Session Type(s): Keynote
Starts: Friday, Jun. 8 12:00 PM
Ends: Friday, Jun. 8 1:15 PM

Moderated by Amanda Terkel, Amanda is a Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at The Huffington Post. Previously, Amanda served as Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and the Managing Editor of ThinkProgress.org

With panelists Darcy Burner: Progressive candidate for Congress in WA-01, working to build an America that works for ALL of the American people. Former executive director of ProgressiveCongress.org and the Progressive Congress Action Fund. Board member of the Netroots Foundation and the Center for International Policy. Former board member of NARAL Pro-Choice America, ActBlue, SNAP-PAC, Council for a Livable World’s PeacePAC, and the Progressive Ideas Network. Principal on the Afghanistan Study Group. Author and organizer of A Responsible Plan to End the War in Afghanistan. Rabblerouser.

Representative Mazie Hirono (D-HI) would be the first Asian-American woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate and would be a people’s senator — a leader who comes from humble beginnings and who has overcome difficult obstacles.

Born in Japan, Mazie spent her early years on her grandparents’ rice farm, sent there by her mother to escape a father whose chronic alcoholism and compulsive gambling left the family with few means and even less stability. When nearly eight years old, Mazie, her mother, and her older brother fled Japan for Hawaii in search of a better life.

Mazie served as Hawaii’s lieutenant governor from 1994-2002 and has represented Hawaii’s second district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007.

Mazie’s complete biography can be found at http://www.mazieforhawaii.com.

Elizabeth Warren has made her life’s work fighting for middle class families. She’s taken on big banks and financial institutions to win historic new financial protections for middle class families.

Elizabeth has been a law professor at Harvard for nearly 20 years. National Law Journal named her one of the Most Influential Lawyers of the Decade.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Elizabeth served as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP. Her efforts to protect taxpayers and hold Wall Street accountable won praise from both sides of the aisle. The Boston Globe named Elizabeth Bostonian of the Year in 2009 for her work.

Elizabeth is widely credited for the original thinking behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She led the establishment of the agency, building the structure and organization to protect consumers from financial tricks and traps hidden in mortgages, credit cards and other financial products.

Elizabeth Warren's website: http://elizabethwarren.com/announcement

Many thanks to Mary Rickles with Netroots Nation for making these livestreams available to our readers.

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