2009 Convention Agenda

2009 PDNC Convention Agenda

Confronting Corporatocracy
Saving Democracy

9:00 Registration

9:30 Welcome and Introduction – Heide Kober, PDNC President

9: 45 Sacrificial Poets

10:00 David Donnelly, The Selling Out of the Change Agenda in DC
11:00 break

11:15 PDNC Strategy Proposal – Jack Sanders

11:45 Small Groups discuss and evaluate proposal and formulate key questions.

12:15 Lunch - Sacrificial Poets

1:00 Gene Nichol – Money, Power, and Poverty

1:30 Bob Hall – How Raleigh Works and Winning Campaign Reform in NC
2:00 Ilana Dubester – The Corporatocracy and Wedge Issue Politics: Keeping Us Divided and Distracted

2:30 Break

2:45 Panel of all speakers: Strategy for Confronting Corportocracy – working off morning strategy for PDNC, Michelle Laws moderates

3:30 Senate Candidates; (Cal Cunningham, Mayor Kevin Foy, and Kenneth Lewis have confirmed) Chris Lizak, moderates

4:30 break

4:45 Business Meeting:
- Set 2009-2010 Strategy for PDNC – vote on strategy proposal
- financial report
- PAC and endorsement process

5:30 Adjourn