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Thinking Big Podcast 1: Why Now?
Commonweal Institute Senior Fellow Patrick O'Heffernan interviews Institute Director Dr. Barry Kendall and Nathaniel Loewentheil, Director of the Roosevelt Institution, about the new book from the Progressive Ideas Network, Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era.
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The Progressive Ideas Leadership Retreat
Summary
Leaders of 25 major progressive ideas institutions responded to a call from four peer institutions and met from December 10-12, 2007 in Tarrytown, NY. The retreat revealed much common ground, and participants recognized that they constitute an “ideas
sector” for the cause of progressive politics and social justice.
Participants have chosen to move together, beyond the
organization-logic that necessarily guides each of their institutions
individually, into a series of commitments and actions guided by
movement-logic aimed at bringing shared progressive values and policies
to the fore in American society.
Through three days of intense
dialog, the ideas sector leaders realized that they could strengthen
their combined effectiveness by forming a network capable of
considering the Progressive movement and the ideas that animate it as a
whole. The key commitments to come out of the retreat process were
1. To form a Progressive Ideas Network (PIN) whose first priority will be to facilitate
