BREAKING THROUGH POWER - 26, 27, 28, 29 SEPTEMBER 2016Washington, DC
OCTOBER 1ST, 1PM AT POLITICS AND PROSE
Ralph Nader discusses BREAKING THROUGH POWER: IT'S EASIER THAN WE THINK
OUR SPEAKERSMARY ALEXANDER
Attorney
Most lawyers take on a case – a few take on a cause. Over the past 30 years, Mary Alexander has earned a national reputation for her work protecting consumer rights, winning the respect of clients and colleagues alike. A past president of both the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Consumer Attorneys of California, Mary’s career – both in and out of the courtroom – has focused on one thing: ensuring that those who have been harmed by the negligent, preventable actions of others get their day in court – and get the answers, and justice, they deserve.
But it’s not just the results that have made Mary one of California’s most sought-after trial attorneys. It’s also a unique combination of capabilities and compassion that few lawyers can bring to their cases – or their clients. A scientist before she studied law, Mary leverages her technical background in every matter she takes on, and is well known for her ability to explain complicated theories to juries – and for using high-tech courtroom exhibits that help make difficult points easy to comprehend. She’s taken on cases other lawyers won’t, or can’t – such as child sex abuse cases – and assisted clients from all walks of life.
Along the way, Mary, a graduate of Santa Clara University Law School, has been recognized repeatedly by her peers, and the press, for her work.
http://www.maryalexanderlaw.com/MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Trial Lawyers for Justice
Constitution Hall
TODD ANDERSON
Father, Victim Advocate, Writer, Corporate Executive
Todd Anderson is father of Skyler Justice Anderson-Coughlin, an amazing young man who succumbed to a preventable tragedy. Todd Anderson has advocated for improved vehicle recall processes, including speaking at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) public hearing on vehicle safety defects. He has appeared in numerous newspapers, TV news reports and documentaries, in an effort to increase vehicle transportation safety, and in particular, the recall process.
Todd Anderson has an extensive business background with a BA in Business-Economics (SUNY Oneonta) and MBA in Marketing (University of New Haven). Todd has over 30 years’ experience in the corporate world, primarily in logistics for large multi-national corporations. Todd launched a number of entrepreneurial ventures with his son, Skyler. Currently, Todd is developing a nonprofit which is dedicated to fine art preservation, education and charity.
Todd is an avid writer. He has contributed to multiple books, including Imagine: The Spirit of Twentieth-Century American Heroes, and American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History
MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 11:00 am - 11:40 am
Plantiffs for Justice
Constitution Hall
SAMAN AZIMI
PIRG Student Leader, UConn
Saman is a sophomore dual degree in finance and the classics at the University of Connecticut. Hailing from Mansfield, CT, he is UConn born and bred, and is working to improve the place that’s so long been a part of his life through UConnPIRG. His primary interests (apart from soccer) are environmental sustainability, political engagement, and campaign finance reform. Being only in his second year, he’s optimistic that significant positive change will come to UConn in the coming years.
MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:20 am - 9:40 am
Empowering Students
Constitution Hall
LAURA BARRETT
Executive Director, Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Laura Barrett became the Executive Director of CHEJ in 2015. Previously she served as the campaign director for Gamaliel, an international community organizing training network, where she headed the Transportation Equity Network. Laura worked as a field organizer for the Center for Community Change, and served as director of Housing Comes First, the Missouri Public Interest Research Group (MoPIRG), and the Campaign for Jobs and Housing. She was the campaign manager for a ballot initiative that resulted in the passage of the largest per capita housing trust fund in America, the St. Louis Housing Trust Fund. She has helped groups to win millions of dollars in public transportation funding and negotiated community benefits agreements and positive workforce development policies at the local, state and federal levels. Laura is the recipient of the Women Who Move the Nation from the Council of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO). She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Washington University.
MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 11:20 am - 11:40 am
How Events Spark the Creation of Organizations
Constitution Hall
WILLIAM BLACK
University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Law
William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black’s expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of “control fraud”, in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a “weapon” to commit fraud.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?opt ... umival=795MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Turning the Lights Out on Major Financial Fraud
Carnegie Institution of Washington
F. PAUL BLAND
Executive Director, Public Justice
Mr. F. Paul Bland, Jr. is the Executive Director of Public Justice, which fights injustice and ensures equal access to the courts. Paul has argued and won more than 30 cases that led to reported decisions for consumers, employees or whistleblowers in six of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the high courts of nine different states. Paul has testified in both houses of Congress, several state legislatures and administrative agencies; has been quoted in more than 100 periodicals throughout the country and has appeared in several radio and TV stories.
MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Trial Lawyers for Justice
Constitution Hall
JOHN BOGLE
The founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group
John C. Bogle, 87, is Founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of Vanguard’s Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. He had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951, immediately following his graduation from Princeton University, magna cum laude in Economics. He is a graduate of Blair Academy, Class of 1947.The Vanguard Group is the largest mutual fund organization in the world. Headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Vanguard comprises more than 160 mutual funds with current assets totaling more than $3.4 trillion. Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the largest fund in the group, was founded by Mr. Bogle in 1975. It was the first index mutual fund.
http://johncbogle.com/wordpress/FIDUCIARY DUTIES AS IF SHAREHOLDERS MATTERED
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 1:20 pm - 1:40 pm
Fiduciary Duties as if Shareholders Mattered
Carnegie Institution of Washington
CARL T. BOGUS
Professor of Law at Roger Williams University
Carl T. Bogus is a Professor of Law at the Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island. He teaches Torts, Products Liability, Antitrust Law, and other courses. He has held visiting positions at the Rutgers-Camden, Drexel, and George Washington University law schools. Professor Bogus has written and spoken extensively about torts and the civil justice system, gun control and the Second Amendment, and political ideology. He is the author of Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism (Bloomsbury Press) and Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law (NYU Press), and the editor of The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms (The New Press). In addition to many professional journals, his writings have appeared in newspapers including USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Times, and the Providence Journal; in The Nation, American Prospect, American Conservative, and Tikkun magazines; and on the National Review and CNN websites.
http://law.rwu.edu/carl-t-bogusMY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 10:10 am - 10:30 am
Why Lawsuits are Good for America
Constitution Hall
DAVID BOLLIER
Co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication
David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who spends a lot of time exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. His work on the commons takes many forms — as an author and blogger; frequent international speaker; conference and workshop organizer; contributor to book anthologies; designer of courses on the commons; and advisor and strategist. He taught “The Rise of the Commons” course at Amherst College as the Croxton Lecturer in 2010; and served an expert witness for the “design commons” in a trademark lawsuit. He was Founding Editor of Onthecommons.org and a Fellow of On the Commons from 2004 to 2010.
http://www.bollier.org/MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Controlling What We Own—Defending the Commons
Carnegie Institution of Washington
BERT BRANDENBURG
President, Appleseed Network
Bert became President of Appleseed in August 2015. For more than a decade he was the Executive Director of Justice at Stake, a national, nonpartisan partnership to keep courts fair, impartial and independent. Bert was the U.S. Justice Department’s Director of Public Affairs and chief spokesperson under Attorney General Janet Reno, where he supervised media strategy and press relations for the Department, the FBI, DEA, INS, and 93 U.S. Attorney’s offices. He served in policy and communications positions for the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the National Performance Review, the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and presidential transition team, Congressman Edward Feighan, and the Progressive Policy Institute. Bert also serves as President of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, on the board of the Loth Roth Endowment, and as a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He holds a J.D. and B.A. from the University of Virginia.
MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:40 am - 10:00 am
Building Alumni Civic Organizations
Constitution Hall
ELLEN BROWN
Founder, Public Banking Institute
Ellen Brown is the founder of the Public Banking Institute and the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles. She developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In the best-selling Web of Debt (2007, 2012), she turned those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust,” showing how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves and how we the people can get it back.
In The Public Bank Solution (2013) she traces the evolution of two banking models that have competed historically, public and private; and explores contemporary public banking systems globally. She has presented these ideas at scores of conferences in the US and abroad, including in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Malaysia, Mexico and Venezuela.
Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm
Public Banking
Carnegie Institution of Washington
MICHAEL BROWN
DC Senator
Michael Donald “Mike” Brown is a shadow senator from the District of Columbia.As a shadow senator, Brown receives no pay from the government, receives no budget from the government, and cannot vote on matters before the Senate. While he does not have an office in the United States Senate, the Government of the District provides the position with an office. Brown lobbies the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives on behalf of the citizens of the District in their attempt to gain full representation in Congress, self-determination, and eventually admittance to the Union as a state. As shadow senator, Brown also works with the District’s delegate, mayor, and council to advance the interest of local residents on Federal issues.
MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 1:35 pm - 2:05 pm
The Case for Statehood—Ending the Colony
Constitution Hall
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