Turkey RPCV Elaine Jones to be Honored by Campaign for America's Future; Gala Awards Dinner Opens 'Take Back America' Conference
Eliot Spitzer, Elaine Jones, MoveOn.org to be Honored by Campaign for America's Future; Gala Awards Dinner Opens 'Take Back America' Conference
5/27/2004 2:40:00 PM
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Toby Chaudhuri or Andrea Miller, 202-955-5665, both of Campaign for America's Future
News Advisory:
The Campaign for America's Future will recognize three bright lights in the progressive movement - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund President Elaine Jones and Moveon.org - at its "Take Back America" Gala Awards Dinner Wednesday, June 2.
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will receive the America's Future Progressive Champion Award for his work cleaning up corporate America and will deliver the keynote address. Elaine Jones will be saluted with the prestigious America's Future Lifetime Leadership Award for her invaluable contributions to civil rights, law and politics in America. Jones recently retired after more than 3 decades with the Legal Defense Fund. MoveOn.org's staff and membership will receive the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award for their work engaging and mobilizing people in America. Moveon.org has more than 2 million activists in the United States, making it larger than the Christian Coalition at its peak.
Thousands of progressive leaders, experts and activists will gather in Washington to "Take Back America" at the Campaign for America's Future's conference Wednesday, June 2nd through Friday, June 4th. The conference will bring together all of the groups working hard this year, independent of the Democratic Party, to change the national debate, to challenge the Right and to promote a positive agenda for change.
"TAKE BACK AMERICA" GALA AWARDS DINNER
DATE: Wednesday, June 2
TIME: 7 p.m.
Camera preset: 5:30 p.m.
Final access: 6:50 p.m.
Throw 1: 150 feet direct
Throw 2: 65 feet offset
Video mult: available to pool
NOTE: Media representatives interested in pooled video should contact Andrea Miller at 202-955-5665 to reserve space.
PLACE: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Ballroom, 2660 Woodley Road, NW, Washington, D.C.
PARTICIPANTS:
-- Arianna Huffington, author and commentator
-- Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
-- Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future
-- John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO
-- Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, D-N.Y., America's Future Progressive Champion Award recipient
-- Roger Wilkins, civil rights activist and George Mason University Robinson Professor
-- Elaine Jones, President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and America's Future Lifetime Leadership Award recipient
-- MoveOn.org staff and membership, Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award recipient
-- Moby, musician
NOTE: Media representatives who wish to cover conference events should pre-credential by faxing their name and contact information on accredited letterhead to Andrea Miller at 202-478- 0953 no later than May 28, 2004.
Media must bring valid federal- or state-issued photo identification and press credentials to gain access to conference events.
