Breaking Barriers, Building Democracy: A Call to Establish Political Inclusion and Equality

Saturday, Jan. 26, 2002
The Millennium Hotel
1313 Nicollet Mall
Downtown Minneapolis

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 10:00
Welcome and Overview of the Day -
Living in Contradiction: Democracy and Persistent Inequalities
john a. powell - Executive Director and Founder of the Institute on Race & Poverty

10:00 - 11:15 The Democratic Project: Democracy as an Ideal and as Practiced - Alexander Keyssar - Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:30 Panel Discussion: Overcoming Barriers to a True Democracy

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch
Broadening the Base: Mobilizing a New Majority for Justice
Peter Edelman - Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center

1:45 - 2:00 Break

2:00 - 3:45 Small Group Discussions
Small groups will meet to discuss impediments to achieving democratic ideals and generate concrete ways to address these impediments in the short- and long term.

3:45 - 5:00 Report Back from Small Groups
Creating an Agenda for Democratic Reform - john a. powell - Executive Director and Founder of the Institute on Race & Poverty