As Congress and State Legislatures around the country debate critical issues, many of our partners and alumni are engaged in heated citizen lobbying campaigns to a progressive policy agenda forward.
Camp Wellstone participants in the candidate track get the opportunity to try their hand at one of the first challenges of running for office -- boiling down your message into a one-minute speech.
Building powerful, long-term movements for change by enhancing and connecting the electoral, public policy, and leadership development work of progressive nonprofit organizations.
According to training manager Jen Haut, the 2009 offering of Camp Wellstone Seattle was a huge success. The organization that bears the name of the late Minnesota Senator, Paul Wellstone came to Seattle for their third year of Progressive Activist Training.
In 2009, Wellstone Action is continuing a partnership with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to train their rank-and-file members in the skills needed to run for office and win.
In a recent visit to the Sheila Wellstone Institute, US Senator Amy
Klobuchar (MN) talked of the importance of continuing to make the
issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking a priority in government and public policy.
In a new report entitled Race and the Recession, the Applied Research Center details that people of color have been in a recession for decades, not just in the past two years.
