Formally because it is being filmed for cspan as well. Could turn off their phones we are going to have an incredible panel. We will start with them. Then we will get questions from some of you. We have an overflow room. It will be going until 2 00. We have plenty of time. We have seats for people just coming in. Ok. Welcome the people in the room and the tens of thousands to the through cspan institute for policy studies for the session on what we have theed election debrief next step support of the progressive movement. I am john cabana, the director for the institute of policy studies i will be moderating todays session with five wonderful scholar activists from ips and allied groups. I just want to read you the that ips wrote when they wrote up the session three weeks ago, because it is still what we are doing. Let me read this. Says, these are these two smart people. They said the election is over. Racism, xenophobia, Climate Change, inequities, inequality are still with us. We maintain our collective momentum and what are our next steps to positively transform our nation after the ballots are counted . Join our informed and Dynamic Panel and be a participating audience member as we discuss and interact with some of these struggling movement to transform them. We need to come together and immediately begin action steps for the next four years and beyond. So, that is what we plan to do for the next 90 minutes. Let me briefly introduce our five panelists. Ips,e cofounder of someone who has led us in understanding elections going back several decades. Aen fly the omitted as, senior attorney and project director on immigrant justice. Ofn barber, the director domestic policy and a longtime ally for the center for policy research and the Prince Georges county, maryland peoples for or later. Alition he is also the winner of a human rights award for his brave work with a group repeal or ridge rest. And finally the institute of policy studies new internationalism project and an author most recently of understanding isis and the new global war on terror, a primer. Let me start by saying this. Ips has worked with vibrant social movements for over five decades to advance peace, justice, and the environment. In the u. S. And beyond. And we are committed to being a space for Creative Ideas and civil dialogue in this deeply theded country and world in days and weeks and years to come. And i just want to say our cofounder is here. Let us through much of that. Jamie was elected to the u. S. Congress. Many people in this country and the world are right now in shock over this election. And we will need to cherish these spaces where we can come together and dialogue and we at ips offer you one. You can find us on the web also cc. Org. Ips is nonpartisan. We do not take positions on candidates. But we are aware that many individuals supported jill stein in this election. Many supported Bernie Sanders. Clinton. Orted hillary many supported others and we celebrate that diversity. Here are the rules. Each of our five folks will speak for five minutes. I will remind them 15 minutes are up. They have a lot more to say, but we will save the rest of it in dialogue with all of you and i will field questions and we will be getting some also via social media and i will intersperse the conversation today with a few quotes from movement allies. People who are already building for this next phase of work, things they have set out this morning and i just want to start with a quote this morning, not from one of our allies, but a woman i did not know on the Huffington Post who wrote a blog called what do we tell the children . Just to set the tone for the is by allie, it michael, these director for the Race Institute for k12 educators. Here is what she wrote. Its funny. She asked if it was ok if she cried in the session and, of course, it is. Tell them first we will protect them. We have democratic processes in the u. S. That make it impossible for one mean person to do too much damage. Protect theseill democratic processes and we will use them so that trump is unable to act on many of the false promises he made during the campaign. Tell them second you will honor the outcome of the election, but you will fight to get tree. All them bigotry is not democratic value and it will not be tolerated at your school. Tell them you stand by your muslim family, your samesex gay families, your mexican students, your immigrant families, your trans students, your native students. Tell them you will not let anyone hurt them or to port them or threaten them without having to contend with you first. Say that silence is dangerous and teach them how to speak up when something is wrong. Then teach them how to speak up, how to love one another, how to understand one another, how to deal with conflicting ideologies and the skills to deal with a world that does not help no have to do this. Let me start with steve, progressive democrats of america. Steve so, that was a nice night, huh . [laughter] steve i meant to wear a black armband today so i did not have to be clear on where i stood. I guess we know why all the medical marijuana initiatives past. We are going to need it over the next few years. Eight years ago, i was on a in the wake old ips of barack obama from first elections. And i remember telling everybody it was probably the best election of the rest of my life, and i think probably last night might qualify for the worst, and im old, so that includes Ronald Reagan in 1980 and Richard Nixon winning 49 states against George Mcgovern in 1972, which was my first one. I have been through some bad with. That one last night might have been the worst. Phenomena ight this is obvious, right . Its not going away. Duh. It is worldwide. It is connected to austerity, and of course, it is connected to racism, and its going to be with us for way too long. Time in the last seven president ial elections, the democrats will win the popular vote. Hillary will win the popular vote. No one pointed it out left that, but she took the lead this morning and its going to grow. The electoralis, college is taken the popular vote victory away from us, and the Supreme Court and other things obviously helps in 2000, but we do need to remember she rising american electorate did hold together last night, more or less. Even without barack obama, who of course is a tremendous votegetter. Hillary is going to win that election thanks to latinos especially. She is going to have the margin of victory last night. Unfortunately, we are missing in two0 or 30,000 votes or three states that were needed. This is partly a structural defeat combined with, as bomar said last week, a slowmoving rightwing coup as bill maher said last week, a slowmoving rightwing coup. Donors,idden money from but her malpractice, gerrymandering, a poisonous, fraudulent internet, which we have lost control of. We used to be the masters of it only Progressive Side and were not anymore. Course,it job, and of holding the Supreme Court hostage for a year, for which the republicans are not only not going to pay a price, they are going to be rewarded. So, its more obvious than ever we need serious electorate reform. In my remaining minute or a half or what ever high of gotten, we need small dollar multiple public match public financing. We need instant runoff financing. We need to roll back Citizens United and buckley. Popular voteional so the prisoner wins the election wins the election. We need a constitutional right to vote. We need to in gerrymandering. We need universal automatic photo registration like oregon pioneered last year in a few states have copied you read we need to regain the public airwaves, which we have given away to privateers. We need to eliminate long lines at the polls because long lines at the polls are voter suppression. And we still need to fix the electronic machines because who knows who one pennsylvania last night . We are never going to know. For getting all of this nonsense i have worked on this my entire career to an amazing of success is to get out of the way and let the millennials figure it out. If you want me to talk about that later, i will. At me end on a thin reed of Silver Lining here. The decks are cleared for 2018 and 2020. Is no we are in a dead straight fight right now. The fight requires a serious left leadership. It requires people like ips. One thing about ips they are never going to be out of a job because theres always going to be racism, sexism, xenophobia, Climate Change, Nuclear Catastrophe to deal with. We need the energy and smarts all the millennials, of people like ips. , progressive ideas. Eform ideas the lines are clear in the right is going to fail. We know they are going to fail. Their ideas dont make any sense. Everyone is going to see a better world is still possible, however far away it seems this morning. John thank you. [applause] john next fly the of gimenez flavia gimenez. Invia just spent time florida where there was quite a bit of gerrymandering and confusion at the polls. Coming off of that. Thank you for inviting me today. To read two sentences from the press release at the advancement project today. Talking about the pull of color. We have demonstrated people of color. We have demonstrated we will not be silent. Our movement is stronger than it has ever been. Our solidarity is deeper than ever. So, what happens to immigrants and immigration policy in this country now in the wake of this unexpected election . I would say first and foremost there has never been a more important time to build a multiracial movement. There is a very, very clear aalysis on how racism has hand in policymaking in this country as relates to immigrants. We must be very clear, because the lap of clarity is actually quite shocking. This is one of those things where hindsight is 20 20. Tomorrow is a new day. We have to get to a reset. The unity of the Alliance Building with the leaders in the africanamerican community, Lgbt Q CommunityLgbtq Community has never been more important. For the next several months until 2017, january 2017, leaders will have to expand and create new alliances. I know there are many organizational alliances who have begun this journey on how to build these broadbased multiracial alliances. Just a little bit about what we know about what donald trump said during his candidacy on immigration. He talked about building a wall. He talked about setting up a federal Deportation Force for the undocumented. In other words emboldening and forceful the already deportation practice that was president obama who has deported more individuals than any other president in the history of the United States, over 2 million people. A Trump Presidency will continue this and expand on that. , veryalso very likely possible, the next president will take away the deferred action for childhood arrivals, aca, which is helped hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth obtain a deferment to their deportation. That is the bad news. Ok . What is the good news . The good news is we have absolutely no option to build a wall of resistance. Candidate trump talked about building a wall. We will build a wall of resistance. There are number of moderate republican to understand complete isolation and deportation policies are bad for communities and ultimately for them in their own communities moving forward. How do we work with those individuals who have said out loud, im not comfortable with mass deportation . These alliances well beyond what we have already done is going to take a lot of work, but there is no time for paralysis. I think we are all feeling that way right now. Lets give ourselves one day to to be paralyzed and tomorrow, lets start working outside of our comfort can buildee how we these alliances. They are going to be powerful moving forward with the progressive movement, with all of these other communities. The lives ofy millions of people are at stake, including families with children born in the United States. So they have United States citizenship and we have to take more courageous steps so the rights of every single individual, including those who are undocumented are protected in the face of what could be a deportation machine, and expanded deportation machine. Please follow the advancement project on social media. Sign up for our email list as we embark on this new era in american history. Thank you. To nexting text to our guest from cpr. Thank you for this very important and crucial for a. Like a lot of others, i did not get a lot of sleep last night. Ancollected this to be historic election, and it was, but not the way we thought it would be. We find ourselves at a historic moment. This could be a turning point. Our route has changed, but we still have the same way forward we did. Today we are going to talk about some of those ways in ways that they intersect. But for now, i want to touch on inequality. Income inequality remains a challenge we have to overcome as a nation and even though the executive and legislative branches will not be as receptive as they were still saweeks ago we in this election campaigns that gave voice to a popular spirit that insists on being heard. Does haveis populism roots in income inequality. For far too long, americans have been more and more productive at work, but we have not seen our grow in proportion. The family of four makes pretty much the same thing they may 20 years ago and if we talk about the warm percent, we know it is even worse. See the back, we can top 1 has grown by 138 . The bottom 90 is at 15 . Let that sink in. I mean, that means the American Dream that a lot of us think of does not exist for a lot of people. The u. S. Has fallen to number 13 in terms of social mobility nations. Anced this is important because we find ourselves at a moment where these campaigns have given voice to populist movements at a state and local level and this is where we have to turn our attention to. We have to push for raising the minimum wage. I think if we continue to focus maybeas like that, we can claw back some of the losses we and start thinking about 2020. And away the campaign of 2020 starts right now. A lot of things will come out of the next 100 days. The Trump Administration will set the agenda that people are running on, running against. We deserve a moment. This hurt. But what we have to do is take that moment, galvanize ourselves and go back to local communities and find issues we can organize around and find people we can put in position to run for local office, National Office and we will turn this around. Now, john and karen sent us a lot of gentle, subtle reminders about keeping to the clock. So i am going to close. John thank you, alan. In the conversation we will get into the local level, the state level, as well as the global level we fight on. Next, jonathan, as i mentioned, from the peoples coalition, the coordinator in Prince Georges county, maryland. Jonathan think it, john. Thank you to the institute for policy studies for helping us and giving us this opportunity to project forward to the nation and the world at large. What i was planning to say today was totally discarded probably about midnight last night. And i began to think about how we got here. , im speaking we about those of us who were born on the margins. Im talking about those of us who constitute the desperate, the damped, disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised. 20 years ago when i was the student audie president at 1998, weiversity in heard from a revolutionary and in my opinion, the greatest and most humble revolutionary to walk that campus. He was known to my mothers generation as to click on michael. This was nine months before he somed and he left us with historical dictums and there was one that penetrated me that day and that resounds more profoundly today than it ever did. He simply said to us, numerous thes that night but struggle is eternal. That means there is no time for us to relax and sit back and enjoy life. He went further to tell as this was reactionary thinking of the worst order. When i was thinking earlier about what i could say, i thought to myself that i am a child of the american south. We were taught in atlanta, georgia i am a 1980s kid, born in 1977, we had overcome. But what i recall from my nephew , oral and written, is when the modernday Civil Rights Movement began in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, when a training human rights activist by the name of rosa parks that refused to give up her seat that day we didnt enough votes thats it. In fact, we could not vote. So how were we able to bring a bus system to its knees . In 1957 in little rock, arkansas, we didnt have the most votes. They couldnt vote. In 1961, when the freedom ride took off in washington, d. C. The 13 freedom riders, architect of that freedom ride, equalityess of racial would not have the most votes. We cannot even vote. In 1963 in birmingham, alabama, eugene represented statehouse. We were being crushed in birmingham. We didnt have the most votes. We didnt even have the right to vote. These cities i am saying to you in selma, that was the crescendo, where everything came to the climax. Here we had a climax of Alabama State power smashing down on these nonviolent direct action protesters. We didnt have the right to vote. We still made it to the state capital. So what is the theme . The theme is that what i want to say to any activist, any organizer, anyone that desires to labor for peace, that should be all a bus, is that the joke that went through my spine yesterday is if we left the streets, we got to get back in the streets and organize for our survival. Thats number one. Number two is that we have to have a deeper analysis of how to use the vote. Firmly which i believe in. I believe post1965 coming took a too many of us nap and with the election of barack obama, sad to say, some of us went straight to sleep and we thought the white house was going to do the work for us. But the reality is that we are now in a worse situation today in the United States of america racially and in time