Joel Rogers
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He is the author of several books, works as a contributing editor for <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boston Review</em> and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6779" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Nation</em></a>, and has founded some of the most powerful leftist organizations and coalitions in the United States. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Newsweek</em><a href="http://www.cows.org/about_staff_detail.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">named</a> Rogers one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century, and Glenn Beck <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591845,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">has called</a> him “the man behind <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">[Barack] Obama</a>.” <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Van Jones</a>, the revolutionary communist who served briefly as President Obama’s “green jobs czar,” has <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84fGcs-byQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">praised</a> Rogers’ “extraordinary set of achievements,” asserting that Rogers has given “three great gifts” to the progressive movement:</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">“an economic model,” which is “now reflected in the [Obama] White House”;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">a “new politics,” based upon the “<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">New Party</a>” and its successor, the “<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Working Families Party</a>,” that “brings together labor, civil rights, and feminists […] which is the basic framework for what just took over the White House [when Obama was elected]”; and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px;">“a new energy paradigm” as outlined by the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7490" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Apollo Alliance</a>, an organization Rogers helped create.</li></ul><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">Rogers <a href="http://www.epi.org/pages/economist/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">earned</a> a B.A. from <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6638" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Yale</a> College in 1972, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1976, an M.A. from Princeton University in 1978, and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1984.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In 1992 Rogers founded the tax-exempt <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7565" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a> (COWS), based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. COWS <a href="http://www.cows.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">describes</a> itself as “a national policy center and field laboratory for high-road economic development — a competitive market economy of shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and capable democratic government.”</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">That same year, Rogers co-founded the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">New Party</a>, a socialist coalition that endorsed and helped elect left-wing political candidates; one of its most noteworthy <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021724.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">members</a> in the mid-1990s was Barack Obama.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In the fall of 1994, Rogers was listed in a New Party <a href="http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/New_Party#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">publication</a> that named more than 100 activists “who are building the NP.” Other <a href="http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/New_Party#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">notable names</a> among the list of 100+ were: <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1812" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">John Cavanagh</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Noam Chomsky</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1058" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Barbara Ehrenreich</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1526" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Randall Forsberg</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2347" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Maude Hurd</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2229" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Manning Marable</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2505" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Frances Fox Piven</a>, Zach Polett, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1773" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Wade Rathke</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2506" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Mark Ritchie</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1813" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Gloria Steinem</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=813" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Cornel West</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2439" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Quentin Young</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Howard Zinn</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">During the early years of the New Party, Rogers fought to institute, in the state of Minnesota, the practice of electoral fusion — where two or more political parties can support the same political candidate and thereby pool the votes for all the parties involved; this practice enables smaller parties to influence the agendas of big-party candidates. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against electoral fusion in 1997, the New Party shut down its operation. It was reincarnated in 1998, however, by Rogers’ partner, Daniel Cantor, as the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Working Families Party</a>, which became a powerful front group for <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.orghttps//www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">ACORN</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">As the ’90s progressed, Rogers remained <a href="http://cows.org/pdf/ar-divided.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">intent</a> upon building a progressive alliance to redress the supposed failure of liberalism in America. “All around us is the wreckage of unrestrained capitalism—falling living standards, families strained to breaking point, rising inequality,” he lamented in 1994. For Rogers, liberals were ill-equipped to save the U.S. from economic decline and stagnation, since they “lack […] confidence in ordinary people” and, therefore, cannot build “organized popular support.” Progressives, by contrast, “actually believe in democracy” and can “do the heavy lifting against entrenched and resourceful corporate actors,” said Rogers.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In 1995 Rogers won a <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5223" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">MacArthur Foundation</a> Fellowship, nicknamed the “Genius Award.” Meanwhile, his COWS group continued to flourish, <a href="http://www.cows.org/about_index.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">receiving</a> the funding of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5202" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Annie E. Casey Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5266" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Carnegie Corporation of New York</a>, the <a href="http://www.carolynfoundation.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Carolyn Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5176" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Ford Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.garfieldfoundation.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Garfield Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5310" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Joyce Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7566" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Living Cities</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5311&category=79" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Nathan Cummings Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">George Soros</a>’ <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Open Society Institute</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5210&category=79" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Rockefeller Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5201" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Surdna Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5422" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Wallace Global Fund</a>, and the <a href="http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In early 1995, Rogers <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">published an essay</a> in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Left Review</em> – a periodical whose content is largely Marxist/socialist – suggesting that the New Party represented an important new voice in American politics. Moreover, he derided liberals for their failure to gain “social control of the economy” or to put “serious constraints on capital.” <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">With euphemism and convoluted language</a>, Rogers carefully avoided making an open call for socialism. Rather, he advocated “economic democracy,” whose “biggest … barrier,” he lamented, was “capitalism” — an “undemocratic” system featuring “private ownership of the means of production.” Rogers <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">pushed for</a> “reforms” that would “facilitate greater popular control of capital itself, which would permit experimentation with different forms of ownership and production….” Toward this end, he <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">proposed</a> a new “bill of rights” consisting of a de facto guaranteed minimum income, wage controls, and “employment redistribution” – i.e., guaranteed full employment, which could be achieved by a mandated shortening of the work-week.[</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In a 1996 speech](<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxYvYfx2rE" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxYvYfx2rE</a>) at <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6636" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Columbia University</a>, Rogers said that “profit-seeking business” was characterized by “swaggering ruthlessness,” immense “greed,” and “a blank indifference to all that is good and human.” He described capitalism as “monstrous.” He accused “the right in the early 1970s” of having commissioned intellectuals to “produce just tons of junk … books and case studies and made-up studies and empirical studies and fake studies.” Then he declared, “We [progressives] should do the same.” Moreover, he proposed that the U.S. should “double the minimum wage within three years.” He said that every child in America “should be fed, clothed, housed, decently fed, and insured, and eventually they’ll grow up and then vote for national health insurance.” And he made reference to Christian fundamentalists as “ungodly.”</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In 1997 Rogers was a <a href="http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/loudon-more-on-barack-obama-and-the-socialist-new-party/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">guest speaker</a> at the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6532" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Socialist Scholars Conference</a> in New York City.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">On September 20, 2001, Rogers spoke at a New York City <a href="http://www.dsausa.org/dl/DLFall2001.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">gathering</a> to honor the work of Richard Cloward (co-creator of the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Cloward-Piven Strategy</a>), who had died a month earlier. Other speakers included such notables as <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1058" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Barbara Ehrenreich</a>, June Jordan, Gus Newport, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2505" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Frances Fox Piven</a>, Miles Rappaport, Tim Sampson, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=813" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Cornel West</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Howard Zinn</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">Also in 2001, Rogers <a href="http://progressive-strategy2.blogspot.com/2006/05/joel-rogers-seminar-summary.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">co-founded EARN</a>, a self-described “poverty group” whose board of directors <a href="http://www.earn.org/site/downpage.php?NodeID=106" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">includes</a> executives from AJW Inc., Citibank, Covington & Burling LLP, Goldman Sachs, Sotheby’s International Realty, and Wells Fargo. In addition, he became an advisor to the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7331" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Campaign for America’s Future</a> (CAF). Soon after 9/11, Rogers’ COWS partnered with CAF’s sister organization, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7332" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Institute for America’s Future</a>, and with the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5184&category=79" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Tides Center</a>, to create the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7490" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Apollo Alliance</a> (AA), where Rogers served as the nascent group’s first chairman. At the AA, Rogers was able to lay out a strategy for green economics, which, as longtime AA board member Van Jones claimed, became the immediate model for the Obama administration’s environmental policy.</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to AA, Rogers’ COWS also <a href="http://www.cows.org/collab_index.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">developed</a> a host of other progressive projects, most notably the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7564" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Emerald Cities Collaborative</a>, a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591845,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">major player</a> in the <a href="http://www.cows.org/collab_projects_detail.asp?id=63" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">push</a> for Cap-and-Trade legislation, <a href="http://www.cows.org/collab_projects_detail.asp?id=64" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">and</a> <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7554" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Green For All</a> (with <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Van Jones</a> as founder).</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">In the August/September 2004 issue of <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6779" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Nation</em></a>, Rogers <a href="http://www.cows.org/pdf/ar-devolve.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">lamented</a> that “the dismantling of the New Deal welfare state, twentieth-century American liberalism’s greatest domestic achievement” had already taken place, with the Bush Administration representing the culmination of America’s “devolution” and posing “the greatest internal threat to our democracy in our history.” Progressives, Rogers argued, needed a new strategy to wrest power away from conservatives:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.5rem;"><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">“[I]n no state are there functional majorities of self-consciously progressive elected officials, working together off a visible, coherent program of progressive economic, social and political reform, linked systematically to outside progressive forces. That is what the right is building on its side, and what we need to build on ours.”</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">Rogers calls for progressives to place their own candidates inside government, candidates who will “systematically” follow the agendas of “outside progressive forces” to engineer radical change in America. Such change, Rogers hopes, will cause the U.S. not only to become more judicious in its use of military force overseas, but also to begin to make amends for its “<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">four hundred years’ racism</a>.”</p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;">Along with his other duties and affiliations, Rogers <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/experts/rogersj.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">is</a> a Senior Fellow at <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6890" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">the Brookings Institution</a>.</p></li></ul></div><hr class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--off-white); margin: 2.25rem 0px;" /></section><section class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 profile-body--section" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 sr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -1px; line-height: 1.25; position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; width: 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 section-body f-6 lh-200" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2;"><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A professor of law, political science, and sociology at the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6683" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">University of Wisconsin</a>-Madison, Joel Rogers is an influential figure in progressive politics. He is the author of several books, works as a contributing editor for <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boston Review</em> and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6779" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Nation</em></a>, and has founded some of the most powerful leftist organizations and coalitions in the United States. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Newsweek</em><a href="http://www.cows.org/about_staff_detail.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">named</a> Rogers one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century, and Glenn Beck <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591845,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">has called</a> him “the man behind <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">[Barack] Obama</a>.” <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Van Jones</a>, the revolutionary communist who served briefly as President Obama’s “green jobs czar,” has <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84fGcs-byQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">praised</a> Rogers’ “extraordinary set of achievements,” asserting that Rogers has given “three great gifts” to the progressive movement:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“an economic model,” which is “now reflected in the [Obama] White House”;</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a “new politics,” based upon the “<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">New Party</a>” and its successor, the “<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Working Families Party</a>,” that “brings together labor, civil rights, and feminists […] which is the basic framework for what just took over the White House [when Obama was elected]”; and</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“a new energy paradigm” as outlined by the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7490" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Apollo Alliance</a>, an organization Rogers helped create.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rogers <a href="http://www.epi.org/pages/economist/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">earned</a> a B.A. from <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6638" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Yale</a> College in 1972, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1976, an M.A. from Princeton University in 1978, and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1984.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1992 Rogers founded the tax-exempt <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7565" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a> (COWS), based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. COWS <a href="http://www.cows.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">describes</a> itself as “a national policy center and field laboratory for high-road economic development — a competitive market economy of shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and capable democratic government.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That same year, Rogers co-founded the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">New Party</a>, a socialist coalition that endorsed and helped elect left-wing political candidates; one of its most noteworthy <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021724.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">members</a> in the mid-1990s was Barack Obama.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the fall of 1994, Rogers was listed in a New Party <a href="http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/New_Party#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">publication</a> that named more than 100 activists “who are building the NP.” Other <a href="http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/New_Party#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">notable names</a> among the list of 100+ were: <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1812" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">John Cavanagh</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Noam Chomsky</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1058" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Barbara Ehrenreich</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1526" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Randall Forsberg</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2347" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Maude Hurd</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2229" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Manning Marable</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2505" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Frances Fox Piven</a>, Zach Polett, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1773" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Wade Rathke</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2506" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Mark Ritchie</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1813" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Gloria Steinem</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=813" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Cornel West</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2439" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Quentin Young</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Howard Zinn</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the early years of the New Party, Rogers fought to institute, in the state of Minnesota, the practice of electoral fusion — where two or more political parties can support the same political candidate and thereby pool the votes for all the parties involved; this practice enables smaller parties to influence the agendas of big-party candidates. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against electoral fusion in 1997, the New Party shut down its operation. It was reincarnated in 1998, however, by Rogers’ partner, Daniel Cantor, as the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Working Families Party</a>, which became a powerful front group for <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.orghttps//www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">ACORN</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the ’90s progressed, Rogers remained <a href="http://cows.org/pdf/ar-divided.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">intent</a> upon building a progressive alliance to redress the supposed failure of liberalism in America. “All around us is the wreckage of unrestrained capitalism—falling living standards, families strained to breaking point, rising inequality,” he lamented in 1994. For Rogers, liberals were ill-equipped to save the U.S. from economic decline and stagnation, since they “lack […] confidence in ordinary people” and, therefore, cannot build “organized popular support.” Progressives, by contrast, “actually believe in democracy” and can “do the heavy lifting against entrenched and resourceful corporate actors,” said Rogers.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1995 Rogers won a <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5223" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">MacArthur Foundation</a> Fellowship, nicknamed the “Genius Award.” Meanwhile, his COWS group continued to flourish, <a href="http://www.cows.org/about_index.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">receiving</a> the funding of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5202" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Annie E. Casey Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5266" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Carnegie Corporation of New York</a>, the <a href="http://www.carolynfoundation.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Carolyn Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5176" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Ford Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.garfieldfoundation.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Garfield Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5310" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Joyce Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7566" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Living Cities</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5311&category=79" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Nathan Cummings Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">George Soros</a>’ <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Open Society Institute</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5210&category=79" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Rockefeller Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5201" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Surdna Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5422" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Wallace Global Fund</a>, and the <a href="http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early 1995, Rogers <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">published an essay</a> in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Left Review</em> – a periodical whose content is largely Marxist/socialist – suggesting that the New Party represented an important new voice in American politics. Moreover, he derided liberals for their failure to gain “social control of the economy” or to put “serious constraints on capital.” <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">With euphemism and convoluted language</a>, Rogers carefully avoided making an open call for socialism. Rather, he advocated “economic democracy,” whose “biggest … barrier,” he lamented, was “capitalism” — an “undemocratic” system featuring “private ownership of the means of production.” Rogers <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">pushed for</a> “reforms” that would “facilitate greater popular control of capital itself, which would permit experimentation with different forms of ownership and production….” Toward this end, he <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">proposed</a> a new “bill of rights” consisting of a de facto guaranteed minimum income, wage controls, and “employment redistribution” – i.e., guaranteed full employment, which could be achieved by a mandated shortening of the work-week.[</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a 1996 speech](<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxYvYfx2rE" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxYvYfx2rE</a>) at <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6636" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Columbia University</a>, Rogers said that “profit-seeking business” was characterized by “swaggering ruthlessness,” immense “greed,” and “a blank indifference to all that is good and human.” He described capitalism as “monstrous.” He accused “the right in the early 1970s” of having commissioned intellectuals to “produce just tons of junk … books and case studies and made-up studies and empirical studies and fake studies.” Then he declared, “We [progressives] should do the same.” Moreover, he proposed that the U.S. should “double the minimum wage within three years.” He said that every child in America “should be fed, clothed, housed, decently fed, and insured, and eventually they’ll grow up and then vote for national health insurance.” And he made reference to Christian fundamentalists as “ungodly.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1997 Rogers was a <a href="http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/loudon-more-on-barack-obama-and-the-socialist-new-party/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">guest speaker</a> at the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6532" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Socialist Scholars Conference</a> in New York City.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 20, 2001, Rogers spoke at a New York City <a href="http://www.dsausa.org/dl/DLFall2001.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">gathering</a> to honor the work of Richard Cloward (co-creator of the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Cloward-Piven Strategy</a>), who had died a month earlier. Other speakers included such notables as <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1058" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Barbara Ehrenreich</a>, June Jordan, Gus Newport, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2505" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Frances Fox Piven</a>, Miles Rappaport, Tim Sampson, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=813" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Cornel West</a>, and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=939" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Howard Zinn</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also in 2001, Rogers <a href="http://progressive-strategy2.blogspot.com/2006/05/joel-rogers-seminar-summary.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">co-founded EARN</a>, a self-described “poverty group” whose board of directors <a href="http://www.earn.org/site/downpage.php?NodeID=106" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">includes</a> executives from AJW Inc., Citibank, Covington & Burling LLP, Goldman Sachs, Sotheby’s International Realty, and Wells Fargo. In addition, he became an advisor to the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7331" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Campaign for America’s Future</a> (CAF). Soon after 9/11, Rogers’ COWS partnered with CAF’s sister organization, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7332" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Institute for America’s Future</a>, and with the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5184&category=79" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Tides Center</a>, to create the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7490" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Apollo Alliance</a> (AA), where Rogers served as the nascent group’s first chairman. At the AA, Rogers was able to lay out a strategy for green economics, which, as longtime AA board member Van Jones claimed, became the immediate model for the Obama administration’s environmental policy.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to AA, Rogers’ COWS also <a href="http://www.cows.org/collab_index.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">developed</a> a host of other progressive projects, most notably the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7564" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Emerald Cities Collaborative</a>, a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591845,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">major player</a> in the <a href="http://www.cows.org/collab_projects_detail.asp?id=63" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">push</a> for Cap-and-Trade legislation, <a href="http://www.cows.org/collab_projects_detail.asp?id=64" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">and</a> <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7554" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Green For All</a> (with <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Van Jones</a> as founder).</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the August/September 2004 issue of <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6779" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Nation</em></a>, Rogers <a href="http://www.cows.org/pdf/ar-devolve.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">lamented</a> that “the dismantling of the New Deal welfare state, twentieth-century American liberalism’s greatest domestic achievement” had already taken place, with the Bush Administration representing the culmination of America’s “devolution” and posing “the greatest internal threat to our democracy in our history.” Progressives, Rogers argued, needed a new strategy to wrest power away from conservatives:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.5rem;"><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[I]n no state are there functional majorities of self-consciously progressive elected officials, working together off a visible, coherent program of progressive economic, social and political reform, linked systematically to outside progressive forces. That is what the right is building on its side, and what we need to build on ours.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rogers calls for progressives to place their own candidates inside government, candidates who will “systematically” follow the agendas of “outside progressive forces” to engineer radical change in America. Such change, Rogers hopes, will cause the U.S. not only to become more judicious in its use of military force overseas, but also to begin to make amends for its “<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/226147" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">four hundred years’ racism</a>.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along with his other duties and affiliations, Rogers <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/experts/rogersj.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">is</a> a Senior Fellow at <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6890" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">the Brookings Institution</a>.</font></p></div></h2></section></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1996</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">F</font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">or years, people have been saying that the left lacks new ideas. Anyone who makes that claim today hasn’t heard from Joel Rogers.</span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">A professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin and a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient, Rogers is bursting with ideas about how to reinvigorate democracy and win back voters to the progressive cause, which he spells out in a steady round of speeches, books, and alternative press articles. He is also a founder and national chair of the New Party, which has gained impressive ground in local elections in Wisconsin, Arkansas, Maryland, and Montana.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">The MacArthur people weren’t the first to tag Rogers with the “genius” label. After an Irish Catholic boyhood in Middletown, New Jersey, he sprinted through Yale in two years, graduating with a triple major in philosophy, political science, and economics. (Asked if anyone had ever done that before, he replies, a little sheepishly, “I don’t think so.”) He also took a law degree at Yale before moving on to Princeton for two years to get a Ph.D. in political science and then to Heidelberg in 1977 for further study of philosophy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">Yet Rogers, a remarkably young-looking 44 with unruly reddish hair and a sly grin, didn’t spend his entire youth sitting in seminar rooms. He marched through the streets of New Haven in anti-war protests, volunteered as a draft counselor, and was a rock-concert promoter. In his spacious old house in Madison, Wisconsin, where he lives with his wife, Sarah, a public interest lawyer, and their daughters, Sophia, 6, and Helen, 8, you’ll find as many books about rock ’n’ roll and soul music as about political philosophy.</p><div id="Banner1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br class="clear-both" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br class="clear-both" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">In a way, as an academic whiz kid from modest origins who was shaped by the political tides of the ’60s, he resembles Bill Clinton. (A friend from college said everyone who knew him half expected Rogers to wind up in the White House.) So what does Rogers think of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? “I think Clinton is the most talented politician of his generation,” he says, “but he’s without a clear and confident moral center. He is, I guess, basically a good guy in many ways but he is not prepared to stand up to the unbridled corporate power now stomping this country.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.8px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">Rogers’ own political vision holds onto an important ideal from the 1960s that Clinton and most other Democratic Party leaders have dropped: the simple notion that everyday people must have a major role in shaping the decisions that affect their lives. “While liberals often have reasonable views about political outcomes (some equality, some decent living standards, some personal freedom), they are elitists as to means,” he writes (with MIT political scientist Joshua Cohen) in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boston Review</i> (April-May 1995). “They don’t believe that people of ordinary ability and intelligence are capable of running the society themselves. . . . The thought of turning power over to citizens is horrifying. . . . The difference between liberals and progressives is that progressives actually believe in democracy. They think that the people, if [they are] properly organized and equipped, can govern themselves, and that if they do the results will be better than if they do not.”</p><div id="ReadMoreDiv" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="ReadMore" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">Rogers points out that liberals’ squeamishness about challenging corporate power restricts them to mopping up environmental and economic problems after the fact, sometimes quite expensively, rather than controlling damage in the first place. That’s why Republicans so effectively smear Democrats as “tax and spenders,” with few people standing up to defend embattled liberal leaders.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">These troubles notwithstanding, Rogers remains optimistic. “America remains blessed with abundance, free of external military threat, and populated by a spirited and resourceful people no more stupid or corrupt than any other,” he writes in the British journal <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Left Review</i> (March-April 1995). “Our problems are political and admit political solution.” Following are some of the ideas, drawn from interviews and articles, that Rogers proposes as the solutions to our political problems.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">What we can do to revive progressive politics:</span> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">“The same forces that have made American politics ugly—a generation of economic decline and failed government response—have also created an enormous political market for what should be the signature issues of a new progressive movement: imposing some social and environmental values on the economy and building a democracy strong enough to enable their realization under the competitive conditions of the world economy. But progressives are blowing this opportunity with single-issue politics, holier than thou political correctness, and inattention to the field of activity in which most people express their political values: electoral politics.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">“So what we need to do is create a values-based, electorally sophisticated organization, forge an egalitarian political program appropriate to present circumstances (taking measure of the ways in which the world has changed since the heyday of the New Deal or Great Society), focus on economic reconstruction and democracy as issues, and make the political debate between those who want these things (most of the public) and those who don’t (irresponsible business and its apologists). This fight we can win. There is mass discontent with politics as usual and mass hunger for some alternative.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">How to do that right now:</span> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">This is where the New Party, which Rogers calls “the best-kept secret in American politics,” comes in. Founded four years ago by Rogers and a group of fellow political activists, the party has fielded 139 candidates for local offices around the country and won an impressive 94 of those races. New Party members have working majorities on the city council in Missoula, Montana, and the county board in Milwaukee, and they serve as water commissioners, school board members, city council members, and state representatives of Illinois, Maryland, Arkansas, Missouri, New York, and Minnesota.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">In order to keep from drawing votes away from worthy democrats and thereby putting Republicans in office by default, the New Party runs its own candidates “only where they have a serious chance of winning,” says Rogers. “Where they won’t have a chance to win, we generally do nothing or informally endorse the better of the major party candidates or, where the law permits, formally endorse the major party candidate (the candidate willing, of course) on the New Party ballot line.”</p><div id="Banner3" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br class="clear-both" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;" /><br class="clear-both" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">The latter strategy, Rogers explains, is an electoral innovation called fusion. Widely adopted in the late 19th century under pressure from populist reformers, it was later rescinded in most states. Fusion is still legal in about 10 states, most notably New York, where it has fostered lively third party politics since the 1930s. “The beauty of fusion,” he says, “is that enables people to have distinctive political views and to express those views without wasting their votes.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The most important thing to be done to make all these ideas possible:</span> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">“It’s important that we get together again, get beyond the politics of fragmentation that now defines progressives. We are currently weaker than the sum of our parts. It’s important that we learn how to speak to people who don’t identify themselves now as progressive, but who in fact share our values. And it’s important that we get ourselves together in how we conduct business with one another. I think it is important that the culture of the progressive movement should be a learning culture—one that supports wide-ranging discussion and that is resolutely nondogmatic in its willingness to confront changed circumstances. And it should be more kind, forgiving, and fun. If being ‘progressive’ means simply going to boring meetings for another round of assignments and abuse, we’ll never get anywhere with the public, and really shouldn’t.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px 0px 16px !important;">“We need to find ways of genuinely enjoying, not just respecting, each other’s company again. That doesn’t require that everyone do the same thing in common—a giant left sing-along. It does require that we build into our organizational plans some explicit space for quiet, for informal get-togethers, for family activities and parties (sedate and rowdy), for discussion groups, rock bands, street theater, softball teams. We should be much more inviting. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Come on in, let’s take the country back, this is going to be a kick</em>—that should be the message people get, along with no apologies for the extreme seriousness of what we’re about. We’re fighting now for democracy, for the dignity of our own lives. And we are losing. To win, we need to get serious, come together, and get moving.” </p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">
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