Progressive Forum Houston

I attended a presentation tonight by Lester Brown, sponsored by the Progressive Forum of Houston. They have an impressive list of past speakers, and are in the process of uploading audio and/or video from the various events. I'm glad we have such an active progressive institution in our otherwise very red state! According to the moderator (Forum President Randall Morton), they will have Speaker Nancy Pelosi on June 12.

A brief history of the Forum

The Progressive Forum premiered on June 13, 2005 with Robert F. Kennedy J. and Houston Mayor Bill White a the Hobby Center, Sarofim Hall, in a program called "Our Environmental Challenges". The year before in June, 2004, founder Randall Morton saw Robert Kennedy on Larry King Live and called one of Houston's fine speaker organizations and suggested they present Kennedy, but nothing came of it. Morton had created and hosted another speaker series in the oil industry, a client base for his advertising and public relations agency. Dismayed after the election of November 2004, he called Mr. Kennedy's representatives who were responsive to Kennedy appearing at a new event series. The great turnout and excitement at the Kennedy-White event showed the forum's unique model had viability long term. Six months later, the Forum opened its first spring season in 2006 with Jared Diamond, Seymour Hersh, and Molly Ivins. Al gore appeared June 7th in a sell-out event launching An Inconvenient Truth at The Progressive Forum, his first U.S. book event for that title. ...