A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service

Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard, Greater Portland Council of Governments Director of Innovation and Resilience Andrew Butcher, and Neha Desaraju from the Sunrise Movement discuss how the public Postal Service can help address our future environmental and other community needs.

Moderated by Susan Harley, Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.

Interim Executive Director of the Democracy Initiative Jennifer Lamson, NAACP Washington Bureau Director Hilary Shelton, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation President Melanie Campbell discuss the role that the future public Postal Service can have on securing our democratic rights.

Moderated by Susan Harley, Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.

Donald Cohen, Executive Director of In the Public Interest, discusses motives behind the privatization of numerous government services, and how corporate interests conflict with the public's.

Moderated by Chastity Murphy, Policy Analyst Lead at The Appeal

Deputy Director of the LPE Project Raúl Carrillo, Manager of the ACLU Systemic Equality Campaign Rakim Brooks, and Take on Wall Street Director Porter McConnell address the need for and the potential for expanded postal financial services in the U.S.

Moderated by Chastity Murphy, Policy Analyst Lead at The Appeal

Economist at the Economic Policy Institute Monique Morrissey and APWU - The American Postal Workers Union Legislative Director Judy Beard analyze what has led the U.S. postal system to its current situation and laid out the steps necessary to begin building the public Postal Service of the future.

Moderator is Ericka Taylor from Take on Wall Street.

Opening remarks from actor and activist APWU - The American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein, Public Citizen President Robert Weissman, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Vice President Josh Gray (on behalf of NCBCP President Melanie Campbell), and actor/activist Danny Glover.