The Progressive Forum, Houston, is a civic speaker organization dedicated to enriching our democracy and culture by presenting the great minds we believe are advancing the success of the individual, our species, and life on the planet.
The Progressive Forum, Houston, is a civic speaker organization dedicated to enriching our democracy and culture by presenting the great minds we believe are advancing the success of the individual, our species, and life on the planet.
The Progressive Forum issues press releases on its upcoming events. To receive press releases and media advisories by email, call Randall Morton at 713-664-0020, or send an e-mail to info@progressiveforumhouston.org.
John Paul Stevens,
Tuesday November 16, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Released 8/23/10 (PDF file, 180 KB)
Fall 2010: Arianna
Huffington, Eric Schlosser, Richard Dawkins, Richard Leakey, John
Paul Stevens
Released 6/29/10 (PDF file, 180 KB)
Arianna Huffington
September 15, 2010
Released 8/13/10 (PDF file, 172 KB)
Evolutionary Biologist,
Richard Dawkins, Will Appear at The Progressive Forum Tuesday October
5, 2010
Released 7/06/10 (PDF file, 168 KB)
Eric
Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, to Appear Thursday, September 30, 2010
Released 6/02/10 (PDF file, 168 KB)
Richard Leakey to Appear
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Released 6/05/10 (PDF file, 160 KB)
Premier Climatologist
James Hansen To Appear December 7, 2009
Released 11/01/09 (PDF file, 128 KB)
Brian
Greene, Karen Armstrong, James Hansen, Fall Season 2009
Released 8/24/09 (PDF file, 160 KB)
Karen
Armstrong, Leading Religious Author, to Appear Thursday,
October 8
Released 8/03/09 (PDF file, 156 KB)
Nancy
Pelosi Appearing June 12, 2009
Released 4/24/09 (PDF file, 144 KB)
Lester Brown Appearing
April 28, 2009
Released 4/01/09 (PDF file, 144 KB)
T.
Boone Pickens to Appear March 29
Released 2/19/09 (PDF file, 144 KB)
The
Daily Show “Senior Black Correspondent,” Larry Wilmore,
February 25.
T. Boone Pickens, March 29.
Lester Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute, April 28.
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, September 29.
Released 2/19/09 (PDF file,
180 KB)
Breast Cancer Survivor
Elizabeth Edwards To Speak May 21
Released 5/08/08
Robert Redford Will
Appear at The Progressive Forum March 27 to Premiere His Documentary
Film, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars
Released 3/03/08 (PDF file, 296 KB)
Gloria Steinem
Leads Fall Season, Which Includes James Hansen and Ken Burns
Released 8/13/07 (PDF file, 251 KB)
Gloria Steinmen, Houston
and History: The First National Women’s Conference is 1977.
Released 8/13/07 (PDF file, 146 KB)
Acclaimed Playwright, Performing Artist, Anna Deavere Smith, In Program
Called “Snapshots:Glimpses of American in Change”
Released 4/9/07 (PDF file, 136 KB)
Senior Time Magazine Columnist, Joe Klein,To Speak On “Islam, Iraq,
and The War On Terror”
Released 3/26/07 (PDF file, 124 KB)
Acclaimed Scientist Tim Flannery and Mayor Bill White to Speak on
Global Warming Monday
Released 2/28/07 (PDF file, 148 KB)
Garrison Keillor
to Start Second Year of Events for The Progressive Forum
Released 12/8/06 (PDF file, 160 KB)
George Soros Leads
Fall Season of The Progressive Forum, Which Includes Edward O. Wilson
and Frank Rich
Released 8/7/06 (PDF file, 172 KB)
Al Gore to Speak in Houston on Global Warming
Released 4/19/06 (PDF file, 148 KB)
Jared Diamond
to Lead Progressive Forum’s First Full Season. Includes Seymour Hersh
and Molly Ivins.
Released 1/23/06 (PDF file, 140 KB)
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