What is the format for the Shadow Conventions expected to be?
The Shadow Conventions will take place at the same time and in the same cities as the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Each Shadow Convention will kick off with a Sunday session laying out our themes. In Philadelphia, U.S. Senator John McCain will join us before going over to the Republican convention. In Los Angeles, U.S. Senators Russell Feingold and Paul Wellstone will help us get things rolling. These kick-off sessions will be followed by successive days of general sessions on three linked issue areas ignored by the party conventions — the predominance of money politics and consequent need for campaign finance reform, growing economic inequality and the persistence of poverty in the midst of a seeming long boom, and the dangerously failed war on drugs. On the concluding day of each convention, we are planning sessions on community service. Each of these programmatic sessions will take place between 10 AM and 2 PM
