This weekend, I watched a new movement developing right in front of my eyes.  As I scanned the faces around me in the plenary room at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, it was impossible to not feel a sense of excitement.  We were emerging as a powerful new force for progressive change, one committed to the principle of "Green for All."

Over 1,000 people, myself included, gathered in Memphis for the Dream Reborn conference this weekend to stand upon the shoulders of giants and create a vision for a just and sustainable future.  We gathered in the city where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, on the 40th anniversary of his assassination, to pick up the torch of his legacy of economic justice and carry it in a new direction for a new generation.  As we face the social crisis of poverty and the environmental crisis of global warming, are there solutions in sight?  The Dream Reborn sought to explore this question — and the answer was an unequivocal "YES!"

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