The Backbone Campaign works to awaken and inspire Americans to build the progressive movement, reclaim our government, and secure a future worthy of our children. We provide creative visibility and accountability tools to attract media attention, energize citizens and organizations, and reward political courage. Our sister organization, Progressive Government, propels the progressive movement toward running the country by identifying and promoting leaders who articulate and champion a progressive agenda. The Backbone Campaign formed in 2003 by a group of artists building creative expressions of peace, political courage, and street theater. The Backbone Campaign has since become a leader in the use of metaphor, art and spectacle through its projects such as the Bush Chain Gang, Freeway Bannering, parading with its 70 foot puppet of a giant backbone with progressive issue slogans interconnecting the vertebrae, Backbone Patrol, Backbone Awards, and other creative tools. We have also developed an online platform, the Backbone Platform, which presents a unified progressive vision and is available to groups and individuals to use in their caucus processes. Finally, we have our Backbone Cabinet, a progressive Cabinet Roster of individuals nominated as progressive alternatives to the Bush Administration Cabinet. Citizens have nominated a diverse body of individuals to positions such as Secretary of Agriculture (Dolores Huerta), Secretary of State (Howard Zinn), Secretary of Energy (Amory Lovins), Chairperson of the FCC (Ambrose Lane), and other positions. (See http://www.backbonecampaign.org/cabinet/) From this diverse roster, we have produced free downloadable podcasts of Conversations with these Progressive Shadow Cabinet members. Over 50 Conversations with the Cabinet have taken place where progressive policy and movement leaders articulate a vision of "Another World" and propose real solutions to our nation's confounding problems. Concurrent with the USSF, we will launch the next phase of our Progressive Cabinet Project by calling forth a Progressive Cabinet Summit, Tuesday, June 26th, in Atlanta, GA. We are inviting 25-50 Progressive Policy Leaders and Leaders of the Progressive Movement to meet, articulate and refine eight Priorities for the 2008 Election Season, and to develop a media strategy for disseminating a progressive solution and vision to the nation. Based on the Eight Priorities we will, with the help of Liberty News TV, begin filming Progressive Infomercials; each 3 minute Infomercial will focus on one Progressive Priority. We will also commission large, iconic representations of the Eight Priorities for a travelling Procession for the Future, the first of which we hope will be at the USSF on Saturday, June 30th (proposal pending).