This concludes a three-part series highlighting the America's Future Conference, held from June 1 to June 3, following  Day One: We Took Back America, What Next? and A Democratic Majority Is Not the Same As a Progressive Majority

In many ways Obama's first one hundred days in office has been disappointing. Despite  the opportunity given to him by "the practical disgrace of right-wing economics" (to quote Robert Kuttner), the President has yet to confront Wall Street. Over the three days of the conference, one of the major themes addressed was how a grass-roots movement can be built that sets its own agenda and challenges the President to act.

Some of the elements are already in place. Members of the progressive caucus in the House and Senate, trade unionists from the SSEIU, AFL-CIO and the USW, community organizers from HCAN and other groups discussed  their organizing initiatives. Health care and the economic collapse, reform of the financial system, the right to organize,  are at the top of their agenda taken as a whole -- job loss, mortgage foreclosures, the collapse of infrastructure, the bankrupcy of major industries, state and local governments, the abuse of immigrants, protection of the environment follow.