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Saturday, July 24, 2010

LIVE from Las Vegas: Netroots Nation 2011 to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, here we come!

Organizers of Netroots Nation have just activated the registration site for next year's convention, to be held from June 16th-19th in Minnesota's largest city.

The selection will be announced shortly onstage at the Rio here in Las Vegas.

Netroots Nation was going to go to Providence, Rhode Island, for 2011, but those plans fell through because the would-be host hotel ownership is trying to break the union that represents the hotel workers.

In solidarity with UNITE HERE, Netroots Nation organizers looked elsewhere, and settled on Minneapolis, which is an inspired choice.

I'm excited because it means the convention is going to a new city and a region of the country that it hasn't been to before.

Minneapolis happens to be directly accessible via the Empire Builder from Seattle, which means NPI team members can take Amtrak to get to or from Netroots Nation 2011 if we want (and enjoy magnificent scenery along the way), instead of flying.

This is the second time the convention will have been held in June; the first YearlyKos was also in June. (The second was in August, the third was in July, the fourth was in August, and this year's, the fifth, was in July).

Comments:

Blogger EmilyRSVP said...

Providence would have been better.

July 24, 2010 9:28 PM  

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