A canal in downtown Providence
A snap­shot of the sights of down­town Prov­i­dence, the host city for Net­roots Nation (Pho­to: J. Stephen Conn/Reproduced under a Cre­ative Com­mons license)

Sen­a­tor Shel­don White­house has just tak­en the stage here in Min­neapo­lis to announce that the next Net­roots Nation will be held in Prov­i­dence, Rhode Island, from June 7th to June 10th.

We had guessed that the con­ven­tion would be in Prov­i­dence, main­ly because we already knew that orga­niz­ers want­ed to bring NN to Prov­i­dence last year. They end­ed up not being able to due to a labor dis­pute at the West­in Prov­i­dence, one of only a cou­ple of union­ized hotels in the city.

Con­se­quent­ly, this year, the con­ven­tion went to Minneapolis.

But the dis­pute between the hotel work­ers and the man­age­ment has since been resolved suc­cess­ful­ly, so next year, Net­roots Nation will be in Providence.

To be more spe­cif­ic, it will be at the Rhode Island Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, which has a 100,000+ square foot exhib­it hall, 20,000+ ball­room, twen­ty-three meet­ing rooms, and is con­nect­ed to the Prov­i­dence West­in (the host hotel for 2012) via skybridge.

Net­roots Nation has nev­er been to New Eng­land or the Atlantic seaboard for that mat­ter — the far­thest east the con­ven­tion has gone was to Pitts­burgh in 2009. It’s excit­ing to see that the con­ven­tion will be some­where it has nev­er been before. Prov­i­dence is an inspired choice for this com­mu­ni­ty’s 2012 gathering.

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Andrew Villeneuve is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Progressive Institute, as well as the founder of NPI's sibling, the Northwest Progressive Foundation. He has worked to advance progressive causes for over two decades as a strategist, speaker, author, and organizer. Andrew is also a cybersecurity expert, a veteran facilitator, a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, and a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

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  3. Can’t wait to wel­come you to Prov­i­dence. Be sure to leave time in your sched­ule for AWESOME! 

    In the pho­to above, note the objects up the cen­ter of the riv­er. They’re bra­ziers — fire bas­kets — that float on the water and get lit dur­ing Water Fire, a semi-reg­u­lar event. Fire on the riv­er with wicked cool music on sound sys­tem dis­trib­uted over a quar­ter mile of urban riv­er park. Giant mobs of peo­ple just mill about. It’s free.

    Hope­ful­ly, they’ll sched­ule one for your visit.

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