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Friday, July 8th, 2011

NWroots 2011 is tomorrow in Pioneer Square!

The big day has almost arrived!

As many read­ers already know, tomor­row the NWroots Fel­low­ship and NPI are hold­ing the fourth NWroots Con­fer­ence in Pio­neer Square, Seat­tle, at Com­e­dy Under­ground and Fx McRo­ry’s.  We’ve got a fan­tas­tic line­up for the event, includ­ing Roger Good­man, Jay Inslee, WSLC Pres­i­dent Jeff John­son, Jim McDer­mott, Den­nis Kucinich, and for­mer Cana­di­an Min­is­ter of Health Ujjal Dosan­jh. We’re very much look­ing for­ward to see­ing many of you there!

If you haven’t reg­is­tered yet, we encour­age you to do so now. A few days ago, we intro­duced a half-day reg­is­tra­tion rate, which is per­fect if you can only come for either the morn­ing ses­sions or the after­noon ses­sions.  The half-day rate includes break­fast or lunch (but not both, unlike the stan­dard, full-day rate).

The fes­tiv­i­ties begin with break­fast and reg­is­tra­tion tomor­row morn­ing at 7:30 AM at Com­e­dy Under­ground.  The pro­gram gets under­way at 8:30 AM, and the morn­ing ses­sions con­clude at 11:30 AM, when lunch begins. The after­noon ses­sions run through 5:30 PM, with the can­di­dates’ social in between at 3 PM.

This con­fer­ence was one of our late board­mem­ber Lynn Allen’s favorite things. She and I orga­nized the first NWroots Con­fer­ence in 2006 in Olympia, which was the first for­mal net­roots + grass­roots gath­er­ing in the Pacif­ic North­west.  I’m hap­py to announce that, based on reg­is­tra­tions, we will be set­ting a new atten­dance record for NWroots tomor­row. I know that wher­ev­er Lynn is, she’s proud of our efforts and proud that we’re mak­ing this happen.

Again, if you’ve been think­ing about join­ing us in Pio­neer Square, I urge you to reg­is­ter now. It’s not too late. You can walk up and reg­is­ter tomor­row, but pre­reg­is­ter­ing gets you in the door faster and guar­an­tees you a meal ticket.

We hope to see you tomor­row at Com­e­dy Underground!

Written by Andrew Villeneuve :: 9:06 PM

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