Downtown St. Louis, pictured on Independence Day 2011
Downtown St. Louis, from Keiner plaza, with the old Courthouse in the background. (Photo: Tim Hamilton, reproduced under a Creative Commons license)

The eleventh gath­er­ing of Net­roots Nation, tak­ing place ten years after the very first Year­lyKos, will be held July 14th-17th in St. Louis, Mis­souri, the con­ven­tion’s exec­u­tive direc­tor Raven Brooks announced a few min­utes ago.

NN 2016 will hap­pen just a few days ahead of the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion in Cleve­land, Ohio, which runs from July 18th-21st.

Downtown St. Louis, pictured on Independence Day 2011
Down­town St. Louis, from Kein­er plaza, with the old Cour­t­house in the back­ground. (Pho­to: Tim Hamil­ton, repro­duced under a Cre­ative Com­mons license)

St. Louis, which sits on the banks of the Mis­sis­sip­pi Riv­er, is one of the larg­er cities in the Mid­west. The city itself has 318,000+ inhab­i­tants, and the met­ro­pol­i­tan area sur­round­ing it num­bers 2.9 mil­lion. The city’s found­ing dates back to the 1760s; it was named by a French fur trad­er in hon­or of Louis IX of France.

St. Louis will be the tenth city that the con­ven­tion has vis­it­ed. Cities that have pre­vi­ous­ly host­ed Net­roots Nation are Las Vegas (twice), Chica­go, Austin, Pitts­burgh, Min­neapo­lis, Prov­i­dence, San Jose, Detroit, and most recent­ly, Phoenix.

Host hotels have not been announced, but there are sev­er­al like­ly can­di­dates. The Crowne Plaza St. Louis Down­town, Embassy Suites St. Louis, Hote­Lu­miere by Trop­i­cana, Renais­sance Grand Hotel, Renais­sance St. Louis Suites, and Sher­a­ton Clay­ton Plaza are all locat­ed with­in a rea­son­able dis­tance of the Cer­vantes Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, and all are union­ized hotels.

We’re pleased that Net­roots Nation is once again head­ed to a city it has­n’t been to before. Keep­ing the con­ven­tion mov­ing around the coun­try pre­vents it from becom­ing dull and pre­dictable. And it also ensures that dif­fer­ent states and regions of the coun­try get the chance to host the event.

We plan on being in St. Louis for NN 2016. If you’re inter­est­ed in going, there’s no time like the present to plan. Again, the dates are July 14th-17th.

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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 replies on “Netroots Nation 2016 to be held in St. Louis, Missouri from July 14th-17th”

  1. Net­roots met in Phoenix?? Judg­ing by the warm greet­ing Phoenix got in the State Com­mit­tee met­ting when it was men­tioned as a pos­si­ble site for the DNC, how could I doubt it.
    On the seri­ous side, I think Port­land would be a great site, with all the Micro­brew­eries, it would be the per­fect place to convene.

  2. Yep, we’re in Phoenix. As the post notes, it’s not the first time the con­ven­tion has been to a south­ern city in the sum­mer. We did Las Vegas in 2006 and 2010; Austin in 2008. Vegas was no less hot than Phoenix, as I recall. 

    Phoenix’s site selec­tion was quite inten­tion­al. The orga­niz­ers have made a point late­ly of bring­ing the con­ven­tion to cities in states where Repub­li­cans are run­ning amok. The con­fer­ence is increas­ing­ly activism-focused, and in that spir­it, we have an action planned for tomor­row… a march to the 4th Avenue Jail, where we will ral­ly for the end of Joe Arpaio’s brutality. 

    Last year, we were in Detroit, Michi­gan, and we ral­lied to turn on the water. 

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