Category: Events

Posted inEvents, Live Coverage

LIVE from Providence: Netroots Nation news roundup for Friday, June 8th, 2012

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

As of this evening, we are now more than halfway through Net­roots Nation 2012. Here’s a roundup of some of the arti­cles the tra­di­tion­al media has pub­lished about the con­ven­tion since yes­ter­day: WRNI, Prov­i­dence’s local Nation­al Pub­lic Radio (NPR) sta­tion, has a report on Net­roots Nation’s open­ing day. WPRI, the city’s CBS affil­i­ate, talked to […]

Posted inEconomic Security, Events, Live Coverage, Our Environment

LIVE from Providence: Saving Public Transportation: A Matter of Social Justice

by Patrick Stickney

Although it seems like the ear­ly after­noon (still on West Coast time), it’s as good a time as any to talk about the nation­al pat­tern on defund­ing pub­lic trans­porta­tion and tran­sit’s place as a social jus­tice issue. This pan­el was a reminder about work which is being done back in Wash­ing­ton state by the Transit […]

Posted inEconomic Security, Education, Events, Live Coverage

LIVE from Providence: Educational Opportunity & Economic Dignity

by Patrick Stickney

How is edu­ca­tion­al equal­i­ty linked to the eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion on the ground? I came to this dis­cus­sion between the Amer­i­can Fed­er­a­tion of Teach­ers and Ilyse Hogue of the Nation. Like many of the pan­els so soon after the Wis­con­sin recall, con­ver­sa­tion start­ed out about the attacks which have been made against unions, and the fact […]

Posted inCivil Liberties, Events, Live Coverage

LIVE from Providence: Organizing Outside the Lines: Reaching Hard-to-Reach Communities On and Offline

by Patrick Stickney

“These are not the only peo­ple work­ing on these issues”, the mod­er­a­tor empha­sized at the begin­ning of the pan­el. In a packed ball­room hall, this pan­el attempt­ed to talk about ways to gen­uine­ly engaged groups that are not tra­di­tion­al­ly engaged. The mod­er­a­tor had to empha­size that “hard-to-reach” was in quotes, as com­mu­ni­ties which might be […]

Posted inEvents, Live Coverage

LIVE from Providence: Opening Day at Netroots Nation 2012… in pictures!

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Good after­noon from Prov­i­dence! We have had a busy day so far here on the first day of the sev­enth annu­al Net­roots Nation, as you may have noticed if you’ve been fol­low­ing our morn­ing con­ven­tion cov­er­age. Though we try to be as descrip­tive as we can when we’re cov­er­ing pan­els, keynotes, and spe­cial events, a […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Events

Save the Date: NPI’s 2012 Spring Fundraising Gala will be April 12th, 2012

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

We are pleased to announce this after­noon that we have final­ized a date for our 2012 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala, which is unques­tion­ably the best oppor­tu­ni­ty we offer to learn about what we do and sup­port our work. This year’s event will be tak­ing place Thurs­day, April 12th, 2012, at the Mer­cer Island Com­mu­ni­ty Center — […]

Posted inElections, Events

President Obama’s schedule for February 17th Seattle visit begins to take shape

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

A few days ago, White House offi­cials let it be known that Pres­i­dent Oba­ma would be stop­ping in Wash­ing­ton State again for a mid-Feb­ru­ary vis­it. They did­n’t announce his itin­er­ary or sched­ule, but we fig­ured it would­n’t be long before the cam­paign began send­ing out invi­ta­tions to fundrais­ers with the Pres­i­dent. Yes­ter­day, the first invi­ta­tions began […]

Posted inEvents, Party Politics

2012 Democratic National Convention shortened from four days to three, Obama to accept nomination in larger venue

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

This morn­ing, Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee Chair­woman Deb­bie Wasser­man Schultz made two impor­tant logis­ti­cal announce­ments about the forty-sev­enth qua­dren­ni­al meet­ing of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, sched­uled to take place in Char­lotte, North Car­oli­na, dur­ing the first full week of Sep­tem­ber. At a media event in the City of Trees, Schultz revealed that the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion will […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Events

Help NPI celebrate its eighth anniversary tomorrow at FallFest 2011!

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Just a reminder that tomor­row evening, we’re hold­ing a spe­cial event in down­town Seat­tle (think house par­ty meets hap­py hour!) to cel­e­brate our eighth anniver­sary and give you, our loy­al read­ers and sup­port­ers, a chance to meet with the NPI team and learn more about what we’re work­ing on. This isn’t a for­mal evening like our […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Events

NWroots 2011 is tomorrow in Pioneer Square!

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

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 […]