Tag: Netroots Nation

Net­roots Nation is an annu­al con­fer­ence that pro­vides train­ings, resources and con­nec­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties to help pro­gres­sive activists cre­ate a more pro­gres­sive and just world. It draws up to 4,000 atten­dees from around the coun­try and beyond. The North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute sends a del­e­ga­tion of staff to par­tic­i­pate in Net­roots Nation each sum­mer. This is an archive of our cov­er­age from all of the years the con­ven­tion has been held, from 2006 to the present.

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Netroots Nation 2018 will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from August 2nd-4th

by Andrew Villeneuve

It’s offi­cial: Amer­i­ca’s largest annu­al gath­er­ing of pro­gres­sives will be head­ing to the Big Easy next year dur­ing the first few days of August. Chuck Rocha, who mem­o­rably inspired atten­dees of Net­roots Nation 2009 in Pitts­burgh with a pow­er­ful, well-received speech, just announced onstage that New Orleans will be the host city for next year’s […]

Posted inEvents, Live Coverage

LIVE from Atlanta: Netroots Nation hears from Ben Jealous and Elizabeth Warren

by David A Johnson

Good morn­ing, and wel­come back to our con­tin­u­ing live cov­er­age of Net­roots Nation 2017, tak­ing place in Atlanta, Geor­gia. Atten­dees are once again com­ing togeth­er in the Cen­ten­ni­al Ball­room for a morn­ing ple­nary ses­sion with Eliz­a­beth War­ren and many oth­er dis­tin­guished speak­ers. The Rev. angel Kyo­do williams, author of Rad­i­cal Dhar­ma, returned to open the […]

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LIVE from Atlanta: Stacey Abrams, Barbara Lee anchor opening night of Netroots Nation

by Alonso Conrad

Good after­noon, and wel­come back to NPI’s live cov­er­age of Net­roots Nation 2017, tak­ing place in Atlanta, Geor­gia today through this com­ing Sat­ur­day. Net­roots Nation is Amer­i­ca’s largest annu­al gath­er­ing of pro­gres­sive activists, advo­ca­cy jour­nal­ists, and grass­roots orga­niz­ers. NPI has had a pres­ence at every Net­roots Nation con­fer­ence, going back to 2006, when the convention […]

Posted inElections, Open Government, Policy Topics

Hillary Clinton commits to introducing amendment to overturn Citizens United

by Andrew Villeneuve

In a video address to Net­roots Nation 2016, played dur­ing tonight’s clos­ing ple­nary ses­sion in St. Louis, pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Hillary Clin­ton com­mit­ted to intro­duc­ing a con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment to over­turn the Roberts Court’s hor­ri­ble Cit­i­zens Unit­ed rul­ing with­in her first one hun­dred days in office. “Today I’m announc­ing that in my first thir­ty days as […]

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Netroots Nation 2017 to be held in Atlanta

by Andrew Villeneuve

Next year’s Net­roots Nation Con­ven­tion will be held in Atlanta, Geor­gia thir­teen months from now, orga­niz­ers have announced. “For the first time ever, we’re head­ed to the South for Net­roots Nation,” they wrote in a post reveal­ing their site selec­tion. “Our twelfth annu­al con­fer­ence will be held in Atlanta [from] August 10–13, 2017.” “Some progressives […]

Posted inCivil Liberties, Live Coverage

“We have to make them give it to us”: the power of organizing to push for immigrant rights

by Patrick Stickney

In the last pan­el for the day before the clos­ing keynote, the pan­elist dis­cuss the efforts that have been made to make sure the voic­es of immi­grants are being heard and pol­i­cy gains are made. The pan­el was mod­er­at­ed by for­mer AZ state sen­a­tor Alfre­do Gutier­rez, who spoke as part of the open­ing keynote Thursday […]

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Netroots Nation organizers respond after presidential town hall disrupted by protest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Orga­niz­ers for Net­roots Nation this after­noon released a state­ment respond­ing to the events that tran­spired dur­ing this morn­ing’s pres­i­den­tial town hall in Phoenix. For those who weren’t there and weren’t watch­ing the livestream, the town hall was sup­posed to be a civ­il con­ver­sa­tion with for­mer Mary­land Gov­er­nor Mar­tin O’Mal­ley and U.S. Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders, but […]

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America needs progressive leadership: A town hall with Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley

by Andrew Villeneuve

Wel­come to our con­tin­u­ing cov­er­age of Net­roots Nation 2015 in Phoenix, Ari­zona! Our first con­ven­­tion-wide ses­sion of the day is a town hall dis­cus­sion with pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates Bernie Sanders and Mar­tin O’Mal­ley, who are seek­ing the 2016 Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion along with Hillary Clin­ton, Lin­coln Chafee, and James Webb. Clin­ton was invit­ed to today’s event, […]