Sentences with word «netroots»

In a public post on Facebook, Alicia Garza, one of the co-creators of the Black Lives Matter hashtag, defended the actions of those who interrupted O'Malley and Sanders at Netroots Nation in Phoenix:

LAS VEGAS — It wasn't lost on the 2,100 liberal activists gathered in Las Vegas at Netroots Nation for the annual four - day confab that the only Obama administration official who made the trip this time was Treasury Secretary Ray LaHood — a Republican.

Brooks is the executive director of Netroots Nation, a conference that thousands of left - leaning bloggers, activists and Democratic strategists attend each year to brush up on their organizing and movement - building skills.

Like the similar annual Netroots Nation conference in America, Saturday's event in London is a time when we can challenge ourselves to look down the road five or 10 years to consider what infrastructure we'll need and what long - term battles we must begin to organise.

Several members of Ready for Hillary will be at the conference, holding a session on how grassroots activists have changed the political landscape, and hosting a party for Netroots Nation attendees.

Now it's time to get back to putting all those ideas from Netroots Nation into action.

Hillary Clinton, who is in the middle of a book tour for her new memoir «Hard Choices,» isn't attending Netroots Nation.

About 20 minutes into his speech at the progressive Netroots Nation conference in Detroit, Biden was interrupted by demonstrators in the audience who repeatedly chanted «Stop deporting our families.»

At Netroots NY you'll be hearing from some of the most dynamic progressive leaders and activists including many of original Occupy Wall Street organizers who helped envision the movement.

When I got off the plane in Pittsburgh, I just wanted to not waste my first Netroots Nation convention.

On Medium, Matt Stoller, the iconoclastic netroots activist and Rep. Alan Grayson congressional staffer, who volunteered on the Teachout - Wu campaign, offers «5 Reasons for the Zephyr Teachout Phenomenon, and 5 Reasons Andrew Cuomo is Still Governor.»

Of course, this isn't a novel approach, since I've seen folks from sites / services like Upworthy and Crowdtangle talk about tactics like this regularly at events like Netroots Nation.

In the meantime, check this out: Netroots New York is coming up fast and you don't want to miss it.

Here's an observation I've been meaning to write up since Netroots Nation this summer, but one that seems particularly relevant now as both Democrats and Republicans are getting their first views of their current legislators in action: if you want to change the direction of your party in Congress, or of Congress as a whole, fund challengers» staff early.

At one of this year's many data - focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter - targeting technologies: that's it's less about the data itself, and more about creating a culture of letting the information in...

no way I wouldn't survive more than a few weeks if netroots nation was every week.

Fortunately, Elana Levin and Aaron Welch have our back, with a little Netroots Nation presentation they called «How to Ensure Your Web Development Project is a Complete Failure.»

This is my eighth Netroots, and as always I'm planning to hit some great sessions and come back full of new ideas to share with you here.

It's like they have to justify their existence by comparing themselves to us,» Gina Cooper, a former high school teacher and the chief organizer behind Netroots Nation, says of RightOnline.)

In this interview, Julie Menter of New Media Ventures talks about fundraising for start - ups — the topic of her upcoming Netroots Nation training.

For example, techPresident did a great job covering the MySpacegate (or whatever it's being called now) where Obama's campaign literally gave the shaft to a passionate netroots organizer.

Similar crowds have met her in Kentucky and Oregon and Ohio — and she's a shoo - in for a standing ovation at the liberal Netroots Nation conference later this week in Detroit.

I have to miss this one, alas, since it follows a little too soon after Netroots Nation.

Where is the labor netroots?

Through interviews, content analysis, and direct observation of the leading netroots organizations, the book offers fresh insights into 21st century political organizing.

Time to show these diplomats how we roll DC netroots style...

And it comes as the Right tries to build its own Netroots equivalent.

John Edwards was a decided underdog to Clinton but a former vice presidential nominee who enjoyed broad support among liberals and much of the online netroots drawn to his newfound populism.

Here's something to chew on while you're waiting for those promised Netroots Nation after - action reports: the results of an attempt to use Facebook advertising as the primary paid outreach tool for a ballot - initiative campaign.

David Cameron's claims that his party gets it enough to continue if he fell under a bus is rather challenged by the ferocity of the response from the Tory netroots.

«While it is obvious the progressive blogosphere is superior, we are being out - organized on Twitter,» said Gina Cooper, a blogger who helped organize Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of online liberal activists that met last week in Pittsburgh.

Pelosi made the remarks in San Jose, Calif., during Netroots Nation, an annual conference for progressive bloggers and activists, when questioned about an ENDA discharge petition by panel moderator and political analyst Zerlina Maxwell.

I have no first - hand knowledge about where Netroots Nation is in the cycle... My impression is that kos founded it.

It was another great Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis, and like many of you, I'm still digesting.

Let's ask Netroots Nation to post data about how many trade unionists attended, and make it a goal to exceed that number in 2012.

host Amy Goodman offered a stinging critique of the White House response to the Shirley Sherrod controversy Thursday during an interview broadcast from the annual left - leaning Netroots Nation convention.

Why do people keep coming Netroots Nation conventions while Organizing for America seems dead in the water?

Now I feel more empowered to get in the ring myself and fight, and join the entire Netroots Nation family in moving Texas forward, moving progressive causes across the country forward, and doing all we can — at every level — to build momentum we need to push our issues and our ideas forward so we can sustain the strength, beuaty, and freedom of our state and our country.

Last week in Las Vegas, an ideological showdown occurred in the political backyard of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as the left - wing Netroots Nation Convention and conservative RightOnline Conference squared off for the third year in a row.

He's no longer supported by the WFP or any major labor unions and has trailed Klein in fundraising, but he has the backing of DailyKos and other liberal netroots types, along with the NYT endorsement.

«We don't go anywhere that we aren't essentially invited by community organizations, environmentalists, netroots groups, progressive labor unions.»

Through an odd set of circumstances, both Dems will have grassroots and netroots support, but I think time will show that Brown is clearly the superior candidate.