Netroots Nation 2013

Posted by | April 8, 2013
Art is a Hammer: Reshaping the Narrative Through Cultural Interventions

How do you create powerful works of art and culture that can reach new audiences, ignite the public imagination and shift the debate? How do you collaborate on innovative design and media...

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How to Get Media and Breakthrough on Your Issue

The media landscape is changing dramatically and getting more crowded by the minute. How do we breakout, breakthrough and win in this competitive landscape? Creative integrated (earned, paid, social) campaigns...

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So You Want to Be a Pundit? Women Progressives on the Keys to Success

Progressive women's voices in world of political commentary and punditry are few. Yes, there are some high-profile exceptions, but research shows that only about 20 percent of political "talking heads"...

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Love, Compassion and Other Outrageous Forms of Activism

Activists tend to be motivated by a powerful, inclusive sense of connection to all beings and the planet. Yet guilt, frustration, weariness and internal conflict can remove us from the...

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Reclaiming Family Values from the Right

For too long, a conservative agenda of traditional family structures—and not the fiscal policies that keep families together—have defined our political discourse around family values. Come hear from well-known progressive...

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Islamophobia: A Tool of the Right

President Obama’s middle name is Hussein and many Americans know this because the right has made Muslims the villain of America. Come to this panel for a conversation about how...

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Exercising the Power of the Latino Electorate

Latinos played a decisive role in the 2012 presidential role and their record turnout in support of President Obama was one of the reasons the President won in a landslide....

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The Battle for the Midwest: Where We’ve Been, What We’ve Learned and How We Bring Labor Back

Labor found itself under siege in 2012 with the loss in the Wisconsin recall election and the passage of Right to Work laws in Indiana and Michigan. These laws have...

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The California Comeback: How Progressives Stopped California’s Decline

In early 2011, California was thought to be declining rapidly, ungovernable, with the worst bond rating in country. That all changed when labor and community came together to pass groundbreaking...

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Harnessing the Power of Young Communities of Color: The Success Story of San Jose’s Minimum Wage Increase

An unyielding coalition of college students, labor leaders, non-profits and progressive activists came together to win an uphill battle to raise San Jose’s minimum wage to $10 an hour—an unheard...

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