Netroots Nation 2018

Posted by | June 5, 2018
Our Rights, Our Fight: Why Progressives are Uniting Across Issues to Protect our Courts

https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156392933289827 Federal courts are holding the line against some of Trump’s worst attacks on our rights, including the transgender military ban, the Muslim ban, and more. But this bulwark is...

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Posted by | June 5, 2018
Local Victories Reveal a Path to Climate Equity

Can you envision policies that simultaneously center racial and economic equity, tackle climate change, and create good union jobs? It’s not a utopia. It’s already happening. From New York to...

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Posted by | June 5, 2018
It Takes Everyone: Building Power to Advance Ambitious Equitable Climate Change Solutions

In order to meaningfully address climate change, the solutions we build must engage a diverse set of stakeholders across issues—from health, to housing, to immigration, to others. Confronting climate change...

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Organizing Around Jerry Brown’s Legacy, the Global Climate McSummit

California Governor Jerry Brown is organizing a Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco September 2018 to cement his legacy as a climate leader; but he's never come to grips...

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Robots with Canvass Packets: The Future of Digital Organizing

For the past decade, Democratic campaigns and progressive advocacy groups have largely kept their “digital” and “organizing” strategies separate. With the rise of new digital organizing technologies and their increasingly...

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Open Source Tech #FTW

The panel will consist of developers and organizers involved in open source progressive tech projects. We'll focus on the decision to use open source tech, how it’s developed and why...

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DO Read the Comments: How to Build Genuine Facebook Communities

As digital organizers, we hear time and again that building a sense of community and a relationship with our supporters online is critical to transitioning our online community to offline...

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Digital Sanctuary: Engineering Tools and Models for Racial Justice

As racial justice techies and campaigners, we have been talking about the problematic values that underpin the internet ecosystem, developing new advocacy models for racial justice, and defining our own...

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The FCC’s War on the Poor

https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156392892674827 The FCC chairman and the Republican majority have been axing our communications rights for the past year. And those who will suffer the most from their policies are people...

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Posted by | June 5, 2018
The Race Paper and other Secret Documents: How the FBI and DHS are Surveilling and Criminalizing Black Protest

In 2017, under court order, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI turned over hundreds of pages of emails, reports, policies and other documents to the Center for Constitutional Rights...

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