Netroots Nation 2019

Posted by | May 15, 2019
No Guns, No Police: What Safe Schools Actually Look Like for Students of Color

How do we create safe schools? In the wake of seemingly nonstop mass shootings, there's a renewed sense of energy around this question. But, more often than not, the answer...

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Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children: Campaigning for Welfare, a Living Wage and a More Caring World

Join us for a cross-movement approach to campaigning for economic, social and environmental justice. You’ll hear from those directly impacted by poverty, the punitive welfare and child welfare systems, and...

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Give It Up: Direct Giving as a Critical Engagement and Base Building Strategy

Poverty and lack of access to the means to exit from poverty disproportionately impacts Black and Latinx folks, LGBT and gender non-confirming folks, those with disabilities and single parents. Seventy...

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Cooperatives as a Tool for Social Movements

Social movements have long used economic cooperation towards liberation. In 1970s Philadelphia, Movement for a New Society created affordable housing co-ops for activists. During the Civil Rights movement, black organizers...

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Whose Courts? How Progressives Can Transform the Courts (and Win in 2020)

https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/2406999146291159/ Kavanaugh's confirmation fight and the response of progressive voters in 2018 shattered the notion that the courts are a losing issue for our side. With the Senate and White...

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Tech for the Movement, Not the Billionaires

Sometimes, the incentives of investor-driven, for profit technology are exactly counter to the long-term interests of our movement. Recently, a new generation of technology has been built using different, innovative...

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Turning Small Money into Big Impact

In the fall of 2018, Mainers partnered with dying father Ady Barkan of Be a Hero to beg Senator Collins to vote "no" on Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh....

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Don’t Put Digital in the Corner: Why Every Department Should be Using Digital Tools and Tactics

Politics in the modern age has taught us that digital tools and tactics are no longer the the singular resource of a "digital team." From comms to development to field...

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Field-Centric Data: Building Feedback Loops

Data and analytics can help us build winning strategies, allocate resources effectively and peer into the trends we can bend to shape a more progressive future. This panel will cover...

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Everyone Wants Maps: Understanding their Value in Organizing

There's a reason it's a cliche that a picture is worth a thousand words. Since we organize geographically, that picture should be a map.Unfortunately, most maps are one-off projects that...

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