Netroots Nation 2019

Posted by | May 15, 2019
Align Left: Why Designers are Integral to the Resistance

As graphic designers and media makers, how can we best develop strategic visual communication to win campaigns and stay accountable to the leadership of community organizers? How does our work...

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Engaging on the Economy: How to Fight and Win the Economic Debate

Speakers will set the tone for "unlearning" faulty economic paradigms and centering a worldview that addresses inequality, and speaks to animating progressive values like equity and justice. The session will...

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Communicating Climate Action at the Intersections: Perspectives in Storytelling and Narrative

The impacts of the climate crisis are being felt far and wide—and yet, the reality is that those who will be most affected are those who have had the least...

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Building Community Power: Media-Based Organizing as Resistance

Media-based organizing has brought down corporations, stopped deportations, and moved hundreds of thousands of young people to take action together. In today's digitally driven landscape, communities of color are using...

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The Role of Progressive Media in 2018 and 2020

What role did progressive media play in helping to deliver huge electoral victories in 2018? And what lessons can be learned for the 2020 election? Progressive values were front and...

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The U.S. Right and the Rise of Authoritarianism Around the World

https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/857567277954764/ The rise of the far right in America is well known. But the cross-pollination between right-wing forces on both sides of the Atlantic, throughout the Western hemisphere and in...

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Can We Evict the Bigots from Congress Once and for All?

The 2018 election showed that even some of the most entrenched bigots in Congress are weaker than ever. Members of Congress like Ted Cruz, Steve King, Duncan Hunter, Mark Harris...

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Making the Green New Deal Real

https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/2218410768256441/ A Green New Deal is needed to address the existential crises we face today: a rapidly degrading climate, accelerating economic inequality, the precipitous decline in global democracy—all caused by...

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Racial Justice and Climate Change: Building a Multiracial Environmental Justice Movement

The Green New Deal has breathed new life into the climate debate and positioned climate change as a top Democratic priority heading into the primaries. The resolution elucidated that climate...

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The 100% Clean Energy Revolution: Paths to Victory in the States

Since 2016, the federal government has been an inevitable impediment to a necessary and just transition to 100% renewable energy. But fear not, as equal parts success and courage are...

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