Organizing Lessons from SOPA and PIPA
Session Type(s): Panel
Training Tag(s): Organizing & Movement Building, Technology / Data / Innovation
Starts: Thursday, Jun. 7 10:30 AM (Eastern)
Ends: Thursday, Jun. 7 11:45 AM (Eastern)
The SOPA and PIPA bills were defeated by a fascinating combination of forces. There was an inside game in Washington and an outside one online. It included liberals and conservatives, and it brought together the public, non-profits and the business community in common cause. The panel will look at the cross-cutting effects of the effort and determine what lessons to take away for other campaigns at the federal, state or local level.
Organizing Lessons from SOPA and PIPA
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Moderator
Art Brodsky
Art has been communications director of Public Knowledge since Feb. 2004. His writing has appeared on Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and other outlets. He is a veteran of telecom/Internet journalism, having worked for 16 years as a reporter and editor for Communications Daily and also as an editor for Congressional Quarterly. He was also communications director for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Panelists
Stephen DeMaura
Stephen DeMaura is President of Americans for Job Security, a leading pro-growth, pro-business advocacy organization. He has written frequently on the impact federal, state and local initiatives will have on businesses and is an active proponent of conservative, pro-growth policies. Prior to Americans for Job Security, DeMaura served as the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. He has also consulted on local, state, and federal candidate and ballot initiative campaigns across the country. DeMaura currently lives in Alexandria, VA, with his wife, Amy.
Andrew McLaughlin
Andrew McLaughlin is VP of Tumblr, based in New York City. He serves on the boards of directors of Access, the Sunlight Foundation, Code for America, and Public Knowledge.
In 2011, Andrew served as executive director of Civic Commons, and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford, teaching “Freedom of Speech in a Digitally Interconnected World”. From 2009-2011, Andrew McLaughlin served a member of President Obama’s White House staff as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. From 2004-2009, Andrew was Director of Global Public Policy at Google.
Andrew holds a B.A. from Yale University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
David Moon
David Moon is the program director for the progressive, civil liberties group Demand Progress. He also edits MarylandJuice.com a state politics blog, and is a Washington-based policy attorney and Democratic political consultant. Moon previously served as the former Chief Operating Officer of the election reform group, FairVote, where he coordinated numerous advocacy efforts to make our electoral process more fair and accessible. He is a graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law and received his bachelors degree from Tufts University.