Activists Gather in Providence for Netroots Nation 2012
by Dave Kunes | June 08, 2012
The seventh annual Netroots Nation conference is underway in Providence, R.I., as 3,000 progressive activists share online and offline strategies for mobilizing at the local and national level. Events take place at the Rhode Island Convention Center from June 7-10.
Netroots Nation offers an opportunity for AFSCME to offer support and share strategies with progressive allies — both within the labor movement and across organizational lines. Conference attendees from AFSCME’s Political Action and Communications departments participated in panels on how labor-progressive coalitions can elect state lawmakers who support working people and how to fight back in the face of relentless and vicious opposition from the anti-worker noise machine.
In addition, AFSCME is once again proud to be a premier sponsor of the conference, this year bringing live streaming coverage of the keynote and plenary sessions and key panels and breakout sessions to those who are unable to attend the event in person. If you’d like to catch the rest of the conference online, please follow Free Speech TV’s coverage: http://www.netrootsnation.org/nn12/streaming/
You can also follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #NN12, and follow events at the Netroots Nation blog. For more labor highlights from this year’s conference, visit the AFL-CIO Blog.
