Liberal bloggers and the rest of the netroots community are in Washington this week for the annual Take Back America conference hosted by Campaign for America’s Future.
“The progressive bloggers are here in large numbers, and they have taught us how to fight the right,” campaign co-Director Robert Borosage said Monday, according to a report in yesterday’s Technology Daily by our intern, Sarah Myers.
MoveOn.org Executive Director Eli Pariser spoke at Take Back America yesterday and said the grassroots support shown in the past year comes as the result of a deficit in leadership. “At first we looked for the leaders who were going to bring us out of that darkness — and they didn’t come, so we had to do it ourselves.”
The liberal blogging community as a whole will be the recipients of the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award for supporting populist candidates and criticizing the status quo. Ned Lamont, a favorite of the netroots last year in his unsuccessful quest to unseat Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., will present the award.
Today’s events feature a morning panel discussion dubbed “The Blogosphere: From Ideas To Action.” The speakers will be Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller, who just announced their departures from MyDD; Jim Dean of Democracy for America; Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake; and Oliver Willis. Isaiah Poole of TomPaine.com will moderate.
Blogger David Sirota, who worked for Lamont’s campaign, also is on the schedule today, and Duncan Black of Eschaton will participate in a roundtable about media bias tomorrow, when the conference also will feature a dicussion on engaging the netroots via blogs and other technologies.
– Beltway Blogroll, by K. Daniel Glover, gauges the policy and political impact of blogs. Glover is the editor of National Journal’s Technology Daily. He can be reached at dglover@nationaljournal.com.
For more coverage of the Take Back America conference check out Danny Schehcter’s blog and the Campaign for America’s Future website.
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