| After three days in Texas, I am back home in New York. I will have several posts about Netroots Nation over the next two days. There are a few things I must say:
(1) This was my first time attending Netroots Nation. I will assure you that I will do everything in my power to attend the Netroots Nation conventions in years to come. It was a great experience. I met some great people (shook hands with Al Gore too) and enjoyed learning more about topics that interest me.
(2) The netroots movement is an important and while still growing, has a huge presence. How legitimate is this movement? Legitimate enough to bring people like Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and many others to the convention.
(3) While we do have some level of notoriety, we have a lot of work to do. As Kos said, we just got beat up in a big way over FISA. We need to do more. We need to beat the telecoms. In New York, we need to beat the "three men in a room" mentality.
(4) On a state level, I think we need to do more to build the netroots here in New York. We need to build up a base of bloggers, readers and activists that will fight for things like public financing of elections. I am not implying that we don't have such a base, but we need to better. We can ALWAYS do better.
I will have a lot more tomorrow. I will have posts on panels, an interview and plenty of pictures.
Stay tuned. |
