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Posted by | April 8, 2013
Engaging New American Voters and Voters of Color

The 2012 general election clearly demonstrated the unleashed potential of new American voters and voters of color to win significant progressive policies and races at state and national levels. The...

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Carrying on Aaron Swartz’s Legacy

Aaron Swartz was a leader in so many ways. From revolutionizing the internet by co-authoring RSS 1.0 to leading the charge against SOPA and PIPA, Aaron continually pushed the bounds...

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The New Netroots: Getting the Web We Want

Recent success of the Internet rights activism shows that issues like copyright reform, universal access to open networks and online privacy resonate deeply with people in the U.S. and around...

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What Political Consultants Don’t Want Donors to Know: How to Win Elections with Data-driven Field Operations

While political consultants in Washington rake in hefty paychecks for multi-million dollar ad buys, many elections in 2012 were won not by way of expensive ad buys, but with sophisticated...

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Creative Extraction: How Wall Street Banks are Extracting Resources from Main Street

This panel will examine how Wall Street turned away from their historical role of making productive investments in the economy to creating sophisticated instruments that extract increasingly from the real...

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From Hand-Raiser to Leader: How Walmart Workers are Using Online Communities to Take on the World’s Largest Employer

On Black Friday 2012, Walmart workers went on strike in hundreds of stores across the country. Listen to first-hand accounts of how these courageous workers used their online networks to...

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Taking Poverty Into our Own Hands

At the root of the success in addressing every social and economic issue is our ability to understand and address poverty and the growing income inequality. Awaiting comprehensive responses from...

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Reaching Voters Where they Are: The Secret to California Labor’s Winning Microtargeting Strategy

In 2012 California unions defeated Prop 32, an anti-union measure funded by the Koch Brothers and other corporate interests, by using a unique combination of sophisticated microtargeting and online advertising...

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Never Too Early: Q&A on the 2014 Elections and Lessons from 2012

The 2014 mid-terms might seem like a long way off, but as noted political strategist Yogi Berra famously said, "It gets late early around here!" And so, because it's never...

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The New 50-State Strategy: Keeping Our Edge in the Ground Game

As DNC Chair, Gov. Howard Dean proposed something radical. Rather than focusing all party resources on a media onslaught of the usual battleground states, Democrats would develop infrastructure and invest...

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