Netroots Nation 2012

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Netroots Nation 2012 was held June 7-10 in Providence, Rhode Island at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

Prominent featured speakers included Rebuild the Dream co-founder Van Jones, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, Congressman David Cicilline (RI-01), Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman, Carol Shea-Porter, AFL-CIO’s Rich Trumka, the Agenda Project’s Erica Payne, Ai-jen Poo - National Domestic Workers Alliance director, and Rhode Island State Representatives Teresa Tanzi and Chuck Rocha.

LGBT topics discussed

• Activism in battleground and conservative ("red/purple") states
• Best practices for online journalists
• Blogging for transgender equality
• Driving traffic to online projects
• HIV & AIDS
• Immigration
• LGBT health
• Marriage equality
• Military
• Viability of LGBT blogging in the future

Notable participants

Tammy Baldwin John M. Becker Wayne Besen Scott Brown Sherrod Brown Bil Browning Ben Cardin Sean Carlson David Cicilline Josh Cohen Michael Crawford Heather Cronk Carisa Cunningham Ryan Davis

Howard Dean Denis Dison Russ Feingold Zack Ford Karl Frisch Todd Heywood Jeremy Hooper Benjamin Jealous Joe Jervis Van Jones Will Kohler Paul Krugman Jim Langevin Marc Love

Dan Massey Dirk McCall Jamie McGonnigal Deval Patrick Erica Payne Ai-jen Poo Gautam Raghavan Gregory Rae Monica Roberts Chuck Rocha Michael Rogers Autumn Sandeen Eric Schneiderman

Scout Carol Shea-Porter Pam Spaulding Teresa Tanzi Angel Taveras Rich Trumka Gregory Varnum Daniel Villarreal Zach Wahls Elizabeth Warren Jilliam Weiss Sheldon Whitehouse Scott Wooledge

Sponsors

Sponsors of Netroots Nation 2012 and Netroots Connect LGBT 2012

ActBlue Advocates for Youth Advomatic AFL-CIO AFSCME Alliance for American Manufacturing Amalgamated Transit Union American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) American Federation of Teachers The American Values Network American Wind Energy Association America’s Voice Education Fund Barbara Lee Family Foundation Blue State Digital Brennan Center for Justice Broadway Cares Bullfight Strategies Buy4.com CallFire Center for Community Change Center for Reproductive Rights Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Change.org Change to Win Common Cause Communications Workers of America Corporate Action Network CREDO Mobile Daily Kos Democracy for America Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Democratic Governors Association

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee Democratic National Committee DSPolitical EchoDitto Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund Facebook Faith in Public Life FitzGibbon Media 5 Steps Forward Media Freedom to Marry Friends of the Earth Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders GLAAD Google grassroots solutions Guardian News & Media Human Rights Campaign INMEX International Association of Fire Fighters International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers J Street Johnson Family Foundation Keystone Progress Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) Libertas LLC Living Liberally Middle Coast Mobile Commons Mother Jones MoveOn.org Political Action National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

National Education Association National Gay and Lesbian Task Force NCC Media New Media Ventures NGP VAN Planned Parenthood Ploughshares Fund Precision Progress Now Progressive Congress Progressive PST Progressives United Rally.org The Raw Story Rebuild the Dream Revolution Messaging ROCKSTAR Salsa Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Sierra Club Spreecast “Take Back the American Dream” conference Teamsters Tricom Associates Union of Unemployed UNITE HERE United Steelworkers (USW) Upworthy VenusPlusX Warecorp Women Donors Network Young Democrats of America

LGBT related policies and practices

Transgender etiquette statement

There are many transgender people at Netroots Nation. To be inclusive, please keep in mind the following:

Please do not assume anyone’s gender, even people you may have met in the past. A person’s external appearance may not match their internal gender identity. Pay attention to a person’s purposeful gender expression. It’s polite to ask: “What pronoun do you prefer?” or “How do you identify?” before using pronouns or gendered words. Or better yet, ask for their name. One way of acknowledging transgender people’s needs is to designate restrooms as gender neutral. In bathrooms, many transgender people face harassment , so please let everyone pee in peace. We have designated some bathrooms in the Convention Center as “gender neutral.” Anyone is welcome to use them, and they are heavily signed. These restrooms are on the fifth floor, outside ballrooms C and E. Please listen to transgender people’s needs and stories when they are volunteered; yet please respect people’s privacy and boundaries and do not ask unnecessary questions. .

Then please join the many hardworking allies who are working to respond appropriately to transphobic situations. Respectful allie who learn from and with transgender people and then educate others are important for successful trans- gender liberation. Thank you for your help and have a great conference!

—Netroots Nation 2012 program

Media

See also: Netroots Connect LGBT 2012 media

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Photo credits: Joe Jervis

See also

• Netroots Connect LGBT 2012