Netroots Nation 2015--Watch CWA Panels

This week progressive activists are gathering in Phoenix, Ariz., for Netroots Nation, the annual conference that serves as an incubator for ideas that challenge the status quo and inspire action.

There will be 80 panels and more than 40 hands-on training sessions. Activists will get to hear from special guests including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Reps. Rosa DeLauro, Donna Edwards, Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva.

Don't miss our two panels this Saturday:

– At 8:30 a.m., CWA will be participating in a panel examining the re-enfranchisement of people with felony convictions as well as broader democracy issues, including voting rights and money in politics. 

Citizens and activists across the country are fed up with a government that seems to no longer respond to their needs, but rather the donor class and special interests that don't represent the vast majority of Americans. CWA Democracy Programs Director Tova Wang, Bus Federation Executive Director Matt Singer and Democracy Initiative Political Strategist Gregory Moore will be discussing the growing democracy movement and how all our progressive goals are not disparate, but only achievable by connecting them under the umbrella of money in politics and voting rights.

– Then, at 1:30 p.m., CWA will participate in " A Movement Not a Moment: Fighting Fast Track in Arizona." Over the past year, progressive activists have joined together across the country to organize unprecedented grassroots opposition to the deeply flawed Fast Track process for passing trade deals. CWA Political Director Rafael Navar, CWA Local 7019 legislative political director Yolanda Bejarano, Puente Arizona's Carlos Garcia, Presente Executive Director Arturo Carmona and Fight for the Future's Evan Greer will talk about how activists built the national and local movement against Fast Track and what lessons we can carry forward as we work together on other issues.