It's late August, so last weekend it was time once again for Downsville Day. This year was expanded from previous years, with a large assortment of businesses and organizations having booths at the event. As always there was a (delicious) pancake breakfast to raise money for the Downsville Community Museum. The day featured a parade (which I couldn't attend this year) as well as spectacular evening fireworks and music provided by the Timber Inn and other local businesses.
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Netroots Nation Guide for Thursday
The video embedded on the site is the video feed from the main room at Netroots Nation. There are other video feeds available, and I will try to put up the guide for each day with the links to all of the sessions. This is for Thursday June 7. It says it below, but I'll repeat it - ALL TIMES ARE IN EASTERN TIME!!
FOLLOW AT HOME GUIDE FOR THURSDAY, 6/7
The following keynotes and panels will be streaming live. All times are eastern time. Full descriptions of each session are available here.
9:00am - 10:15am
- From Defeat to Triumph: Erasing the Death Penalty in America
- Taking the Offense in State Elections
- The Heart of the Beast: How the Grassroots is Taking on Big Banking
- Agitation and Inspiration: The Power of Art and Cultural Organizing
10:30am - 11:45am
- Handcuffs, Conventional Wisdom and Dirty Oil: Activism’s Big Win Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
- Collaboration, Not Co-option: Labor, Community Organizations and Occupy Wall Street Working Together
- Organizing Lessons from SOPA and PIPA
- Beyond Occupy: What Does a New Economic System Look Like?
3:00pm - 4:15pm
- Whose Law Is It Anyway? ALEC's Influence on State Legislatures and What We Can Do About It
- The Battle for Congress: Q&A on the 2012 Elections
- Liberate Your Ass: Why Sexual Freedom is Key to Fighting the Right
- Occupy Goes Home: The Occupy Movement and the Foreclosure Crisis
4:30pm - 5:45pm
- Protecting Voting Rights in Communities of Color in 2012
- Marriage Equality: Past, Present and Future
- Emerging Movements: The Face of New Progressive Online Communities
- Why the Fed is the Most Important Economic Issue You Know Nothing About
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Also, panel and keynote pages will be updated with tweets, video and pictures after the sessions.
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Steve is a member of LION Publishers , the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, the Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce, the Online News Association, and the Local Media Consortium, and is active in Health Dunn Right.
He has been a computer guy most of his life but has published a political blog, a discussion website, and now Eye On Dunn County.
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