I have to admit right up front that I was off my game this year with picture taking. My responsibilities with preparing for my panel presentation on Invisible Indians, organizing the Pine Ridge Billboard poster selling station and preparing for the American Indian Caucus took a lot of time. As usual, all the after parties really took their toll in robbing me of sleep. So without any more excuses here are more than 120 photos below the fold.
Each conference out does the previous ones. I had so much fun and I cannot wait for the next one in Providence, Rhode Island!
Also, if you missed my first diary covering the Cheers & Jeers dinner, click here.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15th
...continued after the Cheer & Jeers Dinner.
Meet BFSkinner!
Land of Enchantment and jnhobbs spot me. Meteor Blades is close by.
LOE taking a picture of me taking a picture of her...
My buddy, jnhobbs
TexasMom and maggiejean mobbing Meteor Blades
BFSkinner, Julie Gulden and Meteor Blades
From center and clockwise:
indiemcemopants, kyril, Seth Kaye, John Aravosis, Clarknt67
David Trujillo and TheFatLadySings
cskendrick
kirbybruno and RKelley25
Kaili joy Gray and Jed Lewison
Will Rockafellow, Faith Gardner and Jennifer Bruenjes (Scout Finch)
Clarknt67
NormAl1792
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THURSDAY, JUNE 16th
dov12348
Simple
My new friends: Anwar Hijaz & Zahra Billoo
Tyler Lewis, Kimberly Ellis aka Dr. Goddess and Elon James White
Katie Halper and Negin Farsad
Bruin Kid, dgb and clarknt67
Julie Gulden and the cutest mr. anonymous in the world, lol plus KVoimakas in the background.
Kitsap River and Charles Curtis-Stanley
Kitsap River, Charles Curtis-Stanley and Ramara
Land of Enchantment with her Saturday back stage pass she won in an NN auction. I can't wait for her photo diary on that!
Someone had to photograph LOE's shoes, note orange nail polish.
Bruin Kid
FREE FOOD!!!!!
Meteor Blades, Land of Enchantment photo bombing and mr. anonymous cutie pie
TexMex, BFSkinner and ?
Lefty Coaster and TexDem
Trashablanca
Trashablanca with a tee shirt he had made for Bleeding Heart
Dante Atkins and GoldnI
vcmvo2
Shanikka and Meteor Blades syncing their phones
Eric Thut, Operations Director of Netroots Nation
Bill in Portland Maine in his kiddie pool
Howard Dean
Meteor Blades and me
My hero: Marcy Wheeler
FRIDAY, JUNE 17th
Panel of Promoting People of Color in the Progressive Blogosphere: TexMex, deoliver47, navajo and soothsayer99
NLinStPaul and joedemocrat
indiemcemopants and Shanikka
Dave Weigel
Dan Choi signing his new quilt square for the Community Quilt Project
Dan Choi's new quilt square for the Community Quilt Project
From maggiejean's camera:
Dan Choi and his quilt from Sara R
Pine Ridge Billboard Project's poster table
treehugger
Group toast to exmearden
L-R: jnhobbs, Land of Enchantment, mr. anonymous, Meteor Blades and Shanikka
jnhobbs and Land of Enchantment
Drinks with the Front Pagers: Kaili Joy Gray, Faith Gardner, Jennifer Brunejes, Tom Tomorrow and Susan Gardner
Tom Tomorrow and Barry Eisler
mik, ? , ed tracey and Brillig
SATURDAY, JUNE 18th
Julie Gulden, One of the winners of the Pub Quiz, in case you haven't heard
SFKossacks represent: Starting with norm there in the red and clockwise, Paradise50, smiley creek, aha aha, jotter (hidden) Mrs. side pocket, side pocket, Jeff in CA and vicki !
Folks meeting with Raul Grijalva are left to right: The Cunctator (Brad Johnson), theGreenMiles (Miles Grant), RLMiller, myself (SolarMom), and Rep. Grijalva's aide. And LoE of course.
L-R: Mr. TexasMom, TexasMom, TexDem, Floja Roja and Common Sense Mainer during NFFT
loggersbrat during NFFT
Eclectablog during NFFT
Meteor Blades and navajo leading the American Indian Caucus
Newest Native American Netroots member: Prarie Rose Seminole. The amazing Oke found her by chance and invited her to our caucus. Good job Oke.
R_L: Oke, side pocket, Kitsap River during the American Indian Caucus
navajo, Meteor Blades, Lucia Sanchez and Raymond Ortiz
deoliver47 and I modeling our earrings made by Wings, Aji's husband
Van Jones at Netroots Nation during noon plenary session
Van Jones
Joan McCarter and Scott Kleeb
Hunter
Van Jones
Van Jones, I was able to get close several times and snapped a lot of photos, many of them blurry as usual. Finally Van reaches out to me, shakes my hand and I thanked him for mentioning Native Americans in his speech. I told him that I know Meteor Blades and that MB asked Van to please remember us in his speeches. Van then told me that he has a new comment that he's working on to insert for us and that he'd like to try it out on me. What followed was a typical eloquent comment which I can only clumsily paraphrase. "We talk about Democracy but we need to give credit to the founders of Democracy, the Iroquois. When we talk about Democracy we must credit the teachers." I told him I loved it and I reiterated, please don't forget about us. He responded that he had every reason to remember us. A wonderful up close and personal moment!
Floja Roja
Lulu57 and ? Georges
Elisa, Markos' wife fund raising
Markos fund raising for NN12 next year
Shanikka writing a check for Markos
Markos was so excited to see side pocket, there was a huge hug and much back slapping
Kitsap River's memorial seat for exmearden
occams hatchet's quilt square he signed. LOE tagged it. ;)
Tom Tomorrow's quilt patch
Raul Grijalva's quilt block
teacherken balancing beer on his head. He says he delivers drinks to his kids like this.
teacherken
Trashablanca and claude
Kossacks waiting in line to get into the closing night party
The Front Page table:
L-R: Kaili Joy Gray, Barbara Morrill, Meteor Blades, Susan Gardner, Jed Lewison, Hunter and elfling
Robert in Monterey and Shayera facing the camera. That is Julia Rosen's head and Laura Van to the far right?
A blurry teacherken and his razzie
I found my posse. vicki, aha aha, jotter, Paradise50 and Mr. Sharoney
cedwyn and navajo, twins
My friend: Austin Adams
Man of the hour: Raven Brooks
Another group toast to exmearden
My new friends, Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider, Filmmakers, Patchworks Films
kyril, the cutest ever
Laura Clawson
Markos addressing the crowd
I ran outta steam about now, it was only 10 PM. See my tip jar.
SUNDAY, JUNE 19th
I could only manage one photo on the last day.
Meteor Blades, poe and Shanikka
There was so much more happening all around me but I was unable to snap it for you. I'm so glad others have taken to posting their photos. I love them as much as you all do.
Also, please leave a comment to identify the ?s above. I'll do my best to fix.
Over and out.
Update: Some outdoors shots