Creating a society to match the scenery.
So, I'm not in Detroit but Navajo just fired off a message that said Phoenix will be the site of Netroots Nation next year. W00t! The backdrop sure provides a lot to chew on at a national conference: immigration, abortion, guns, Arpaio, education, states rights, LGBT, solar, fingers pokin' in Obama's face, tea party (like
really tea party, like birther muslim nazi tea party), religion, and a shitload of other crazy-ass issues, for which it seems we are often the petri dish. And as you may have heard, Arizona has garnered its share of the national spotlight. Not in a good way. What other
county sheriff does most of the nation know?
With that in mind, let's use the July 27 potluck in Phoenix, with Navajo, as an opportunity to start a conversation about next year's NN. Not to draw a blueprint for the planners, but to talk among ourselves about how the meeting might help progressives here draw attention to the walls we've been banging our heads against. (And drink and eat and dance and laugh.)
I mean, every friggin' day there's some bonehead from Arizona who says or does something that's Louie Gohmert-worthy. Lookit asshat Adam Kwansman in Oracle the other day! How 'bout those legislative turds, along with a congressman, who ran up to Bundy's ranch to get their mugs in a picture with him and other gun-totin' traitors. After the old coot told America what he knows about the Negro, the pictures disappeared from the officials' websites. And don't even get me going on education dick John Huppenthal, Greek historian sock-puppet extraordinaire. Or Arpaio, natch.
We'll gather in downtown Phoenix from 4PM to 6PM or later on Sunday, the 27th. Navajo is coming direct from her family reunion in Kayenta. Rather than meet at a restaurant, we'll be on top of a high-rise—great views. So bring something to munch on or drink, or don't, we'll have plenty. Send me Kosmail and I'll provide the address and other directions.
2015. I think I can make this one finally.