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Saturday, April 25th
DAILY KOS CONNECTS KANSAS CITY
LOCATION: Alamo Drafthouse
1400 Main Street • Kansas City
Join us for a day of camaraderie and progressive strategizing with Big Orange flavor. In a day-long seminar, learn how our Connect! Unite! Act! team maximized the Daily Kos forum to effect change in Kansas state politics. We are going to duplicate that effort across the nation. Participants will focus on organizing from the ground up.
SCHEDULE:
8:00 AM - Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - Presentations, panels and Q&A's begin
Noon - Lunch served
1:30 PM - More presentations, panels and Q&A's
6:00 PM - After Party at nearby Anton's Taproom & Restaurant. We've reserved their Beer Garden, you'll need a wristband from the day event to get in.
You'll also get a chance to meet the blog's founder, Markos Moulitsas and some of the Daily Kos staff:
• Meteor Blades, Senior Political Writer — The Value of Year Round Precinct Organizing
• Jen Hayden, Social Media Editor
• Neeta Lind aka navajo, Director of Community Building — How to Maximize the Daily Kos Forum
• Joan McCarter, Senior Political Writer — Online to on-the-ground Activism
• David Nir, Political Director — Midwest Politics and the Future
• Will Rockafellow, General Manager
• Monique Teal, Activism Team Member — Interview with Patricia Bynes
• Markos will give a preview of DK5, our new upgraded site plus an Ask Me Anything session
Special Guest Speakers:
• Patricia Bynes, Ferguson Township Committeewoman — The Next Steps Between Issue Organizing and Electoral Action
• Chris Reeves, Connect! Unite! Act! for Kansas & Missouri — Update on Kansas/Missouri Politics
• Jacob Wagner, Director of Urban Studies at UMKC — The Future is Urban: Kansas City Region and the Implications for State/National Politics
Benefactor level is also available if you plan to attend and buy a scholarship for someone, you and your attendee can have a front row seat. Angel level is also available if you can't attend but want to help someone else attend.
We've granted two scholarships! We have five more scholarships available thanks to our Benefactors and Angels. Please kosmail navajo if you need a scholarship to attend. |
Chris Reeves, who blogs at Daily Kos as
tmservo433, is our Connect! Unite! Act! leader for Kansas and Missouri. He's a great example of local organizing and has done an outstanding job of working with other progressive groups in Kansas this past election on
registering disenfranchised voters, working to provide resources for
every county to setup Democratic headquarters, and inviting progressives to sign up at Daily Kos. He credits our site with effectively broadcasting his events around the state. We want to duplicate his effort across the nation. The conference will focus on organizing from the ground up and why that's important.
If you are at more than a 3 Hour drive, we have a discount on hotels for FRIDAY and SATURDAY night. Choose between the Park Place Ramada or the nearby Holiday Inn for $40 per night - a discount of approximately 66%. You must kosmail tmservo433 to reserve. Transport back and forth from event to Hotel is also included. |
Friday Night Pre-event party for Out-of-Towners and Interested Locals: A chance to mix & mingle, sponsored through Central Kansas Progressives, Kansas Kossacks, Equality Kansas, Sunflower and many others. You'll get a chance to relax, grab something to nosh and enjoy your evening in KC. Location and time:
TBD
Sunday Brunch for Out-of-Towners and Interested Locals: An opportunity for individual groups to meet on their own before others have to fly out. Location and time:
TBD
We'll have venues and times announced soon for Friday night and Sunday morning.
Daily Kos will organize locally in every congressional district, including the reddest of them. There is no other progressive forum like Daily Kos. Let's take advantage of our 24/7 conversation and the large population of readers. You can look for a group to join here and if you don't see one, please consider starting one. Kosmail me if you'd like to lead a Daily Kos group.
Grow our network, unite our progressive communities, help win elections!
Daily Kos' new mission statement:
Daily Kos fights for a progressive America
by empowering its community and allies with information
and tools to directly impact the political process.
Perfect for our regional events.