July 28, 2009
Netroots Nation the national progressive blogger conference is just around the corner. With so many challenges facing our nation today, there will be lots to discuss this year in Pittsburgh. Even so, I’m seeing the conference as the opportunity to gather new allies in the struggle for immigrant rights and racial justice in the US.
In fact, I’m moderating the session Stepping it up: Creating Powerful Multiracial Alliances with Progressive Bloggers with amazing speakers including Rinku Sen (Applied Research Center), Cheryl Contee (Jack and Jill Politics), Kyle de Beausset (Citizen Orange and the Sancutuary) and Jacki Esposito (Detention Watch Network).
The session will focus on how the progressive blogosphere often neglects to discuss larger social justice issues, particularly those related to race and ethnicity and results in critical concerns like immigration enforcement and criminal justice being mostly covered by nativist and politically conservative bloggers. Given corporate media’s attention to issues of immigration enforcement and the recent revival of the comprehensive immigration reform debate, it is crucial that progressive bloggers are prepared to expand the public dialogue around these issues.
If you’re coming to the conference, come join us and share your perspective on this issue!
Info:
Stepping it up: Creating Powerful Multiracial Alliances with Progressive Bloggers
Friday, August 14th 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Panel, 315/316
David L. Lawrence convention center
1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd
Pittsburgh, PA
Find a full NetRoots Nation agenda HERE!
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April 7, 2008
Did you see this article about blogging becoming the new sweatshop industry? Funny, it was printed only a week after I started a blog… Perhaps I should have thought this out more. Actually in the nonprofit advocacy world, the pressures are somewhat different. That said, the rapid pace of internet news traffic is a concern for all of us.
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
[Photo: Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times. Matt Buchanan shows blogs may be a young man’s game.]
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.
Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.
Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.
Read the rest of the article HERE
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