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En Masse and On Message

Boston becomes a progressive tea party

By Christopher Hayes

On its surface, the 2004 Democratic National Convention was pretty, well, conventional. There were the usual delegate breakfasts with self-congratulatory pols and party hacks. There were canned speeches, hotel-lobby schmoozing, celebrity spotting, elevator flirtations between interns and fierce competition for tickets to the hottest parties. But I soon realized that the real action of the Democratic National Convention wasn’t to be… return to article

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    Hazer-thanks for making me aware of the strength of the progressives-nice to know grass -roots stuff is being seen properly and not dismissed.

    First half did not seem like your usual strong stuff -too much fluff. I am sure you don’t need another critic but rest assured that there is a burger for you and your lady when I get to Chitown again.

    All the best. Hello to your folks.
    Roger

    United States Posted by Roger Lane on Aug 5, 2004 at 11:59 PM

    That was a great and accurate article—yet with a major glaring error of omission. There was even MORE progressive activity at the Boston Social Forum held july 23-25 at UMASS campus, There were 550 events—huge attendence. I should know. I was there because I had organized a summit of progressive media pros from across country—and even Greg Palast—an american journalist in exile with the BBC—for one specific purpose: the design a new mainstream-branded progressive media network.

    The 2-day summit, called Summit Net 04, had reps from Democracy Now, IndyMedia.org, TakeBacktheMedia, linkTV, DishTV, MediaChannel, GTV, filmclip from the new “name” in progressive linguistics—George Lakoff; plus journalists and business entrepreneurs, filmmakers from Outfoxed, Hunting of the President, plus trailers from Palast’s new dcumentary, plus The Corporation, and even John Sayles’ new movie Silver City.

    A draft model was developed and work is moving quickly on devloping a scalable media network that begins as a branded progressive media portal, and scales to a full convergence cross-media platform.

    See the website http://www.SummitNet04.com

    rh+

    United States Posted by Richard Hoefer on Aug 8, 2004 at 9:31 AM
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