Citizen Action & Open Source Lobbying by The Roots Project
http://ctgproject.blogspot.com/2006/05/ ... ccess.html
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
After Action Report: Success!
Today members of the Roots Project delivered a copy of Crashing the Gate to every Democrat in the House and Senate. Two hundred and forty-nine offices in one day by no more than a dozen people.
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http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=28
A special delivery for Democratic members of Congress
I spent the day with a number of volunteers, including a number who came down to DC from New York City, documenting them as they delivered nearly 250 copies of “Crashing the Gate” by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga to every Democratic member of Congress (both House and Senate).
Matt, the brains behind the project, wrote up the day’s events here. Check out a special 5-minute documentary we just produced from the day on our Democracy Channel.
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http://www.chelseagreen.com/2005/items/crashingthegate
Crashing the Gate
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga; Foreword by Simon Rosenberg
Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.
This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in their critique of Republican ideologues who are now running—and ruining—our country.
Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement—of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors—that is the antidote to old-school politics as usual. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a more authentic and populist democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the way political campaigns are waged and managed.
A must-read book for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy.
