"Secretive Leftwing Network Discovered through WI Records Law "
"A low-profile Google Group used by over 1,000 state and national leftwing leaders and activists has been discovered thanks to Wisconsin’s open records law.
A Media Trackers inquiry into the actions of a University of Wisconsin professor turned up records and communications from “Gamechanger Salon,”
an online community that provides a forum for leftwing activists and leaders to share tactics, strategies and opinions.
Operating as a closed Google Group, much of what the network does is unavailable for public review."
A Member list and media members is included on the Media Trackers website , which includes :
Damon Silver, Policy Director for the AFL-CIO
Benjamin Joffe-Walk, Chief of Staff at Change.org
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK
Elizabeth Rose, Director of Communications at the Economic Policy Institute
Philip Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace until earlier this year
Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL
Raven Brooks, Executive Director of Netroots Nation
Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Deirdre Schifeling, National Director Organizing & Electoral Campaigns for Planned Parenthood
The group’s policy manual directs members to abstain from forwarding emails to recipients outside the group.
It does warn, however, that with 1,000-plus members, anyone emailing the group should not say anything “you wouldn’t want to be subpoenaed by a Grand Jury or broadcast on Fox News.”...
Others in Gamechanger Salon, include:
CJ Grimes, National Organizing Director for the SEIU,
Ilya Sherman, Executive Director of MoveOn.org Political Action,
and Joe Dinkin, Communications Director for the Working Families Party..
Gamechanger Salon also includes members of the leftwing “media” such as:
Amanda Terkel, Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at The Huffington Post,
Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post and MSNBC contributor,
Josh Dorner, Communications Director at ThinkProgress,
and Angelo Carusone, Executive Vice President at Media Matters.
The fact that New York State , Governor Cuomo may call out the National Guard for security concerns implies that he, or one of his staff, are affiliated with this group too .