Posted on 08/06/2014 11:40:12 AM PDT by kcvl
An extensive membership list and a calendar of events offer insight into a leftwing network first revealed by Media Trackers last week. Gamechanger Salon is a members-only Google group run by Billy Wimsatt for forward thinking and top-level political activists on the Left. Members of the group include senior level political hands at NARAL, the SEIU, the AFL-CIO and Planned Parenthood, among dozens of other groups.
Media Trackers first uncovered the network in records obtained through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor. The membership list released today is far more detailed than the list released last week, and the calendar offers insight into the group’s plans for coordinated action in the future.
Wimsatt, the moderator of Gamechanger Salon according to a member policy manual, currently works as chief ideas officer at Gamechanger Labs, an incubator for leftwing political and social action with the motto, “R&D for the movement.” In 2008, Wimsatt worked for the Obama campaign and the Ohio Democratic Party, according to his LinkedIn profile. A former columnist he is the author of several books and contributed columns to the Huffington Post until 2012.
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Other portions of the extensive membership document recommend movies, songs, television shows, recommended websites and blogs, and goals for the online Gamechanger community. Two of the goals listed are “Recruit 200 key community-based organizers, especially women and people of color,” and “Recruit 100 key diverse bloggers, movement journalists, and pundits.” Another goal involves theorizing about a “TED-like conference for folks.”
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Their University Journalism Professors must be soooooooooo proud!
Heather Booth -
I first learned that if we organize we can change the world from my work in the civil rights movement (CORE and SNCC) as a teenager. Then work in the women’s movement (where I started JANE) and then anti-war movement. I founded Midwest Academy with money I won from a back pay suit for labor organizing, which continues as a terrific organizer training center emphasizing strategic movement building. I’ve been involved with many elections and was training director at the DNC. Now focus on large scale issue campaigns: former founding director of NAACP National Voter Fund, Campaign for Immigration Reform, Americans for Financial Reform. Currently consulting with National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and the Voter Participation Center. And a partner in Democracy Partners. I’m married to another gamechanger—Paul Booth. We have two grown sons and four grandchildren who are joys in our life. It is wonderful to have a life in the movement for justice and democracy and work with so many progressive organizers.
Thank you!
* Name removed by request of journalist.
Oh...someone was busted! lol!
Yessir, I would like to call myself a “certified empowerment coach” All ready on the firing line, shoot on your own dog target.
JournoList II. Please forward to Chris Plante and the WMAL boys.
Done - by email
MSM employees are skid marks on Journalism's underpants.
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