Goal: Annual gathering of netroots and progressive organizations.

Leadership

Organization’s Objective

In the middle of this decade, the voice of the netroots began to evolve in our political system. Netroots is defined as a non-partisan grassroots political action community that uses the Internet and blogs as primary tools for: expressing viewpoints, building consensus, acting to change the status quo, mobilizing huge numbers of people and informing each other and the world about current events, grassroots actions, networks, meetings, policy and more. The growth of the progressive netroots, in particular, was gaining as frustration grew over events taking place in the political arena.

A need was identified to take the next step in empowering the voice of the progressive netroots by bringing them together for a four-day convention. Though the idea of the YearlyKos Convention came initially from the community of Daily Kos, it has grown to serve the entire progressive netroots community.