Netroots In Solidarity — with our service workers brothers and sisters.

Netroots In Solidarity

by digby

Netroots Nation is doing some activist work with the help of a Rhode Island state Rep (and local blogger!) And they need your help:

Hi — this is Rhode Island State Rep. David Segal. The folks at Netroots Nation and RIFuture.org have done a great job of shining the spotlight on a labor dispute we are facing locally in Providence — the outcome of which will directly decide whether the Netroots Nation conference will bring approximately $2 million in economic activity to our area in 2011. As a progressive elected official who’s worked with the hotel workers and other service employees across the city and state for nearly a decade, I want to do my part to increase pressure on management on behalf of workers. (And as co-founder of local progressive blogs RIFuture.org and ProvidenceDailyDose.com, I especially look forward to welcoming progressives from around the nation to Providence.) Today, I’m asking for your help, by signing a petition in support of the workers that I will deliver directly to the hotel management — and will invite local media to cover. You can sign it here.$2 million is just the immediate pay-off our state would get from the Netroots Nation conference. Providence has a burgeoning tech and online community, and as we look to brand ourselves as a tech-savvy city, it’s difficult to think of a bigger opportunity that could have fallen into our lap.

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