We here at Campus Progress have been popular with a demographic that includes artists, grassroots activists, public policy majors, young wonks, and journalists. And our readership ranges from young college students to a slightly older age range that includes professors and professionals. We also take pride in reaching out to anyone and everyone who could take an interest in progressive politics. But I think all of us were pretty excited, and surprised, when we heard CosmoGirl did a blog post about the 2007 Campus Progress National Student Conference.
I'm thinking Speaker Pelosi was a draw for the magazine, aimed at young women, to do a write-up (if you missed her, or the conference, watch streaming video of the sessions here). Either way - we appreciate the shout-out, and hope CosmoGirl readers can look up to Speaker Pelosi as a great role model and use her as inspiration to make a difference in their communities by getting involved with grassroots organizing, journalism, and public policy. Plus, if they head over to Campus Progress, we've got Ryan Gosling too.
I have returned from helping set up the conference and attending the conference and helping clean up after the conference and going out to celebrate the completion of the conference. I noticed that my last post received some comments with a few complaints about how the day went. Let's keep going with that. Here's an open thread for all feedback about the '07 National Student Conference, both good and bad.
I discovered hip hop duo Blue Scholars back in college, when they performed on my campus and I heard a couple of their songs (my favorites include Blink and Motion Movement off their first, self-titled album). If you haven't heard them - they're a big deal on the West Coast (they're from Seattle), and sadly undiscovered by the rest of the U.S., though pretty well known by a lot of Asian-Americans.
I was just emailed a link to their latest music video for their song Back Home on their new album, Bayani. Back Home is a heartbreaking anti-war hip-hop song about the need to bring our troops back home, out of this endless, needless war. Check it out - I'm not one for emotional films or videos, but this one was particularly well done and really made an impact.
It hits home the Campus Progress, and general progressive movement, message of Support Our Troops, Bring 'em Home. If you don't already know about the work that we're doing, check out our Iraq Action Camp and also our Iraq Lobby Day in association with the National Student Conference - all are this summer, and all offer travel scholarships for you to come out to DC and end this war.
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