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Hi there - I wasn't able to make it this year and only caught a couple of the live feeds. I've been waiting for the videos of the sessions to be put up, but haven't seen anything about that. Is it still the plan to make the content available?

Why has MSM remain silent on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher ?
Plumber Joe - is now a public person - He has record of Domestic Violence - Ex- wife Jennifer P. divorce 1997 Docket # DR19970476- case Domestic violence in front of children - battered women shelter -Docket # DV0400222 3/1/04 11/04 Judgment. Ex-wife Kimberley divorce 2007 Docket # DM20065458 - She was @ battered womens shelter. Also provided court documents of @ least 12 former girlfriends , of Joe the plumber , filing complaints of violence by Joe the plumber. he also has 2 Annullments -reason Unmitigated physical violence. -I can understand when he was not a "Public person , for MSM who has obtained , the "Sealed " records - staying silent , but not now.
Joe the plumber is a grave & growing danger to women. He has access now to more vunerable women.

First of all, I want to say a big thank you for the video recording of many of the sessions. As a follow-up to my comment at the Q&A session yesterday, it would be really wonderful if Netroots Nation could record all the sessions the way the Media Reform conference does, and then upload them as downloadable mp3s. I wouldn't want to have a reduction in what's available, but I'd like to hear what went on at the ones I missed. I don't always have time to watch, even at my computer, but mp3s can be put on an iPod and/or played in my car -- in which, unfortunately, I spend a lot of time. Maybe Free Press could give Netroots Nation some pointers on how they accomplish that feat.

I recently participated in the Netroots Platform Committee for development of a platform for the Democratic Party. I saw the results today and was shocked at how it changed from the platforms proposed by the participants and the platforms that were mysteriously massaged to leave out any controversial topics ie no more nuclear power plants. So what's the deal when you ask for people to participate and then ignore their input???

Why haven't either of the Presidential candidates addressed the carbon footprint of the hundreds of millions of dollars they are spending on political advertising?

Today, neither our print nor our digital media infrastructures are sustainable, but they can be. Given the importance that both candidates have placed on climate change and on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, last week I sent an invitation to the DNC, the Obama Campaign, the RNC and the McCain Campaign inviting them to address the carbon footprint associated with the billions of dollars that will be spent on political advertising in 2008 and address the sustainability of the print and digital media supply chain infrastructure that Americans depend upon.

The following press release was also made:

Inconvenient Political Truth: Campaign Ads & The Environment
Billions of dollars and a big carbon footprint

http://www.csrwire.com/News/12671.html

So far there has been little mainstream media attention to the release and we have not received a response from either candidate, nor from the DNC or RNC.

It is laudable that the two parties are seeking to "green up" their respective conventions, but the addressing the carbon footprint of more than $4 billion dollars that will be spent on political advertising in 2008 is a much bigger story... and one that has yet to be given the attention such an important issue deserves.

What's being done about no-shows? Both Mike Papantonio and Robert Greenwald failed to make it to the panel they were on. Rest of the panel did the best they could, but it suffered.