Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the largest chain of abortion clinics in the nation, will in Providence this week to speak to the Netroots Nation convention. Richards also addressed the Democratic Convention on 2008, despite her organizations links to eugenics and racism ( Watch Maafa21)
Nearly 3,000 progressive bloggers, grassroots and union activists, online organizers, journalists and more are gathering here this week for the seventh annual “Netroots Nation” convention.
In a 2010 Netroots convention Nancy Pelosi pushes the Dream Act:
And Last year the group invited the controversial Van Jones:
As well as the disgraced Keith Olbermann
The Thursday-through-Sunday event at the Rhode Island Convention Center is joining Richards are speakers like, Paul Krugman, national AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
The convention, billed as the country’s largest progressive gathering, spells big bucks and high profile. As the Netroots website says: “Think family reunion for the left.”
Netroots board consists of member of NARAL a pro-abortion advocacy group and their staff consists of progressives that have worked for the Democratic National Committee.