Daily Kos writer and activist TheFatLadySings has taken the initiative to apply for a Pepsi Challenge grant to help close the gap between those who can easily access internet, get noticed on blogs and attend activism conventions and those with no such opportunities, and everyone should help with this campaign - it will bring more people of color to Netroots Nation 2012 and it will help to make our convention a little more like the makeup of the Democratic Party constituency.
All it takes is a minute to sign up - it's a really easy process. You'll get one email a day reminding you to vote every day and then when voting is over you'll stop getting emails.
Raven Brooks, the executive director of Netroots Nation has offered to assist in this effort and tells us:
"The key to winning the Pepsi Refresh grant is accumulating daily voters. Netroots Nation has agreed to help us organize to win this grant. Sign up at this link to receive an email once a day providing you links to vote. Once the contest is over, win or lose, the email list will be deleted and your email won't be shared with anyone. So please help us recruit all the daily voters you can, and we can do this."
Netroots Nation 2010 in Las Vegas was the first Netroots convention - the first convention ever, really - that I was able to attend. I'm stuck in a tiny town - Loxley, Alabama, where there are only about 1,300 people - in rural south Alabama. I don't get out much, because there's simply not a lot to do - I'm surrounded by fields and a farmers' market and it's quite a drive before I would reach anything resembling civilization. Add to that the fact that I'm in a wheelchair - and it becomes obvious there isn't much of an opportunity for me to thrive in my situation. I'm lucky enough to have a computer and internet - which I can barely afford some months anyway.