Amanda Marcotte at The Tank tonight in NYC

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Come join us for an evening of political conversation and inebriation with blogger Amanda Marcotte!

It was no surprise that the first major â€œcontroversyâ€ of the 2008 campaign revolved around bloggers. Now that the dust has settled from the John Edwards blog flap, come hear the inside story and discuss what it all means for progressive politics, netroots activism and fighting the hypocritical right-wing noise machine.

Join us this Saturday at The Tank for a night conversation, drinking, and networking. Panel discussion at 7pm, followed by free drinks and drink specials until 10pm.

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Saturday, March 3
The Tank
279 Church Street between Franklin and White

7pm
PANEL: CAMPAIGNING, BLOGGING AND FIGHTING BACK: Netroots Activism in Presidential Politics

Amanda Marcottte
Amanda Marcotte is a writer and a feminist blogger who writes for and manages Pandagon.net. She hides out from the world with her computer in Austin, TX.

Scott Shields
After contributing to grassroots group blog Dean Nation, Scott Shields joined the editorial staff of MyDD.com in 2005. In 2006, Shields was recruited to join the Menendez for Senate campaign as the Director of Internet Operations. He currently sits on the Netroots Advisory Council for the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and recently founded White Horse Strategies.

Ari Melber
Ari Melber is a regular contributor to The Nation and a contributing editor at the Personal Democracy Forum.

Moderated by Nancy Scola.
Nancy Scola is a Brooklyn-based writer and activist. She has, in the past, worked for former Virginia Governor Mark Warnerâ€™s Forward Together PAC and on the Democratic side of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Nancy is currently a weekend blogger at MyDD.

8-10pm
Happy Hour with free drinks & drink specials

Perhaps most importantly, this is an event to support Amanda Marcotte; there is a suggested donation of $20. All proceeds will go to Marcotte to cover her travel expenses and expenses for her blog, Pandagon.net.

A very special thanks to Blogging Liberally and Drinking Liberally for all of their support.

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Wars are the clock ticking off the time of Israeli history: World War I; the "riots" of 1929 and 1936; World War II; the War of Independence, 1948; the Sinai Campaign, 1956; the Six Day War, 1967; the War of Attrition, 1969-1971; the Yom Kippur War, 1973; the Labanon War, 1982; the Gulf War, 1991. Not all these conflicts were equally significant in their cultural impact, and surely not in the same way, but together they create a ghastly rhythm in which every calm period is seen in Israel as a pause before future violence.

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