Damn and blast! IPPR are hosting a brilliant event tomorrow with Simon Rosenberg speaking. Rosenberg is billed as president and founder of New Democrat Network but it is a bit more complicated than that. NDN is an organisation supported by some of America’s wealthiest liberals (meaning left-wing in the American sense) to fund a Democrat / left-wing resurgence in the US. The NY Times magazine published this article in 2004 on where it all started. Over Christmas I read and reviewed a book called ‘The Argument: Billionaires, bloggers, and the battle to remake Democratic politics‘ for Renewal magazine and that has much more on where NDN is at now.
In other words, the talk should be a very insightful look at what is going on in the States to develop and fund a left-wing message machine and counter the strong presence of the Republicans. I’m due to attend another conference so will find it difficult to make this unless I can sneak out temporarily. If you can, do go and see what Rosenberg has to say, and contact me if you want to blog about it after.