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Did You Miss Netroots Nation?

Don't worry if you weren't able to make it to Arizona for Netroots Nation last week.

Our panel – A Movement Not a Moment: Fighting Fast Track in Arizona – is now online.

Over the past year, progressive activists joined together across the country to organize unprecedented grassroots opposition to the deeply flawed Fast Track process for passing trade deals. In the session, CWA National Political Director Rafael Navar moderated a panel discussion on how we built this movement and what lessons we can carry forward as we work together on other issues.

"This panel is both about the reality of what happened in this fight and telling the story about what took place," Navar told the crowd. "But it's also inspirational in that this fight really provided a moment for us to dream and think bigger than we have before as individual organizations."

Check out the video here.

Also don't miss Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) keynote speech and call to action.

"We're running out of time," Warren said. "The middle class in this country has been hacked at, squeezed, and hammered until it's nearly at the breaking point. Unions are under a brutal attack. With no job growth in the middle, the poor are trapped, with opportunity only a distant dream. A generation of young people is trapped in a slow-growth economy in the U.S. while giant corporations build investments overseas. And as our world heats up and our oceans rise, billionaires buy more and more elections to protect their interests in coal mines and oil wells. We're running out of time."

Watch the senator's entire speech here.