We're here at Netroots Nation with your favorite group of people, Netroots For The Troops. We are gathered in Room 14 (upstairs on the 4th floor), making care packages and sending them to 101 servicepersons. All are invited to help pack a box.
We are also selling t-shirts to help cover the cost of mailing these packages. We are taking donations.
Final Update, #7.
I'm just going to post everything instead of picking and choosing. My apologies in advance if your computer crashes.
For those of you that have nothing to do right now, we are charged with cleaning up the room and our table in the exhibition hall. The more hands, the lighter the work.
Here's "roses" and "jlms qkw" before everyone came in:
Random shot #1
Random shot #2
More to come as I take the pictures!
UPDATE 1
Sarahnity and some people
Jon Powers (Netroots candidate) Brandon Friedman (huzzah!) and some soldiers from the front.
A table of sundries, with liberals.
Toothpaste, deodorant, lotion.
Brandon Friedman, army Medic Jonathan Morrell, and kossack (and grammy award-winner) jnhobbs.
Timroff talking to a reporter.
UPDATE #2!
OMG, it's so busy here! We've packed so many boxes, taken so many pictures, and managed to install a printer to a finicky computer in the past two hours. We still have t-shirts to sell. If you are at NN, buy a t-shirt.
So many smiling faces! Everyone is either smiling or in total concentration.
Brandon speaking, I swear he is not a zombie.
Jon Powers, also not a zombie.
Paul Sullivan, from Veterans for Common Sense, packed two boxes and brought his daughters.
Entire hall
I have to print more pictures now. We are taking pictures of the people who have packed boxes and slipping them into the boxes.
Update #3
A peck of hearty box packers
Box packers for the troops.
vicki models washing soap, which our troops are not given.
more in a few!
UPDATE #4
Still packing furiously. Everyone is bumping around and it's pretty much total chaos.
elbow to elbow, who has the underwear?
CSM, Donnamarie, Floja Roja pack some boxes
Mr. Friedman packs a box.
UPDATE #5
Ann MArie (one of our intrepid seamstresses) and jnhobbs modeling the nftt t-shirt
another picture of packing frenzy
Another satisfied anonymous citizen, packing a box.
a soldier who packed boxes for other soldiers.
Final Update
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