Help Cover The Convention With Maximum Exposure

We need you right now -- today, tomorrow, this week -- to help us cover the Democratic National Convention.

Our OffTheBus reporting project has joined with the USC Center on Communication Leadership to launch the history-making Maximum Exposure -- an unprecedented citizen photo-journalist effort to cover the these last concluding weeks of the presidential campaign.

In short, we want your photos! Not only of the Denver convention if you're there this week, but also of any related activity across the country -- a local rally, a convention-watching living room party, a gathering in a local bar to watch Obama or Biden or the Clintons deliver their much-awaited speeches
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Show the world the power of mobilized citizens, not only to reshape politics but also to redefine journalism and press coverage of the campaign. Whip out your digital camera, even your cell phone camera, and snap us some great pictures that reveal any and every aspect of this week's convention. Show us the delegates, the activists, the lobbyists, the fat cats and the regular folk who have been galvanized by this week-long spectacle in the Rockies
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Send along captions with your pics and we'll build them quickly into slideshows, publishing them for tens of thousands to see, and giving you full credit and providing, yes, Maximum Exposure of this event far beyond the choreographed shots of the network cams.

Get snappin' now and quickly email us your 400x300 pixel-sized pictures and captions to:

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Click here for our complete guidelines and for entry to our Maximum Exposure galleries.

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Comments

[NABNYC]

Great idea.

But here's my question, and here's the assignment: why didn't Jimmy Carter speak last night? He is one of the most widely respected people in the world. He has devoted his post white house years to serving the interests of peace and justice, putting his own body out to do service in building homes for poor people. In marked contrast with Bill Clinton who has spent his post white house years getting rich.

Why didn't Jimmy Carter speak? Who has the power to prevent a former president from speaking at his own party's convention?

The talking heads said that he did not speak because "some" Jewish people do not like his support for justice for the Palestinians. Is that what happened? Did less than 1% of the population of this country succeed in preventing 99% of us from hearing an elder statesman? Because they care more about Israel continuing to grab land (which Condi described as "not helpful"), staying in perpetual war, sucking billions of dollars out of this country every year and paying millions to bribe our politicians?

Why didn't Jimmy Carter speak? To me, it's the biggest issue of the convention. Was this one of the Clintons' demands? I understand many of their supporters oppose Obama because they don't think he's fanatically in support of Israel or, God forbid, he might actually push for peace and end this money train. Somebody needs to find the answer.