Okie Funk Wins Netroots Award

Okie Funk has won a Peace Arena Netroots Award in the “Wind Power” category for “most sustained rant.”

Serena Blaiz, a well-known Oklahoma progressive activist who publishes the Peace Arena blog, gave out the awards on Monday.

In an earlier post, Blaiz wrote she created the blog awards because “I’m serious about honoring the recipients, who toil in near obscurity day after day in a non-progressive state (for now). Any light I can shine in their direction, I’ll hope can help their ongoing efforts (which are far more consistent than mine).”

The blogs were given awards in free-form categories.

Okie Funk, which has been published for nearly five years, won for its sustained, progressive voice.

“Okie Funk’s resident doctor, DocHoc, is never better than when he is decrying the shameless waste of tree pulp that is The Oklahoman,” Blaiz wrote. “Fortunately for his readers, the paper has given him plenty to work with, and doesn’t look like it will stop any time soon — more’s the pity.”

Other blogs receiving awards included droogie6655321, Woody Guthrie Award, Down With Tryanny!, Mason Jar of Red Dirt Award, Oklahoma Women’s Network Blog, Buffalo Stampede Award, Concrete Buffalo, Land Run Award, and Phototune, Black Blizzard Award.

Read more about the winners on Peace Arena. These are some great blogs that fight for progressive causes in Oklahoma. As Blaiz points out there are a lot of excellent progressive blogs in Oklahoma that deserve recognition. Kudos to Blaiz for taking the time to put together the awards. She consistently works to pull the progressive community together. Her message is this: Keep fighting.

Okie Funk has also won “Best Political Blog” in the Okie Blog Awards contests held in 2006 and 2007. The blog was recently featured in Oklahoma Magazine.