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MoveOn (formerly known as MoveOn.org) is a progressive public policy advocacy group and political action committee. [1] Formed in 1998 around one of the first massively viral email petitions, [2] MoveOn has since grown into one of the largest and most impactful [3] grassroots progressive campaigning communities in the United States, with a membership of millions.
Google and MoveOn were accused of selective adherence to trademark law for removing ads from Google Adwords for Maine Senator Susan Collins, citing infringement of MoveOn trademarks. [26] [27] Wired stated on October 15, 2007 that the "left-leaning political advocacy group, MoveOn.org, is backing down" and will allow Google to show the ads. "We ...
Ilya Sheyman (born June 1, 1986) is a community organizer, formerly Executive Director of MoveOn Political Action, a candidate for Illinois's 10th congressional district for the United States House of Representatives elections, 2012, [1] and is currently United States CEO of The Good Food Institute.
Rahna Epting, the executive director of MoveOn, will step down from her role in the prominent progressive group this coming summer, she told ABC News. Epting, who will have served as MoveOn's ...
Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980) is an author, activist, and entrepreneur. He has stated that his focus is "how to make technology and media serve democracy". [3] He became executive director of MoveOn.org in 2004, where he helped pioneer the practice of online citizen engagement.
Laura Dawn is an American political activist, filmmaker and singer-songwriter. She has been the cultural director for MoveOn.org from 2003 to 2011 and was named the organization's national creative director in 2007. [1] In 2019 she helped to found progressive news aggregator Front Page Live, where she is Chief Creative Officer. [2]
Not Alex, also referred to as Baby Alex, is a political television advertisement which aired during the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign.Created by MoveOn.org, the ad features a mother holding her baby, Alex, and telling the camera that John McCain couldn't have him as a future soldier in the Iraq War, making a reference to McCain's suggestion that the American presence in Iraq could last 100 ...
Color of Change was co-founded in 2005 by James Rucker and Van Jones to replicate the MoveOn.org email list model among African American Internet users. [10] [11] Rucker had previously worked for the MoveOn.org Political Action and MoveOn.org Civic Action while Jones was the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. [12]