By MoveOn Staff. Friday, March 15 2013
After six years on the job at Cablevision/Optimum, La’kesia Johnson and several other coworkers voted to form a union, but the company’s management wouldn’t negotiate a contract. Instead, they locked out the employees and fired them for speaking out about working conditions. So La’kesia, along with the Communications Workers of America union, started a MoveOn Petition asking that she and her coworkers be reinstated.
+Read More
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, March 15 2013
Rachel Maddow brings us the facts.
+Read More
Gun Control
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 14 2013
He almost didn’t have the nerve to record it.
+Read More
Candidates | Elections | Organizing
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 13 2013
Now she’s asking current lawmakers not to repeat it. WATCH:
+Read More
LGBTQ+ Rights
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 13 2013
2 minutes and 25 seconds from now, you will have new knowledge about why it should happen now. WATCH:
+Read More
Economic Justice
By admin. Wednesday, March 13 2013
The Bank of Hawaii’s proposed closure of its Samoan offices would have been devastating to American Samoa’s economy, leaving them with no bank. So Drew Astolfi of the organization Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) created a MoveOn Petition urging the bank not to pull out without a public hearing.
+Read More
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, March 11 2013
Listing all the famous folks in this would take a long time, but Yoko’s refrain is too cute to miss. WATCH:
+Read More
Climate
By admin. Monday, March 11 2013
Cooper Union has historically offered its students full-tuition scholarships. In the face of the financial crisis, however, the board of trustees was set to vote to discontinue the policy. MoveOn member and Cooper Union alumnus Henry Chapman created a MoveOn Petition to Cooper Union’s president, urging him to vote to keep the school’s foundational mission of free education.
+Read More
By admin. Friday, March 8 2013
The U.S. Navy was set to begin an explosives and sonar training program off the coast of Southern California in 2013. According to estimates, the use of high-frequency underwater sound for testing would deafen more than 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more over the next five years. So MoveOn member Linda Storey started a MoveOn Petition asking the Navy to stop the training program.
+Read More
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 7 2013
Would you see the world differently? WATCH:
+Read More
Foreign Policy