By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, December 9 2014
UPDATE: See early coverage in the New York Times and from CNN. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 CONTACT: press@moveon.org MoveOn Kicks Off Member Vote on Campaign to Encourage Elizabeth Warren to Run for President MoveOn’s 8 million members will vote until 9 a.m. EST Wednesday on whether to launch a major ‘Run Warren Run’ […]
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Candidates | Elections
By Corinne Ball. Friday, December 5 2014
Eric Garner’s last words ring as a call to all of us—to pay attention and to act. Please share this with five friends who might not be fully aware of the protests that have erupted across the country, led by young people of color crying out for justice. LISTEN TO ERIC GARNER’S LAST WORDS Transcript: Get […]
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Racial Justice
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, December 4 2014
On December 3, MoveOn executive director, Anna Galland, hosted an incredible lineup featuring: Cristina Jimenez, co-founder of United We Dream, the nation’s largest immigrant youth-led organization, which was instrumental in winning executive action from President Obama; Heather McGhee, president of Demos, a progressive public policy shop working for an equal say and an equal chance […]
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Civil Rights | Economic Justice | Immigration
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, November 28 2014
MoveOn members mounted a truly moving, inspiring, impressive effort to turn out voters and fight for our progressive values in the 2014 midterm elections. Through our advanced voter contact program, volunteers made more than 6.75 million calls to voters—and thousands of progressives, many of whom had never volunteered before, took action together. We showed what we as […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Friday, November 28 2014
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By MoveOn Staff. Friday, November 28 2014
Today is Black Friday, the largest shopping day of the year—and Walmart workers have launched a massive strike to demand better wages and reasonable pay. This. Is. Huge. For years, Walmart has paid wages so low that employees are forced to survive on food stamps. The company has also been incredibly anti-union. Many of the workers who participate […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, November 26 2014
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, November 24 2014
On the eve of their self-imposed cutoff to finalize a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran, negotiators representing the P5+1 — the United States, Russia, China, the UK, France, and Germany — and Iran have extended the deadline for completing their final agreement until July 1, 2015. The November 2013 deal which initially froze Iran’s nuclear […]
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Foreign Policy
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, November 21 2014
Last night, President Obama outlined a series of executive actions that take meaningful, humane, and sensible steps to reform our nation’s broken immigration system. Republicans have, predictably, come out swinging. Over the next few weeks, you’re very likely going to hear some misinformation and faulty assumptions. We all need to be armed with correct information […]
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Immigration
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, November 20 2014
On the heels of President Obama’s announcement of executive action protecting millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, Anna Galland, Executive Director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, released the following statement: “With Republican extremists in Congress failing to govern, President Obama has kept his promise to take steps within his power to fix our broken immigration system […]
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