A powerful, wealthy developer paid off officials to get his way. He wasn’t expecting this grandmother-grandson team to stop him.
When news hit that Larry Summers, famed for helping to craft the policies that caused the recession, was the front-runner for chair of the Federal Reserve, Robert Naiman of the organization Just Foreign Policy, The Other 98%, and MoveOn member Aaron Camp created MoveOn Petitions telling President Obama to leave Summers out of the running.
President Obama declared on Tuesday night that he’d halted requests for an authorization to use military force so he could pursue a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Syria with Russia—and Congress has stopped moving toward a vote on that authorization
Sure, “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed, but judging by the estimated 26,000 soldiers who are sexually assaulted in 2012, the U.S. military has a long way to go in creating a safe space for those who protect our country.
Millions of workers in New York City did not have paid sick days. If they or their children got sick, they had to work, forcing them to choose between their job and their family’s health. That’s why Cari Jackson from A Better Balance, noted feminist author Gloria Steinem, Ai-jen Poo from the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Working Families started MoveOn Petitions asking the New York City Council to pass paid sick day legislation.
MoveOn members from across the country are uniting to oppose military strikes on Syria. On Monday, September 9, MoveOn members participated in over 165 vigils in 41 states to urge their elected officials to avoid another unnecessary and costly war and vote against the use of military force.
MoveOn members joined Frank Burton on Friday, September 6th for a rally in front of Yelp’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco to demand that the company withdraw its membership from the right-wing lobbying group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
There’s a secret plan to ruin the Internet, and this satirical mockumentary explains why we need to fight it.
Kristen Schroeder Konaté had never started a petition before, but the artist and mother of two knew she had to act.
The new MoveOn.org TV ad urging Congress not to take us down this road again.
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