[extropy-chat] Moveon.org

[BillK]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:11:33 +0100 (BST), Trend Ologist wrote:
> Every time a liberal appears on television there are
> millions of conservatives yelling 'socialist',
> 'pinko', or even 'Commie!' at the screen.
> 

Long article from LA Weekly Aug 6, 2004, about MoveOn:
<http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/37/features-bernhard.php>

On-line Activist Left organisation.

Quotes from the article:

A few more clicks and you can sign petitions to Congress protesting
the war, the Clean Air Act and the No Child Left Behind Act. You can
demand that President Bush be censured, call for Donald Rumsfeld's
resignation, and urge Congress and the FTC to revoke Fox News' right
to use "Fair and Balanced" as its slogan.

MoveOn now has 2.2 million members in the U.S. (registration is free),
with another 800,000 or so abroad.

Along with partisan documentary films such as Fahrenheit 9/11 and
Robert Greenwald's new Outfoxed, both of which MoveOn has stumped for,
it's all part of a giant, perhaps unprecedented effort by the
country's intellectual and artistic communities to unseat the
conspicuously unintellectual, inartistic man in the Oval Office.

MoveOn certainly isn't the only reason for the flowering of Democratic
activism — perceptions about Bush and the war are responsible for much
of it — but the combination has created something entirely new: a
left-wing electoral body that is turning out en masse for a mainstream
Democratic candidate. The kind of people who might once have worked
for Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy and George McGovern — men they
would have truly admired — are now working even more passionately for
John Kerry, whom they mock for being a bore and sounding like a
Republican.

BillK