MoveOns Fifty Ways to Love Your Coun..., MoveOn.org
MoveOns Fifty Ways to Love Your Coun..., MoveOn.org
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MoveOn's Fifty Ways to Love Your Country
How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change

Author: MoveOn.org

Narrator: Vice President Al Gore, Joan Blades, Peter Schurman, David Fenton, others

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2004

Synopsis

In their own words and their own voices, these contributors prove that ordinary citizens can make a difference. They offer practical resources to turn inspiration into action. From effective online petitions to getting out informed voters, this empowering audio is an essential guide for being involved based on one criterion: a heartfelt desire to better our communities and country.MoveOn.org is an online activist group with more than two million members. Wes Boyd and Joan Blades started MoveOn in 1998 with a simple petition encouraging Congress to censure President Clinton and then "move on." It has become the catalyst for a monumental change occurring in political activism, that of individuals stepping up, speaking out, and pooling their political clout.

About MoveOn.org

MoveOn.org is a community of more than 8 million Americans from all walks of life who use innovative technology to lead, participate in, and win campaigns for progressive change. For nearly fifteen years, the MoveOn family of organizations have used online tools to lower the barriers to participation in our democracy, so real Americans have a voice in the political process.

About Vice President Al Gore

Al Gore is the co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.’s board of directors. Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the Climate Crisis. Gore was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and the US Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. During the Administration, Gore was a central member of President Clinton’s economic team. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice, and An Inconvenient Sequel.

About Joan Blades

Joan Blades is co-founder of MoveOn.org and Berkeley Systems with her husband, Wes Boyd. She is also co-founder and president of MomsRising.org. She is on the steering committee of “Reuniting America: A Transpartisan Campaign of Political Reconciliation” (ReunitingAmerica.org), a group engaging people from diverse political points of view in respectful dialogue that leads to creative, breakthrough solutions to the challenges facing our nation.

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Quotes

“I am deeply grateful for MoveOn, and everything they do, including this wonderful book.” Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author

“MoveOn made the world of campaign strategists sit up and take notice.” Wall Street Journal

“Political operatives see MoveOn as the wave of the future.” Atlantic

“The hottest political organization in American progressive circles.” Washington Post

“It’s not a book to curl up with in front of the fire, it’s meant to be thrown into a backpack or purse on the way to the next protest, campaign rally, or discussion group.” Amazon.com, editorial review

“[An] inspiring audiobook.” Publishers Weekly

“Both nuts-and-bolts practical and deeply personal, this book is political Viagra for anyone tired of feeling hopeless, helpless, and impotent in the face of our big money/big media–controlled political system.” Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist

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