- Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser (born
December 17 ,1980 inLincolnville, Maine ) is Executive Director ofMoveOn.org .Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year,
Moveon.org foundersWes Boyd andJoan Blades asked Pariser to join their organization.cite news|url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E5D61F3CF93AA35750C0A9659C8B63|title = Smart-Mobbing The War|publisher = The New York Times Magazine|last = Packer|first = George|authorlink = George Packer|date =2003-03-09 |accessdate = 2008-03-28]During the
2004 US Presidential Election , Pariser co-created the "Bush in 30 Seconds " ad contest and raised over $30 million from small donors to run ads and back Democratic and progressive candidates. Writing for "The New York Times Magazine " in 2003, journalistGeorge Packer referred to MoveOn as the "mainstream" element of what "may be the fastest-growing protest movement in American history."References
General
*cite news|title = Virtual Peacenik|publisher =Mother Jones |last = Markels|first = Alex|url = http://www.motherjones.com/news/hellraiser/2003/05/ma_379_01.html|date = May/June 2003|accessdate = 2007-05-01Inline
External links
* [http://www.moveon.org/ MoveOn.org]
* [http://dir.salon.com/story/news/wire/2004/12/09/moveon/index.html MoveOn to Democratic Party: "we own it"] By Sam Hananel Salon.com Dec 9, 2004 "In the last year, grass-roots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive... Now it's our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back." - Eli Pariser
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