proceedings against president bill clinton. we remember impeachment time as newt gingrich and the house republicans battling against the white house with the help of the conservative movement on the outside. but, you know, there was an outside effort fighting back against the conservative side too. on september 18th of that year, husband and wife software development team from silicon valley launched this online petition. see the title there? censure and move on. it was a one-sentence petition. the congress must immediately censure president clinton and move on to other pressing issues facing the country. censure and move on. that petition signed up 100,000 people in a week. and then half a million people within a couple of months. they delivered hundreds of thousands of petitions to the house. they swamped congressional switchboard was a quarter of a million phone calls. they wrangled meetings with more than 200 representatives. and what blew everybody s mind at the time was not tha
house. they swamped congressional switchboard was a quarter of a million phone calls. they wrangled meetings with more than 200 representatives. and what blew everybody s mind at the time was not that they got hundreds of thousands of people to sign this pet addition, essentially taking president clinton s side in this fight back in 1998. what blew everybody s mind, the amazing thing that everybody thought was so incredible about it was that they did this thing using the computer machine. here is how the washington post led its story about the censure and move on campaign. the story was written february 1st, 1999. how can there be such a phenomenon as electronic political activism? what is so active about clicking a mouse button when sending an e-mail or logging on to a website? but with $13 million and more than 650,000 volunteer hours pledged to censure and move on, the realm of political activism now must bend its boundaries to include cyberspace. the article concludes by referr
breadth of support for these mainstream ideas. nothing is more mainstream right now than the idea that women should have the freedom to write their own destinies. and foundational to that freedom is our ability to choose when and how and with whom we have a family. when women can do that, we can dream big dreams. we can contribute to culture, business, government, and then countries function better, business, marketplaces function better, and families and communities function better. and i hope that i can bring the tools and the organizing from moveon to bring millions and millions of women s voices into this debate about what our own futures are going to look like. because the fight over choice and reproductive rights, we think of it as a national fight, and sort of a constant national fight. but it really the rubber hits the road in the state. absolutely. and all these district fights, a lot of them happen
the congress must immediately censure president clinton and move on to other pressing issues facing the country. censure and move on. that petition signed up 100,000 people in a week. and then half a million people within a couple of months. they delivered hundreds of thousands of petitions to the house. they swamped congressional switchboard was a quarter of a million phone calls. they wrangled meetings with more than 200 representatives. and what blew everybody s mind at the time was not that they got hundreds of thousands of people to sign this pet addition, essentially taking president clinton s side in this fight back in 1998. what blew everybody s mind, the amazing thing that everybody thought was so incredible about it was that they did this thing using the computer machine. here is how the washington post led its story about the censure and move on campaign.
than 200 representatives. and what blew everybody s mind at the time was not that they got hundreds of thousands of people to sign this pet addition, essentially taking president clinton s side in this fight back in 1998. what blew everybody s mind, the amazing thing that everybody thought was so incredible about it was that they did this thing using the computer machine. here is how the washington post led its story about the censure and move on campaign. the story was written february 1st, 1999. how can there be such a phenomenon as electronic political activism? what is so active about clicking a mouse button when sending an e-mail or logging on about to a website? but with $13 million and more than 650,000 volunteer hours pledged to censure and move on, the realm of political activism now must bend its boundaries to include cyberspace. the article concludes by referring to censure and move on s brand of internet activists as word of mouse. get it?