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" A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways. "
Meaningful
People
Book
" Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. "
Values
Future
Better
" Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement. "
Believe
Mother
News
" I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions. "
Elections
Find
Questions
" I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country. "
Country
Optimism
Politics
" I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. "
Accidental
Than
Occasion
" I'm a mediator by training and inclination. "
Mediator
Training
Inclination
" It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do. "
Time
Love
Focus
" Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers. "
Fair
Work
Parents
" Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home. "
Same
Someone
Way
" Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about. "
Internet
Feel
Best
" People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions. "
People
Time
Think
" The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. "
Purpose
Need
Given
" Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. "
Paper
Voting
Fine
" We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do. "
Passion
Aim
Fact
" We are mortgaging our future. "
Our
Future
" We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. "
Family
Friends And Family
Together
" We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better. "
Better
Voter
Got
" What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? "
Going
Working
Blue-Collar
" What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it. "
Successful
Our
Members
" When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff. "
Experience
Go
Person
" When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will. "
Support
Vote
Responsibility
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