Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is Executive Director of MoveOn.org. December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Lincolnville is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. ... MoveOn is a non-profit public policy advocacy group[2] that has raised millions of dollars for Democratic Party candidates in the United States. ...

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 founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades asked Pariser to join their organization.^[1] MoveOn is a non-profit public policy advocacy group[2] that has raised millions of dollars for Democratic Party candidates in the United States. ... Wes Boyd (b. ... Joan Blades (b. ...

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, journalist George Packer referred to MoveOn as the "mainstream" element of what "may be the fastest-growing protest movement in American history."^[1] Presidential election results map. ... Bushin30seconds. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... George Packer (born 1960) is a novelist, journalist and editor. ...

References

General

• Markels, Alex. "Virtual Peacenik", Mother Jones, May/June 2003. Retrieved on 2007-05-01. 

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1. ^ ^{a b} Packer, George. "Smart-Mobbing The War", The New York Times Magazine, 2003-03-09. Retrieved on 2008-03-28. 

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External links

• MoveOn.org
• 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