MoveOn
Rigs Its Own Vote; Betrays Its Membership
By JOHN WALSH, CounterPunch.org
The first email.
On May 17, I received an email
from MoveOn.org signed by Ben Bradzel, Matt and Eli (Pariser)
inviting me to a “trial” house party to begin creation
of a “positive agenda” for 2006. The house party was
the very next day, May 18. According to the email, the “positive
agenda” to be created had to come “from the grass roots.”
While the email suggested that we could decide on anything that
we liked (“The sky’s the limit.”), it named three possible
elements in the “positive agenda”: “universal
health care” (not specified as single-payer), “clean
energy,” “publicly financed elections.” (Remember
these three.) Later in the email it was made clear that there
should be 3 points to the new agenda.” [read more]