Dear Joseph, Well, that was pretty clear: 96% of MoveOn members who voted yesterday want to launch
a massive campaign to transform America by creating a clean-energy economy with millions of new, green jobs.
So let's
do it. This is a $3 million, year-long program—and the first step is to hire a dozen new, top-notch community organizers.
We need to raise $500,000 by the end of the week.
Can
you chip in $25 to help pay these organizers? Just click here:
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/green_yes_once.html?id=15643-8551605-EFuT2fx&t=1
Thanks for all you do.
–Adam Ruben
P.S. If you want to read more about this green-economy campaign,
here's our email from yesterday laying it out:
We've got a plan for MoveOn's biggest effort ever: a community-organizing
campaign to transform America by creating a clean-energy economy with millions of new, green
jobs. It'll require everyone to pitch in, so we need to know whether we have your support. Are you in?
Yes, let's get started. No, we shouldn't do that. |
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Dear MoveOn member, When FDR became president, a
group of progressive activists asked him to push for some really big changes. His response? "I agree with you. I want
to do it. Now make me do it."
President Obama gets
that we need to transform our economy. He's passionate about creating millions of green jobs and investing billions in
renewable energy. And he's appointed great leaders like Energy Secretary Chu to help him.
But unless we create a massive green-economy movement across America, Obama won't have the mandate he needs to overcome
the oil companies and make fundamental change. As president, Obama's extraordinary power comes from the people
outside Washington. And that's us.
So we've worked up a big plan to build a green-economy groundswell.
It'll mean tripling our field organizing team, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members to take local action,
and running ads targeting powerful interests that stand in the way. It'll be MoveOn's
biggest long-term campaign ever.
If President Obama is going to transform our economy, he needs all of us standing
behind him giving him strength. Are you in?
Yes, let's launch a massive green-energy organizing campaign.
No, we shouldn't do that.
This will be our biggest long-term organizing program ever. We'll build on the lessons of the Obama campaign and our
own work over the years to create a new approach to organizing—empowering MoveOn members to run powerful campaigns in
their own communities. We'll combine traditional community organizing with cutting-edge technology to make sure our voices
are heard. We're talking about ramping up our current organizing capacity—sending talented organizers to train
and mobilize MoveOn members from Maine to California to build a massive green economy movement.
Together, we'll:
- Build diverse coalitions of small-business owners, green-collar workers,
faith communities, and many more to show widespread support for a clean-energy economy.
- Organize creatively to make sure members of Congress hear our message everywhere they go.
- Combine innovative
grassroots and paid advertising campaigns to grab the attention of local and national media.
- Hold a massive wave of house parties where MoveOn members will reach out to
neighbors to involve them in the campaign.
As a country, we face a choice: Either we take dramatic steps and put
this country on a new path—a clean-energy economy that shifts us from oil and coal to renewable energy while creating
millions of green jobs and fighting the climate crisis. Or we take baby steps that could leave us right where we started.
This is the moment to go big and seize this opportunity—but it'll take everyone's help. Are you in? Click
here to let us know:
Yes, let's launch a massive green-energy organizing campaign.
No, we shouldn't do that.
Thanks for all you do.
–Adam, Nita, Michael, Peter, and the rest of the team
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