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How MoveOn Is Working to Support the LGBTQ+ Community

July 24, 2023 support, working, LGBTQ, Community, MoveOn0 comment

The LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender folks, is under attack from Republicans. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, nearly 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have gone before state legislatures since the start of this year alone, and anti-trans bills have doubled since 2022. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed several anti-LGBTQ+ bills, which Joe Saunders, senior political director of Equality Florida, called “an all-out attack on freedom.” One bill prohibits transgender children from receiving gender-affirming care, while another restricts teachers, faculty, and students from using the pronouns of their choice in…

Huge Crowds Greet MoveOn Banned Bookmobile at Chicago Tour Kickoff

July 16, 2023 Greet, crowds, MoveOn, Bookmobile, Chicago, Huge, kickoff, tour, Banned0 comment

Chicago, I.L. – Yesterday, MoveOn Political Action’s first Banned Bookmobile multistate tour officially launched in Chicago, with nearly 100 attendees and MoveOn distributing hundreds of books during the event. Illinois Senator Laura Murphy and Representative Anne Stava-Murray discussed the new first-in-the-nation law they championed in the legislature to prohibit the banning of books in public libraries. National Education Association President Becky Pringle, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, and MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting came to Chicago to promote their organizations’ efforts to hold Ron DeSantis and his MAGA…

MoveOn Launches “Banned Bookmobile” Tour Distributing Banned Books & Highlighting DeSantis’s Bans and MAGA Extremism

July 8, 2023 DeSantis’s, Bookmobile, Distributing, extremism, Highlighting, launches, books, tour, Banned, bans, MAGA, MoveOn0 comment

Washington, D.C. – As reported in Politico today, MoveOn Political Action announced the launch of its first “Banned Bookmobile” multistate tour to sound alarms on Governor Ron DeSantis’s censorship and the rising wave of GOP book bans across the country. The Banned Bookmobile will distribute some of the most frequently banned books as it makes its way through multiple states. The initial bookmobile tour will stop through several communities that have been significantly impacted by MAGA book bans, as well as early primary and battleground states to target DeSantis along his…

MoveOn Sends Letter to Secretaries of State to Investigate No Labels for Misleading Voters

July 4, 2023 MoveOn, Secretaries, state, voters, sends, letter, investigate, labels, Misleading0 comment

Washington, D.C. – As reported by The Messenger today, MoveOn Political Action is sending a letter to all secretaries of state to urge election officials to investigate No Labels’ electoral activities as the dark-money group attempts to qualify to appear on the ballot in all 50 states. MoveOn’s calls for an investigation follows Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows sending a cease-and-desist letter to No Labels last month due to complaints about No Labels’ organizers misleading Maine voters into changing their party affiliation status. “Reports that No Labels is misleading…

MoveOn Launching Banned Bookmobile This Summer: Full of Censored Books

June 22, 2023 'censored', MoveOn, Bookmobile, This, books, Full, summer, Banned, launching0 comment

PEN America Governor Ron DeSantis has banned hundreds of books across the state of Florida, censoring themes centered on race, history, sexual orientation, and gender in an effort to silence the voices and narratives of marginalized communities and further push his MAGA vision for a “Great American Comeback.” Just last month, a Florida school banned “The Hill We Climb,” the moving poem Amanda Gorman recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, saying it would now be off-limits to young readers after one parent claimed the poem was “indoctrinating” students. The…

MoveOn Members Call on Advertisers Like General Motors, AT&T and Subway to Stop Funding Fox News

June 6, 2023 MoveOn, Advertisers, News, Subway, call, stop, AT&T, like, funding, members, general, Motors0 comment

MoveOn activists across the country are demanding that corporations including Subway, AT&T, General Motors, and Comcast stop funding Fox News, in efforts to hold the network accountable for dividing Americans and spreading disinformation, bias, lies, and hate. Cable companies and advertisers provide two major revenue streams for Fox News, thus enabling the lies they spread. The most effective way MoveOn members can hold Fox News accountable is to demand that these companies “cut the cord” and stop funding the channel through any new advertising or potential increased cable fees. …