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Onward and forward: since its founding in 1998, MoveOn has influenced everything from impeachment to war. Its secret: always giving members something to do.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, August, 2004 by McKelvey, Tara
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ON A BLUSTERY MARCH DAY, PETER Schurman, the executive director of MoveOn.org, stands next to a Win Without War poster at a press conference on Capitol Hill. Schurman is a 34-year-old Yale School of Management graduate with a high forehead, blue eyes, and razor-sharp features who doesn't like to talk about himself.
He's not a touchy-feely kind of guy. Yet a middle-aged woman in a gray sweater, Sue Niederer, is hugging him in front of a group of reporters. She has lost her son, Lieutenant Seth Dvorin, in the Iraq War, and she clutches Schurman's coat, twisting the fabric with her ...
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