MOVEON.ORG CONFERENCE CALL AT 8:30PM EASTERN TIME

[cyberpj]

Please join the MoveOn.org community, including Eli Pariser, for a conference call tonight at 8:30 pm
Return to this page at 8:30 pm Eastern/5:30 pm Pacific for instructions on joining the live conference call.
Thanks for all you do.

http://pol.moveon.org/fight_back_call.html?id=11267-1340845-wGZK8b&t=5

[cyberpj]

1. After prelim info they will take online questions. nt

[Nite Owl]

2. Are you on the call?

I got the map but no sound.

[gateley]

5. I'm hearing it now, then was tossed off (internet connection), then got right

back on. Good luck!

[Nite Owl]

8. Still trying

I can see the questions but no sound. Restarted it twice. I've done these before and never had a problem.

[gateley]

3. Thanks! This will be interesting. nt

[toadzilla]

4. im on!

[gateley]

6. K&R -- More people would like to be aware of this, I'm sure. nt

[goodhue]

7. Thanks

I'm on

[gateley]

9. According to the map, there aren't a whole lot of people listening in. I'm the

only person from my part of my State.

[Synnical]

10. I'm there

K&R

[gateley]

12. Great. I just fired off a somewhat inane question just to keep it going, but

since then more and more people (it seems) have joined in and more are asking questions. Currently 532 people on the map, which seems kind of sparse.

[Synnical]

13. I love the map

Queries keep pooping up. This is awesome!

[Synnical]

11. .

[goodhue]

14. It's over

[Synnical]

17. That was great!

Kudos to move on!

Our so-called elected officials should take note.

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[cyberpj]

15. Here's everything I could type as fast as I could:

Clearly we've made an impact on Republicans.
They wouldn't come after us unless we were a threat.

3.3 million member org - ordinary amerians taking responsibility for where the country is headed.
Long tradition of getting truth out against Republican lies so it's no wonder they're coming after us.

Bush strategy in last 10 days hasn't worked, actually public wants out more. 5 straight days of Bush and Patreus coverage didn't change any minds.

Mentioned today's Senate condemnation. Today alone Moveon received tens of thousands of dollars of support and emails of support.

Mentioned the WEbb amendment and how the Repubs voted against the amendment - so when they had an opportunity to stand by the troops and do something about it they didn't - and it's outrageous that they took the time for the anti-moveon vote.

Clearly, some people in this country do believe that a general can not be questioned. It's important to say the truth is more important than a uniform or any one person.

Expect Moveon to continue to pressure about the war.

Sharing an email they got today:
"I'm currently in Iraq. We don't agree with this war. Thank you for speaking out. We don't have a voice. You are our voice."

Thanking members for support and now taking questions:


Note: keeping an eye on the numbers I noticed a maximum of about 2200 at one time. As question started, numbers dropped to just over 500 or so.


QUESTIONS:

Will you continue to place ads?
Yes, we will share as we put them out. Just a note on ads, I wish we could just put moveon members in front of national media and they would listen to you all because then they realize this is an amazingly mainstream group of good people. Nationally, it's difficult to get the media to cover ads and so that's why we use this tactic - to make sure our message gets out in a big way.

Has Petraus reacted? Yes, it was a fairly muted reaction. The truth is he understands he has a political role to be the salesman - he was previously on the phone daily with Ed Gillespie - so this is someone who understood he had a political role to play. Bush has selctively chosen Generals to represent him who are willing to do this.

Someone asked about Ed Schultz - they said he contributed today and asked his listeners to as well.

How can we keep the pressure on and force Bush to make a change? The strategy is to isolate Bush so that Republicans in congress abandon him and he's forced to change. He is so unpopular. That's one reason why we see him calling us out today as a badge of honor. We have to keep Dems pushing forward to end the war; in our opinion Dems have not done that enough but it is noticeable that in the last few weeks several important Republicans have come out agains the Bush war policy.

Some comments - good work, keep it uo! Another said moveon is good but targeting Patreus was wrong and we should keep it on Bush.

Eli responded that they targeted Patreus because Bush has a history of using military as his front men - look no farther than Colin Powell in 2003. If this had been done then, would it have helped people to look more closely at those claims?

Someone asked if the ad allowed Republicans to use it as a distraction? answer, distraction from what? The Pres had a very choreographed plan for last week involving 2 days of testimony and press conferences etc, to stay in front of americans in the press. At the very least the ad interrupted that. In the big picture we gained support and money and changed some minds.

Discouraged people said they're tired of writing and calling with no response. Eli said it's still important to continue and he wants to work to convince people that they are doing important work to continue it. Working at a local level at local events and local newpapers is also important.

another marine from phila pa said thanks for moveon work.

Again, remind people congress would rather spend time on the resolution and political grandstanding than actual work toward ending the war and helping the soldiers.

As to the meaning of the vote - it doesn't mean very much, listed several resolutions on useless topics and that it will fade in time but it illustrates the position of moveon -that we're not insiders and never want to be and it's our job to irritate them and we'll keep pushing.

Every day there are more and more people saying that's enough - but when you have 3.2 million people saying that out loud and together it's much more powerful so encourage others to join up and add to the power.

Sign up at OperationDemocracy.org

A Tom from Californa used the Ghandi quote - first they ignore you...........

and it ended there.

[DUyellow]

16. do you know if they replay it?

[cyberpj]

18. I don't see anything on the site; thought there might be a synopsis -

if so, not yet.

[DUyellow]

19. i'll keep my eye out. Thanks