Joan Blades
Joan Blades
Joan Bladesis an American businessperson and progressive political activist. In 1987, she and her husband Wes Boyd co-founded Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the After Dark screensaver and the You Don't Know Jack trivia game. After selling Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $13.8 million, Blades and Boyd founded the liberal political group MoveOn.org...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
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Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.
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We are mortgaging our future.
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We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
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The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
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What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.
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When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
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We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
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The data that kind of shocked me and got me started on this book was finding out that mothers get paid a lot less for equivalent jobs.