Wes Boyd
Wes Boyd
Wes Boydis an American businessman. In 1987, he and his wife Joan Blades were the co-founders of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company. After selling the company in 1997, Boyd and Blades went on to found the liberal political group MoveOn.org in 1998...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
communication internet system understand
They don't understand or want to use the Internet as the two-way communication system it is.
american-activist campaign committees narrow national senate targeting work
The senate and congressional campaign committees keep getting more and more narrow in their targeting - there is little work done on national message.
air broadcast challenge community licenses local partisan responsibility stations
If they do air a partisan film, we'll challenge the FCC and the licenses of the local stations that broadcast the film because local stations have a responsibility to the community to air real news, not partisan messages,
direction financial move popular respond
Politicians will respond and move in our direction because we have what they need: popular and financial support.
protest safe vote voting
What was positioned as a safe protest vote has now become a kind of kamikaze vote,
air company direct outraged partisan people received stations thousands
We have received thousands of e-mails, people outraged by the very idea a company like Sinclair would direct stations to air a partisan film.
american-activist currently
The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.
aol
AOL is essentially scanning e-mail for anything that's opposing their policy.
beginning engagement petitions process
These petitions are just the beginning of a process for engagement of the citizens, and they're very effective.
technology thinking use
I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.
party ideas use
The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.
real party voice
The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.