Ilyse Hogue is the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org. Before joining MoveOn, she spent seven years as a Program Director for the Rainforest Action Network (www.ran.org), working to pressure Wall Street to institute environmental and social screens on lending and investment. A long time social change activist, she is also the co-founder of smartMeme (www.smartMeme.com), a national strategy project that links story telling and social change.

Blog Entries by Ilyse Hogue

How Do You Get 100 Years in Iraq? Six Months at a Time.

Posted April 9, 2008 | 01:38 PM (EST)


It seems like no matter what happens in Iraq, the Bush administration and John McCain always have an answer: 6 more months.

When the "surge" began a year ago, they told America things would get better by September. In September, they said we'd know more by spring. And this week,...

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It's the People, Stupid!

Posted October 18, 2006 | 11:13 PM (EST)


As MoveOn.org's new Campaign Director, I've received a rapid orientation in the power of the netroots by working on our Call for Change Program. I joined the MoveOn team in August and was immediately blown away by the energy people are pouring into reaching out to voters around the...

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