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The MOMocrats Story In September, 2007, three moms met in a coffee shop in Palo Alto, California. Fed up with the direction the nation had been taking over the past several years, and wondering what they could do about it, they came to discuss a plan to impact the 2008 presidential election. Stefania Pomponi Butler, Beth Blecherman, and Glennia Campbell were all mombloggers with a serious intere ... st in politics. All three had long histories of political activity, but political activism had taken a back seat to family life after they became moms. Glennia, Stefania and Beth knew from conversations they’d had with fellow bloggers that many other mothers who blog had an interest in learning and writing more about politics, but were unsure about how and where to start.
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It all started with a smart, heated post cross-posted to the MOMocrats from Advocates for Youth (AFY) , lambasting the Obama administration and the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ decision to override the FDA’s recommendation to offer Plan B as an over-the-counter drug. Plan B, of course, is known as the “day-after” pill, preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg in the womb, much as can happen randomly in any woman’s cycle without influence by any medicines. In backchannel emails, we each weighed in.
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Social media’s place in the world is completely pervasive and integrated. Websites like Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter have made the internet an integral and important part of our day to day lives. This is both a positive step towards information sharing and access, and a negative move towards loss of privacy and use of personal information. Evolution of Social Media From the beginning of widespread use of the World Wide Web, users have been sharing information and forming groups.