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Trogdor
Legendary Hero
Words in a custom title
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posted February 17, 2014 11:32 AM |
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Edited by Trogdor at 11:35, 17 Feb 2014.
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Internet activism and you
For the past couple of years I have been sent various emails from global organisations who have sent out petitions that promise to prevent corporations and politicians from making questionable decisions. Whether or not these petitions have any bearing on the issues up for debate (human rights abuses, corporate greed, discrimination in all forms. et cetera) depends on how many signatures are received. The advent of social media has only increased the awareness of situations that could potentially be harmful to the environment and our societies, if not already harmful. I regularly receive e-mail correspondence from these following sites.
Change.org
Avaaz
Sum of Us
Walk Free (anti-slavery activism)
GetUp! (primarily Australian issues)
These are just a few of the Internet-based activist organisations that are out there, but the five mentioned are the organisations which send me emails whenever a new petition has started or congratulate those who signed previous petitions on recent successes.
I figured I might post a few current petitions that are currently doing the rounds. When I receive news of a new campaign, I'll add the link on this topic (if you have any petitions that are yet to be listed, post your links in this topic if you so wish).
Sinai Slave Trade
Daewoo and slave labour cotton in Uzbekistan
Shelter dogs inhumanely euthanised in gas chambers
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Royal commission into catholic child abuse
[url=http://www.avaaz.org/en/free_peter_greste_loc/?bsgkreb&v=35981]Reporter jailed in Egypt for spreading "false news"[/url]
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kayna
Supreme Hero
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posted February 17, 2014 07:28 PM |
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Good to break the collective brainwash, but nothing more. Need to take up arms and start shooting at the bad people to really remove the sh1t. Otherwise you just fall in that left - right wing circus circle and euh... yeah.
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master_learn
Legendary Hero
walking to the library
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posted February 17, 2014 08:32 PM |
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For me facebook is also a source of internet activity.
As a social network it gives me possibilities to be active in contributing to exchange of ideas,taking part of organizations, subscribing to events and building my personal wall of friends.
I think the local organizations would be more effective than some petitions,which take their place in a very limited time and offer an alternative to a very tiny little problem.
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Aron
Known Hero
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posted March 29, 2014 07:45 AM |
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Edited by Aron at 07:47, 29 Mar 2014.
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I'm quasi Active on Avaaz but the inability to influence the nature and content of petitions really renders the whole internet-activism blatantly undemocratic and easily abused for astrosurfing.
Not a big fan of any organisation which when I join I can't easily have access to their congress or nominate someone who will and frankly for example for Avaaz I can't find much info at all.
Frankly I more and more despise these new types of NGOs that are built top down by influential/popular individuals and their grants instead of from bottom up through hard work, volounteering and member-donations.
So if you've got a good Internet-Activist site like this I'd love to join  I try to keep a bit in touch on what goes on with anonymous.
Also Change.org is THE astrosurfing website.
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