Posted on 01/05/2012 8:31:03 AM PST by Leo Carpathian
Xyz
In 2011, people like you proved the potential of people-powered organizing. In 2012, we're going all-in to make you, Xyz, more powerful than ever.
Soon, Change.org will be available in 50 languages, so that anyone, anywhere, can start and win campaigns for change. We're hiring expert organizers in 24 countries to provide crucial support to promising campaigns. We're quadrupling our press team, so that your petition can capture the attention of local and global news media. And we're investing $10 million to create the world's best online tools and keep those tools completely free.
We believe that the Internet is the most powerful tool in human history for ordinary people to make positive change in communities large and small. 2012 is the year that we prove it together.
Scroll down to see some of the amazing victories we won together in 2011 -- and be sure to enable images. You can also see the highlights on this web page.
Onward, Ben Rattray Founder, Change.org
I’m beginning to believe that the internet is the equivalent of the Tower of Babel. It will bring ab out our downfall. It seems like a good idea and we all enjoy it’s benefits, but oh what a tangled web we weave for our own destruction.
I have been receiving these emails. I trash them, but not before reading them so I have some idea of what the organization is about.
They are encouraging people to put forth petitions for whatever is bugging them. If they get enough of a response, they appear to facilitate media coverage. Two of the examples today were the bank debit card fees that were withdrawn after public outcry and Verizon’s proposed fee for electronic bill paying. The rest were causes I don’t support.
While this is obviously a liberal group and a democracy-in-action approach, the results haven’t been all bad, although, for the most part, they facilitate leftist agendas.
Nothing is preventing a conservative group from doing the exact same thing and facilitating our agendas. I have received a lot of emails asking for a signature for conservative petitions, but I cannot recall that they came from a specific petition-promoting source. Various conservative organizations put petitions forward and then use them to lobby Congress or State Legislatures. Who funds our groups?
I personally love the Internet and I think people can use their own discernment. There are a lot of print publications and broadcast outlets I don’t care for, but I wouldn’t ban books or TV in general. I don’t buy the books or magazines from the left, but I buy some of the ones from the right. I don’t watch TV, but I subscribe to GBTV.
The Internet is simply a medium. Anyone can use it.
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