Stop Online Petitions: If you want to change things, get out there and do it!
- Target:
- Activists
- Region:
- United States of America
Every time I sign onto my email, I am barraged with scores of petitions. Tons of them. My cousin is a petition starter and pusher. Love you cuz, but stop. Back away from the keyboard. That online petition you're about to sign is pretty much a sham. 'Says who’? Clay Johnson at InfoVegan, for starters.
Johnson is something of a Web organization specialist, having worked on developing the online strategy for both Howard Dean's and Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. 'According to the Congressional Management Foundation,' writes Johnson, "the House of Representatives got 99,053,399 messages via the Internet in 2004." Your petition really isn't going to get read; the reason organizations try so hard to get you to sign it is that politicians and advocacy groups value your email address over your voice. Online petitions are useless.
The internet has made us a bunch of slacktivists, instead of activists
If you remember the time in America of great change, it was the 1960s, before the internet and before facebook and the flurry of petitions. People got out there and rallied. They protested. They didn’t sit behind a computer and added a signature. If you want to change things, get out there and do it!
I will stop hiding behind a computer and instead take action.
I vow to make political activeness as my mantra. I will get out there and protest issues that I oppose. I will attend rallies that are important to me. I will start committees and grassroots movements to make the world a better place.
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