Tag: change.org
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The ‘Team of Rivals’ road trip: change.org => change.gov
Executive summary If you were in the finals of the change.org Ideas for Change competition and have (or know of) an equivalent idea in the Citizens Briefing Book on change.gov, please leave a link in the comments — and look for opportunities to co-promote with other compatible ideas. Also please leave other suggestions for how…
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w00t, w00t! Get FISA Right finishes #5 in Ideas for Change! Congratulations and great job all!
With a late rush, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties squeaked into the #5 position in the change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition with 12285 votes! Alas, even though our other endorsement Bob Fertik’s Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration picked up over…
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Neocons’ worst nightmare: net movements intersecting in Ideas for Change in America
DREAM Activists and undocumented youth, the Stonewall 2.0 LGBTQ movement, Get FISA Right and civil libertarians, peace activists — together again for the first time, along with a demand for accountability for the last 8 years.  Scary stuff. 🙂 Read on for more … and please digg it! It’s been surprising to me how…
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Stonewall 2.0: Repeal DOMA!
The vibe under the sunshine at the corner of Castro and Market was positive and determined — a few hundred people maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), just the right size for the location. The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama, with people fanning out afterwards to BART…
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Apologies to DREAM Act advocates everywhere …
For the last six weeks of change.org’s Ideas for Change competition, I’ve been consistently impressed by the advocates for Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students. The network of activists promoting the idea are giving the rest of us lessons in how to do it effectively.*Â And they and their supporters…
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Mutual guest-blogging 2.0: an idea for “Ideas for Change”?
Last year I proposed an experiment on OpenLeft that involved “mutual guest-blogging“: four great bloggers who didn’t usually hang out there making front-page posts, and in return the OpenLeft front-pagers posting on the other blogs. The idea was to expose bloggers, readers, and commenters to new perspectives, and hopefully build some connections that could lead…
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Ideas for Change in America: heading into the homestretch
Executive summary things are still in flux in the change.org/MySpace Ideas for Change in America as we head into the last week of the first round civil liberties (six ideas), drug reform (five ideas), and education (five ideas) dominate the top 30 my idea, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil…
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Turning the Page on FISA (guest-blogging on change.org)
I’ve got a post Turning the Page on FISA on change.org’s Criminal Justice blog today. Here’s the beginning: The coming year will present a unique opportunity for a broad-based activism campaign to restore our civil liberties and begin rolling back key pillars of the national surveillance state institutionalized by the Bush Administration and Congress over…
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Get FISA Right: quick update
Executive Summary Ideas for Change competition: currently #6; please vote for and help promote our idea. Cable TV ads: notes from last conference call are up; next call Saturday; script frozen by Monday. Update, 9:30 pm: draft scripts including “Better watch those nuns — and their friends too” posted. Feedback please! 2009 strategy planning: please…
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change.org/MySpace “Ideas for Change in America” top 20
Updated info available at the top ideas list on the change.org site Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th Congress can turn the broad call for “change” across the country into specific policies…. The top…
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Get FISA Right and Change.org’s Ideas site: Rupert Murdoch as civil rights sugar daddy?
Nancy Scola’s Ideas for Change, and a Roadmap in techPresident’s “Daily Digest†discusses Change.org’s Ideas for Change in America: The social-action hub has just announced that the project now has the backing of MySpace and a broad coalition of supporting partners, including techPresident, the Sunlight Foundation, Netroots Nation, VotoLatino, GOOD Magazine, Change Congress, Campus Progress,…