I’m ecstatic at the uprising of people power we saw on SOPA blackout day, and so damn proud that Greenpeace was a part of it.
Because internet freedom isn’t something we campaign on, but which we campaign *with,* I thought I might have a tough sell internally when I saw the blackout day announced on Reddit and decided we needed to be part of it. Things that fall outside of our campaign programme tend to have difficulty figuring out who can say yes to them.
But it went smooth as butter. I didn’t encounter a single person who didn’t understand the action in one, even when I had to explain what SOPA was, and who didn’t think that of course Greenpeace should be part of it.
I grabbed Zach Johnson’s excellent template from Reddit, we tweaked it just a bit, and sent it out to all Greenpeace offices inviting them to join in. 25 Greenpeace websites went dark on January 18th and were part of the largest internet protest in history.
Now, if only we could command that kind of focus and effort to stopping climate chnage. Hmm, maybe that’s a T-shirt: Save the Earth: It’s the only planet with WIFI.
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