Is anyone else overwhelmed with the plethora of online petitions?

[OneGrassRoot]

17. What you said...

Yes, a clearinghouse.

You wrote:

"I think I know what you mean, the same thing with other causes like free-trade coffee or ending sweatshops: instead of one cohesive united movement, there are dozens or hundreds of organizations or websites trying to do the same thing but, really, competing with each other and weakening what would be a stronger message if united."

Thank you! You expressed it much better than I. That's exactly what I was trying to say, that the fracturing/fragmentation of the effort is weakening the message.

I think I have the structure to create such a clearinghouse. That's the only thing I've come up with thus far, but it's certainly not ideal. It doesn't create the unified voice.

ALTHOUGH....I found a really cool new tool which does make use of FB and twitter to do just that: amplify our voices.

https://www.thunderclap.it/ (they may have negatives involved as well; not sure yet)


Maybe focusing on the top 10 or so petitions each week at a clearinghouse site, and creating a corresponding Thunderclap to go along with the page/issue to provide more visibility is a thought?

Hmmm..........