Thursday will see the first petitions go live on the Governments new e-petition website (http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/index.html) which is designed to replace the No10 Petition site that was closed after the last election. On the new site any petition that gets over 100,000 names on it ‘could’ be debated in Parliament. I’ve written a separate post here about how [...]
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The process for setting up an e-petition on the new website is simple. Here is a step by step guide adapted from the Governments website. 1. Submit - The title can be up to 150 characters (although if you want to tweet it you’ll want it be shorter) with the petition itself up to 1000 characters. When you write [...]
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Slowing down for the summer? Here is a round of up of interesting articles on campaigning to read this Friday. 1. Hands Up Digital with some excellent advice about how charities can get more out of Facebook. 2. Stephen Pound MP has a few issues with 38 Degrees and the curse of the automated e-mail, while [...]
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You’ve certainly made it as a campaign movement when you get a feature in the Guardian….so congratulations should go to Avaaz who featured in the paper last week. Launched in 2007, in the last months alone they’ve had some notable successes on pressuring the government over BSkyB and Murdoch in the UK, corruption in India, stopping the Grand [...]
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Total number of actions received between May 1st 2010 and May 1st 2011: 32,731 Unfortunately the FCO was unable to break this down into the format in which they received campaign correspondence. Biggest campaign: Gaza Flotilla – 17,496 Breakdown by topic and organisation: If anyone is able to suggest the organisations behind these actions please leave a [...]
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