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Well… of course you do. You're a well educated, well informed professional capable of using the internet who is solidly in the middle class. People like you are
by phillmv 15y ago
Well… of course you do. You're a well educated, well informed professional capable of using the internet who is solidly in the middle class. People like you are the core of every group of people seeking change.
What do you do? You form an organization, a lobbying group. Organizations are the base unit of power.
You throw up a website, you get as many like minded people as possible (literally, thousands) to sign up for your mailing list and you badger every single person you can find across the political spectrum on the issue. You write letters to politicians, you write software that makes phone calls, you get people who run companies who would be affected by the issue to give you financial and moral support, and you try to talk directly to every politician or candidate to be a politician on the issue.
Ideally, albeit hard on this weird technocratic issue, you get some mass public outrage on the topic. With some luck, you can go: small company CEO who knows a medium company CEO who hangs out with someone higher up who can have a one on one with people who actually vote on the issue.
The catch is, before this is over it will be a more-than-full-time-job but… it's a startup like any other.
This is how any issue becomes mainstream: there are a bunch of people working round the clock on it. Think about illegal trade unions in Poland in 1978 or gay people going from being beaten indiscriminately by the cops in 1969 to being on the verge of legalizing marriage across the West.
In the meantime, get started by having you and all of your friends write personal letters and call your eurodeputies (not having clicked on TFA I assume that's the body in question).
- ajuc 15y agoThere needs to be some angle that matters for regular people. With Polish strikes it was crashing economy and big regulated prices increase - freedom and truth in TV was important, and there were always people in opposition, but bread was the impulse that made the most people go to the strike. Recent example - ACTA outrage. There were people alerting public for years about the danger (Piotr Vaglewski comes to mind). Public just ignored them. Then Megaupload was shut down, and suddenly ACTA was everybody business (even thought it wasn't ACTA fault:) )
- ajuc 15y agoEh, can't edit, he's name is Piotr Waglowski of course, I always mix it with his nick.