Change.org - Sign online petitions for social change! - General

[img]http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg70/scaled.php?tn=0&server=70&filename=changeorg5767736.png&xsize=640&ysize=640[/img] [url]Change.org[/url] [quote]Every day, across the world, people like you start campaigns on Change.org to fight for issues they care about — and the Change.org team works to mobilize people to help them win. We believe that building momentum for social change globally means empowering citizen activists locally. That's why anyone, anywhere — from Chicago to Cape Town – can start their own grassroots campaign for change using our organizing platform. Your campaign can be about anything. From supporting curbside recycling programs to fighting wrongful deportation to protecting against anti-gay bullying, Change.org members start campaigns around thousands of different issues. To start your own campaign, just click here. Our mission is to build an international network of people empowered to fight for what's right locally, nationally, and globally. We hope you'll join us.[/quote] So Change.org is an incredible site, where just by clicking a couple buttons, you can reform and create social and environmental change. You just sign up with your facebook account or email and start. Facepunch is a large community and if we get people to start signing these petitions, we can help create a better world. We can't do much by ourselves, but as a community we can. If anyone questions the legitimacy of this site, I assure it's all quite legit. If you goto their [b]Victories[/b] page, it will show you exactly what they've done. For instance: [url]http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-costco-to-stop-wholesale-ocean-destruction#?opt_new=f&opt_fb=t[/url] With the help of 18,500 signatures, Costco has stopped selling unsustainable fish. Please sign these petitions especially: I work for Americorps and know a lot of people who do also. [url]http://www.change.org/petitions/save-americorps[/url] The republican party wants to stop funding for Americorps, please sign this petition and help stop it. [url]http://www.change.org/petitions/times-running-out-stop-plans-to-drill-in-the-yellowstone-ecosystem[/url] 5,000 more signatures to stop plans for drilling in yellowstone! Just imagine what we could accomplish by just pressing a couple buttons. If you find interest this please tell your friends! We need all the people we can get for this.

Online petitions never solve anything.

I used to frequent this. Most petitions never met the threshold required of signatures to actually send it out. also this will flood your e-mail with messages from some dude from CREDO complaining about whatever the GOP is doing. [b][i]Flood.[/i][/b]

[QUOTE=Run&Gun12;28412585]Online petitions never solve anything.[/QUOTE] Well they have, and more and more people are finding out about this site.

[QUOTE=TheDudeGuy;28412633]Well they have, and more and more people are finding out about this site.[/QUOTE] most petitions stagnate around 300-400 signees, which is miles off from their goals. only a few select petitions get anywhere and their actually effectiveness is dubious. i'm all for activism, but do something that will actually cause change.

Sounds like a good concept, hopefully it will have good outcome as well.

Oh god, that domain is probably worth billions.

Once I've made a petition to save a radio station from getting replaced. It got more than 150k signatures. The radio station got replaced with a shitty ad-filled hipster radio station. :smith:

Anyone who thinks that signing an online petition is a passive fucking douche. "Oh my god, guess what I did today... I just signed 4957545 petitions to make the world better!" YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON! If you really think signing this petition is going to do anything, you're exactly the reason why this world is a shitty fucking place. Don't fucking waste time on a stupid dumbfuck petition, go out there and fucking actually do something instead of sitting there being a passive prick in your Chinese-slave mass produced office chair clicking stupid buttons and signing your name. You know what this site REALLY does with your name and email and shit? It fucking sells it to the companies and corporations that are causing the fucking problems. Also a lot of the "victories" on their page I bet were not directly related to Change.org, but they don't care. They take fucking credit anyway.

Ah... Ive posted this many times... [url]http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp[/url]

I'm gonna make a petition with heaps of loopholes in the railway network so I can invest in the company cheaply and then get a large margine profit from the electricity being sold back to the companies you watch guys ima be rich