May
01
2012

Showing our campaigns as online petitions

As employers and governments sometimes make our lives difficult by blocking our email protests, it’s important that we have alternative ways to get the message to them.

Today, we have a new tool – an online petition that shows who has sent off a message.

You can see an example of the most recent campaign in English by clicking here.

To see a link for every petition for every currently active campaign, click here and then on ‘show as petition’ for the campaign that interests you.

The petitions are shown separately for each language.

How would we use this?  Our partner organizations can print out these lists and hand them over, or send by post, when we’re being blocked.  The URL is also readily available and can be given to the target.  We can basically say to them – you can block our emails, but you can’t block people from showing their support for the campaign.

UPDATE: I have fixed the security issues raised below.  Try to look at the petition now.

Written by admin in: Campaigns |

6 Comments

  • A great idea, well-implemented.

    Comment | May 1, 2012
  • Gisela neunhöffer

    Hi, I think online petitions pricipally can be a useful tool. However we should not publish peoples full email-adresses – that will increase the amount of spam they are receiving as well as give anybody else an opportunity to harvest these email addresses for whatever. And finally, we should not publish peoples names if they have not been informed about this and agreed to it beforehand. It is one thing whether I know a company will know my name, or whether it’s going to be public to everybody. Especially for people in authoriarian regimes that might become a problems.
    Best,
    Gisela

    Comment | May 1, 2012
  • admin

    We’re going to password-protect this and thereby block harvesting of email addresses. The people’s names will not be public information; only those authorized to view the petition will be able to see them. (In any event, when people send off an email protest, they are exposing their names and addresses to the target employer or government, so this is not worse.)

    Comment | May 2, 2012
  • Espen Løken

    Very good 🙂
    This works also well when we have to answer people complaining about receiving error messages when they take part in our campaigns

    Comment | May 2, 2012
  • Our correspondants messaging system was password protected and we still got spammed. Is this really enough?

    Comment | May 2, 2012
  • admin

    It will be good enough if we’re smart about it. We can use CAPTCHA, for example. And the link to the CGI script itself need not be public – we can think about that too. (The link to send a message to a correspondent is, of necessity, a public one.)

    Comment | May 2, 2012

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