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pegkerrCheck out http://act.ly for an interesting new approach for social and political activism. Anyone with a Twitter account can create a petition, urging anyone else with a Twitter account to do something. I'm following The Innocence Project on Twitter (@innocenceblog), and this tweet caught my eye:
The application was invented by @slowdive and @jgilliam, in order to, as they put it, shake up a political system that's broken.
What I did today to make the world a better place: signed a Twitter petition put out by The Innocence Project urging the Governor of Texas to delay the execution of an inmate on death row to allow DNA testing that might prove him innocent. Told others about http://act.ly.
TX execution set for 3/24 despite untested DNA. Petition @GovernorPerry to stop the execution http://act.ly/1trCurious, I clicked on the link, which took me to the http://act.ly site, where I found a page with information about a pending death penalty case. All I had to do was to re-tweet, and my tweet lands in Governor Perry's tweet in-basket. And the governor, if he likes, can reply via http://act.ly. Curious, I did a little poking around the site. I found, for example, a petition urging Rick Warren to speak out against the pending law in Uganda that would put homosexuals to death. Rick Warren responded to the tweet and posted a video message he sent out to Ugandan pastors, urging them against supporting the bill.
The application was invented by @slowdive and @jgilliam, in order to, as they put it, shake up a political system that's broken.
What I did today to make the world a better place: signed a Twitter petition put out by The Innocence Project urging the Governor of Texas to delay the execution of an inmate on death row to allow DNA testing that might prove him innocent. Told others about http://act.ly.