[Occupymendocino] Petitions Work.

[Richard Karch]

We talked about petitions and  petitions sites at a recent GA meeting. They are free and produce results. An example is the one below where 1.5 mil people signed a petition that asked to have a shooter brought to justice. Love to have people post petition ideas. Could be local issues too. rk

Change Agent
By Bobby Ghosh and Elizabeth Dias Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012

Gabriela Hasbun for TIME
Turned around. Rattray was headed for Wall Street until and epiphany led him to start Change.org

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Exactly a month after Trayvon Martin's death, 3,000 people in Sanford, Fla., marched on the town's civic center and demanded justice for the slain teenager — and punishment for the man who shot him. At the end of the hour-long march, Martin's parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin spoke of their grief for their son and their anger that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer who had shot him, was still a free man. The hall filled with loud shouts and amens and fierce cries for justice that drowned out even the family's and lawyers' speeches.

The march was the climax of a weeklong campaign to bring attention to Martin's death, with a measure of its impact contained in 10 cardboard boxes that the marchers took to the Sanford city council. The boxes contained the names of 1.5 million people who had signed a petition at the website


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