<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="display: block;" id="leaderboard-ad" class="constrain"><div id="responsive-ad-6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; width: 970px; font-size: 8px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-size: 13px; ">We talked about petitions and petitions sites at a recent GA meeting. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">They are free and produce results. An example is the one below</span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-size: 13px; "> where 1.5 mil people signed a petition </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">that asked to have a shooter brought </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-size: 13px; ">to justice. Love to have people post petition ideas. Could be </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">local issues too. rk</span></div><div id="responsive-ad-6" style="margin:0 auto;width:970px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></div><div id="responsive-ad-6" style="margin:0 auto;width:970px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; ">Change Agent</span></div></div><div id="content-body" class="constrain"><div class="primary-col"><article id="article-12345" class="post format-article"><header class="entry-header">
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<span class="entry-date">Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012</span></div></header>
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</aside><p>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.</p><p>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 </p></div></article></div></div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2110460,00.html#ixzz2C2ZKONDk ">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2110460,00.html#ixzz2C2ZKONDk<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></a><br></div></body></html>