Activism: What Do We Do Now?

by aquaman, May 24, 2009
A few suggestions to begin to effect change

Activism starts at your front door and doesn't stop until it goes full circle and hits your back door. Anyone reading this obviously has Internet access and therefore the most powerful activism tool ever known. Here are a few suggestions on what you can do to effect change.
Get to know your politician, write them a letter a week regarding anything you wish. The important thing is that you participate in your democracy and that those in power know that. you can find your politician at theyworkforyou.com (UK)
Educate yourself with the countless documentaries available online, copy them burn them and distribute them as widely as possible and arrange to discuss them afterwards.
Join social networking sites, start a blog, write poetry,short stories or make videos regarding your views and post them online. Write to your local and national press pointing out falsehoods or misinterpretations in their stories.
Get to know your neighbours, join local community groups and start a group of like minded people with varying skills that along the lines of the transition towns initiative.
Waste no opportunity to discuss the injustices in the world, you may inspire a stranger to action.
Call in to your local radio station and bring up topics that interest you.
This is a little more difficult but would be very effective if everyone did it. Become more personally sustainable, grow your own food, produce your own electricity, use less fossil fuels and purchase more locally produced goods. this would hit the profits of the Trans National corporations hard.
Learn about fractional reserve banking and tell others about it.
Finally its important to say that violence gets you nowhere, the most effective activism is the method that get your message across as pure and unclouded as possible.
I hope this helpsLove and peace to all.