"To then have him so quickly achieve a big (and unexpected) success with the mobile phone unlocking petition really highlights the difference between the old way of thinking about these issues, and the new way.
Since the fight for Net Neutrality began more than three years ago, 1.6 million Americans have picked up the phone, signed petitions, spoken out publicly and written letters to urge their members of Congress to get behind Net Neutrality.
If such a coalition could be created, and maintained, the work at hand would still include all the efforts I mentioned earlier (phone calls, petitions, canvassing, etc)., along with urgent, immediate, massive, sustained campaigns of civil disobedience and disruption adequate to overwhelm those currently in power, who have proven impervious to more "normal" political pressures.
Some cities have speakeasies where would-be customers step into an antique phone booth to petition for entry.
Maybe grieving One Directioners will flood the phone lines to petition for a formal Zayn tribute?
Unless your petition, phone call or email to Congress is for or against a specific bill - and even more specifically: unless you're in the district of a valuable vote or committee chair for that bill - then your congressperson really can't do much for you at all.
Grass roots organizations have poured millions of e-mail and phone messages, letters, petitions and postcards to Senate offices in the last two weeks.
They set up emergency phone chains, collected petitions, passed out fliers, protested in the streets and even packed otherwise routine public hearings.
The campaign featured petitions, phone calls, and the sending of single flip-flops to the Netflix offices in reference to a scene in which a heartbroken character looks in misplaced despair for a misplaced flip-flop.
On Thursday, after phone calls and petitions from more than 50 local student groups, immigration authorities deferred for one year the deportation of Marlen Moreno, a Mexican immigrant living in Arizona who has two children who are American citizens and who would qualify to become legal under the Dream Act.
