It gives power to citizens to call upon the European commission to create specific legal acts, if they can gather 1m signatures from at least seven member states.
The petition I published on change.org, calling on the BBC to disclose its contributors' financial interests, has 11,000 signatures so far; if they reach 20,000, I'll present it.
Target has pulled all copies of Grand Theft Auto V from its stores in Australia, after a petition against the game drew 41,000 signatures, and Kmart has just decided to join them.
That seems to be a result of the petition being passed around on 4chan's video game board /v/ a couple of days ago, leading to a number of irrelevant signatures from people arguing against the petition (or taking the opportunity to post startlingly racist comments).
It marketed aggressively and organised a petition with more than 10,000 signatures in Seattle, where city council members voted last month to limit the number of drivers.
For autumn/winter 2014, the Kors signatures were all there: the stone and grey colour palette and 70s shapes such as culottes and flouncy blouses.
The NMP3 petition started in 2012 now has over 200,000 signatures but the social influence of their work has been even bigger.
The ballot was called by Gillard after Rudd supporters began collecting signatures for a petition to call a special caucus meeting to consider the leadership.
While collecting signatures for our petition outside the library on cold bright January days, I can see who uses it: Everyone, there is no one type of user.
After she started a petition and collected signatures from 80 friends and teachers at Bounds Green School, Scholastic agreed to end the gendered labelling of its books and removed gendered categories from its website.
Of course, when empires fall, they do so with surprising speed – and there will be those who judge that this petition attracting more than 190,000 signatures constituted America's formal resignation as the world's foremost superpower.
