you are of course completely correct, actions speak louder than words, but before action you need awareness. I think the post agree’s with you here?

“the link between that diffuse outrage across a social network – connected only by a hashtag or membership of a facebook group – and action, physical protest, changes in behaviours, habits, conversations with people who don’t already agree with us, boycotts, fund-raising… that’s the tricky bit”

At the end of the day, while it may be good for us to be aware of more, to think a little differently, to believe a little differently, we really need to ACT.

Though I don’t know about the politics or the practices you’ve cited, the ache to “change things” is felt across the ocean.

Trey Pennington on Twitter

How does govt funding compromise a charities independence? What are the alternatives? How can a campaigning organisation have a commercial wing but still maintain its ideological independence?

How do social tech tools like Facebook and Twitter change the flow of information from organisers to campaigners, and back up the chain? How does this impact on funding, organising and strategy?

What is the role of support from incumbent politicians – are they key allies to be courted or should we maintain a visible distance? (x-ref the problems around the G8 summit in edinburgh and the hijacking of the protest platform by politicians looking for populist support on the back of a whole load of broken promises about debt relief.)