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Do what people did when ACTA was about to be signed - protest on the streets. A few tousand people on the streets of most big cities in a country speak to politicians louder than online petition signed by 1 000 000 people.

Polish politicians have learnt their lesson last year and now they know to not even try: http://rys.io/en/109




That doesn't always work. About 750k → 1 million people protested in the UK against declaring war on Iraq. Didn't stop the Government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_prot...


Why is there always this focus on protesting on streets? It's a serious question. People clearly don't like doing that. Is it old fashioned?

Why does my protest only count when I am on a street, and how can I make non-street based protests count more?

Clicking Like buttons is lazy and meaningless. What's the middle ground?


I think that by going to a street protest you show you care enough to spend significant amount of time, so you probably also care enough to go vote against that politician in next elections.

Clicking online poll is just too convenient to mean anything.




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