Posted by Marc | 23-10-2011 12:27 | Category:
Politics
It is election day today in Tunisia. And this is one of the best Get Out The Vote campaigns I’ve ever saw.
“The return of Ben Ali.” He is the former dictator of Tunisia [Wikipedia]. Not really of course but a awareness campaign from Engagement Citoyen: “To accompany and support the democratic awakening in Tunisia”.
Their message: take this election serious. Vote for democracy.
[3 +1] was temporarily stopped for several reasons. But here we are again! Our guest this week is Paul de Gregorio, a great guy who I met on Google+.
And I’m glad I discovered his blog also. Fundraising isn’t my forte. He is doing great writings on this topic. Inspirational!
About [3+1]: it is sharing 3 favourite campaigns, designs or other visual things. And 1 failure, something annoying. In short: 3 x good (green), 1 x bad (red).
Paul is Head of Mobile at UK fundraising agency Open Fundraising. He has been fundraising since 1996. Before joining Open to head the agency’s mobile offering in 2011, Paul was client services director at telephone fundraising agency Pell & Bales. He has worked with many charities and membership organisations - including Cancer Research UK, the NSPCC, The Labour Party, UNICEF UK and National Trust - to deliver fundraising and campaigning activity that inspires people to take action. He can be found on Twitter @pauldegregorio. He also blogs about fundraising with a focus on mobile and individual giving.
Christian Aid Malaria nets advert
One of the key reasons I’m doing what I do now is this advert from Christian Aid. The first time I saw it I was truck by it’s simplicity and compelled to take the action. But more than that, it re-enforced my view that text and mobile were tools for fundraisers and campaigners that if properly used could push us unto a whole new level of supporter and public engagement with causes.
Successful text response campaigns have a very clearly defined ‘itch’, the issue or situation that makes us feel uncomfortable and a ‘scratch’ the action we can take to relieve us from the uncomfortable feeling and make us feel good.
The Christian Aid advert is a brilliant example; the itch in this case is clearly the fact that a child dies every 45 seconds from malaria. The scratch, just as simple, you can provide a net, right now for £3, which will save a child’s life.
Josh Rachlis is a Canadian eco-comic, actor, musician and copywriter. He is perhaps best known for his viral video ”An Inconvenient Proposal: A love song for Laurie David” in which he attempts to woo the ex-wife of Comedian Larry David through his heroic environmentalism.
Now, Josh has thrown his hat in the political ring, running for an Urban Toronto seat (Eglinton-Lawrence) in the Ontario Provincial Legislature for the Green Party. And he’s attempting to run a paperless campaign, instead using his talent and social networks to spread this digital flyer:
It is election time in Denmark. The people from ALIS don’t give a damn about that, they just want more skateparks.
That’s why they did this guerrilla action. They completed election signs from the big political parties with their own message:
“More skateparks on the agenda”.
The message is a bit forced because of the double agenda from ALIS. ALIS was born in the grassroots movement of Freetown Christiania and is now evolved to a small skate lifestyle company. More skateparks is more benefit for themselves.
But I still like the idea.
I thought to myself, “this has to be a spoof!”. But then I contributed to their analytics (and cost them a PPC) to get this:
They are apparently serious. According to The Guardian, this “NGO” is the work of 27-year-old Conservative political communications adviser Alykhan Velshi — a former aide to to Canada’s immigration minister.
Ethical Oil’s ad campaign positions most other non-G8 oil producing countries as places where human rights, dignity and democracy are not respected. And it does so with blunt and polarizing examples.
If you don’t remember Foreskin Man from a previous post, it is an awkward and frighteningly anti-Semitic comic book created by Matthew Hess, an intactivist from California.
Well, every super “hero” has his nemesis. And here’s his: Captain Israel (no, not that Captain Israel).
That’s right, Foreskin Man! Captain Israel has you by your wrinkled… flaccid… ummm… what is that supposed to represent?
I feel anger. I feel fear. The whole week.
But I refuse to feel hate. That’s what I tried this week.
For now there is just one thing to do: remember the lives lost and families left behind in Norway.
We can do it together with an online minute of silence to remember. Friday 29th July 2011 @ 5pm Dublin, Ireland Time.
Documentary style 4:16 campaign video from Traidcraft. Their mission is to fight poverty through trade.
They explains with this campaign how many of the world’s poorest countries are rich in valuable raw materials which could help fuel their development but that many of the world’s richest countries want to get their hands on them without the profits returning to the people.
Decisions are being taken that could influence the extent to which developing countries that trade with the EU are allowed to manage their raw materials. The European Parliament’s industry, energy and research committee (ITRE) will vote on the Commission’s updated Raw Materials Initiative.
The Commission argues that these materials are essential to develop the EU’s future industrial competitiveness. However, Traidcraft believes the trade policies accompanying the initiative could further impoverish poor countries and pose a serious risk to the environment.
Traidcraft’s policy adviser, Rebecca Varghese Buchholz: “This is a great opportunity for the European Parliament to take a clear stance and ensure that Europe’s business interests do not take priority over those of developing countries and over the impact on the environment. Europe is the world’s single biggest importer of raw materials. In a world of limited resources, the EU should concentrate on getting its own house in order – not on breaking down barriers to get its hands on developing countries’ raw materials.”
I don’t want to say much after this weekend. The Terrorist’s attack in Norway was expected in some way. It is the result of the political climate in Europe. It is about hate and thinking and acting from hostility.
And it comes very nearby because of the reference Anders Brehing Breivik made about my country.
It is important to make a statement. One of the things which can be done is holding hands virtually against this impermissible attack.
Over 400.000 people already are connected by holding hands on this page of VG Nett, a Norwegian news site. You can do it here too.
“Hold sammen – hold hender”
I found this quote today on Facebook. It is the only answer which can be made in a civilized world:
G.W. Bush, 9/11: “We’re gonna hunt you down.”
Stoltenberg, 22/7: “We will retaliate with more democracy”. #oslo
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