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Summary
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Body
Petitions and e-campaigning are digital methods for mobilising large numbers of supporters quickly: signature collection, email-to-target, peer-to-peer texting, and rapid-response blasts.
Petitions remain the entry point of most supporter journeys: they convert passive attention into a recorded commitment and an email. The Commons Library’s digital module treats the petition as the first ask, not the last — its value is the follow-up path it opens [source: commons-library]. Campact’s WeAct platform is the German exemplar of a petition infrastructure designed for rapid-response mobilisation [source: campact]. MobLab’s Campaign Accelerator pairs petitions with supporter-journey design — the petition is the front door of a multi-step ladder, not the whole ladder [source: moblab]. 350.org’s training materials show how petition-writing ties into the rest of a campaign plan (target, demand, escalation) [source: 350-trainings]. Change.org España demonstrates the same pattern at scale in Spanish-speaking campaigns [source: change-org-es]. The most-common failure mode: petitions with no follow-up path. A 50,000-signature petition that signs people up and never emails them again is a list, not a campaign.
Examples
Examples
- African Americans campaign for desegregation of department store [TRUNC] — Case Study Details. Database Narrative. By 1955 in Kansas City, most public 1958 · North America
- African Americans campaign for voting rights in Selma, Alabama [TRUNC] — Case Study Details. Database Narrative. Even after the passage of [TRUNC] 1965 · North America
- African Americans threaten march on Washington, 1941 — ‘[TRUNC] movement against discrimination. Although encountering reticence 1941 · North America
- Americans blockade Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War [TRUNC] — Case Study Details. Database Narrative. “If the government won’t stop the 1971 · North America
- Anti-war activists march to Moscow for peace, 1960-1961 — Case Study Details. Database Narrative. On December 1, 1960, just after a 1960 · Transnational
- Argentines protest Uruguayan paper mills, 2005-2008 — Case Study Details. Database Narrative. Argentina and Uruguay have a history 2005 · Latin America
- Armenians protest USSR’s refusal to honor Nagorno-Karabakh … — Case Study Details. Database Narrative. Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous 1988 · Transnational
- Australians Blockade World Economic Forum - 2000 — ‘[TRUNC] Case Study Details. Database Narrative. The World Economic Forum 2000 · Asia
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Use it for
Rapid-response mobilisation; building a list; introducing a new supporter to the campaign.
Worked examples
- case-studies/campact-model
- case-studies/sunrise-green-new-deal
Related
- distributed-organizing
- escalation
- framing-and-narrative
- civic-tech
- 350-trainings
- campact
- change-org-es
- commons-library
- moblab
Summary
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Open Questions
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Sources & verification
- commons-library — grounding: secondary — RAW (5257 chars)
- campact — grounding: secondary — RAW (1939 chars)
- moblab — grounding: secondary — RAW (645 chars)
- 350-trainings — grounding: secondary — RAW (4951 chars)
- change-org-es — grounding: secondary — RAW (621 chars)
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