Educated Citizens Can Use the Net to Bring About Powerful Change
After my posting about the low-lifes who form anonymous online groups for the sole purpose of provoking strangers online and scoring “lulz” this week, I thought that I should balance the posts with an article about the potential power of the web to promote peace in our often troubled world. The thing I 
really like about this is the real “grass-roots” element. No one can blame the Western Imperialist governments for forcing this onto the Pakistanis. It is coming from the very people who can bring about the change for themselves.
Now if only we could get the same global movement for the Environment!
Yeh Hum Naheen Foundation launches grassroots anti-terrorism campaign …
becomes the world’s largest petition with over 42 million signatures.The YHN Foundation, a Pakistan-based NGO, has collected over 42 million signatures at a rate of 2.5 million per day in a unique grassroots effort to combat terrorism.
More people have signed up with YHN than voted in the Pakistani elections.
The campaign has five key components:
1.) YHN has stationed 6000 ‘ambassadors’ in strategic locations around Pakistan to get people to sign paper petitions;
2.) They created a portal that is drawing massive traffic and global attention with a counter showing how many have signed the petition;
3.) YHN has launched an SMS campaign to collect ’signatures’ and phone numbers in support of the campaign;
4.) A special song has been written and several videos have been produced with many different version of the song being recorded by many different singers. All are available as free downloads and ring tones;
5.) YHN Developed online tools and a space for people to ‘tell their stories’ about terrorism and what they are doing to try and stop it.
Additionally, the site’s forum has 1,362 active members and is building a larger network of concerned citizens and activists every day. The new Yeh Hum Naheen Facebook groups have a combined membership of over 9,000 people and is steadily growing rapidly.
The goal of the project is to send a strong message which will be heard throughout the world that the majority of Muslims and Pakistanis do not condone terrorism and those who perpetrate these acts of terrorism do not do so in the name of Islam.
The petition asks Pakistanis: “Are we the ones who deprive mothers of their children? Are we the ones who deprive children of their fathers’
affection? Are we the ones who are destroying our own futures?”Founded last year, YHN strives to promote the ideas of tolerance, peace and harmony, which are the essence of the Islamic faith.
To learn more visit the YHN website and become a member of one of the facebook groups: Yeh Hum Naheen - Say No To Terrorism and Yeh Hum Naheen!
By: editor@politicsonline.com
Maybe it is movement based on the words of Secret Agent Maxwell Smart:
“If only they had used their talents for goodness instead of evil”
I think that given the choice, most people prefer the goodness path. We just need to make sure that we continue to educate students so that most people know how to use it for goodness.
Filed under: Learning for a Flat World | Tagged: globalism, LSA_Paul, politics, terrorism
