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priorities - 2007/10/02 05:37 Priorities. Get them right. Before your game please visit:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/
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priorities - 2007/10/02 14:08 Reica, welcome to the forum
I agree. We should show our support for the cause in Burma. However, I'm afraid these online petitions don't really help a lot



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Re:priorities - 2007/10/03 06:09 Dear dame, signing a petition for a cause like this is definitely better than sitting on your hands. Btw this partition has close to 500,000 names to it. Please sign and then have a relaxing game of chess
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Re:priorities - 2007/10/03 11:10 You wouldn't know how many petitions I have signed during my rather extended virtual 'life' and nothing came from it. It is a sad conclusion, but needs to be seen in the eye so other means of trying to get the existing politicians know what 'we' think about things can be thought over.



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Re:priorities - 2007/10/03 11:56 Dame, ok. So what other ways are there?...because I will never give up. And my life looks back a much longer way than yours! But maybe we should leave this off the chess forum for further discussion!
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Re:priorities - 2007/10/03 12:06 I don't know, Rein. I really don't. I wish I did though, so I would be doing it.



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priorities - 2007/10/25 14:04 While no positive result can be shown, the effort is not wasted. See what will happen in the coming years. Nobody predicted the fall of the Soviet Union...



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priorities - 2007/10/25 21:36 I don't think the fall of the USSR was the result of online petitioning.



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priorities - 2007/10/25 21:51 Indeed...the fall of the USSR started when a labor union leader in Poland stood up to corrupt management, eventually causing the first domino to fall. Never underestimate "power to (of) the people".

No question Burma is a disaster, as is Darfur. "So what other ways are there?" If more of the West told their leaders that this tyranny and lack of human rights is unacceptable, these would be remedied. And let's face it: there's no oil under the ground in Burma or Darfur.



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priorities - 2007/10/26 02:18 Those people took to the streets and forced a change. Online petitions that non of the powers that be ever see are little more than a waste of time.



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priorities - 2007/10/26 14:14 Online petitions were nonexistent at that time; Al Gore was still inventing the Internet at that time.



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priorities - 2007/10/27 10:56 well, in the beginning we had great hopes of online petitioning, but even the most pressured petitions didn't work one bit. there was this egyptian blogger that got locked up for writing his opinion on the internet. the most aggressive online petition was started with names to it of very influential people as well. Did it help? No. He still is locked up (together with hard-core criminals in a cell where he hardly can lay down) -

that's when i lost faith in petitioning online. of course it must give him a tiny bit of good feeling knowing that many people around the world are standing behind him - but practically this mental support doesn't help for his predicament.



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priorities - 2007/10/27 14:45 I guess we have to be realists and pragmatists. It seems those who posted here changed my mind. Apparently, online petitions are just a waste of time, time that should have been used in more useful activities.



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