[pp.int.general] 120 Days Left for Utah in the USA

[daegon at gmx.at]

I would suggest some art actionism. Try to communicate your political 
views via art and make it intresting for people,
I think that this would help to get some media attention and to make 
people a little bit prying.

But the idea with the girls works out as well, but I don't think in a 
conservative country such as the US
(to the exception of some federal states).

A demonstration would be another method to gain some media attention. If 
you call every Pirate from
the region (not just Utah), it would be a possibility to show that there 
are people who stand up for these issues.

greets
Ben

Ray Jenson schrieb:
> Hello, Everyone!
>
> I'm needing a bit of help, and I hope that you can all assist me.
>
> Today marks a very important day. Today marks 120 days from the deadline
> in February to have all of the signatures ready and counted for Utah to
> be permitted to form the Pirate Party of Utah.
>
> However, there is a problem. In spite of our attempts to gain some
> measure of attention with the press, it simply hasn't happened. We're
> simply not making enough of a wave to gain the kind of attention we need
> to get people interested and aware. I'm still running into people
> regularly who have never heard of the Pirate Party, or who think that
> we're actually a lobbying group without much in the way of support. We
> aren't making a stir, and so the media just doesn't care. The perception
> is that we simply lack support (though the supporters I have found tend
> to be rather excited-sounding about the idea of there being a political
> party as long as they personally don't need to do anything more than join).
>
> Truth be told, we are indeed lacking in signatures. We announced 60 days
> ago that we were looking to collect signatures to petition the
> government for political party status. It has not happened yet, and at
> the current rate we're not going to qualify.
>
> What I need from everyone are some ideas about how to generate enough
> publicity to make this happen. I'm completely out of ideas, and the
> press just is not interested in publishing stories, because all of the
> press in Utah is currently owned by members of one or the other major
> parties. Except for my own newspaper, which is not yet publishing due to
> my lack of money, but which I hope to be having soon.
>
> I hope to hear any ideas soon, as this second 60 days needs to move
> much, much faster. Official count on the signatures has not yet reached
> 50 out of 2000 needed. If we go with electronic signatures, we need
> 3,400 instead of 2,000, according to the current Lieutenant Governor's
> rules.
>
> Thank you, anyone and all.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ray Jenson
> Interim Administrator
> Pirate Party of Utah.
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