http://permaculture.org.au/2009/02/03/from-the-bottom-up/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Mon, 21 May 2012 02:23:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://permaculture.org.au/2009/02/03/from-the-bottom-up/#comment-29401 Catherine Knight Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:41:02 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=1062#comment-29401 great article.... we here in australia have a similar organisation called 'get-up' that uses email to rally people to re-engage with politics. they were very instrumental in bringing about changes to our political system during the end of the howard reign. it was empowering to people like me who felt like we had absolutely no ability to be heard. they did things like put up bill-boards, t.v. advertisements & signed petitions. at the moment they too are asking for feed back on what direction we (the australian public)would like to see them take this year. another fine example of the freedom of the internet. great article…. we here in australia have a similar organisation called ‘get-up’ that uses email to rally people to re-engage with politics. they were very instrumental in bringing about changes to our political system during the end of the howard reign. it was empowering to people like me who felt like we had absolutely no ability to be heard. they did things like put up bill-boards, t.v. advertisements & signed petitions. at the moment they too are asking for feed back on what direction we (the australian public)would like to see them take this year. another fine example of the freedom of the internet.

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