Every voice matters. From online petitions to writing to your MPs and councillors. And you as a green blogger, even if you only have 10 readers – that’s ten readers whose minds you can inspire!
Blogging is such an important medium. Nearly all the big media is owned by the same big (usually right-wing) organisations. No-one reports on innocent people (or animals) killed in wars. And the climate crisis is harming millions, but this is never reported.
So it remains to small-town bloggers to do the work and get the message out! And that’s far more powerful with a million local and lone writers, than some big organisation that has regular sound-bites, but not really information that affects readers directly.
Say there is something happening locally that greatly affects people local you to: a polluted site, a dangerous road or local controversy:
If you’re a small local blogger: you know the area. You can interview local people and run local campaigns. Power starts at the grassroots!
Write to your represensatives. In the UK, you can easily do this at Write to Them (just enter your postcode to find local councillor and MP contact details). You can also visit They Work For You to see what your MP has been doing on your behalf lately.
Start a petition. 38 Degrees is good (UK) or worldwide, use Change. You can change laws. A few years back, the UK government was going to sell off all remaining forests to private companies. But a petition by 38 Degrees stopped it. Petitions work!
Some recent victories (many are for environmental and animal welfare causes) also with 38 Degrees include:
- The national £2 bus fare (although the Prime Minister brought this in, it could have been influenced by a long-running campaign)
- People in the London borough of Brixton having their Asset of Community Vale saved from private equity firms, enabling them the legal right to buy it back themselves.
- Government scrapping a plan to stop paying Coastguard Rescue Officers an hourly fee, for the time they spend saving lives at sea.
