Tactic: Saudi Activist Uses Youtube to Advocate for Womens’ Right to Drive…

Written by Amine on April 13, 2008 – 1:52 am -

Description: On International Women’s Rights day, a video of a woman in Saudi Arabia defying the country’s ban on female drivers in urban areas was posted on the video-sharing site YouTube. At the wheel of her car, rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider, describes the injustice and appeals to the Saudi Government to expand women’s rights in the country and lift the ban.

Organizer: Human Rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider. 125 other people signed an accompanying petition that was delivered to the Saudi Ministry of interior that same day.


Purpose of Action: To celebrate International Women’s Rights day and call for the lifting of the ban on female drivers in Saudi Arabia.

Organizing Tools: The video was uploaded to and posted on the video-sharing site Youtube.com

Outcome: The story was picked up by all major international news organizations which has helped to widely publicize the action. Bloggers around the world have also helped amplify the message by writing on the story and posting links to the video, which has so far been viewed more than 120,000 times.

Link to Video with English dubbing



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Tactic: Protecting Whales with Digital Maps

Written by Mary on January 8, 2008 – 12:33 am -

Organizer: Greenpeace
Purpose of Action: To make the protection of whales a global effort by allowing activists to track the migration of 20 humpback whales online in order to ensure that they are not killed by whalers.
Organizing Tools: web site with digital map
Outcome: Japan has agreed not to hunt humpback whales this year (though other whales are still in danger)
Ease of Replication: Replicating the Greenpeace whale map is quite difficult, but other digital map applications, like Frappr, are quite easy to use.

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Tactic: Using Online Games for Organizing

Written by Mary on January 4, 2008 – 9:48 pm -

Organizer: Ron Paul fan site Revolutioni.st
Purpose of Action: Revolutioni.st organized a march in World of Warcraft, the purpose of which was to raise awareness of the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul.
Organizing Tools: World of Warcraft, web site, YouTube
Outcome: About 150 players attended the march, though the effect on Ron Paul’s candidacy was negligible.
Ease of Replication: Extremely easy if you are already a member of the game. You just need to e-mail your friends in the game and tell them to appear at a certain location at a certain time.


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