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Get Involved! Help Defeat Prohibition
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 9:31amWe need to get a lot of work done to legalize marijuana, here's some ways to help!
Howto: Volunteer Get active helping build activism in Canada!
Howto: Organize Protests: May 1, 2010 is the Global Marijuana March, and of course there is always 4/20 (April 20) and Cannabis Day, July 1. We need organizers working across Canada on these and other events.
Recruit new members: Send that link out over Facebook and Twitter, encourage your friends to sign up! WhyProhibition.ca will is the basis for a number of important campaigns, including a new BC referendum to legalize Marijuana. We need people to register so they can find out about upcoming protests, rallies, and laws.
Submitting Content: We need bloggers, researchers, newshawks, and activists to get posting! You can use the userblogs section to post blogs, news, upload files (especially pamphlets, we're looking to host as many drug policy pamphlets as we can find!)
Howto: Get involved in your community: One of the most important things you can do is get involved in your local community. Join other activist groups, volunteer at soup kitchens, march in local parades. When we get involved, not only do we reach out to potential allies, but we also represent the best of our community to people who may be unfamiliar with it. If you're unsure about a group, attend some meetings and see if they're amenable to drug policy reform.
Back to School Activism time!
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 3:45pmIt's September, and this is a great time to get active and get involved in any kind of activism! In Canada, we have Parliament resuming, a possible federal election and a mandatory minimums bill that's weeks away from passing into law. We need to get active more than ever, so, here's how!
Group Formation/Participation:
I have mentioned it before, but one of the most effective ways of being active is by joining and working with what are refered to as “Civil Society Groups” or “Non-Governmental Organizations”. Examples of these kinds of groups range from Churches, Unions, Professional Organizations to groups like Habitat for Humanity, United Way, Sierra Club or Greenpeace.
This is helpful for a number of reasons:
-Gives you a chance to network with other politically active and influential individuals in your community
-Gives you a chance to influence people in your community
-Gives you a chance to build experience in community organizing
WhyProhibition Handbill Color Version
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 5:40pmMuseum-Mouse of the House of Mouse colourized the WhyProhibition pamphlet! It's beautiful, but be warned, these are about 10x as expensive to print. (10c/handbill instead of about 1c/handbill)
New WhyProhibition Handbill - Remember Prohibtion
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 6:37pm
Here is another version of the WhyProhibition.ca handbill, this one with the NORML Remember Prohibition image on the front (Thanks NORML Foundation!)
WhyProhibition Handbill Chinese Translation
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 3:56pmJust finished updating the WhyProhibition handbill with a Chinese version submitted by a hardworking young man in Vancouver!
We still need French, Spanish, and Punjabi (Sorry if that's not correct), Farsi, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, and frankly any other languages any of you happen to be fluent in!
Download the WhyProhibition Chinese version here:
New Server, Upgrade Complete
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 7:09amFirst, let me say: Thank you for your patience! This has been a long process but we're finally able to proceed with heavy development!
We have moved to our new server, so expect lots of new features over the next few weeks and months.
The first thing we're working on is making "groups" their own independent sites, with their own urls, own themes, and even relative paths (yoururl/article rather than whypro../group/yourgroup/article).
This will allow any drug policy website to host, for free, on WhyProhibition, while also having access to the same tools (ie email campaigns) as WhyProh itself, while still appearing to be a totally separate site to the end user.
New Highres WhyProhibition.ca handbill
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 2:06pm Download the New HighRes WhyProhibition.ca Handbill
Simply take this .pdf to a copy shop and have them print it double sided, and cut into 4. If done right, these are as cheap as .25c/handbill!
I've added contrast and cut-marks for copy places as well!
Technical Issues
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 8:56amHey everyone,
We are in the process of moving servers to improve performance. There will be an outage of .5-2 hours within the next few days.
If you encounter any problems, please email me at jacob@jacobhunter.org
Thanks for your patience,
-Jacob
New WhyProhibition.ca Features
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 3:27pmWe're testing out a few new features before a launch, check out:
User Blogs:
Any WhyProhibition user can blog, with two ways of viewing: traditional (http://www.whyprohibition.ca/userblogs) and by popularity (http://www.whyprohibition.ca/userblogs/popularity).
Create your own user blog at http://www.whyprohibition.ca/node/add/userblog
Videos:
We have an aggregator for all videos posted to WhyProhibition.ca at http://www.whyprohibition.ca/videos
Research
A Research aggregator is now available at http://www.whyprohibition.ca/research there is also an alternate view by article type at http://www.whyprohibition.ca/research-context
Check the new features out but there may be bugs. These are all new and in testing, so if you see any errors, let me know at jacob@jacobhunter.org
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