*[Enwl-eng] You can make this tech for good become real
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Think of an issue you really care about. And now imagine a politician who’s supposed to represent you, preparing to vote on it in Brussels. They scroll through their phone and see a tweet you posted - urging them to support your cause! Impossible? Together we can make it come true! Help us deliver technology that can make this happen. |
Hi,
In politics, time is key: an issue of the highest importance can be voted, negotiated, discussed any day. As the European Elections approach, many decisions of great importance taken in Brussels will be made quicker and quicker. We, the citizens of Europe who try to intervene, have to speed up, too. We now have an idea how to do it.
Just like us, politicians have to kill time. In a train or taxi, in the elevator or in a committee, waiting for the important vote. What do they do then? They scroll through Twitter and Facebook. Imagine if we could flood them with messages from their own constituencies right before the key meeting - or even during it! - just as they’re checking their smartphones.
With our amazing technology team, we want to set up an easy-to-use tool to target politicians. But we need more budget for it and projects like it. Will you chip in to help us develop it?
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| I’ll donate €30 |
| I’ll surprise you |
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For most of us, politicians seem very distant, and those in Brussels in particular. We usually don’t even know the names of our representatives in the European Parliament. We let them decide on our rights, our finances, our environment without blinking - because European politics seems so far away and so complicated!
EU politicians must be brought closer to us. What if they were just three clicks away? You give your zip code and we give you the names of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from your constituency. Then you can directly send them a Twitter message or post on their Facebook page - and done!
We roughly estimate that implementing a tool with these exciting functions will cost €15,000. We are a very big community. If only 1,000 of us donate €15 we can make it! If you can afford it and donate €30, we can reach the goal even faster - and can think how to deliver even more.
| I’ll donate €8 |
| I’ll donate €15 |
| I’ll donate €30 |
| I’ll surprise you |
| I cannot donate |
In our team, we call the new tool our “MEP contact tool”, because it allows a person from France to reach their French representatives in the European Parliament, and a person from Poland to reach the Polish ones.
But we can be much more ambitious. We can extend the tool so that you will be able to message a member of your national parliament. Or even the director of a local branch of a multinational corporation!
Only two weeks ago we used a similar tool in an important campaign. Thousands of us emailed our local MEPs and urged them to completely ban single-use plastics in Europe. And this is what they voted to do! Now imagine the massive impact we could have if they see all of our messages first in their email, then on Facebook, then on Twitter.
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Excited about the new possibilities,
Mika (Bordeaux), Jörg (Lübeck), Virginia (Madrid), and the rest of us at WeMove.EU
PS: Can technology make democracy better? Yes, if it is not owned by big corporations, but by all of us together. All our tech developments are free and open-source, and can be used by anyone. Let us make this too a reality, and we will share it with all of the world. Donate!
WeMove.EU is a citizens’ movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere.
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