Daily Action Plan Proposal

[thew92]

I am proposing a plan that has been working for another area of freedom advocacy that I have been a part of for the past year and half.

This is the plan
Every Day the Plan Changes where everyday ecig users can do something proactive to help protect our use of Ecigs. Most of daily plans would involve reaching out with social media like Facebook and Twitter. We would go to Lawmakers, Heath Orgs or Anyone else that matters and post on there FB page and sent them Tweets. Plus in this plan if an article comes out about Ecigs and allows for comment us the ecig users will go and dominate the comment section. Plans should take no longer than 3 mins to complete each day. The goal here is to keep activists engaged daily with something to do and get our message out. Maybe someone see our actions and storys and stops smoking. The cost of this effort is just time.

Some examples of plan would be.
Facebook
Go to the ALA Facebook Page and tell them your story with the ecig.
https://www.facebook.com/lungusa?ref=ts&fref=ts
We could do this to any health organization, Law Maker or Government Organization. If they have a FB page.

Twitter
Tweet to these Heath Orgs and Law Makers like about use a tool called Click-a-Tweet Me. Some one could create the "Click-a-Tweet" then all the community has to do is click on and hit "Tweet" like this.
Post a Tweet on Twitter

Articles
Anytime Ecigs get any press coverage we go and dominate the comment area about our views on the Ecig. Like go to the story below and comment on the story about Ecigs.
The truth about e-cigs: How healthy are they? - WCIV-TV | ABC News 4 - Charleston News, Sports, Weather

We must let our voices be heard if we don't someone will speak for you. The above plans are just examples on what we could do. The Daily Action Plan should be sticky-ed on every ECF sub-forum. And may even be copied to other forums as well.

Thoughts? Anyone want to take this task on? It would best for someone with mod power to do this. (I am not asking for Mod power)

 

[jlew]

Good idea and I must agree that:

"If individuals don't speak up for themselves, the only thing they are doing
is letting someone else take charge of their lives."

If you don't speak up for your rights, someone else will!

In order to protect your own rights, you must speak out and when you speak out, in essence, you are
not just speaking for yourself but for anyone else who has an interest in the same rights.

This is why the ANTZ and other activists get their way on many levels - because when people don't speak
out - others do the speaking for them and then we lose rights.

A good example would be:
When I was a smoker, I felt it was a direct violation of my rights (and others) to smoke, for the gov to
place regulations on and ban indoor smoking. This essentially was the same as taking away all of the rights
of one group and giving them to another - which in my opinion is not a democracy but a tyranny...
**Until I found out why non and anti-smokers were so against smoking indoors.**

Another good example is the NRA... without them, I am afraid our 2nd Amendment Rights to protecting
ourselves would be lost.

Now, I am against smoking (personally) but I still understand and realize that smokers still have a right to choice
(for themselves) and I do all I can to talk to them about why it is a good thing to try e-cigs...
I am all for making e-cigarettes available (and keeping them that way) to anyone and everyone... therefore, I
am fighting for my rights (and the rights of others) to have the right to choose NOT to breathe in 4000+ cancer
causing "Chemicals" and opting for "Organic Vapor".

Great post

I apply it almost daily

 

[DC2]

We used to have an army of folks who would go and post comments below articles, but that has changed.

Those articles used to be posted in the General Smoking Discussion section where everyone could see them, and the troops would rally.
In other words, as this forum has gotten bigger and more organized, it has actually led to less involvement and less action.

 

[Stubby]

We used to have an army of folks who would go and post comments below articles, but that has changed.

Those articles used to be posted in the General Smoking Discussion section where everyone could see them, and the troops would rally.
In other words, as this forum has gotten bigger and more organized, it has actually led to less involvement and less action.

From what I remember things have always been posted in the legislative section and the general news section, and their have always been a dismal amount of response. Most articles have the same few people willing to leave a comment. I can count on one hand the number willing to take the time and effort. Its been that way for a long time.

There are lots of folks willing to complain and go on long rants about the situation, but almost no one willing to challenge the misinformation outside of the confines of ECF or some other cloistered group. Giving money to CASAA is fine and needed, but what is needed more are boots on the ground. Perhaps there was a period back in 2009 when the FDA was threatening to classify e-cigs as drug delivery devises when people where stirred up, but since then hands on activism has been pretty low. I would like to know how much work the OP has actually done. I'm guessing very little, along with all the other people who go on endless anti-government, regulation, FDA, Obama, etc etc etc rants.