For the last year, my friend Frerieke van Bree has been working on a social action platform called Umeebee. Her site will connect donors with the beneficiaries of group fundraising campaigns through the use of video, images, and blogs.
Peter himself is pioneering what is coming to be called Really Simple Social Actions, using the power of the web to bring lots of us together in common cause, and using simple readily available technology to parse, sort, track, and aggregate the information so we can find causes to support and go direct to those in need via grassroots orgs that are very close to the ground. A video update on Peter's visionary work here. He and Frerieke are waking dreamers working hard for a better world absent any business plan I can find, other than maybe donations. God bless all who are moved by that spirit. If there are soon thousands, then tens of thousands of little decentralized actions nodes, driven by idealists, how resilient democracy will be, when Blackwater comes home again, given some crisis or other.
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