Rick Falkvinge, pirate

The Last 36 Hours

Friends:

As this letter goes out, it’s 36 hours until the polls open. I thought now is the time to swarm with the strength of a tornado just before the election itself.

For we are many. We are fifty thousand members and fifteen thousand activists.

So many people making a difference

Now we have—after so much hard work—received an acceptable coverage of our polling stations. At the time of this writing, we are just over 93%. That is where we were in 2006. It is tragic to miss seven percent of the votes we can’t reach with more polling, but at least it’s not a third anymore.

So during the last 36 hours—eight o’clock on Friday evening until eight o’clock on Sunday morning—there are two things I want us to focus on.

Those who have printers, print 100 double-sided copies of the pamphlet, fold, and place in neighbors’ mailboxes. This is the same pamphlet we printed up and distributed around town, but we don’t have the capacity to send it to others by conventional methods. However, we are such a large group on the ground that we can do that swarm work. Print 100 double-sided copies, fold, and distribute to 100 neighbors around you. Here is the original in color (if you have a color printer), this one is black-and-white (if you have a black-and-white laser printer), or you might try the this substantially lighter version (to save on toner/ink).

Then, EVERYONE, take the next 36 hours to campaign all over the net! Hearts must pound during the last few hours before the polls open, so we can show our presence wherever we are—in very simple ways, with very simple means. We can fill the network, our phones, our Skype, MSN, and email signatures with the message to vote and what we are voting on. In this way we show ourselves to each other, our friends, for power, for all that we are and that we vote on Piratpartiet. As many people as we are, we have the capacity to be just everywhere. It makes a difference in the days before the election.

I just changed by Facebook, MSN, and Skype status to “vote in the European elections. EU policy is also politics. I am voting Pirate.” More suggestions may be found here. Here is a banner for blogs and websites!

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