jmdugan

I'm a strong supporter of alternative medical and health methods as long as there is evidence of both safety and efficacy. That evidence (for me) does not need to be FDA mediated (necessarily), but evidence of both does not need to be real, and independently verified from multiple sources. Many, many non traditional medical approaches (not part of western medical practice) cross this line and there are extremely good reasons to treat these methods seriously.

"Homeopathic" remedies do not have evidence of efficacy. Thus, they are dangerous, IMO. The system as it works is provably ineffective, and at best represents overt placebo effects, but more often represent a "treatment" that people in real need of medicine use without knowing homeopathy mostly just a scam.

the problem of one-off events, one-off sites, and one-off subs vs movements with community identity and social momentum

Getting a large group to be a 'movement' is a different thing than organizing one event, one site, or one of anything.

Looking at

https://thedaywefightback.org/[1]

and the content there, plus the choice of

/r/thedaywefightback[2]

these are largely focused in language and activity on a "day" - and all too often one day events, no matter how successful peter out, and lack momentum after the event.

Do you agree? How are you addressing this? How do we get this issue into a frame where people can build a sense of identity with it, and feel part of the group working to fix this and closely related issues?

Even the SOPA movement Aaron started and largely won with has had this issue, now that SOPA is no longer a battle that needs fighting (referring to the name of the bill, not the ongoing issues that still keep coming back). As an example, /r/SOPA[3] is named in a way that is out of place do discuss ongoing Internet privacy and rights issues.

More explicitly, for this event- why is this framed with the verbiage "the day" vs "now" or some other language that would be more capable of persisting over time as more people get involved and continue to add their energy.

Paris investigation

what's that?

Hi John, Thank you so much for all your work and contributions over the years.

Thinking back to the state of the world when you wrote the declaration,

Was CDA really the only issue, or were there there were large issues and CDA was just how they appeared?

If so, what other large issues loom out there now that seem like the ones out there at the time you wrote the Declaration?

Said simply: what are the things you see today that need similar action?

I want to help and participate, but I can't make it to DC on that date.

What are my options? Will there be a rally in my city?