G'day all :)
Would it be useful to have an intro thread stickied? If not, np.
I've been lurking on $cn activism fora for a couple of years, but have recently emerged on WWP (also as anonfrog).
I live in country SA, and mostly can't get around, so am very unlikely to be able to attend a protest and thus didn't think I could be useful in Anon. But I've noticed on WWP that anons can contribute in other ways. And I want to help if I can. :)
Skills: writing, some languages, creating things, explaining things (howtos, intros, interviews), intermediate techie, mentoring and support.
I've participated in quite a few communities online, and I'm used to being able to be myself, if that makes sense. I'm finding it difficult to hide my identity: my personality is not exactly subtle, and I have a strongly characteristic style of writing (which I am clumsily trying to conceal). Evidently lying low is a new skill I need to learn. But I'm torn between my normal inclination (which is to namefag myself and dare $cn to do their worst) and the urge to protect my family from $cn harassment. Please excuse the confused rambling.
Anyway, if there's anything I can do to help, please say. I can't necessarily be at a protest in person, but I'll participate online in any actions, contribute time and effort and some money wherever it is useful. Things like the postcard campaign, writing to politicians or media, writing wiki pages, coming up with ideas, liaising with other groups or cross-cultural communication are right up my alley. I'm not always available, due to illness, but I'll do what I can whenever I can.
Just ask the frog. ;)
I also wanted to say that you've done a terrific job to form and maintain AnonSA. Any sort of voluntary group takes a lot more time to run than people realize. It's one thing to turn up when you have time, but the people (or often, only one person) who keeps things going has to raise awareness, encourage membership, answer queries, organize events, write up results and docs, chase down materials and procedures, and hold his or her head together with both hands to make sure it all doesn't fall out at once. (I've done it before, so I know how much effort it can take.)
So kudos to whoever's kept AnonSA going, and to those who will follow the campaign to its goal: stopping Scientology's human-rights abuses.
Scientology keeps trying to make the confrontation more than that: they draw the red herring of religious intolerance or criminal harassment across the trail. Oddly enough, their own efforts (and their own very real intolerance and harassment) draw in more and more public scrutiny, and in the end they will go down for all sorts of legal infractions we didn't even imagine at the beginning. They're quite likely to destroy their entire organization … where all we said in the beginning was "Stop hurting people".
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