You got a better idea?
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 August 2014 16:20
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Hi Supa!
This month we brandjacked the Conservative Economic Action Plan. Now we’re inviting you to help us come up with a better plan.
Despite spending well over $100 million on their propaganda campaign, the Harper Conservatives made one truly idiotic mistake. They forgot to buy the website EconomicActionPlan.ca. We spent $9 on the URL and launched a more factual version of their website.
The Conservatives have publicly defended their wasteful
ad spending by saying that it momentarily increased traffic to their
Economic Action Plan website “to almost 15,000 visits
daily”.1 Thanks to you spreading the word,
EconomicActionPlan.ca was visited more than 20,000 times a day in the
two days after it launched.2 Hundreds of those visitors chipped and put our
people powered ad on national TV.
“It may seem
like a small prank, but if the ShitHarperDid braintrust figures out
how to undermine Harper's claim of being good economic steward, it
could help bring about the demise of Conservative rule in Canada.”
- The Georgia Straight
We
consider you part of that braintrust. That’s why today we’re
inviting you to help come up with a better Economic Action Plan. Got a
suggestion for how to transform our economic system into something
that is fair and just? Share
it here.
Whether it’s a policy
idea, a community-based solution or a strategic tactic for economic
justice – whichever ideas capture public imagination will receive our
continued support in nurturing their momentum into action. To
get the ball rolling we’ve curated some big ideas for economic
solutions from some of the countries most influential progressive
economists and community organizers. See
them here.
With your help we can make our version of the Economic Action Plan what the original should have been all along: a democratically crowdsourced plan to create economic justice, built on a foundation of critical education and honest debate.
Help
us come up with a better plan.
Wishing you an enjoyable
summer,
Shane, Sean, Victoria, Cam, Sara, Jesse and the whole SHD
Team
http://www.shd.ca/
SOURCES:
1 - The Huffington Post: "Economic Action Plan TV and Radio Ads Flopped"
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/16/economic-action-plan-ads-poll_n_3933054.html
2 - The Georgia Straight "ShitHarperDid's Fake Economic Action
Plan Generate More Daily Visits Than Conservatives' Real Plan"
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