The petition collected over 57,000 signatures, and on January 26, 2012, the studio updated the website "with the environmental message the kids had dictated". The petitioners felt that the website and trailer lacked an important message from the book, "to help the environment". In December 2011, a fourth-grade class in Brookline, Massachusetts, launched the "Lorax Petition Project" through requesting Universal Studios to include more of an environmental message on its website and trailer for its upcoming film, The Lorax, a classic Dr. She won her petition asking Easy Taxi App to introduce safety measures, with the backing of more than 27,000 Brazilians. On October 13th, 2017, Ana Clara Leite was sexually harassed twice in taxis after drivers accessed her information using a mobile phone app called Easy Taxi. Ĭreated by Caio Coppolla, March 15, 2021, Supreme Federal Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes’s impeachment request received more than 2.099.261 signatures, in just one day. On May 16, 2016, President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment request received 2,212,208 signatures. On June 30, 2021, workers for announced that a majority of staff in the US and Canada had signed union authorization cards in favor of being represented for collective bargaining by CODE-CWA, and that had voluntarily recognized CODE-CWA as the representative of the workers. They will also be able to create their own Decision Maker page, which will show all petitions against them, the number of signatures gathered, and their statuses." On May 13, 2012, The Guardian, BBC News and other sources reported that would launch a UK-specific platform for petitions, placing in competition with 38 Degrees, a British not-for-profit political-activism organization.Īn August 2013 Fast Company article reported that would soon begin featuring petition recipients, saying, "For the first time, companies will be able to post a public response to any given petition (currently, they can only respond to the person who started the campaign). At that time, they were receiving 500 new petitions per day. It was reported on April 5, 2012, that hit 10 million members, and was the fastest-growing social action platform on the web. University officials claimed that " is a spam site" and the blocking was conducted "to protect the use of our limited and valuable network resources for legitimate academic, research, and administrative uses". In 2012, Arizona State University decided to block access to in response to a petition created by student Eric Haywood protesting "rising tuition costs at the school". In 2011, there was a proposal to merge the Spanish-speaking counterpart website Actuable into the merger occurred in 2012 when the voluntary union of Actuable users into the platform was approved. In 2011, claimed it was the subject of a distributed denial of service attack by "Chinese hackers" and that the alleged attack was apparently related to its petition to the Chinese government to release artist Ai Weiwei. By the end of 2012, Rattray stated "he plans to have offices in 20 countries and to operate in several more languages, including Arabic and Chinese." In May 2013, the company announced a $15 million round of investment led by Omidyar Network and said it has 170 staff members in 18 countries. As of February 2012, the site had 100 employees with offices on four continents. comĬ was launched in 2007 by current chief executive Ben Rattray, with the support of founding chief technology officer Mark Dimas, Darren Haas, and Adam Cheyer. Our role is to empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see.
In terms of media, the organization's mission is to source powerful stories and cover campaigns hundreds of times a day. Businesses also use the platform to engage with their constituents and consumers. Designed to raise awareness within communities to influence "decision-makers" at the highest levels of governments, leading organizations use the website to advance their causes and mobilize supporters.
Incorporated in Delaware on February 7, 2007 15 years ago ( )Ĭ is a worldwide petition website, based in California, USA, operated by the San Francisco-based company of the same name, which has over 400 million users and offers the public the ability to promote the petitions they care about to potential signers, including 196 countries which are "creating change" in their communities.
Private ( Nonprofit-owned, Delaware public benefit corporation)