IfNotNow Boston š„Damn tootin'!
The American Prospect: Progressive Groups Form Counterweight to AIPACās Electoral Push
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-03-11-progressive-groups-counterweight-aipac/
Les SizemoreAIPAC is about to dump $100 million into unseating the Squad and other progressives. It's long past time for Democrats to kick this right wing group out of the party.
If you agree, add your name:
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/reject-aipac/
sidb@ifnotnowboston @aral Iād āsignā that except I know the real point isnāt to convince anyone of anything but actually just to harvest my contact info to ceaselessly spam me back into the stone age until I go live in a WiFi-free stone hut on a mountaintop. If there were a non-contact-info version that I trusted were āthe oneā and would actually get presented to someone whoād consider it though, sure.
Jesse@sidb @ifnotnowboston @aral Hey, guy behind the account here. I really get it. This is the unfortunate state of thingsā¦ a huge essential part of organizing today is establishing communications links to people who are aligned with our goals, but obviously the whole email situation on the progressive left has devolved to a spammy mess that hurts everyone. We really need to figure out new ways of doing this. But for now itās where weāre at. (1/4)
I canāt speak for the other orgs in this coalition, but I can personally vouch for IfNotNow as seeming to follow decent practices with my contact info so far. Iāve used multiple emails to sign these things, and have had no trouble unsubscribing from anything, and seen no indication that they are sharing or selling my info to other groups. (2/4)
One nice thing I noticed (ok, should be the minimum, and even here itās too obscure ā but the bar is in hell): this form does let you proactively opt out of email updates, if you click Edit Subscription Preferences before submitting. If you use this link, you can specifically opt in to updates from IfNotNow, but opt out to updates from the other orgs: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/reject-aipac/?referrer=group-ifnotnow-movement-3 And of course you can use a dummy email, or not sign it altogether. (3/4)
Regardless, I hope youāll consider following our 100% opt-in, surveillance-free, non-spammy Mastodon feed. Ultimately, my whole motivation for doing this is trying to play a small part in lighting the way toward better ways for the left to communicate with itself. (4/4)