I've launched https://alnur.crowdmap.com/ and I ask your help. I need help to learn how to use the messaging feature, help in vetting, and help with strategy and tactics. Also please retweet #candlevoice
I am here in the SF Bay area -- not far from Chris
Stevens' home.I launch
an https://alnur.crowdmap.com to show a personal, neighbor-to-neighbor action to
remember Chris and calm the riots in the Middle East.A symbolic action, a candle
in the window, was used in Poland in the '80s when the Solidarity
Movement was placed under martial law, and even more effectively in the Czech Velvet Revolution.When I used it to send a message
to the people of Iraq in 1990, some 10,000 Americans joined me (pre twitter). I am asking the world to each place a candle in our window through the end of this month,
and send a message on https://alnur.crowdmap.com -- all the way across the
world.
Lighting a candle is a physical act, with an Ushahidi back-up to help moderate voices prevail ... should alnur.crowdmap have more teeth, provide categories for specific crisis intervention requests and resolution?
I'll start tweeting soon -- is it good to have a twitter category set-up, in addition to News?