Start a Petition to Support Your Cause
A petition is a request for change or action. Generally, it is a document signed by a large number of people who are demanding some form of action from a county, state, company, organization, or other authority. Petitions can be requests for or against something. Everyone has the right to start a petition when they feel deeply enough about an issue that they feel warrants changes. Your voice alone may not bring about results but the voices of many who feel the same as you will get results. You don’t need to arrange a demonstration of a large group of people to get this point across. You can do it quite effectively with petitions.
Starting a petition means creating a document stating your concerns about the issue. There may be certain requirements you must meet in order for the petition to be deemed valid, depending on the issue and the authority to whom you need to submit it.
You must do your research to find out what these requirements are and whether or not this authority accepts online petitions, before you start any kind of petition. This will help you create the right kind of petition for your needs. There is no one specific number of signatures you need to have when starting a petition. This number depends on the nature of the petition.
The history of petitions dates from long ago. In conventional petition, collecting signatures is a very tough task, since each signature had to be collected by hand. One had to travel and organize gatherings and rallies to do this, which was very time consuming and difficult. Delivering the petition could also require travel.
However, online petition gives you unlimited reach and let you petition for almost anything. All you have to do is register with a petition-hosting site like halabol.com, and, in just a matter of minutes, you will be on your way. There are many benefits of writing a petition online. It will primarily offer a fantastic promoting potential for you to spread the word. With the right tools, you will be able to email, link, and share your petition with others on a great many blogs, forums, news boards, social networks, and social bookmarking sites. You will also be able to interact with your campaign followers and educate, rally, and support each other to create a community around your petition via discussion boards and links.
Online petitions are easier, but if you feel the issue is an important one and the authority will only accept paper petition, then you will have to look at starting a conventional petition. Recently, there is an online petition started by Isha Gupta through halabol.com to reduce the use of animal dissection in zoology/life science courses. Animal dissection as an aspect of zoology curriculum is about 90 years old. However, shouldn’t we debate whether there is an effective way of learning the ropes without actually dissecting real animals.
While some students may feel emotionally and support the idea, some may find it strange to study anatomy without dissection. Twelve people already signed for this petition. If many more people will support this petition, then this animal cruelty can be stopped forever.
About Author:-
Isha Gupta, a member of team Halabol Team . She has written several articles for Halabol on different issues such as; petitions, animal welfare, education, health, environment, youth affairs and online Petitions.
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