Drumming up the Somali piracy issue
We recently did our bit to support the Save Our Seafarers campaign by visiting the SOS website and sending off the online letter of appeal on piracy to UK Prime Minister David Cameron. We wanted to dispatch the template letter to other world leaders but we held ourselves back. Surely, we thought, there are ways to get the politicians to act other than e-mailing petitions, which is a form of spamming. The paddle-for-125-miles campaign of British maritime executive James Tweed is one. Here are a few others: (more…)
