![]() ![]() 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. 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 that 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". īy February 2012, the site had 100 employees with offices on four continents. 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. The alleged attack was related to its petition to the Chinese government to release artist Ai Weiwei. In 2011, claimed it was the subject of a distributed denial of service attack by "Chinese hackers". Popular topics of petitions created on the website include general justice, economic justice, criminal justice, human rights, education, environmental protection, animal rights, health, and sustainable food.Ĭ 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. Businesses also use the platform to engage with their constituents and consumers. Designed to raise awareness within communities to influence government "decision-makers", individuals and organizations use the website to advance their causes and mobilize supporters. Incorporated in Delaware on February 7, 2007 16 years ago ( )Ĭ is a worldwide petition website with over 400 million users, run by an American nonprofit company of the same name. The petition has been signed by 533,577 people as of Tuesday morning.Įach year, Royal Knights and Ladies of the Order of the Garter gather at St George’s Chapel in Windsor for a colourful procession and ceremony.Ĭrowds watch as they walk down the hill to the chapel from the state apartments, dressed in blue velvet mantles, red velvet hoods, black velvet hats and white ostrich plumes.īlair, who left Downing Street more than 14 years ago, is one of three new appointments announced by the palace.Private ( Nonprofit-owned, Delaware public benefit corporation) “Tony Blair is the least deserving person of any public honour, particularly anything awarded by Her Majesty the Queen.” For this alone he should be held accountable for war crimes. “He was personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent, civilian lives and servicement in various conflicts. The former Prime Minister became a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, as part of the Queen’s New Year Honours List.īlair was PM between 19, when he stepped down to be replaced by Gordon Brown, and the only Labour leader to win three back-to-back elections.īut the decision to bestow one of the most senior honours upon him after his role in the Allied military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan has angered some with hundreds of thousands now demanding Boris Johnson petition the Queen to have the title removed.Ī statement on the petition says: “Tony Blair caused irreparable damage to both the constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation’s society. Over half a million people have signed a petition calling for Tony Blair’s knighthood to be rescinded. ![]()
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