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星期三， 2008年7月9日
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由 Ari Melber | 如果Obama是幸運的，他將繼續受益於被加強的這些，支持他的候選資格的老練活動家，當他們按他的手時。

他反應了。 當多數美國人安定了入一個輕鬆的獨立日週末時， Barack Obama嘗試了對安靜的架置 批評 從支持者在他的支持一張新的白宮暗中偵察的票據的決定。 在 史無前例的信件 發布在7月3日的下午， Obama演講了的數以萬計支持者 組織 一大 抗議 在他的社會網絡門戶。

注意到，他準備採取他「混在一起」和「使有責任」， Obama恭敬地保衛了他的監視逆轉。 當維護那使公司免疫被指責非法暗中偵察破壞制止和「責任為過去惡習時」， Obama說他現在支持授予權利的立法給 免疫 (和其他執行權)，因為它通過未來提供一個「真正的機制為責任」 調查. 解釋在Obama的站點在6月跑了他原始的聲明的852詞更多比雙重長度宣佈支持為暗中偵察的票據20和然後競選政策助手繼續了討論在1小時與訪客(被生動描述在權利)。 異常的交換激勵了一次強烈的辯論在週末期間，當詢問的活動家和bloggers是否它宣佈了更多 交互式政治時代或者a 提示 那 雙重談話 能傳播 在任何媒介.

 

 

在星期天夜，抗議小組發布了它 正式回復通過wiki和代表合作地編輯 一些 19,000名成員。 這按Obama花費他的與免疫的戰鬥對參議院議席這個星期。 因為Obama的信件認為他仍然想「觸擊」免疫從票據，小組敦促他接管：

我們問您通過演講您的組成部分在參議院的地板上支持您的詞以行動以您在費城使用計劃您的`更加完善的聯合的視覺的同一演說力量』。 美國人民有正這國會通過准予追溯自免疫力會創對的知道危險先例[暗中偵察]在守法公民的公司，當我們做重學離析和黑人。 The arm of government oppression reaches far and wide, Senator, and we must beat it back on whatever front we find it.

 

The Senate begins debating the spying bill again on Tuesday. Obama arrives in Washington that day to address a Hispanic convention.

 

The protest group has not only become a huge force on Obama’s site–it is now double the size of any other user-created group and its traffic slowed the campaign’s server last week–it has also swiftly asserted itself in the broader spying debate. Organizers have been covered and quoted repeatedly in the mainstream media, including a New York Times profile of founder Mike Stark, tapping the interest in online organizing to amplify a civil liberties message. The group’s wiki even includes a “proposed strategy” to “fan the flames of coverage by making the novel outreach approach a story in its own right,” levering media attention to recruit more members for lobbying Congress. Over the weekend, it began spinning off local networks to target individual senators through a “ fifty state strategy.” Now there are Facebook groups for constituents to pressure senators McCain, Feinstein, Klobachar, Coleman and Alexander–along with a page for “Wisconsinites” to “thank” Senator Feingold for defending civil liberties. The group decided to focus on other senators after discussing how to broaden the effort beyond Obama. Over 3,500 members converse through an e-mail listserve on the campaign’s social networking platform, with hundreds of messages a day. In fact, the group has begun moderating participation to limit topics and exclude certain tactics, such as attempts by activists to halt campaign fundraising in retribution for Obama’s position on spying.

By simultaneously growing its membership, mission and ambition, the spying group exhibits the characteristics of a successful net movement. MoveOn began with the single objective of fighting Clinton’s impeachment, but evolved to tackle other issues that resonated with its members. The protest against the spying bill began last month by urging Obama to change his vote. After quickly drawing him (and his senior staff) into a dialogue, however, it is nimbly shifting its focus to Obama’s role in the immunity floor fight–an easier request on common ground–while launching campaigns to target senators with constituents recruited through MyBarackObama.com. Even if the Democratic Congress completes its capitulation on surveillance policy, the anti-spying group will still be the largest organizing network on Obama’s site. With 6,000 more activists than the top-down “Action Wire” group, which the campaign created for official pushback, the group might even function as a supportive but aggressive counterweight to the campaign’s traditional message. If Obama is not confronting McCain on other constitutional issues, for example, members could organize media or social network efforts to do it for him. If the campaign is not correcting the media for distorting factual statements by Gen. Wesley Clark, the members could rally a truth squad overnight.

 

Obama excelled by appealing to the public appetite for movement politics, rather than typical campaigns. And unlike campaigns, movements are animated by ideas, policies and values–not blind allegiance to a single person. If Obama is lucky, he will continue to benefit from these energized, sophisticated activists who support his candidacy while they press his hand, and use his campaign platform to mobilize turnout while organizing causes beyond his election. The spy group’s open letter reminded Obama of this collective dynamic. “As you have said time and again Senator, ‘we are the ones we have been waiting for,’ and we are here, working to bring about real change in Washington.”

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