Reposted from the binaryfreedom.info mailing list
If you are organizing with a group that believes a better world is possible and spend your energy trying to realize it, and if this world you envision is not beholden to corporate interests as our current one is, then there is something ironic and sad about using tools paid for by corporate advertising revenues to get the job done. /Hey, let’s organize a boycott, this message brought to you by Coca-Cola/.
And it’s not just a matter of words. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they pull the plug on your communication channel,then do you win?” If we are really planning to shake the boat, we need to realize that none of these (closed source, walled garden) networks are going to stand with us when we start to threaten shareholder value.
There are options out there that are built by activists like you with the right knowledge to create these tools for all of us, in a open environment.
An example of this software is crabgrass, by the riseup network, you can find it in beta at:
http://we.riseup.net

--Rek2