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The PEN is an acronym for The People's Email Network, a resource founded in 2004 with the mission of making sending policy advocacy messages as facile and easy as possible. With this goal in mind The PEN pioneered one click action pages in the political realm, now imitated by virtually all other action sites on the internet.
The premise behind the resource has always been twofold. If people are speaking out to their members of Congress in sufficient numbers one of two things MUST happen. 1) Either our representatives will heed the voices of their constituents and we will have the policy change we want, or 2) People will personally experience being ignored by their members of Congress, and then we have a base of people motivated to seek their replacement.
Last year The PEN also added to its resource options fax sending capability, so that messages can be sent by fax to recipients who might not be reachable by web input form or regular email.
Besides The PEN's own action alerts and pages, many other activist groups have been set up with their own action page creators, including building this capability into the writer article submission interface for OpEdNews.com itself, to empower them in their own policy missions. And all of these services are provided for absolutely no charge to anyone, supported only by whatever kind donations individuals choose to make from time to time.
The PEN has also been involved in video and audio production of activist works of theater, including a stage production in San Francisco of a play on the impeachment of "George Bush and Richard Cheney", released on DVD in 2008, and a radio play for peace entitled, "It's Up To Us Alone", which debuted on two 100,000 watt stations (KPFK, Los Angeles and KKFI, Kansas City) last October, and is also in preparation for release as a short animated film.
The latest project is full length feature film, "The Last War Crime", about indicting Cheney for torture . . . and isn't that something billions of people want to see? Featuring 100 cast members with speaking parts, the film is remarkable for its extensive use of cutting edge green compositing to put the characters in actual historical environments and photo-realistic recreations of others.
Though in official release quite yet, the "The Last War Crime" is already experiencing major censorship hurdles, including the banning of its preview waterboarding scene from YouTube (reversed after massive popular outcry), and the still unresolved refusal of MTV (Viacom Inc.) to accept a paid ad for the movie.
If you would like to find out more about our work, and how you can be empowered by our tools to drive your own progressive policy activism, please click on any of the action links included in any of our articles on OpEdNews.com, and you will find easy paths to get a message to us, and we'd love to hear from you.
