Saving Seafood will use the BlastRoots platform to bring the tools of modern grassroots advocacy to the fishing industry.
WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) April 10, 2013 –Saving Seafood is pleased to announce that beginning today, we will begin working with BlastRoots and will use their platform to bring the tools of modern grassroots advocacy to the fishing industry.
As those of you working in fisheries know very well, special interests not only have "campaign managers," they also have cutting-edge, automated grassroots tools. They build websites and mobile apps and circulate petitions around the globe, even on local issues. Often, these "stakeholders" have no stake in the industry at all.
BlastRoots is an emerging Washington, DC-based firm that is making automated grassroots campaign tools more widely available. No longer are these tools available only to well-funded groups with foundation money.
Instead, Saving Seafood will make these tools available to the hardworking Americans on our docks; the boatowners and fishermen, the small business owners who support the industry on shore, and the taxpayers who support our coastal communities.
By tapping our existing lists of co-workers and colleagues, BlastRoots will let us easily reach friends and neighbors who will actually be affected by government policies and decisions — not thousands of "stakeholders" from far-flung locations who are whipped into a frenzy by hyperbolic rhetoric from well-financed campaigns funded by tax deductions.
In the coming weeks and months, Saving Seafood will use BlastRoots to help fishing industry members reach decision makers, both elected and appointed.
BlastRoots is nonpartisan. Their team includes seasoned political operatives from both major political parties, and they disagree on just about everything. But one thing they agree on this: it is time to bring the tools of modern grassroots advocacy campaigns to the actual grassroots.
We at Saving Seafood look forward using the BlastRoots tools in our continuing effort to bring the voices of the waterfront to Washington.