I've been thinking a about passive forms of activism recently. Specifically, how to keep our hard-earned money from flowing back into the meat industry, for as long as possible. So, I put together this resource guide: Green Spending: Keeping it in the Vegan Community

While compiling the guide I noticed disappointing trends

• different organizations offer vegan certification labels to business without any united umbrella under which all the organizations live.
• 100s of websites that all ask for donations towards some single issue campaigns to save the horses, or fishes or w/e.

Generally I don't see this as a negative thing, especially when the services are geared to different population groups, language speakers, etc.What I do think is a problem, is when many different groups exist that essentially perform the exact same function( e.g. vegan certification ) , with the exact same goal ( presumably animal liberation ).

As vegans, we make up a such tiny percent of the population, that fracturing efforts is self-defeating. I think collaboration towards a simple stated singular goal would not only allow pooling of resources, but also present a united front to the public. Think movements like Civil Rights, LGBTQ , and others that have become ubiquitous, and contain many offshoots within and under their umbrella.

I envision some main portal that serves as a specific objective and goal voting and activism supporting mechanism.Not quite like the United Nations, but more like a mesh network of freely associated entities.There would be a portal where ALL vegans could vote on higher strategic objectives( e.g. "show truth of slaughter house to public). Then ANY vegan individuals or groups could create the tasks that flow from those specific goal( e.g. "setup dog meat table on State University campus on 01/01/2025" for $100 ).Local volunteers would then get notification to sign up if interested and be alerted once the task are fully volunteered/staffed.Then we could integrate with services like gofundme. This way, if for example, I had more money than time to help, I'd be able to donate on the portal to specific timebound tasks.

This portal would welcome any vegan groups or individuals to join and have facilitation and leadership roles that rotate, maybe randomly chosen among volunteers, based on meeting attendance, and voting regularity, reshuffled quarterly.

Much like with Vegan Hacktivists, there could be different ways to contribute( art, programming, consulting, labor, etc. ). People could state different desired involvement levels, of privacy/stealth etc.We just need an adequate group to fulfill each objective category, and could add, remove, or swap nodes as groups join or leave the coalition.

Am I describing something that already exists? I don't think it would be vegan.org.Please don't say PETA... :/ Though, nothing would stop PETA or its members from participating or donating to the causes). The idea is to open up avenues for engagement to power activism without being limited to the current small band or group of vegans at hand.

I'm posting here because I want to gauge people's appetite for this, to bounce ideas. :)

TLDR: Any thoughts on a portal for decentralized, distributed coalition of groups and individuals like those listed in, or aligned with Animal Rights Map? One where people can:

• propose specific time-bound actions/projects based on shared objectives
• subscribe to, or donate to existing actions.
• state their individual volunteering capacity and get notifications about new matches, without committing to any specific group.
• self-assign their group as responsible for executing an action.