http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/5/volunteers-defy-hostile-leaders-to-welcome-refugees-to-europe.html
"With hundreds of volunteers and more than 22,000 Facebook followers,
Migration Aid offers food, water, medical help and information to refugees who each day cross Hungary by the thousands, even as Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his populist right-wing government wash their hands of them.
All along the Balkan route to Western Europe — through Turkey,
Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary — volunteers are stepping in to
help refugees, defying their leaders’ indifference or hostility to the
new arrivals.
As a solitary train left Budapest’s Keleti station on Thursday,
crammed with refugees who thought they were going to Austria, Orban was
telling top European Union officials in Brussels that the crisis was 'a
German problem.'”
when government officials have lost their hearts somewhere along the way, citizens can step in and make things better. This is one place where collective action can make a huge difference.
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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