iCan from the BBC is a long-awaited site (still in beta) designed to enable and encourage community activism. It includes advice from activists, tools to link grassroots campaigns to larger organizations, and roving reporters who will publicise success stories. If it is done right this could be big (but if it is too successful it could involve the BBC in some interesting rows!).I've got a problem with it already.
Check out the main picture on the iCan page to get an idea of the kind of community activists the BBC wants to help. You see that red, white and blue MAB placard at the bottom of the picture that says "FREEDOM FOR..."? The missing word is "PALESTINE".
The posters were produced by the Muslim Association of Britain for use in the 'Don't Attack Iraq & Freedom for Palestine' demonstration that took place in London on February 15.
I guess, at a stretch, you could describe the Intifada as a "local community project" but I don't think that's quite what the BBC had in mind. Was it?
