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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.occupybellinghamwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/500-Idle-No-More-protesters-Julie-Oliver.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-598747" alt="500 Idle No More protesters - Julie Oliver" src="http://www.occupybellinghamwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/500-Idle-No-More-protesters-Julie-Oliver.png" width="639" height="495" /></a><a href="http://www.canada.com/Idle+More+movement+fizzles+online+analysis+finds/7945480/story.html">Idle No More movement fizzles out online, analysis finds</a>.</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">By Natalie Stechyson, Postmedia News -- February 10, 2013 5:56 PM</h1>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">-- Note that this Post is mostly about "Fizzling out Online" and a new #OBGA Web Site Feature</h4>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">that I hope will make this a more interesting place that does not "Fizzle Out" --</h4>
 

I am confident that the Idle No More movement remains strong in the hearts of First Nations Members and their Supporters around the globe.  The Headline and its linked article discuss the statistics behind the claim that the "movement fizzles out online" which is a very specific and significant place to fizzle.  Here at our #OBGA Website, the best place to have a conversation about "fizzle" is in our Forum, which I finally have working correctly as a part of fixing several recent disabling site issues.  Please note that this Post is intended as a discussion starter, and is placed here on our sites Front Page as a Blog Post because we are trying out <strong>new ideas</strong> to see that our local Occupy Movement does not "fizzle out online".

Note that there is a link, lower left corner, that says <strong>Join the Forum discussion on this post</strong> - a new and potentially awesome feature of our #OBGA Website.  This link will take you directly to a discussion of this Blog Post in a new Forum in our Forum's Home named "Occupy Online".  Once there, you can use our Forum Software to place a Reply to this Blog Post, replicated in the Forum, which in some ways is better than placing a Reply to this Post here on the Front Page.  Having this Blog Post on our Front Page is very important, as here it offers many propagation opportunities.  For example, as soon as I Post this Blog Entry it will propagate automatically to our #OBGA Facebook Page, from where many of you will likely first become aware of it.  The Facebook Page Post will link back directly to this Front Page Blog Post.  Once you are reading this Blog Post here, you will allow you to propagate this, or most other, Blog Posts in just about any way you might wish.

I urge all of you to help me troubleshoot this new feature's implementation by actually making a Forum Reply, even if it only says "Now I get it".  If you cannot make a Forum Reply because something is not working, try making a Reply to this Blog Post right here on our #OBGA Front Page, letting me know something of the problem you encountered.  In our Forum Home, you will see additional instances of this "discussion starter" concept with a Front Page Blog Post that already used this <strong>Join the Forum discussion on this post</strong> feature while I have been working it out the details.

"Now I get it"....Thanks for reviving this fourm Herb. Idle No More may or may not fizzle but as long as there is injustice in our world the quest for right relations will go on....

Whether Idle No More fizzles or not -whatever they do nearby - we will act in solidarity.

What is possibly more relevant is that we keep up with actions to resist when and where we see injustice toward the earth. Our vision asks for Environmental justice.

The Rally in Seattle (centered on our issue of coal) this coming Sunday regarding the MARCH IN WASHINGTON D.C. against fossil fuel extraction (specifically Keystone XL pipeline) is such an example. If we can get solidarity among our Bellingham group it will be a good sign that we are united in this fight to save our planet. I hope many join us and get on the bus! (figuratively speaking) Ronna

HI Herb, got it! I am not crazy about forums in general though
.. they are too often the source of misunderstandings. I would rather just talk face to face.

On the subject of HTML text in the linked/first forum post, if you post something on the front page and link it to the forum - go to the forum and say what you want to say to start the conversation you want to have by linking it in the first place. In so doing you can also delete all the HTML bothersome text.