I know I have posted multiple updates in recent days (potentially breaching change.org's update rule) but I urgently need all of your help!
Although we are not in a stall in the campaign's growth and are working towards my next intermediate goal of 485 signatures, I am struggling to get my petition's scope out of the UK's echo chamber which is driving me crazy as the only way this petition can succeed in achieving my primary goal is by gathering an evenly distributed amount of about 50% of UK signatures and the other 50% of international signatures.
With each new UK signature, although out campaign is growing and the signature count is physically increasing in number, the overall percentage of UK signatures is increasing and now over 90% of all my supporters are heavily concentrated in the UK.
The high percentage of UK supporters is good for one of my petition's targets and that is getting the UK government to officially redesignate the "Early May" bank holiday as an "Orthodox Easter Monday" bank holiday by 2035 and urging UK parks to restart Easter events after a pause in large gap years; because the UK is targeted for this reform with my UK-centric classification of inconvenient, semi-problem, problem, semi-disaster and true disaster years based on retail erasure and bank holidays.
For the official March 22nd date shift however, this mission requires collaboration on a global scale and we are seriously lacking international signatures with more than 300 of my 408 supporters being based in the UK.
I urgently need help to get out of the UK echo chamber but cannot do it alone, if any of my existing UK supporters have friends or family that lives overseas, could you please share the link and provide a direct link to this petition on as many feeds as possible?
I am hoping to hit 500 signatures by "Awful August" but now realise that 500 is just a number, the real amount of momentum and milestones for me to celebrate is the amount of international signatures.
Having said that, however, I am pleased because one of my latest supporters is called Alice (either her real name of username), and that name is very symbolic to the story of the petition and my "Alice date" protest!
As stated before, my next goal is 485 signatures to match the signature count of another prominent Orthodox petition and will of course update you all when that milestone has been reached but I am hoping for more international signatures in the meantime.
Painfully, annoyingly and ironically, another rival petition I am currently running about a cause based in the UK with just under 200 signatures has more international signatures than this one!
As a UK resident, I will explicitly reveal that I voted "Remain" in the 2016 EU membership referendum aged 23 but of course didn't launch an anti-Brexit petition because I accepted (and respected) the situation for what it was - I am also a member of the UK's Labour Party.