Urgent: Offer US mail carriers a good contract
US citizens: call on the US Postal Service to offer mail carriers a
good contract.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
function without trying to run the site's nonfree JavaScript code
on your browser.
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript or are using the
LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely _by running_ that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript.) You can finish sending without
that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the
browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript. Enter the subject and body of your
letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort compared with the benefit of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
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