Here are some activist action items.
1. A mass email and letter writing campaign to London, Birmingham, Wolverton police demanding that the blog and the blogger be investigated.
2. Letters to the Sikh Coalition, and their Outreach branch in the San Francisco Bay Area, asking that demonstrations be staged at multiple sites where Google (who owns Blogspot) and Blogspot, MyFace, and Facebook are located. Signs, bull horns, chants, marches demonstrations against their harmful editorial policies.
3. This blog was first on Facebook, and then it moved to Blogspot. Make the social network sites squirm in the Internet press but posting articles on Internet e-zines about the abuse of women, and Sikh women in particular.
4. Start an online petition and notify the social network and blog sites of your intent, and then give them progress reports about the number of signatures. You would need a web site where the signatures could be collected.
5. Send letters and notice of the petitions to the ADVERTISERS on these sites. Social network sites and blog sites are free to members because their business model is based on revenue from advertisers. This will make them take a good look at their ability to attract and keep advertisers.
By stopping/grabbing Sikh girls -- only the girls are shamed. The guys will just start another blog.
Even if none of these ideas works by itself, the continual hammering of these shameful, public displays against women will in time make them very anxious because "social responsibility" is very big in corporate America, even if it is motivated only by greed for profits.
I forgot this one thing. Gurdwaras....Ask for time to speak to gurdwara committees. Ask them to make time during announcements or give space of bulletin boards and web sites to educate and alert young women to the danger of joining the social networks. Find out if the membership will write letters of protest. In the UK gurdwaras use web sites extensively. This particular "blog".... it is not the first one to defame women.
