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The Freeway Blogger has a challenge to issue
to the Connect! Unite! Act! community groups across America. He’s spent more than a decade now in southern California spreading his #FreeSpeech messages via Freeway Blogging and he’s reached millions of people, literally, with messages just like this one:
Posted on the I-5 freeway on the west coast.This image shows you just how many people you can reach in a single day if you live in a major metropolitan area:
See the Save the Artic sign on the right? 600,000 people a day see that as long as it sits there. Now do the math on that number in 20 cities for a week: 600K x 20 x 7 = 84 MILLION84 million people who could see a single message if it was out in 20 major metropolitan cities all in the same week.
Now I want you to imagine that we do it in just TEN cities, that’s still 42 million views in a single week.