There are two steps that strike me as obvious. Inform the committee of the community's concerns and go to the press.
Here in the UK when a union gets a majority vote for strike action it sometimes focuses management's attention and prompts concessions.
Going straight from such a vote to taking action would in my view lose a useful opportunity to let those promoting SOPA from dropping or amending it before we take action.
WSC
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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:12:34 -0800 From: Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4EE94982.2060005@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Before anyone blanks the en.wiki Main Page, please remember that the bill is still in committee. It could still be heavily modified or rejected completely before going to the floor. If it does go to the floor, it probably wouldn't be until January, so there's still some time for other, less-dramatic approaches in the meantime.
Ryan Kaldari