I emailed io9 (sci/fi, science, and tech blog in the Gawker network) about our plight. It's sister site about gaming, Kotaku, might seem better suited for the story, but I think the human element of this is more compelling and more likely to generate interest outside the gaming world. io9 has a little broader cross section of society in their readership than Kotaku so...fingers crossed they'll deem this newsworthy.
I definitely applaud trying to get this story on This American Life's radar. This seems like the kind of thing that would baffle them enough to want to learn more about it, and I think we need to reach out to people who don't entirely understand what we're trying to save. Years ago, before I knew what an MMO even was, I read an article about people rioting in Ultima Online. The main thing I took away from that was there was a virtual world, inhabited by real people who were trying to change something, and that was damn fascinating to me. Now, so many years later, I'm a converted and impassioned MMO player trying to do the the same thing. Damn you, fate.