Make Your voice Heard Now! Easy Ways to Communicate Effectively with Your Elected Representatives

Make Your Voice Heard Now!
Easy, Effective Ways to Communicate with Your Elected Representatives and Millions of People!

1. CHOOSE A LETTER:
Hearts & Minds is giving extra emphasis to our Global Survival Campaign^SM, These issues could threaten the lives of billions of people. They are indicated below by an asterisk (*).

Charities
The Road to Regaining Trust in the Nonprofit Sector - ten essential reforms

Education
Upgrading Education

Environment, Animals
Global Warming*
Humane Treatment of Farm Animals
Protect the Rainforests*

Health
Affordable National Health Insurance

Justice
Prison Reform

Peace, War & Terrorism
The Most Effective Ways to Stop Terrorism*
Iraq and Afghanistan* - how to win the peace
For Israeli-Palestinian Peace*

Poverty, Refugees
World Hunger and Poverty - help millions of people*
New: Respond to the Global Food Crisis
Reform Agricultural Policies* - lower prices for American consumers while helping the world's poorest escape poverty
Sudanese Refugees* - providing humanitarian assistance to Darfur

*Key parts of our Global Survival Campaign.

Many other issues are also important:

2. PUT THE LETTER TO USE!

IF YOU HAVE A FEW MINUTES...
- You can forward the letter you choose to as many people as possible. Urge everyone to send a copy of this to the president, senators, congressmen and the press.

- (If you are not a citizen of the USA, send it to your friends, press, president, premier and/or prime minister. Urge them to unite with us to get to the root of the problem.

- Gather signatures of community leaders, mentioning their roles in the community.

A QUICKER ALTERNATIVE...
- Right now, forward the letter to President@whitehouse.gov AND "bcc" EVERYONE you know, along with a link to the page you are on right now: http://www.change.net/democracy/lobby.htm

Turn the letter into a petition and gather as many real - not virtual* - signatures as you can.
*An e-mail petition where people just passively add their names is not taken anywhere near as seriously.

WHERE TO SEND IT
Send the complete letter to your elected representatives and the press. They give our communications priority in this order:

express mail
mail
fax
e-mail

Contact information for the president, congressmen & groups that help with effective lobbying

How to Get Press Coverage - easy, effective ways to communicate with the press and millions of people!