1. Come to
Day on the Hill in March 2007.
Lobby your legislators on health care and other social justice issues.
2.
Join JRLC's Legislative Network as congregation or
individuals
3. Recruit a Key Advocate for
Congregations
Concerned for Children
4. Observe
Children's Sabbath
5. Observe Child Abuse Prevention
month in April
6. Get action-alert bulletin inserts
into your congregation.
7.
Contact Legislators: personal contact
first, then postcards or e-mails. Send clippings, pictures, reports.
8.
Contact the Governor at his office, at
events.
9. Use the media.
a. Op-ed pieces
b.
Letters to the Editor
c. Talk radio
d. Pitch story ideas
e.
Neighborhood papers, public access cable
f. Religious Press, Newsletters
10. Attend Town Hall Meetings with
Legislators.
11. Multiply yourself -- Operation
Megaphone.
a. Give voice to those affected
b. Bring someone to events
c. Ghost write letters
d. Manage your own strategic
Legislative Alert list: Forward alerts to people you know:
i. In the suburbs, exurbs, rural areas
ii. In districts with unsupportive
legislators
iii. In committee chair's districts
e. Use contacts with other
congregations, civic organizations, professional colleagues, relatives,
friends, classmates, etc.
12. Help secure special
project-mission funds.
13. Organize local affiliate of
JRLC.
14. Pass resolutions with action
steps.
Continue to check:
www.jrlc.org
