|
| |
Get Informed -- Get Motiviated -- Get Active
1. Stay informed via e-newsletter, sign up at:
www.reconsider.org and get the very popular, low-volume ReconsiDer
Tidbits. If you want more frequent and detailed information sign up to get
on lists offered by
www.DrugSense.org,
www.drcnet.org, and
www.drugpolicy.org .
2. Get educated: visit ReconsiDer
at www.reconsider.org and spend some time browsing the site.
3. Know who your politicians are, their email addresses and phone
numbers.
4. Write to them, call them as often as needed. Remember, the
federal politicians don't read your mail, their aides do.
Plant
ideas, zingy one liners into the heads of the aides making them think, and help
them open their minds and those of their associates and, hopefuly, their boss.
5. Meet with your state rep and state senator. Except when the
legislature is in session, it is not difficult to schedule a 15-30 minute
meeting. Even if your rep is a die-hard drug warrior, meet with him/her & get
how you feel off your chest.
6. Inform your minister, urge them to devote a sermon to drug use/abuse,
Rockefeller Drug Laws, etc.
7. Be alert for local or regional community events. Let us know about
them. We can set up a booth and attract attention and support. Volunteer
to man the booth by contacting
events@reconsider.org.
8. Write letters to the editor. Send them to your local paper,
national magazines, the student paper of your alma mater, etc. A handy
source for facts to bolster your arguments can be found at
www.drugwarfacts.org
.Even if not published, the editors will continue to get a sense of what is
important to people.
9. Speak up against prohibition and the war on drugs to everyone you
know, every chance you get. When someone mentions anything that can be remotely
connected i.e. no money for education = hiring prison guards; drugs cost too
much at the pharmacy = medical mj cures much for little money, etc.
10. Scan the letters to the editor in your local newspaper. If
someone outside the organization writes a good letter, find out their phone
number, call them and let them know we exist and get them to join.
11. The ReconsiDer Speakers Bureau and the
Events Bureau can always use help. Volunteer for a few hours a week.
12. For those who wish to wear their message and engage the public, order
a ReconsiDer T-Shirt from our website. It's a surefire conversation starter!
13. Talk Radio--- know which stations have talk shows, share that info w/
reformers in your area. Let everyone know when the topic of drugs is
coming up so they can call in also. Think of and distribute great
one-liners and sound bites for talk shows. More can be found on our website at:
http://www.reconsider.org/about/what_the_prohibitionists_say.htm
14. Write to the columnists of your local paper. Many now include their
email addresses under their picture or somewhere. Urge them to do a piece on
Prohibition, tying it to their area of writing.
15. Buy an extra copy of an especially good drug policy reform book and donate
it to your local public school or church library. Alert ReconsiDer
and the media, if the school or library refuses to accept it.
16. Join ReconsiDer and urge all
you friends to do the same. There is strength in numbers and an organization
with 1000 members is much more powerful than one with 100.
17. Contact ReconsiDer and buy some copies of the Education Issue of The
ReconsiDer Quarterly to distribute
to your school administrators.
|
