Timely, take-action activities for the environmental citizen

Activities

Four Things to Do...

1. Become informed concerning an issue you care about. Visit a legislator to advocate for the solution you envision.​

3. Write letters to the newspaper that you read until you get one in, then keep writing.  Keep what you write even if it doesn’t get printed, understanding your “failure” as helping you see important principles through the act of articulating them. Note when your friends and family enjoy what you write and be glad, but what about those who need to hear it?  Can you say it to them in a way they can hear?

2. Convene a public meeting and find consensus on constructive action concerning an issue people care about. Report that consensus to the legislators you met doing question 1.

4. Run for delegate.  Tell your friends about the fact that there is a caucus and whoever shows up gets to vote for the delegates to the Convention.  Help them to see that this is the beginning of the political process, that if the caucus does not reflect what the people who care, here, think, and is captured by a group that is simply clever enough to know about the caucus process and gets people there, then the whole political process has less chance to go where it needs to go.