Letter Writing Web

 Take action on these other sites:

Help free Lori Berenson, activist held prisoner since 1995 in Perú:
   Background: http://www.freelori.org/whoislori.html
   Letter-writing: http://www.freelori.org/howtohelp.html
   10/17/2000: Interview with Lori on CBS

Join Progressive Secretary, an easy, automated system for sending letters on a wide range of progressive issues -- you can choose the frequency, issues, and recipients:
   http://www.progressivesecretary.org

Sign up to lobby Congress with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids:
   http://tfktakeaction.policy.net/

Sample letter supporting an act to provide further protection against wage discrimination, from the National Association of Working Women, 9-to-5:
   http://www.9to5.org/wage.html

Become a Greenpeace CyberActivist by subscribing to its action alert email list:
click here, or manually create a new email message as follows:
   TO: majordomo@xs2.greenpeace.org
   SUBJECT: Mailinglist Subscription
   FIRST LINE OF THE MESSAGE BODY: subscribe cyberactivist@greenpeace.org

Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL, Quaker peace-and-justice lobby) action sections on military spending, Native American issues, the United Nations, economic disparities, etc. -- monthly letter-writing packet for activist groups:
   http://www.fcnl.org/act_monletr_currnt/actnow_monltr_index.htm

Action alerts from Common Cause, the government reform group:
   http://www.commoncause.org/get_involved/action.htm
   (Current letter, March 2000: oppose nomination of anti-reformer to the Federal Election Commission)

Write Congress supporting the United States paying its arrears in United Nations dues, from the United Nations Association of the U.S.A. (UNAUSA):
   http://www.unausa.org/news/alert9199.htm
   (Congress passed a law to pay the dues, with lots of strings attached, but some feel the commitment is shaky)

Amnesty International letter-writing against the death penalty:
   http://www.amnesty-usa.org/abolish/action.html

Letters on poverty and hunger issues -- this page is geared toward church letter-writing groups, but anyone can write a letter related to the Action of the Month:
   http://www.bread.org/howtohelp/church/hungersunday/0002.html#issueofthemonth

Action Alert page from Global Trade Watch, part of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen:
   http://www.citizen.org/trade/index.cfm
   Includes links to a map connecting you to local activists in your area

Urge the President to declassify Federal documents on human rights violations in Guatemala:
   http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~pavr/harbury/archive/ortiz/041896.html

Write letters to Congress on several matters to benefit the nation's children:
   http://www.capweb.net/stand/contact.morph

Lesson plan for students on writing letters to Congress, from CongressLink, produced by the Dirksen Congressional Center:
   http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/communicating.html

 
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last updated 8/11/2001
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