Participate in Action Groups  on issues like your rights to information, preventing toxics in your community, voting rights, or healthy workplaces.

 

Use the internet - send this website to your friends, put a link to it on your "my space", send a poster to someone, create your own website about problems you care about and ways to take action, use the action letters provided by groups and sign on.

 

IF YOU LIKE to write, create a blog, write to pEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT, write your newspaper.
Your Representatives:  http://www.house.gov/writerep
Your senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Your state legislature:  http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm

news services: http://www.commondreams.org
US daily newspapers: http://www.commondreams.org/usnews.htm

 

CALL A COMMUNITY LEADER, POLITICian, TOWN MANAGER,  & TELL THEM WHAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.  Links to politicians above have phone numbers.

 

FIND OUT IF COMPANIES ARE PRODUCING A LOT OF POLLUTION IN YOUR COMMUNITY USING http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html AND write a blog or SEND A LETTER TO THE LOCAL PAPER WITH YOUR CONCERNS.

 

OFFER TO HELP WITH VOTER REGISTRATION OR DRIVING SOMEONE TO THE POLLS WHEN YOU GO TO VOTE.