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Produced by experienced activists and lobbyists, these materials can help you plan your strategy for effective outreach to government officials, policymakers and the media.
Changing Government Policies
- Building policy support for Community Technology projects: Lessons and toolkits from Computers In Our Future, a computer-based health and wellness program based in California.
- Close the Digital Divide in Your City and State: Practical lessons, research and data, contact lists, state-based studies and policy analysis designed to help policymakers and advocates in cities and states create appropriate technology access for children, low-income people and all parts of the community. How is your state doing? A resource from The Children's Partnership.
- Getting Action: Your step-by-step guide to petitioning government from Consumers Union. If you have an issue that demands attention from local officials, state lawmakers or the federal government, this practical guide will give you the information and tools you need to build a successful citizen action campaign.
- Speak out about government regulation of the Internet: The federal government is facing many decisions about how to regulate the Internet. Designed for people and groups with some knowledge about federal Internet policy, the Cybertelecom web site shows you how to add your voice by filing comments in current regulatory proceedings, hearings and proposed legislation about the Internet.
Reach out to the Media
- Find your local media: Media Contact Directory: this tool from the Congress.org can help you contact local and national media. Search by zip code, journalist or media outlet name.
- Get your voice in the media: How to get an op-ed in the paper, how to write a letter to the editor, and more media tips from FAIR.
- Reach the ethnic media: an essential way to reach community members, especially in non-English or immigrant neighborhoods and communities of color. New California Media can help, and you can locate newspapers and more using their nationwide ethnic media directory.
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