Email to the Organization:

Dear Pro life, 

I am doing a project in school about how/ and who can reduce the number of abortions each year, all over. There are some people with in the state of PA that would like to see this happen as well and can spread that news to higher powered authorities in the state and all over. Abortion is something that i see as a major crime, and should be treated as a crime. 

I have been researching about the effects that it has on specific people, and why. also i have been really looking into who is for and against it so i can know who will  help and who will not. There are a couple of senators that are really into not having the government support anything that has to do with abortion and taking a life. Even the President of the United States is for not having the govt. pay for any kind of abortion related activity within the US, and that can be a major changing factor for winning this battle sometime in the future. 

There is a lot to be thinking about in that there are a lot of factors that only one can seem capable of completing. There are things that I as a young adult can only complete in this challenge.  I need to know what i can be doing, and even if i can be doing anything to further help the organization of pro-life, to thence and further produce a positive effect on the people who are trying to make this problem get better in the future. 

-Graham Davis. 

I have already sent the email, and will be following up with them in the future. 

Over The Next few weeks I will be composing a letter addressing Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown concerning the issue of gaining more funding for recreation centers in Philadelphia. From the letter I hope to set up a meeting to collaborate in writing a bill to propose to Mayor Michael Nutter. The next step would be to go out to all the recreation centers in Philadelphia and ask for their support and with that ask them to participate in a short movie showing the importance of the recenter in the community.

I will post the video on all major video streaming websites and on the SLA blogs. After the video I will draft up some flyers to promote the cause, recruit my friends to pass them out, and try to get signatures to petition for more money recreation centers. Within the next few months I would like to submit an article to the Philadelphia Inquirer talking about the progress my team  has made and what we would like to accomplish in the future.   

To Communicate with people I am going directly for the representatives and senators who will be voting for or against this bill. To do this, I am preparing a standard email that I will be able to send out to representatives and senators. This method of communication is formal and professional, Which is good if I want the people I'm trying to influence take me seriously.

If I don't get a response by email, my alternative will be to contact them via phone, and state my opinion and try to encourage them to vote this bill down.

Not only do I plan to contacting the big guys, I'm taking it down a level. Im going to take it to everyday people, and encourage them to take action against this bill, with Informative resources and methods to take action with.

With this bill being out on Calender, I have been granted more time to extend my efforts and hopefully make change that will work towards my goal.

Lobbying Assignment Part IV

• Personal Letter
• Faxes to targeted decision maker
• Petition

• Send this letter to officials that support and oppose “next of kin” law.
• [Attempt to ] Contact the government in regards to this topic
• Use petition to strengthen my position

• To email the following people who have been notified about this issue and check in on any upcoming information
• To send out second copies of any information to confirm arrival.(if necessary)
• Call people who have contacted to check their status or see what they have to say

Dear Joe Manchin,

I am writing to you with regards of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” repeal. This is history piece of legislation is absolutely necessary to reverse this discriminatory law that has plagued our nation for nearly 18 years despite abundance of criticism and ridicule.

"Don't Ask Don't Tell weakens our national security, diminishes our military readiness, and violates the fundamental American principles of fairness, integrity, and equality."

In a survey of 400,000 service men, it was deemed that the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell would not affect their ability to perform their civic duty. 92% stated that their unit’s “ability to work together,” with a gay person was “very good, “good” or “neither good nor poor.” And 70% of Service members said they would be able to “work together to get the job done” with a gay service member in their immediate units.

The pentagon has also vowed that the implementation of this legislation would not hinder any current military efforts. Thus, there is no reason to vote against this bill that has deprived thousands of Americans from the freedom to serve their country.

You’re vote is essential to the passing of this blatantly homophobic law. I strongly urge your vote in the upcoming attempt to pass this law once it is taken out of the military spending bill and regarded as stand-alone legislation.

Sincerely,

Andre Serrano

P.S. You can learn more about this issue at my blog.

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It is absolutely essential to reverse the homophobic law that has deprived millions of American from serving their country in the military. To make the greatest impact, I decided my efforts would best be targeted towards the members of the senate who still oppose the law even after the pentagon’s report. Historically, senators have continuously voted along party lines, with the exception of Joe Manchin. Therefore, I deemed it appropriate to target Joe and the Republican Party.

At this time, my main goal is to create a video on human trafficking. I have to gather information about the seriousness and combine  the statistics that I have already found into the video.  By January 9, 2011, I would like to send the video to Alpha Kappa Alpha head quarters in Washington DC. Once the video is their hands, I will try to send my video to Chris Smith and explain to him in a letter along with the video, my goal. With these goals accomplished, it should be the catalyst for the main work to begin. If these contacts have a good response to what I'm trying to accomplish, I believe that this can have a big impact on a many of people. 

In recent news:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2010/04/29/cnnheroes.koirala.profile.cnn 

Anuradha Koirala  is a woman who is trying to end human trafficking in her home country. 

http://www.texasnepal.com/blog/2929 

Though there comes a time to become active, I don't feel  educated enough to immerse myself into specific levels of action. I want to cover a wide array of aspects when attacking this issue. I feel that communication tactics that are on a more personal level such as making an appointment for a meeting with a representative or even phone calls and emails are something that shall come after the "smaller" or more publicly involved forms of communication. 

I plan to: (in order) 

- Start a Facebook or some form of popular media campaign spreading awareness. (Kind of like the so- called Child Abuse Awareness Campaign on Facebook, or the Breast Cancer Awareness situation with the posting of the color of bras.) 

- Start a petition. 

- Send

- Possibly arrange rallies or demonstrations. 

- Send emails, fax, and make phone calls to the senators and governor. 

- Set up a visit with senators and/ or the governor.   

Qianna Nelson

To inform more people about water preservation I want to let every one know about all the places that are helping with water preservation and I also want to help them tell the world what they are trying to do. Over the summer my job went to Tinikim national park to learn how they are helping water preservation. I wool like them to help me inform people about our water problem and hopefully they will tell ore people about the parts we are all playing in destroying the little water we have.

I will then try to get into contact with Chaka Fatah to tell him about what I have been doing and try to persuade him to also be a advocate for water preservation. I also wish to inform him on the problem that we are now living with. 

There are many other organizations that are involved in helping with water preservation all over the US and it is my wish to get these organizations more well known also because they to have the same goal I wish for everyone to have. To save our water because before we know it our water will be gone.

Tajh Jenkins

December 9, 2010

Blog Post #4

 Communication

The process for banning virtual child pornography has become somewhat stagnant over the last couple of years. When I contact an organization, I want to be able to have an impact on making virtual child pornography, or child pornography in general, a topic that the government takes more notice of. In making my first approach, I want to start off making direct contact with local organizations in Philadelphia or in the state of Pennsylvania. In order for me to meet people and start speaking with them, I have to find them. The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare is a good place to start. I can come in contact in the DPW in a variety of ways. They already openly welcome feedback, questions, comments and concerns, through their “contact us” hyper link on their website. So, being able to express myself to them should be easy.

            I am willing to communicate with them, my concerns, plans and actions that I would like to take against virtual child pornography. If I can get their attention, then I would like to openly discuss solutions to make it illegal, and too make stricter laws against it. Since 2005, the DWP has released a “Child Abuse Annual Report” each year. The 2010 edition hasn’t been released, but the 2009 edition has plenty of information for me to begin with in terms of contacting the many organizations across the state that have a say on virtual child pornography and child porn in general.

             After I start becoming more familiar with organizations locally about the topic, I might be able to start reaching people on a more national scale. In blog post before, I talked about wanting to contact the authors who wrote the “Guidelines for Policy Makers on Child Online Protection”. The authors of these guidelines are people from across the country who have attempted to ban virtual child porn, and who are well instilled with everything that is related to online child safety. Rather than contacting the authors, I might want to take it a step further and write a letter to Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure. He is the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

 I’m not really much of an outspoken person. To come in contact with these resources I could send emails, create a Facebook page, make phone calls, write letters and start a petition. If I’m am lucky enough maybe my efforts could get me to take it a step further and make personal visits with these resources and other decision makers. If I could find other people who are passionate about putting an end to this situation than I would be in a better position to succeed, Hopefully I can effectively use my tactics to a great advantage and put virtual child pornography on the governments radar.  

  Recent News: The DREAM Act has recently passed the House but was put to on hold until possibly next week or maybe longer in the Senate because the fear of a filibuster held by GOP.

    To help lobby for my legislation I am going to write a personalized letter to GOP explaining why the DREAM Act is important and why they should vote. GOP is the Republican National Committee with the chairman being Michael Steele. A personalized letter will truly show him how important the DREAM Act is from a student's perspective. 

             Along with my personalized letter I would hope to get some of my friends involved with this topic as well and for them to write letters to GOP in order to persuade them more because many students are writing about a topic in a way related to them. Hopefully the letters will be mailed out before the next week. If I can’t get the letters mailed out my alternative would be phone call explaining instead.

       I also plan to keep updated with the Senators who are not going to vote using the DREAM Act twitter. I will try get in contact with them, whether I am able to meet with some of them in person or send them letters. It might be a little bit difficult to convince most of their minds at this point in time but it never hurts to try!