MeetWithCindy.org – 2005-08-17 00:52:59
http://www.meetwithcindy.org
Cindy’s New Site With a Video Message:
http://www.meetwithcindy.org
Latest News from Crawford (More than 350 articles posted):
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=taxonomy/term/13
Here Are Some Things You Can Do to Help:
• Candlelight Vigils
Join with MoveOn, True Majority, and Democracy for America in organizing or attending a Vigil for Cindy Sheehan in your town on Wednesday, August 17, 2005, at 7:30 p.m.
http://www.moveonpac.org/event/cindyvigils/
• Other Meet-With-Cindy Events
Plan your own event at a time and place and description of your choosing using this new MeetWithCindy.org events system.
• Create an Event:
http://tinyurl.com/9otjy
Search Existing Events:
http://tinyurl.com/7f73z /
Some groups around the country have already held press conferences or rallies, or staged send-offs for people headed to Crawford, or set up Camp Caseys in solidarity with the one in Crawford, or held protests at media outlets to demand coverage. Send us a report on what you do, and we’ll post it on the website.
david@davidswanson.org
Send Cindy Your Message With a Pink Rose
http://www.codepink4peace.org/
• Meet With Your Congress Member About Resolution of Inquiry
Can you spare a half an hour to meet with your congress member, together with some of your friends and allies, and ask him or her to co-sponsor the Resolution of Inquiry? Democracy for America has set up this events system to help you do so.
http://democracyforamerica.com/congressionalmeetings
There are now 44 co-sponsors of the Resolution:
• Don’t Hold an Event Without Telling the Media!
Call, don’t just write, your local media to alert them to your local events. The media love events that give a local angle on a national story. Help them out. Also call your local politicians and state legislators and congressional offices to urge them to attend or send a representative.
• Here are general resources for events, including information on working the media:
• Here is a guide to working your local media:
The kits above are focused on the Downing Street Memos, but the same techniques apply for events focused on demanding that Bush meet with Cindy.
• Support AfterDowningStreet:
http://elandslide.org/elandslide/edonate.cfm?campaign=ads
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