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Future Planning & Organization for Reform - Your input welcome.
From: Webmaster (webmaster@kids-right.org)
This is a message from a mailing list, members@kids-right.org http://www.kids-right.org/ To unsubscribe from this list at anytime, send email to Majordomo@kids-right.org with the following 1 line in the BODY of the message (Subject is ignored). unsubscribe members ====================================================================== Good People, This message contains information on some upcoming events. The first three items are still in planning, we welcome your feedback. You can also now VOTE your preferences at the site with new polling software we have installed: 1. Planning for Mothers/Fathers Day Lobbying 2002. 2. AKidsRight.Org organizational meeting(s). 3. What is YOUR message to Congress. 4. Contact Clinton Legislative Aid - let them know how you feel! 5. Thanks for the donations - two people contribute $100.00 1. Planning for Mothers/Fathers Day Lobbying 2002. -------------------------------------------------- - Goals would be a get together, so people can meet each other, and then visit the offices of some of our members of Congress and drop off more petitions for reform. This will also help in organization. - We are trying to find people in the DC area who would be willing to coordinate a meeting/event. Need a planning date, maybe Thursday before Mothers/Fathers day? Can't be on weekend if we want to go by the offices. (If you can help with coordinating - send email to contact@AKidsRight.Org) - It would be nice to have mother's and father's at both events and make personal committments to attend both events. The Goal is protection of our rights to be an equal parent in our children's lives. Please visit our poll at: http://www.AKidsRight.Org/legislat.htm (Legislative Action Page) - We expect to have a "sign-up" form at the web site in the next few weeks for folks wanting to participate. 2. AKidsRight.Org organizational meeting(s). -------------------------------------------- - Although membership is not large now, all we need is one real news story and we could get a LOT of folks and money. We need to have the structure in place to absorb that properly and would like to get more people in face-to-face meetings. - It is time to formalize this a bit more. It is important to keep the primary goal/methods of the group clear, especially the concept/use of NonViolent Action. We don't think there will be a shortage of groups practicing other more traditional methods. - Want to do these at the end of Feb, beginning of March. Tentative locations are Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Syracuse, NY, and Boston, Mass. The plan is to schedule them a few weeks apart. Please visit our poll at: http://www.AKidsRight.Org/events.htm (Events Page) 3. What is YOUR Message to Congress? ----------------------------------- - So many people write in to us with what they don't want, or what they don't like. You know we have the registered members page (http://www.AKidsRight.Org/member.php3). It would be fairly easy to add a "My Message" link. It would allow registered members to type in a few paragraphs about how they feel. For those people that have messages the page would show the first few lines, and then a link to the rest. What do you think? 4. Contact Clinton Legislative Aid ---------------------------------- After John Murtari's effort at the Syracuse Federal Building (http://www.AKidsRight.Org/actionb_syr) -- a legislative aid for Senator Clinton (Ms. Aprill Springfield), was assigned to be our point of contact regarding the need for a Family Rights Act. Please take the time to phone or write and ask for the Senator to take a serious look at the need for reform in our Family Law System. You don't have to write an "essay" or include "legal arguments", just a simple message that this issue is very important to you and your family. [Please remember that ONE message is very important. As political aids have told us before, one personal letter on an issue is assumed to reflect the attitudes of hundreds/thousands of others that just don't take the time to write.] Take credit and share your message by then posting to the following forum page (you can be the FIRST one): http://www.AKidsRight.Org/dcforum/one/protest/8.html ------------ Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton c/o Aprill Springfield, Legislative Aid 476 Russell Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-4451 Fax: 202-228-0282 ------------ 5. Thanks for the donations - two people contribute $100.00 ----------------------------------------------------------- Many thanks to Yvonne Cook and Greg Langstrand who are supporting the effort by "putting their money where their mouth is" [sorry, we couldn't resist saying that!]. We have a page where you can make contributions and also track where the money goes, http://www.AKidsRight.Org/donate.htm As you can imagine, NonViolent Action can involve personal financial sacrifice by those partipating. We all may not be able to get that involved, but hopefully many of us will be able to reduce the financial burden for those who do. It enriches both the giver and receiver. ================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list at anytime, send email to Majordomo@kids-right.org with the following 1 line in the BODY of the message (Subject is ignored). unsubscribe members
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