Fwd: Our new guides to organizing your community

[sara wylie]

Toxics Action Center's guide to community organizing. It could be very helpful to those of you using public lab tools to examine environmental justice or health issues!

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From: "Sylvia Broude, Toxics Action Center" <act...@toxicsaction.org>
Date: Sep 17, 2012 4:20 PM
Subject: Our new guides to organizing your community
To: <sa...@publiclaboratory.org>

Dear Sara, I like to call our trainings "the civics lessons we should have had in high school." I don't know about yours, but my high school civics class didn't go far beyond how a bill becomes a law. In reality, we know politics is much messier, and it takes more than the right facts and data to get our voices heard and stand up to big polluters. The truth won't stop the poisoning, but organizing will. -- Lois Gibbs Over our 25 year history, we've learned that most environmental problems are political problems. To ensure clean air, clean water, and healthy communities for our children, it takes organized citizen pressure and civic engagement. That's why I wanted to share with you our new community organizing guides. We've updated them for our 25th anniversary this year. From developing a strategic plan to holding a press conference to fundraising, these guidebooks walk through the steps to planning a winning campaign. We've designed these guides to be useful if you're fighting a polluter in town, working to make your community more sustainable, holding a fundraiser for your local school, and more.  Our team of community organizers is always available to travel out to meet with you and your neighbors and facilitate these trainings in person. If you have questions about our guides, want advice on your local effort, or need help with a pollution problem in your town, I urge you to get in touch! Thanks always for your support! Sincerely, Sylvia Broude Toxics Action Center Executive Director P.S. See the results of our trainings here: www.toxicsaction25.org You can support our work today by making a secure online contribution. This message was sent to sa...@publiclaboratory.org. If you want us to stop sending you email then follow this link -- Unsubscribe -- to a web page where you can remove yourself.