Memorial -What You Can Do

## WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE MEMORIAL: Affirming Civil Rights and Liberties Here are some specific things we can all do to support the Bill of Rights in New Mexico : (Please email us if you come up with other good ideas about how to support the Memorial, at democracy@global-dialog.org) 0. Please sign up for our spam-free Updates on the Memorial by going to http://lists.global-dialog.org/mailman/listinfo/civlib-announce. Your information will not be shared or distributed and will be invisible to other subscribers. 1. Cut and paste this letter about the Memorial: Support the Bill of Rights!, into an email to every person, group, and business in New Mexico that you know might be interested. Networking the small towns and communities across the state is the best way to put pressure on our legislators to do the right thing. 2. Please write Op-Eds or Letters to the Editor of your local newspaper, now, urging support for the Memorial in the face of increasing encroachment on basic American liberties. Get letters in now so they will be published during the session.With Patriot Act II (now known as the ‘Victory’ Act') looming, the time is now to reclaim our freedoms and uphold the Bill of Rights. 3. Call, phone, email, and write your legislators --find them HERE 4. Get your children involved so they know what is at stake -ask them to contact their soon-to-be legislators and write letters to newspapers - it is their future rights that are at stake here. 5. Contact Sen. Phil Griego at 986-4714 or email him at phil.griego@state.nm.us. If you are in Senator Phil Griego’s district, it is *crucial* that he know his constituents support this Memorial. Due to the lack of his vote in the Senate Rules Committee last spring, the Senate memorial was tabled. We truly need the support of Senator Griego to get through this essential committee this time. Please let us know if you have good connections through which we can better reach Senator Griego, by emailing us at democracy@global-dialog.org 6.- Discuss the need to support our fundamental freedoms with your group, organization, business, colleagues, classes, and friends. These are the things that define our nation, but they are jeopardized by the Patriot Act and other proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress (like Patriot Act II, aka the Victory Act). Find more information, talking points, and editorial material at http://www.global-dialog.org on our Links page, or at http://www.aclu.org 7. Attend the rally on October 27, noon, at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe . (Or speak at! call us at 505-310-8509). A crowd gets us media coverage and the attention of the entire legislature! Not to mention the positive energy from assembling with other people of principle. ### If you are an organization, group, or business: In a sense, organizations and businesses have special powers, at least where lobbying is concerned – for instance, while it’s not considered ‘ok’ for individual people to write letters to *every* Senator or representative,this is perfectly OK for organizations and businesses. This means that with your help, we can get every legislator a stack of letters in support of the Memorial, letters which carry a hefty weight and make our legislators think twice about not supporting the rights of their constitutents Join the Coalition to Support the Memorial!You can see who's already a part of the Coalition by going to , and you can join the coalition by emailing us the completed form (or see instructions on to fax or mail it on the page) at . You can also call us for more information at 505-310-8509, or call Diane Wood of the NM-ACLU at 505-275-7741, or see http://www.global-dialog.org Write a letter that can be copied to ALL New Mexico Senators and Representatives, signed by your organization, group or business, expressing your urgent support for the Joint Memorial Affirming Civil Rights and Liberties. Letters need not be addressed to specific legislative members - you just need 112 number of copies of the letter, 42 for the Senators and 70 for the Representatives. No specific names or addresses of legislature members are needed if you get them to us for dropoff at the Capitol, or drop them off at the Capitol mailroom yourself. (Call 505-310-8509 for information on doing this). And see Global Dialog Project for more information on the USA Patriot Act and talking points about the Memorial ### If you are an individual: When it comes down to it, whether the Resolution passes or not is in your hands. It is you who can make direct contact with your representatives and strees the importance of this measure; you who can give up some time to sit in a committee hearing to show your support; you who can network your friends and colleagues for even greater support. It's up to you, it's up to *us*! WHAT *YOU* CAN DO: Call, phone, email, and write your legislators --find them HERE Get your children to contact their legislators and write letters to newspapers - it is their future rights that are at stake here. Attend the rally on October 27, noon, at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe – a crowd gets us media coverage and the attention of the entire legislature! Not to mention the positive energy from assembling with other people of principle. Attend committee hearings . – we will keep you posted on these if you sign up to our announcements-only, low-volume email list by going HERE.. The presence of a large group of people in favor of the Memorial made a *huge* difference at the committee hearings – speaking for the memorial, and witnessing the words and actions of our legislators. Write Letters to the Editor or Op-Ed pages of your local newspaper, or Op-Ed pieces. Please send us the letters you write so we can post those up too! Talk to your friends, neighbors, relations, colleagues, churches, children, and people of influence to wake them up to the threats to our core American freedoms.