HOW CAN YOU HELP FIJA IN YOUR STATE?



     1.  Write a letter to the editor for your local paper(s).



     2.  Volunteer to petition to help get FIJA on  the  election 
ballot.   If you have organizing skills and the  necessary  time, 
volunteer to organize the ballot drive for your community.

     

     3.    Study  our  materials  and  speak  at  your  club   or 
organization; have FIJA petitions and brochures in hand.



     4.  Lobby your legislators to encourage them to introduce or 
support a Fully Informed Juries bill.



     5.   If you know of people who ought to be on  the  national 
FIJA  mailing  list, let us know.  We give state lists  to  state 
coordinators.

            

     6.  If you have access to a computer bulletin board, explain 
FIJA  and invite participation.  Don't forget  the national  FIJA 
address and phone number, or, if it's an in-state bulletin board, 
the address and phone number of your state FIJA organization.



     7.   Organize  a  fund raising raffle  for  FIJA  (state  or 
national  or  both).   If you have a  business,  please  consider 
donating merchandise or services to the raffle.



     8.  Distribute literature to your friends and acquaintances; 
tell your barber or hairdresser (for sure!), your auto  mechanic, 
and your next-door neighbor. Tell everybody!

  
     Help  your local FIJA organization distribute literature  at 
events and door-to-door in your neighborhood (especially   during 
the fall campaign).  A table at a state fair, flea market or  gun 
show are excellent locations from which to collect signatures  or 
hand out literature, as is any kind of political demonstration. 



     9.   Your local organization should contact local  political 
and  service  groups.   Offer to send a  speaker  to  a  luncheon 
meeting.



     10.   Contact local businesses (for example gun  shops)  and 
ask them to put the FIJA petition on their counter.  Keep a close 
eye  on  these  petitions.  We may have  problems  with  petition 
thefts.



     11.  Put a bumper sticker on your car and a t-shirt on  your 
back (or vice versa).



     12.  Volunteer to help your local organization with  routine 
leg  work:  help with computerizing and maintaining  the  mailing 
list;  help with a phone tree network to announce  local  events; 
lick envelopes; and petition!




     13.  Help out your state or local FIJA chapter by holding  a 
private  fund raising dinner in your home, charging  perhaps  $20 
per person.



     14.  If  you can't help out with petitioning  on  a  regular 
basis,  please consider putting aside one day to  petition.  That 
one  day  should  be primary election day  if  your  state,  like  
Montana,  allows  petitioning (on subjects not relating  to  that 
election)  at  the polling places.  There  should  be  volunteers 
lined up to petition at every polling place in the state on  that 
day.



     15.   Local organizations should locate people  willing  and 
able  to give a talk on FIJA to local high schools and  colleges, 
and find teachers and professors willing to allow a presentation.