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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.