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Electronic activism links

• Human Rights Watch "Take Action" - Current campaigns and sample letters
• Amnesty International "Act Now" - Current campaigns and sample letters
• The E-Activist provides links to current petitions and other e-activism resources
• The Grateful Dead ArmChair Activist site provides provides a convenient zip code locater for contacting your elected officials and lists many activism ideas.
• The American Friends Service Committee Issues and Legislation site features current AFSC action alerts.

Some more links for the armchair activist:

[Apologies for the US-centric content. If you have suggestions for this page we'd like to hear from you.]

1. If certain media organizations have covered the issue you are concerned about in the past, even as a small story, write to them thanking them for their coverage; tell them how much you appreciate the reports and that you would like to see more of them.

   If you know of newspapers, radio programs, etc. which have not covered the issue of your concern, write them asking them to do so.

   Some addresses of new programs:

   • 48hours@cbsnews.com
   • dateline@nbc.com
   • today@nbc.com
   • nightly@nbc.com
   • http://www.abcnews.com/onair/2020/email.html
   • NPR:
     • Talk Of The Nation: totn@npr.org
     • Correspondents: nprnews@npr.org
     • Snail-Mail: 635 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Washington, DC 20001

   Snowhawk has kindly provided an extensive and diverse list of news sources and organizations you can contact. Each Website has an e-mail address to contact them, or you can use news with their domain name. (like for Foxnews: email would be news@foxnews.com )

2. Write to local community papers which may be interested in covering such issues. e.g. African/American, Asian/American newspapers.

3. Write to your elected officials

   Click here to visit the AFSC page featuring tips about communicating with Members and general information about Hill staffers, the legislative process and more.

   • Write to your representative.
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   • Write to the House Committee on International Relations
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   • Write to members of the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights
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   • Write to members of the House Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade
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   • Write to members of the House Subcommittee on Africa
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   • Write to members of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
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Thank you!

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