it's not like every moment of every day the chance to promote, educate, and organize around human rights is shadowing you like some domestic homeland security agent ... i mean when you're choosing avocados in the produce section are you turning to the person next to you and saying, "extraordinary rendition - what's up with that?!"...i didn't think so (doesn't mean you couldn't)...
so tonight amnesty international, through teamwork, is tabling at the belcourt theater in nashville because the film the road to guantanamo is opening for a seven day run...
so what we have here is an opportunity...what do we do with it...
first we customize some issue specifric flyers with local contact info on them, we collect people's contact info (e-mail addresses and phone numbers being the preferred tools), and have an ACTION they can take at the table (in this instance it's a pre-printed letter to a. g. gonzales and some petitions...
what we leave with after 2 nights are new contacts to follow up with so we can mobilize them for further action, educating and informing likely actors on whatv they can do around the abuses of the "war on terror" (sic), the marketing of amnesty international and its human rights work, action already taken by people o the issue, and perhaps a little fundraising for our local work...
that agenda gives us opportunities for measurable outcomes and not just a good feeling for doing something that's right...now that's making the most out of your opportunities...
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