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The media can be a powerful tool for social change, but initiating work with the media can be a daunting prospect.
Where do you begin?
Media Help Sheet - (OurCommunity)
Unleash Magazine: Young People's Opinion & Action, Oct-Nov 2009 (pg, 6-7) - (YAPA)
"The media can help you to educate the public about human rights violations. Effectively publicizing your issue can strengthen the impact you have on your target audience, and help to mobilize communities into action."
How to get politicians’ attention?
"A handwritten, or typed and signed letter is the most effective means of communication (other than a face to face meeting). It is far more effective than photocopied form letters, postcard campaigns or emails. Some politicians regard handwritten letters more highly than typewritten letters (some of these are technologically illiterate, and some find it convenient to claim the sender probably just cut and pasted what someone else said without thinking about the issue themselves)." Read more...
Source: Electronic Frontier Australia (EFA)
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Organising a meeting with your local candidates is a good way of hearing what policies and promises they are making for your local area. It is also a good way of letting them know local issues of concern. The Tearfund website has some good ideas for organising a meeting with your local candidates.
How to Organise a Meeting with your MP and PPCs |
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The Act Now website shows you ‘how to organise an event or forum' so that you can bring together people with similar issues or concerns in your local government area.
How to organise an event or forum |
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Delegations are the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person to carry out specific activities. However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work. ...
Delegate or delegates may refer to: * a delegate (politics), a member of a group representing an organisation (such as a union) at a meeting (such as a national conference of unions) * delegation, in politics, the act of one assigning responsibility for a task to another. |
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The following websites provide information for when you have an issue of concern in your local area, how do I get my issues heard by the right people, etc.
How do I find like minded people? (TheSite.org by YouthNet UK)
Community Issues (NSW Police)
Natural Resource Management NSW Issues (LGSA, Local Government & Shires Associations NSW) |
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