Received this in email and wanted to share with anyone interested..........
Giving mercury to children on purpose is stupid.
Launches: June 6th, 2005
How can you help get ready?
Print this out and let's all get busy!
a) Make a list of families that would contribute from your area to have an ad or billboard placed in your town in a cooperative effort, or would participate in a grass roots canvassing effort.
b) This week, contact your local print publications and ask them the price for a non-profit, camera ready 8.5 x 11" ad. Ask for prices for black and white, spot (one) color and full color options. Check area newspapers, business journals, children's publications, society magazines. Sometimes these publications can print in full color fairly inexpensively. Ask them if the ad needs to be resized slightly to fit their specific dimensions if there would be a fee associated with that. Do not panic with the price. We will send you infuriation on handling that later. For now just gather information.
c) Contact your local radio conglomerate and determine their requirements for playing a PSA for a non-profit. We will have 30 second and 60 second PSAs available for you to download and burn to a disc to bring them.
d) Determine strategic placements for billboards. While driving around to your various appointments and errands the next couple of days, determine which billboards are strategic for maximum exposure in your area that might be available.
e) Buy a ream or two of paper. Find complimentary access to a copier. Reach 1000 people by spending and a little bit of time. These ads can be printed out as flyers and make lovely additions to cars in parking lots of malls and hospitals, church bulletins and on doors in your neighborhood.
f) Have your Senator's and Congressman's names and phone numbers handy for June 7th. Call ahead of that date and ask the name of the health staffer and senior policy advisor. Save the United States Capital Operator's number in your cell phone: 202-224-3121 for easy reference to reach any Senator or Congressman.
g) Spread the word about this campaign far and wide. Not just in the autism community but everywhere. Think outside the box! The campaign only has the word "autism" in one place and that is after our organization's name. We did that on purpose. This issue affects every child outside of our own community. You can pull more people in and educate them while they participate in this.
Grass roots, word-of-mouth efforts can spread like any other biological epidemic. The autism community has reached the tipping point. With a little faith and focused efforts, together, we can knock this particular mountain into the ocean!
PLEASE DO NOT CALL, E MAIL OR FAX GOVERNMENT OFFICES THIS WEEK. WE HAVE A PLAN. YOU WILL RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS AND FAX NUMBERS THIS WEEK.
For more information, register for our Unlocking Autism Action Alert emails through NANCALE@aol.com and visit our website at www.unlockingautism.org.
The ads and information for this PR Campaign will be posted after June 6th, 2005 on the site.
UPDATE
Save the date!
June 7, 2005
CALL IN DAY FOR
President Bush, Laura Bush and Congress
after 12 noon - Eastern Time.
Unlocking Autism and the National Vaccine Information Center are asking for your support from your home and work on June 7th for a call in/fax in day to Washington, DC. The last call/fax in on April 28th, started by Lynn Notgrass, was so successful, that the White House was in contact with us by 8:45am central time to ask us to have people stop calling. We told them that we had talked to parents for years and that they could talk to them for that day.
YOUR CALL made a difference. Calling in volume with that level of intensity catches their attention. We have something launching on June 7th that we are sure will catch their attention in conjunction with the call in.
But we need your support! More information will be coming out on Monday morning so please check your emails. We will send out a list of numbers and faxes that need to be called.
In order for this to have maximum impact, it is extremely important that all calls be held until 12 pm Noon on June 7th. (11am central, 10am mountain, 9am pacific). Then we are expecting you all to let it fly like you did last time.
The message will be clear. Just make sure to check your emails (or our website www.unlockingautism.org) on Monday morning to find out what to do!
Have a great weekend!
Unlocking Autism & NVIC
*** UPDATE ***
Today, Unlocking Autism and the National Vaccine Information Center are rolling out an ad campaign entitled
"Giving Mercury to Children on Purpose is Stupid"
For the second time in 30 days, President Bush refused to issue an Executive Order on May 27, 2005, that would protect pregnant women and children from vaccines containing levels of mercury that exceed federal safety limits for anyone under 500 pounds.
You can see the six print ads on the Unlocking Autism website at www.unlockingautism.org along with three public service announcements that you can launch in your own hometown.
Visit the UA site to find out how you can have the ads placed in your area. Some ads have already been placed and will begin cropping up this week around the country.
This Tuesday morning, volunteers for UA and NVIC will deliver a packet of information to every Members of Congress about this campaign letting them know that constituents back home will be running these ads and handing out these flyers in their districts.
On Tuesday June 7th after 12 Noon Eastern Time, we need your help to contact all Members of Congress, President Bush and Laura Bush. (11am central, 10am mountain, 9am pacific).
How can you help back home?:
Call/Fax Them On Tuesday June 7TH AFTER NOON!!!!!!!
a) Call your Congressman and both of your Senators to make sure that they received their packets. Very important!!! Do not call until after noon eastern time on June 7th! Put the number of the Capitol Hill Operator in your cell phone or by your home phone: 202-224-3121. Operators can connect you to any Member of Congress. (To find your Congressman visit www.house.gov and to find your Senators visit www.senate.gov.)
b) Pick out your favorite ad. Write a letter to President Bush and send your letter along a copy of the ad that you intend to see run in your hometown. Send it to Andrew Card, Chief of Staff via fax at 202-456-1907.
To Call Andrew Card's office to let him know what you think of the President's policy dial 202-456-6798.
c) Call Laura Bush's office at 202-456-7064 to let her know what you think about President Bush's policy, too. If we can't get the President to listen, perhaps the First Lady will.
Keep these numbers handy all day. Call as often as you like. Call until we say quit.
Do not be discouraged if the numbers are busy. That just means that people across America are responding. Keep dialing as if you were trying to win million from a radio station. They need to hear from you. They need to know your concerns.
And apparently, they need to hear them again!
We told them to get temps to answer the phones. Every call makes an impact.
If you think giving mercury to children on purpose is stupid...
Let 'er rip.
Have a great day on Tuesday and happy dialing!
Unlocking Autism and the National Vaccine Information Center