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Instant activism: Just add computer, hit ‘send’
By Chris Markham, Tribune
November 25, 2005
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=53916
When breast-feeding advocates mobilized to push for an ordinance protecting nursing moms in Chandler, they did it mainly by e-mail.
For months, City Council members received hundreds of e-mails from throughout the country and even Canada urging them to protect nursing moms.
The e-mail campaign, at least in part, did the trick as the Chandler City Council last month adopted the ordinance advocates had sought.
Those advocates have since set their sights on Tempe, and that city is getting an increasing number of e-mails on the breastfeeding issue. The Tempe City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance similar to Chandler’s on Dec. 1.
E-mail lobbying of local government has become commonplace in the East Valley. So common, in fact, that it has become the top mode of communication between public officials and their constituents, surpassing traditional letters, faxes and telephone calls, local officials said.
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Janice
Instant activism: Just add computer, hit ‘send’
By Chris Markham, Tribune
November 25, 2005
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=53916
When breast-feeding advocates mobilized to push for an ordinance protecting nursing moms in Chandler, they did it mainly by e-mail.
For months, City Council members received hundreds of e-mails from throughout the country and even Canada urging them to protect nursing moms.
The e-mail campaign, at least in part, did the trick as the Chandler City Council last month adopted the ordinance advocates had sought.
Those advocates have since set their sights on Tempe, and that city is getting an increasing number of e-mails on the breastfeeding issue. The Tempe City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance similar to Chandler’s on Dec. 1.
E-mail lobbying of local government has become commonplace in the East Valley. So common, in fact, that it has become the top mode of communication between public officials and their constituents, surpassing traditional letters, faxes and telephone calls, local officials said.
(see link for the rest of the article)
Janice
