Thank you all for signing this petition. I now need your help in spreading the word. Here are some suggestions:
- Send an email to at least 5 of your friends to promote the petition, asking them to sign it (see underneath a sample email, or write your own).
- If you do broadcast email campaigns, you should send at least 3 emails, 2 days apart.
- Post a link to the petition on your own wall. Post if 3 to 4 times per week.
- Post a link to the petition on the wall of your friends
- Post a link to the petition on the wall of the groups you follow that are concerned with drug policy
- If you use twitter, tweet the petition.
- Send letters to the editors or comments either online, or to your local press.
- If you belong to a group, try to get your group to endorse this movement
Re-tweet my own tweets, ask your friends to re-tweet. Re-tweeting is a great way to generate a buzz. My Twitter account: @JDhywood.
Post on the Facebook pages of President Molina and his vice-president Roxana Baldetti, as well as all the regional leaders, from Panama to Mexico. Send them emails when possible. Be courteous and respectful please!
Contact AVAAZ
Many people have commented that this petition is made for AVAAZ and I couldn’t agree more. With AVAAZ behind us, we would rapidly reach 100,000s signers. AVAAZ has more mobilizing power than anybody else in the world, and considering their past history of support for drug policy reform, they ought to support the Perez Molina petition. This is the message I would like you all to send to AVAAZ.
You can contact AVAAZ in different ways:
Through their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Avaaz?sk=wall#!/Avaaz?sk=wall
Through Twitter: @Avaaz
By filling out the online form: http://www.avaaz.org/en/contact/
Please refer to the petition by its link: http://signon.org/sign/support-guatemalan-president
You could send a Tweet such as: The Perez Molina petition in support of Guatemalan legalization proposal is made for AVAAZ! Please help! http://signon.org/sign/support-guatemalan-president @Avaaz
Links and resources to promote the petition:
Summit of the Americas: http://www.summit-americas.org/sixthsummit.htm
There is a virtual community http://svc.summit-americas.org/ with discussion groups and forums.
How to contact Latin American presidents:
President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala: www.presidencia.gob.gt Twitter: @ottoperezmolina. Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/ottoperezpp
Vicepresidenta, Roxana Baldetti despacho@vicepresidencia.gob.gt, Twitter: @roxanabaldetti . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/roxanabaldettipp
http://www.vicepresidencia.gob.gt Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/roxanabaldettipp
President Felipe Calderon of Mexico: felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/presidentefelipecalderonhinojosa
By mail:
PALACIO NACIONAL
Edificio 10, Planta baja,
Col. Centro, Deleg. Cuauhtémoc.
C.P. 06067. México, Distrito Federal.
President Juan-Manuel Santos of Colombia:
http://syscopre.presidencia.gov.co/publico/frmCiudadano.aspx
@JuanManSantos
http://www.facebook.com/JMSantos.Presidente?sk=wall
How to contact the medias – best is a letter to the editor:
Send the petition or a letter of your own to your local newspapers and publications. Here are 2 sites with lots of media contacts: http://www.abyznewslinks.com/ and http://www.prensaescrita.com
Support Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
LEAP has been fighting in the trenches for the past 10 years. They deserve our support! https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5663/donate_page/member-program
Diffuse, promote, share, be an activist!Act now!
Here is a sample message you can use for your email campaigns or your social network posts:
I need your help to promote the petition “Support Guatemalan president’s call for drug legalization” http://signon.org/sign/support-guatemalan-president
The petition has already reached 6,300 signers, but we need far more than that. There will be on March 24th a meeting in Guatemala of 7 regional presidents (Panamá, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, & Belize) to discuss the Perez Molina initiative. I am trying to collect as many signatures as possible to deliver at the meeting. Three weeks later, 34 countries will attend the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and drug legalization will be high on the agenda. This will be the first time ever that legalization is debated at a major international Summit! It is an opportunity that we cannot afford to waste.
This is an unprecedented event and all activists should take advantage of this opportunity to generate massive mobilization of support for significant and meaningful debate on drug policy reform, especially as obstruction can be expected from the US. There is a window of opportunity here, where a truthful debate might finally take place (despite US efforts at nipping it in the bud), and we have the opportunity to influence this debate. We cannot stay on the sideline and we have to get involved.
Can you help?
Many thanks!
