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‹ get informed
‹ engage your government
‹ demonstrate
‹ engage your media

1. Get informed so you can help raise awareness and educate others

A major hindrance activists face when trying to educate about the nuclear age is fear. But our role is to demystify nuclear weapons, to demonstrate that there are many realistic contributions that anyone can take to effect the change necessary to see an end to this industry. Becoming informed is the first step.

- Read widely -- for a bibiolography of books, articles, magazines and websites, click here

- Watch videos -- for a list with links and ordering information, click here

- Join an email discussion list -- for a list of email lists, click here

- Join an organistion for face to face discussion and action -- for a list of organizations, click here

- Join Reaching Critical Will email updates list -- click here

- Order Reaching Critical Will publications --click here

2. Engage your governmental representatives

Who represents you? Find out at our data base of governmental decision makers click here

- Write to your representatives. Ask a specific question. Demand a response. For more information on writing a letter, click here

- Send information, research, testimony to your representatives.

- Organize a meeting with your representatives, listen to their opinion on nuclear issues, share yours.

- Organize follow up meetings on any number of topics.

3. Demonstrate!

Organizing a successful demonstration involves many elements, including:

- identifying the right time, place and coherent messages and analysis;

- often, seeking a permit from public and police authorities;

- advertising and networking, attracting as many people as possible;

- filling your programme with a balance of serious, and up-beat entertaining elements;

- writing a press release, following up and hopefully getting interviews and coverage in radio, print and TV media;

- if your action is an arrestable one, follow up legal support for those arrested will be necessary, so engaging legal support should be built into the planning process.

4. Engage your media, make your own media

- notice the correspondents in the print, radio and tv media covering nuclear or foreign policy matters

- build a data base of media contacts;

- keep a select group of journalists, or your entire list, informed of your activities and analysis of events and developments in this field.

Many mainstream media agencies are subsidiaries of military corporations. These agencies are never going to give positive media coverage to groups and messages that challenge their power.

CREATE YOUR OWN MEDIA, newsletters, radio shows, video documentaries, email lists, webpages.

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