NATIONAL DAY
OF ACTION
September 14, 2000
Ideas for local actions
·
Town
Meeting
·
Press
Conference
·
Media
Blitz – contact various media outlets to set up interviews, meet with
editorial boards, etc.
·
Meetings
with Congressional Representatives
·
Postcard/call/fax/
letter sending day
Note: The ideas listed above
are only suggestions. Please feel
free to organize an event that best suites your organization or area.
National
coordinating team will:
·
Contact
national media outlets
·
Provide
(distribute) booklets illustrating our policy messages with personal stories
·
Provide
“Welfare Made A Difference” balloons, stickers for events
·
Organize
the Washington, DC events for the National Action Day
·
Provide
sample press release
·
Welfare makes a difference in alleviating poverty when it is
made available in a supportive and adequate manner.
·
When
welfare policy aims to punish people, and deny people access to programs, the
result is a deepening of poverty and a continuation of suffering.
·
“Well-Fare”: Investing in People to End Poverty
(This is the working name for our booklet)
For more
information please contact Liz Accles.
Phone: (212)
894-8082
E-mail: accles@yahoo.com
“Welfare Made
A Difference” Campaign
Speaker
Outline
Thank
you for participating in this event. We
appreciate you sharing your story, so we can get the message out that we NEED a
safety net to provide opportunities for families, allow them a route out of
poverty and provide a stable wage floor, which benefits the economic security of
us all!
·
Please
speak for only (specify time) minutes. We
have a lot of speakers who would like to share their stories too!
·
Stick
close to the outline, adding only personal elements that illustrate the point of
the event:
·
Welfare
programs should be investing in families to enable them to lift themselves out
of poverty permanently.
·
Current
welfare “reforms: make our successes impossible for today’s families.
·
We would
not be where we are today under the current welfare policies.
For
past welfare recipients
·
Hi my
name is…
·
I am glad
welfare programs were there for my family because it allowed us to…
·
Under current policies (time limits, workfare requirements, etc.)
we wouldn’t have been able to…
·
Closing
thought
For
present welfare recipients
·
Hi my
name is…
·
I am glad
welfare programs are there for my family because it allowed us to…
·
Under current policies (time limits, workfare requirements, etc.) we
have not been able to…
·
Closing
thought