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urgent action network
sun 22 jan 2012 |
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Permalink: http://www.static8.com/journal/2012/20120122.html |
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It felt good, trying to conquer evil with some letter writing. I wanted to continue, so I signed up for the Urgent Action Network. It's a little bit different from the Write for Rights project. They get new cases every day, I don't know how many hundreds there are to choose from... whereas the Writeathon only focused on 15. When you join the Urgent Action Network, you can choose how often they send you email alerts. I signed up for one a week; they usually come at the end of the week and I have been working on them over the weekend. The other difference is that the Network does not provide you with prepared sample letters that you can print out. The Urgent Action case sheet gives you information on the situation and tells you who to write and what to ask for, but the letter writing is all yours. My first Urgent Action was actually an email petition that I just had to sign. But the next two actions were for snail mail letters of protest. It does take a while to read through the case sheet and then figure out what I want to say in my letter. The letter is sent to several different people in the country's government, and a copy is sent to their embassy in Washington DC. So, in the end I have a handful of letters to send out. And a sense of having done something good in the world.
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outgoing mail
sun 29 jan 2012 | |
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Jackie also links to a fun mail challenge... A Month of Letters, hosted by Mary Robinette Kowal.
The challenge is to send out at least one peice of mail every day the post runs in February. ha. It's actually surprisingly easy to write a few postcards every evening. But I have not gotten back into the habit since the chaos of the holidays. So a month long challenge is just what I need! |
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too grumpy to live
sun 5 feb 2012 | ||
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It feels like I have been sick forever and I probably have some kind of chronic sinus thing that will give me a brain infection that's going to make me suffer miserably before I die next week. But I do have a couple things to report, so I definitely want to make a blog post before I die. (Yes, I'm kidding.)
I have put one or two postcards in the mail every day. This weekend, I wrote a list of all the mail I need to work on. It's a good size list, and I'm definitely not up to the challenge yet. I'm hoping I will feel better soon? and there will be a mail explosion! I was very happy to get my stamp order in the mail yesterday... a bunch of 1¢, 2¢, 3¢ and 4¢ stamps to help me with my over abundance of old stamps (the price of stamps in the USA went up on 22 jan).
I'm also in love with the new Bonsai Stamps (Bonsai Stamp Story). They are just beautiful! And I foresee a new over-abundance... fortunately these are Forever Stamps, so buying a lot is actually a good budget choice. Right?!! ;) |
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