step-by-step organizer toolkit for the People's campaign for the constitution
This toolkit contains suggested steps and supporting materials that your local group can use in your congressional district, city, or town to hold elected officials accountable for the oaths they take to protect and defend the Constitution. It outlines strategic goals and action steps and provides links to tools and resources for each step of the campaign. We encourage you to adapt this action outline to the needs of your local coalition.
If you are working on a local campaign in your community, please tell us about your efforts by e-mailing us. We invite you to download resources from this website and to send us tools and links you want to share with other groups around the country through this web site.
The tools are presented in five phases:
- Initial Outreach Phase (2008) (see below)
- Community Education Phase (2008)
- Coalition Building Phase (2008)
- Public Campaign Phase (2008)
- Accountability Phase (2009)
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initial Outreach Phase
Goal: Gain people’s commitment to work together as a local group and create a sense that by working together, your group can be part of a larger movement to change the country. 1. Encourage other individuals to sign the PCC Pledge.Sign the pledge, which places a dot for your city or town on the map.
Send e-mails to your lists of friends and colleagues, and post to your blog
Distribute fliers at meetings and events:
2. Form a core group and assign initial tasks Starting with people you know and then with people you know about, identify two or more other people interested in defending the Constitution, and hold a meeting.
As you move forward, consider forming sub-committees for specific tasks. Key committees might include, Outreach, Research, and Publicity/Media.
3. Reach out to local groups and individuals about the PCC strategy (Outreach Committee) Prepare a presentation that explains (1) the rationale behind a congressional accountability strategy and (2) your group's assessment of how receptive and/or politically vulnerable your representative may be. (See next step.)
Contact allied organizations identified in previous step, go to their meetings to present PCC, and ask for the members’ support and the organization’s endorsement.
4. Analyze the Power Bases of your Coalition and your Representative (Research Committee) Find out who funds and supports your representative, who supports your demands, and how many of you there are. Determine where your allies and potential allies are within your congressional district 5. Reach out to potential allies who may not be obvious Based on your analysis above, identify both groups that are likely to support you immediately but need help mobilizing and groups that could support you but first need to see some common ground.
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