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Take back your government, a citizen's guide to grassroots change, Morgan Carroll

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Morgan Carroll

a citizen's guide to grassroots change

You can do this -- You need to do this -- Asking for help : constituent services -- Monitoring legislative proceedings -- How to read a bill -- Registering your support or opposition -- Know your elected officials -- How to testify at a legislative hearing -- The legislative calendar -- How a bill becomes law and how you can impact each phase -- Meeting your legislators -- Calling your legislators -- E-mailing your legislators -- Writing your legislators -- Using petitions -- Preparing fact sheets -- Holding demonstrations and rallies -- Networking : building a coalition and addressing opposition -- Advocacy for busy people -- Advocacy for youth under eighteen -- Researching problems and solutions -- Introducing your bown bill -- Building support for your bill and addressing the opposition -- Media and public support -- Vote counting -- Amending a bill -- Paying for your bill -- fiscal notes analysis -- Lobbying the state budget -- Resolutions -- Other ways to be involved -- Run for office : yep, you! -- How does your state measure up? -- Putting it in perspective