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Victim Rights Advocacy: Starting Grassroots Organizations

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One of the most frequent requests VAOnline.org receives is for information on how a person or group can create their own campaign to change the justice system.

This page contains links to "how to conduct advocacy" articles and organization websites.  Many of these articles are specifc to the cause of the organization, and not to victim rights. What's important are the basic concepts, steps and general recommendations these site's contain, which can be applied to any grassroots advocacy organization.

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Grassroots Advocacy, Petitions, Related Documents, Victim Rights Advocacy Documents

Grassroots Advocacy

A Guide for Grassroots Advocacy - How to Write Your Legislators: Letter writing do's and don'ts when communication with legislators.

An Introduction to Advocacy on the Internet: An overview on using a variety of Internet communications mediums to advance an advocacy goal.

An Introduction to the Advocacy Cycle: A short Adobe Acrobat file

CARE Advocacy Tools: CARE provides links to a number of resources, including their very effective Advocacy Tools and Guidelines and their Promoting Policy Change Manual

Grassroots advocacy: applying lessons from the campaign battlefield: A short news article with lessons learned from previous campaigns.

Grassroots Advocacy Training Exchange: The Grassroots Advocacy Training Exchange (GATE) is an interactive resource designed to help you and your organization define or change the state and federal policies that affect your life and livelihood.

Grassroots Organizing Tips: Simple, basic ideas for influencing politicians and puplic opinion.

Making Partnerships and Collaborations That Work: Excellent resource for those seeking to make common ground with other advocacy organizations.

NAGC Advocacy and Legislation Toolkit: An excellent breakdown on the steps an advocacy group should take, from forming the organization to achieving it's legislative goals.

Partnering on Copyright Advocacy "Know Your Rights" Toolkit: An overview of advocacy strategy, with suggestions and resources, from this UK organization.

Running an Online Advocacy Campaign: Basic suggestions on presenting your grassroots advocacy campaign on and through the Internet.

Start a Viral Political Campaign on YouTube: Basic suggestions for running short advocacy videos through YouTube.

 

Petitions

PETITIONS: Whether in paper or electonic format, pettions can be a way of showing public support for a change in laws.  Different countries have a wide range of rules over the format, nature and registration of petitions to be legally acceptible.

Australia:

New South Wales:

New South Wales Legislative Council - Petitions

Canada

Federal:

House of Commons Procedure and Practice: Petitions

Petitioning the House of Commons: A Practical Guide

Alberta:

Submitting Petitions to the Legislative Assembly

Ontario:

Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Petitioning

European Union

Petitioning European Parliament

Submitting a Petition Electronically

Scotland

How to submit a public petition

Public Petitions: E-Petitions

United Kingdom

E-Petitions

Wales

Guidance on Submitting a Petition

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