Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009
Subject: #416 Writing Letters To The Editor Works!
WRITING LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WORKS!
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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #416 – Wednesday, 7 October 2009
September ended with 1,805 letters published in support of drug policy
reform. If the trend continues this will be the largest number of
published letters since 2005. Please click this link to see the counts
http://www.mapinc.org/lte/ as shown in our published letters archive.
Please check out the Published Letters Awards page
http://www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm and the letter of writers
recognized for the best letter of the week at http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/weekly.php
We will leave it up to you to speculate as to why there is a surge in
LTE writing this year.
Most drug policy reform organizations encourage writing LTEs, for
example:
How To Mount An Effective Letter Writing Campaign http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3464
Letters to the Editors http://ssdp.org/resources/media.php
Letters to the Editor How-To http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=310
How to Write Letters to the Editor http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/activist/howlte.htm
Tips from MAP’s most successful letter writers include How to Write a
Letter to the Editor http://www.mapinc.org/resource/how2lte.htm and
Tips for Getting Letters to the Editor Published http://www.mapinc.org/resource/tips.htm
As suggested by MAP’s top letter writers recent newspaper opinion
items make the best targets for your letters. These may be found at
http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm Other recent articles which could
be letter writing targets may be accessed from the MAP home page
www.mapinc.org
Since you are reading this you have the best tool to write LTEs
already – internet access. Please help sustain the activism
represented by all the reform oriented letters published so far this
year.
Your letters to the editor are always helpful. Even if a newspaper
does not publish your letter you have let that newspaper know that the
issue you write about is important to you.
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Prepared by: Richard Lake, Senior Editor www.mapinc.org
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