What Can You Do Now
Ten Easy Things to do
1. Sign up to be a One-Minute Advocate. Try any of
the activities in our Activist Toolkit. Click
here.
2. Send us money! Click
here.
3. Do you have experience in lobbying, political advocacy,
media relations (with an emphasis on nonprofit/political
advocacy), military/veterans’ politics, or grassroots
organizing? If so, help us mentor our grassroots activists
in training. Click
here.
4. Are you a veteran? Put a bumper sticker on your
car showing off your military experience. Put a rainbow
flag sticker next to it. Wear Pride T-shirts to military/veterans’
events, and military/veterans’ T-shirts to Pride
events.
5. Are you a GLBT rights organization? For the next
Veterans’ Day or Memorial Day, issue a press release
or host a special event honoring the service of GLBT
veterans. You can even turn it into a fundraiser for
your own organization (just be a class act about it
and grant free admission to the veterans).
6. Are you a GLBT rights or progressive advocacy organization
looking to hire? Advertise on veterans’ job-seeking
websites, like http://www.military.com
or http://www.operationheroforhire.com.
Or, send the job announcement to us and we’ll
circulate it to our own lists. If you’ve never
experienced first-hand what an asset a military veteran
can be in the workplace and in political advocacy work,
you’ve been missing out!
7. Link us to your website! www.militaryequality.org.
8. Are you a writer/journalist/blogger? Write about
us!
9. Do you have connections to celebrities, media outlets,
members of Congress, high-ranking military officials,
or anyone else you think could help us? If so, drop
us a line at info@militaryequality.org
and give us some suggestions on how to use this great
connection of yours.
10. Were you/are you personally affected by Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell? If so, tell us your story by
sending us an email to info@militaryequality.org
Or, do you know a GLBT veteran? Do you have access to
a video camera? Record his or her oral history for the
U.S. Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Instructions
are here.
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