Instant activism: Just add computer, hit 'send'

November 25, 2005

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=53916

When breast-feeding advocates mobilized to push for an ordinance protecting
nursing moms in Chandler, they did it mainly by e-mail.

For months, City Council members received hundreds of e-mails from
throughout the country and even Canada urging them to protect nursing moms.

The e-mail campaign, at least in part, did the trick as the Chandler City
Council last month adopted the ordinance advocates had sought.

Those advocates have since set their sights on Tempe, and that city is
getting an increasing number of e-mails on the breastfeeding issue. The
Tempe City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance similar to Chandler'
s on Dec. 1.

E-mail lobbying of local government has become commonplace in the East
Valley. So common, in fact, that it has become the top mode of communication
between public officials and their constituents, surpassing traditional
letters, faxes and telephone calls, local officials said.


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Janice

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