Organize where you live
The Resolution needs one author. Authors come from districts.
The Resolution needs one legislator willing to author it. Legislators answer to the people who live in their district. That makes this local work, and local work is where it is decided.
Why five people in one district beats five hundred spread across the state
A member of the Assembly represents about 500,000 people. When a handful of them turn up at the district office in the same month asking for the same thing, that is a pattern, and district staff report patterns. The same number of supporters scattered across forty districts is invisible to everyone.
This is the whole reason we ask for a ZIP code, and the reason the ask is organized the way it is. We are not building a mailing list. We are building a map.
What a local organizer actually does
None of this requires a title or permission from anyone.
- Know your district. Who represents you in the Assembly and the Senate, which committees they sit on, and how close their last race was. All of it is public and it takes an afternoon.
- Find the others. There are already supporters in your district. Start with the people you know and work outward. Five committed people is a team.
- Get letters written. Constituent mail is the pressure that moves an office. The letter is already drafted and ready to be made personal.
- Turn up in person. District offices hold public hours. Town halls take questions. County fairs, farmers markets and campus tables are where people who have never heard the argument hear it first.
- Keep the record. Note what every office said and when. Knowing which members are engaging and which are stalling is how the whole movement decides where to push.
How to start, this week
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Tell us you want to organize
The volunteer form has local organizing as the first option. Say where you are. If there are others near you, we put you in touch.
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Write to your own member first
Before you ask anyone else to do it, do it yourself, so you know what the reply looks like. The letter is here.
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Bring five people with you
Not fifty. Five people in one district who will each write, turn up once, and bring one other person. That is a functioning county team and it is how every one of these starts.
If there is nobody organizing near you
Then the district is open, and the person who starts it is whoever decides to. Every county team in every movement that has ever won began with one person who was tired of waiting for someone else to do it.