Sample Letter that you can send to your representative
The following letter has been
prepared to urge your representative to do what you
have elected him or her in their position to do for you. This can be sent as is,
or suitably modified, as e-mail.
The whole operation should take
only a few minutes of your time.
This is the procedure:
Go to http://congress.org
Type your zip code in the box
under 'Elected Officials'. Click: "GO"
You get the pictures of the
President, your two Senators and you House Rep.
Each of the photographs have
below them an e-mail button. Click the e-mail button of your first
Senator. The rest is mainly a copying and pasting job. If you would like to make
changes to the text of the letter, you can do so. You will have to provide your
personal details and exercise a few options before pressing 'Send Message'.
As soon as you finish sending
e-mail to the first Senator, press the back button (twice) and then
follow the same procedure to send e-mail to your second Senator. Again, press
back button (twice) to get to your House Rep and follow the same procedure.
IMPORTANT: As soon as you are
done with, PLEASE RELAY THIS MESSAGE to all your friends
and relations resident in the US.
TEXT OF A SAMPLE LETTER
As your constituent, I would be
gratified if the US House of Representatives and the Senate
would take into account the suffering and human loss of life in various parts of
the Islamic world due to sanctions and bombings and other actions taken against them by
our government. Most individual Americans, myself included, are in disagreement
with these actions which are only negative, creating a vicious cycle of hate and
violence against peoples who have not personally harmed me or the any American
for that matter. Most Americans would rather prefer to organize relief and
provide aid to the hapless victims, and urging greater assistance to mitigate
the sufferings of the affected people, thereby clearly demonstrating their
feelings of goodwill to all humanity (irrespective of whether they are christian,
jew, hindu, buddhist or muslim, white, brown or black etc). I would therefore be very happy to see the some positive
support since many American citizens have family in the affected areas.
Hope you will act upon this
expeditiously.
With respectful regards,