[fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Let's see Kitchener-Waterloo Shine!! Help me with the Canada Day Action

[Matt Foster]

Hi Anita,
I forwarded this idea to my personal mail list asking them to get involved.
I printed up the petition and put it on a clip board and am ready to 
start my own today.
Cheers
Matt Foster
-- 
Matt Foster - stop stop stop "Society Thrives On Participation" see - 
http://stopstopstop.org

On 19/06/2012 12:36 PM, Anita wrote:
> Hi Fair Vote Canada Waterloo supporters!
> Fair Vote Canada is moving in a new strategy direction as we look to 
> 2015 as a real and exciting possibility of achieving proportional 
> representation in Canada. One aspect of this strategy will be to 
> develop strategic partnerships with allies who can help us get the 
> message out there in language that connects with people - to let 
> people concerned about so many issues right know that electoral reform 
> is the gamechanger. *The second strategy focus is going to be on 
> action: building up our supporters on the ground and doing things in 
> communities across Canada that make an impact. *
> Thanks to you, Fair Vote Canada Waterloo has always been leading the 
> way in this respect, with the multitude of successful events, fairs, 
> speaking engagements etc. We will still be doing all of these things, 
> but we will also be taking action as part of a growing, coordinated 
> effort. Fair Vote Canada is going to put out a call to action to all 
> it's supporters about once a month.
> Our first action is going to start on*Canada Day* and*I need your help*.
> Something like this will be going out in a national mailout in a few 
> days - please take a look.
> http://www.fairvote.ca/action/canadaday
> We have created a petition 
> <http://s.fairvote.ca/files/FVCPetitiontoHouseofCommons.pdf> calling 
> for proportional representation - the type of paper petition, specific 
> to each riding in Canada, that can be presented in the House of 
> Commons. To ask an MP to present the petition, we need at least 25 
> signatures from constituents in a riding. I know we can do better than 
> that in Kitchener-Waterloo and Kitchener-Centre! Our big goal is to 
> have petitions from *all 308 ridings* to present to local MPs in a 
> visible way, asking them to present them in the House.
> We can start collecting signatures now, but we are putting out a big 
> call to all our supporters to *collect signatures on Canada Day and up 
> to July 5. *
> **
> *Can you help Fair Vote Canada succeeed by collecting signatures? 
> It's easy.  Here's what to do:*
> **
> 1) Print off the petition 
> <http://s.fairvote.ca/files/FVCPetitiontoHouseofCommons.pdf>. (You may 
> want to print off three - for people who live in Kitchener Centre, 
> Kitchener-Waterloo and Kitchener Conestoga).
> 2) Ask your friends, family, neighbours, people you know or meet, to 
> sign.
> 3) On July 5, mail the petition to FVC, or /*email me and I will come 
> pick it up from you*/. I don't care if there are 5 or 5 signatures on 
> it - every signature helps.
> If you can take some photos of people signing for our Action page, 
> great - photos of people coast to coast is very inspiring :)
> We will be keeping track of every riding where someone signs up, 
> putting a larger counter on the national site, and the number of 
> signatures collected.
> Please let me know if you can participate by either emailing me - 
> lanickerson at b2b2c.ca <mailto:lanickerson at b2b2c.ca> - or by signing up 
> on the Canada Day Action <http://www.fairvote.ca/action/canadaday> page.
> Thanks so much,
> Anita
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