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Concrete ways to make a difference!
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Move Outward - Educate your Community
Talk within your Family - We all have related Veterans,
take the opportunity to discuss Freedom and its cost
Educate our Youth - They soon enough confront military service,
suggest school projects that illuminate the issues
Talk with your Spiritual community - These issues are relevant to all
spiritual and freedom loving people!
Spread the word - use tools, like our
Human Pentacle Images Project, to bring the issue
up in social groups you attend.
Contact us, for FREE printed materials to aid the discussion!
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Network within your spiritual, social, and neighborhood communities !
Voices joined together make a choir that demands to be heard.
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Power of the Voice
The Veterans Administration may not respond to the people it serves, but your representatives will !
Write/Call/Email your Federal Representatives - a hand composed letter
is still very effective in influencing legislation. Talk directly with the Veterans liaison in each office.
Write/Call/Email your local representatives - even without the tools
to effect change, they can help air this issue in your community
Write/Call/Email the Federal Agencies
Most federal agencies have to log each contact, and produce them for congress. send Certified Mail ! Join the Paganvets.org Letter Campaign
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Focus your Words
Once you have your confidence - GET SPECIFIC
Write/Call/Email Congressional oversite Committees - All Federal Agencies appear before Congress, demand an investigation !
Attend TOWN HALL political meetings - every election cycle candidates sponsor open forums to hear the issues. Be there, speak up!
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Always document your correspondences, register or certify your mail.
Send copies to the active court cases to support this issue !
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Speak from your Heart
One of the most powerful forces is your Spiritual Voice
Attend a regional Pentacle Rights Ritual - Contact us to help your local group organize a Ceremony !
Sponsor Ceremony in your Church - Many Spiritual Communities will aid you in celebrating our Constitutional Freedom of Religion
Call your friends to Action - People of Conscience want to help. Your passion can inspire a seminar, workshop, speaker, or project.
Fight Discrimination - Understand many, even today in our country, still risk their businesses, their jobs, their customers, even their friends, with just displaying this beautiful symbol. Actively support any who do wear a Pentacle !
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Become Visible
Wear and display the Pentacle, Show the beauty
Wear the Pentacle - Whether a Wiccan, Neopagan, or of any faith, wear a pentacle as a symbol of your stand for Religious Freedom. Let it be a start to a conversation of understanding between faiths.
Keep in the Public Eye - Have your group sponsor a media ad, outdoor advertising, bumper stickers, public service announcement, Public Cable program
Join in the Human Pentacle Image Project - Either attend our sponsored events or
gather your neighbors, organization, faith group, or family and take an image and send to us! The nation needs to know the uncounted numbers.
Get Creative - Our Veterans depend on us to find a way. Join with your communities to find new ways to secure Veteran Pentacle Rights
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Add your resources where they are needed. First, Network with your Community, then Donate
The Upper Midwest Pagan Alliance believes your words and deeds are the most effective tools to aid our Veterans, and guarantee our Freedom. Some can only offer financial help. To help locally, donate to this Veterans' Pentacle Rights Initiative.
Donate to National Organizations Networking, and offering direct support to Religious Freedom Issues, like the Lady Liberty League.
To support the active Court Cases, contact the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and specify your donation to aid the Pentacle civil suits.
Support Veterans and their Organizations locally and Nationally. They offer their skills, careers, and lives in our service, and deserve the best our country can offer !
Contact the Upper Midwest Pagan Alliance, we can help !
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