Legislative Work

HOW TO DO LEGISLATIVE WORK

Learn how to lobby your elected officials.

A number of federal, state and local politicians have sent letters to President Clinton
requesting amnesty for the prisoners.  Every single politician needs to send Clinton a letter.

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Join the Legislative Committee, or work with it!
Here's how to go about it:

Call or fax Attorney General Janet Reno and President Bill Clinton and ask that the Puerto Rican prisoners be granted amnesty immediately. Each call really does help.

Contact your federal, state and local legislators and ask them to endorse the amnesty campaign, by writing a letter to President Clinton requesting amnesty for the Puerto Rican political prisoners. Already Congresspeople Serrano, Gutierrez, Velazquez, Rangel, Engel and Dellums, as well as many politicians from Puerto Rico have written to President Clinton.  See sample letter.

To obtain names, addresses and telephone numbers of your US representative or senators, state senator and assemblypersons, governor, city councilor or mayor, call Prolibertad at (201) 435-3244 or the League of Women Voters at (212) 674-8484.

If you do not know who your federal elected officials are, you can find them by using your zip code here.

Send an editorial or letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or call your local radio station or talk show urging the community and elected officials to support the amnesty campaign.

Sign and circulate petitions demanding the freedom of the political prisoners. (Petitions are available from ProLibertad address etc. on home page)

Set up an informational table at community activities, Puerto Rican parades, cultural activities, schools, churches, etc.

Send, call or e-mail for a "Political Organizer's Packet" from ProLibertad.

Some who support the amnesty campaign:

Bishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Laureate)
Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Nobel Laureate)
David Dinkins, Former Mayor NYC
Puerto Rican Bar Association
National Conference of Black Lawyers
United Church of Christ
Jose Rivera, NY City Council
Representatives from PNP, PPD and PIP in Puerto Rico
Coretta Scott King
Ramsey Clark (former Attorney general)
New York City Council
Willie Colon
State Senator Efrain Gonzalez
National Lawyer Guild
Former President Jimmy Carter
Cardinal O'Conner, St. Patrick's
Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Laureate
Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Guatemala, 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate
William C. Wardlaw, Amnesty International, 1967 Nobel Peace Laureate
Tandi Luthuli Geabashe, South Africa, 1960 Nobel Peace Laureate
Dr. Aaron Tolen, President, World Council of Churches
Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, former Foreign Minister, Nicaragua
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Servicio Paz Y Justicia, Argentina, 1974 Nobel Laureate

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