What Can You Do?
From Bob Haisman:
What can you do? You don't have to do all - pick one! or two or three!
1. Keep it up! Send another E-mail. Call again. and again and again!
2. Contact five teachers who might be clueless or uninformed or in denial . Convince them, urge them to send an E-Mail! Help them call their legislators. Help them use the ..... "We Are One" (http://www.weareoneillinois.org/) automated contact system or the IEA system (WWW.IEANEA.ORG)! Legislative staffs are counting the number of calls they are getting!
3. Seek out your local association president and offer to help contact members! Suggest you will help with a cell phone and lap top contact your legislator party!!
4. Make an email list of every teacher you know and forward them this Pension 101! Play Paul or Pauline Revere -- make sure your colleagues know we are in the fight of our life!
5. If you are retired -- talk to the retired teacher lunch group -- the Friday breakfast group -- be persistent! The pension You help save will be Your Own! URGE them to do more than shake their heads -- urge action -- Give them the websites!!
6. Get a group of teachers together and visit your local state Representative and local state Senator this weekend -- just the fact you call for an appointment is enough! Let them know Teachers vote and they care about their pensions! They will be home!
7. Write up a simple -- "Don't Cut My Pension" petition and have your grade level, your school , your retired lunch group -- sign it and ....present the petition this weekend to your local Representative's office!
8. Ask your colleagues (forward VIA E-Mail) to sign the following Quinn petition on line.....
http://signon.org/sign/governor-quinn-leave?source=s.em.cr&r_by=1424651&mailing_id=3617
9. There have been demonstrations in front of legislators offices in Naperville, Rushville, Westmont, Peru... organize one! Make your own signs! March for fair treatment. Attend the Orland Park Rally Friday night see how it is done!
10. http://www.weareoneillinois.org/ --- WWW.IEANEA.ORG
GO to Springfield next week and lobby with the IEA!! Pension Emergency Lobby Week!!!!
IEA is encouraging retired IEA members or members who are out of school to volunteer in a lobbying effort along with AFSCME and We Are One Illinois labor coalition partners scheduled for the week of May 21 in the state's capitol!!! There will be kick-offs/briefings held each day in a tent behind the Illinois State Federation of Labor located at 534 S. 2nd Street. The schedule for the week is:
Monday, May 21: Kick-off/briefing at 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 22 through Friday, May 25: Kick-off/briefing at 11:00 a.m.
2. Contact five teachers who might be clueless or uninformed or in denial . Convince them, urge them to send an E-Mail! Help them call their legislators. Help them use the ..... "We Are One" (http://www.weareoneillinois.org/) automated contact system or the IEA system (WWW.IEANEA.ORG)! Legislative staffs are counting the number of calls they are getting!
3. Seek out your local association president and offer to help contact members! Suggest you will help with a cell phone and lap top contact your legislator party!!
4. Make an email list of every teacher you know and forward them this Pension 101! Play Paul or Pauline Revere -- make sure your colleagues know we are in the fight of our life!
5. If you are retired -- talk to the retired teacher lunch group -- the Friday breakfast group -- be persistent! The pension You help save will be Your Own! URGE them to do more than shake their heads -- urge action -- Give them the websites!!
6. Get a group of teachers together and visit your local state Representative and local state Senator this weekend -- just the fact you call for an appointment is enough! Let them know Teachers vote and they care about their pensions! They will be home!
7. Write up a simple -- "Don't Cut My Pension" petition and have your grade level, your school , your retired lunch group -- sign it and ....present the petition this weekend to your local Representative's office!
8. Ask your colleagues (forward VIA E-Mail) to sign the following Quinn petition on line.....
http://signon.org/sign/governor-quinn-leave?source=s.em.cr&r_by=1424651&mailing_id=3617
9. There have been demonstrations in front of legislators offices in Naperville, Rushville, Westmont, Peru... organize one! Make your own signs! March for fair treatment. Attend the Orland Park Rally Friday night see how it is done!
10. http://www.weareoneillinois.org/ --- WWW.IEANEA.ORG
GO to Springfield next week and lobby with the IEA!! Pension Emergency Lobby Week!!!!
IEA is encouraging retired IEA members or members who are out of school to volunteer in a lobbying effort along with AFSCME and We Are One Illinois labor coalition partners scheduled for the week of May 21 in the state's capitol!!! There will be kick-offs/briefings held each day in a tent behind the Illinois State Federation of Labor located at 534 S. 2nd Street. The schedule for the week is:
Monday, May 21: Kick-off/briefing at 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 22 through Friday, May 25: Kick-off/briefing at 11:00 a.m.