Basic Contact Information

• First Name
• Last Name
• Street
• City
• State
• ZIP
• Email
• Phone
• Email list signup...
• Best time to call

Identifying Talents and Interests

• Number crunching
• Web design and internet skills
• Computer programming
• Computer system administration
• Writing and editing
• Posting on Internet forums
• Desktop publishing
• Printing
• Organizing people
• Public speaking
• Telephone work
• Political and lobbying skills
• Research/analysis and question formulation
• Ethics complaints
• Filming and videotape production
• Photography
• Legal work (trained attorneys)
• Accounting / Bookkeeping
• Clerical / Reception
• Fundraising
• Marketing / Public Relations
• Teaching / Tutoring

Tactical Actions

• Set up events
• Participate in meetings
• Communicate with others through email lists
• Call and ask reporters to cover stories on the topic
• Advertise - both in traditional and alternative forms:
  • TV/radio ads
  • Billboards, placards, yard signs, fence signs, etc.
  • Bumper stickers, buttons, t-shirts, etc.
  • Removable stickers on bathroom mirrors, telephone poles, bus stops, back of bus seats, junk mail sent back via return mail, etc.
  • Paper 'sound bites' on slips of paper in books at bookstore, menus at restaraunts, between products in stores, etc.
  • Signs in car windows, in friendly trucker's windows, RV's...
• Get progressive books into people's hands (gifts, suggestions...)
• Creative works on the topic (poetry, songs, screenplays, short stories, etc.)
• Forward stories to blogs, listservs, forums, and your personal network. Talk about the stories at work and to people you meet everywhere.
• Enter politics and fight for a worthy cause
• Become a vote watcher or poll worker during an election
• Volunteer for community actions
• Post signs in public places
• Carry a sign and stand in the window outside the Today Show
• Get information into hands of your pastor, bishop, and church committees.
• Marches or other means to disrupt city traffic
• Theatrical actions like display of bloody human replicas, faux missiles, people dressed as abused POW's, etc.
• Door-to-door Canvassing
• Event Staffing / Tabling
• Literature Distribution
• Literature Production
• Office Work
• Phone Banking
• Register people to vote
• Display a campaign sign at your home or business