Economic
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Economic Justice in the United States

Action Kit


SOS! Campaign

Get Involved in Your Community with the SOS! Action Kit

The SOS! Action Kit provides resources to use to organize your community to help stop $35 billion of budget cuts for the sake of $70 million more in tax breaks for the nation’s wealthiest families.
Download each of the items below (requires Acrobat Reader, available as a free download), or call for assistance.

Moral Budget Petition
Download AFSC’s petition to get your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers involved in the effort to stop budget cuts and tax breaks. (PDF download)

How You Can Help Flier (RTF)
Use this flier to tell communicate with folks in your community about simple ways that they can help stop Congress from making more budget cuts in order to pay for tax breaks.  This flier lists three simple ways that anyone can plug into our campaign.

Analysis of Federal Budget Resolution (PDF)
Read this concise two-page analysis of the proposed budget resolution and learn more about the details of the legislation from our friends at the Coalition for Human Needs.

Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)
Answer frequently-asked-questions about budget cuts and tax breaks with this concise fact sheet.

A how-to for setting up a lobby visit with your Congressperson Check out our online tool kit which will allow you to download a sample agenda for a lobby meeting, a sample request letter and a sample thank-you letter.  Our tool kit will help you make a difference even if you have never met with a Congress person before.

Find out how to engage your faith community in the moral budget debate.
Our online faith tools will allow you to download a sample bulletin notice for your congregation and more.

You can also write a letter to the editor of your local paper or call-in to a local radio show.  Use our handy guide and online letter writing tool to help you be effective in communicating with  the media.

 

 

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Contact Us

Roberta Spivek
National Representative for Economic Justice

1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102-1479

Phone:
215-241-7037
Email:
rspivek@afsc.org