Public Pressure - Citizen's Action

Write to your newspaper:

A letter to your local or national newspaper is an opportunity to share your message with a potentially enormous audience. Because it is a personal statement, a sample will not be provided below, but rather a series of things you may wish to consider as you write:

Hook
Is there any current news event that I could link my letter to thereby helping to ensure it is published? If your organization has recently passed a motion or resolution on the Tobin-type tax, that’s news. Is world poverty or financial crises in the news? Are the financial markets on another rollercoaster ride? Is your government claiming it has no tax revenue? Is there a big international meeting coming up at which your country will be represented? All these news items provide a link to a call for a currency transactions tax.

Length
If it is a letter to the editor, it should be concise and clear, otherwise it may be cut.