Raise your voice

There are many ways to raise your voice and write letters to bring about change. Choosing the appropriate audience for your letter is important. Following are tips for writing :

• to policitians
• letters to the editor, and
• parliamentary submissions

How might your meeting use these resources?

• Invite QPLC to run a letter writing workshop with your meeting
• Identify an issue of concern that is the subject of a parliamentray inquiry and write a submission, write a letter to the editor adn write to a politican. Doing these three types of writing on one topic can help you learn about the differences and similiarities between them.
• Run a letter writing workshop and invite Friends to gather to write letters or submissions on topics of their choosing. Friends could work in small groups to workshop ideas, develop letters and provide feedback before sending the letters or subsmissions.