Gulf Central District
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Social Action  (Becky Visot-O’Neal, Coordinator)

Continue to volunteer in the schools because we are still promoting public education issues and we strongly suggest units conduct a Public Education Mission Study. The Campaign for Children Phase III is continuing. Information about this can be found in Response Magazine and at the Florida Impact website. The Conference encourages you to go to the Florida Impact website to gather information on the public policies we advocate. The Gulf Coast District is a member of Florida Impact. See more information at www.flimimpact.org.

Uplift the Charter for Racial Justice by doing a related program once a year. Phone or write you legislators on behalf of the hungry and poor - you can make a difference!

Breast Cancer Awareness
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click "donating a mammogram" for free (it's the pink window in the middle). This costs you nothing.. Please click and pass on the site to people you know.   
                                                          

A Message from your Social Action Coordinator
This year we are again promoting public school education for children. Some of the issues we are concentrating on are:

As social action and supportive community, United Methodist women can connect to the community by mentoring, tutoring and advocating for school children. We promote the mission study on Public Education. "We believe responsibility for education of the young rests with the family, the church, and the government." (Social Principles of the United Methodist Church).
 
UMW literature that can be used are: "Public Education, Issues and Challenges" and "campaign for Children, Phase III, Public School Education", and the April 2004 issue of Response Magazine.

Social Action Resources
"Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." Psalm 82:3-4

The United Methodist Women's Action Network can keep you informed. See gbgm-umc.org/UMW/action.html for information on joining this network. They can send you Action Alerts via US post office mail or you may go to the Making Our Voices Heard page  to view the action alerts online.  

Make your thoughts known to your elected officials. You can contact your elected officials a number of ways: Go to your voter ID card and look for your district number. Then look up your legislator's name in the phone book's government pages. Or you can go to the legislative or congressional sites below and based on your zip code, locate your legislator and his/her phone number, mailing address or email address. You can call, write letters to their office or email them.  Most will respond to your letter.  Stand up for the voiceless! 

See the following additional social action links:

    UMW - Women's Division Social Action Page at: gbgm-umc.org/UMW

    US Congressional information: congress.org

    US Congressional Legislation and Status: thomas.loc.gov

    For Florida anti-hunger information see www.flimpact.org

    For Florida Legislative information: www.leg.state.fl.us

To contact Becky Visot-O’Neal click here.

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