The Velocity of Advocacy
Our goal is to recruit allies.
One might think the best way to accomplish this is to distribute as many pamphlets as possible.
Please resist this impulse.
Other than your voice, our literature is the most important tool we have.
Please use both wisely.
As you go forth to edify and persuade, please remember:
every piece of activist literature
is an opportunity to change a mind.
Personalize it.
Before relinquishing the pamphlet, ask for a commitment to help.
This could mean something as simple as not attending
or no longer watching collision sports.
And please, ask each recipient to
“pay it forward"
and use the pamphlet to recruit another ally.
We don’t want these pamphlets to sit in a drawer or a glove box.
Allies are people who will actively advocate to free our public schools
from organized violence against students.
So, before handing our literature to a new person, ask yourself:
Does this individual understand and believe the facts? Are they capable of being an ally?
Will this individual contribute to our mission?
Will they advocate for safer options? Will they use the pamphlet to persuade others?
If the answers to these questions are yes, the transaction is worth it.
Doctors, nurses, teachers, parents, students, and school administrators are all prime candidates to further our cause.
These are the allies we must recruit.
If we wish to replicate the USD vote at schools across the country, we need to be prudent in how we expand our coalition.
When you decide to entrust our activist literature to someone, we ask that a picture be taken to record the exchange and that you write a brief paragraph regarding the encounter. This will allow our board to see evidence of our outreach.
Remember, we do not want to ban anything. There are ample private programs for tackle football.
We endorse 18 as the age of entry.
We do not deny that football or other collision sports have benefits.
We simply believe there are safer options which provide comparable benefits.
In the final analysis, the cost in suffering and dollars is too high.
Tax payer dollars have endowed collision sports for decades.
This support must end.
This means no more tackle football in public schools.
Our goal is to recruit allies.
One might think the best way to accomplish this is to distribute as many pamphlets as possible.
Please resist this impulse.
Other than your voice, our literature is the most important tool we have.
Please use both wisely.
As you go forth to edify and persuade, please remember:
every piece of activist literature
is an opportunity to change a mind.
Personalize it.
Before relinquishing the pamphlet, ask for a commitment to help.
This could mean something as simple as not attending
or no longer watching collision sports.
And please, ask each recipient to
“pay it forward"
and use the pamphlet to recruit another ally.
We don’t want these pamphlets to sit in a drawer or a glove box.
Allies are people who will actively advocate to free our public schools
from organized violence against students.
So, before handing our literature to a new person, ask yourself:
Does this individual understand and believe the facts? Are they capable of being an ally?
Will this individual contribute to our mission?
Will they advocate for safer options? Will they use the pamphlet to persuade others?
If the answers to these questions are yes, the transaction is worth it.
Doctors, nurses, teachers, parents, students, and school administrators are all prime candidates to further our cause.
These are the allies we must recruit.
If we wish to replicate the USD vote at schools across the country, we need to be prudent in how we expand our coalition.
When you decide to entrust our activist literature to someone, we ask that a picture be taken to record the exchange and that you write a brief paragraph regarding the encounter. This will allow our board to see evidence of our outreach.
Remember, we do not want to ban anything. There are ample private programs for tackle football.
We endorse 18 as the age of entry.
We do not deny that football or other collision sports have benefits.
We simply believe there are safer options which provide comparable benefits.
In the final analysis, the cost in suffering and dollars is too high.
Tax payer dollars have endowed collision sports for decades.
This support must end.
This means no more tackle football in public schools.
