[AG-Drogen] Latin America Legalization: We need massive mobilization before March 24 – Can you help?

[Martin Steldinger <tribble AT hanfplantage.de>]

Jeffrey Dhywood <jdhywood AT worldwar-d.com>


Dear

On March 24, Colombia and Mexico will join the 6 countries of Central 
America in an historic summit to debate Guatemalan President’s proposal 
on drug legalization. Three weeks later, 34 countries will attend the 
Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, in an enlarged discussion 
on the issue.

*I cannot emphasize enough the importance of these events. This is the 
moment that all drug reform activists have been expecting for decades. 
We cannot afford to waste this opportunity. This is history in the 
making, be part of it!*

I urgently need your help here, to spread to word and gain as much 
support as we can before these critical meetings.

*Here are some of the things you can do to help:*

Send an email to at least 5 of your friends to promote the petition, 
asking them to sign it (see underneath a sample email, or write your own).
Post a link to the petition on your own wall. Post if 3 to 4 times per week.
Post a link to the petition on the wall of your friends
Post a link to the petition on the wall of the groups you follow that 
are concerned with drug policy
If you use twitter, tweet the petition.

Send letters to the editors or comments either online, or to your local 
press.

If you belong to a group, try to get your group to endorse this movement.

If you do a broadcast email campaign, you should send at least 3 emails, 
2 days apart.
Thank you for your support.

*If you want to get more involved: *

Last October, I launched an initiative calling on Presidents Calderon of 
Mexico and President Santos of Colombia to take the lead of a global 
coalition for legalization and control of currently illicit drugs. 
Checkhttp://calderon-santos.org/. Sign the open letter to Presidents 
Calderon and Santos, 
http://www.calderon-santos.org/open-letter/http://www.calderon-santos.org/ 
<http://www.calderon-santos.org/open-letter/http%3a/www.calderon-santos.org/>. 
Share it with your friends.

I also invite you to make a donation to Law Enforcement Against 
Prohibition (LEAP), the most credible drug legalization advocacy group 
in the world. Help support the amazing work they are doing. 
http://www.leap.cc/

*Here is a sample message you can use for your email campaigns or your 
social network posts:*

I need your help to promote the petition “Support Guatemalan president's 
call for drug legalization” 
http://signon.org/sign/support-guatemalan-president?source=s.em.cr&r_by=2955288&mailing_id=2680 
<http://signon.org/sign/support-guatemalan-president?source=s.em.cr&r_by=2955288&mailing_id=2680> 


The petition has already reached 6,000 signers, but we need far more 
than that. There will be on March 24th a meeting in Guatemala of 8 
regional presidents (Panamá, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, 
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico & Colombia) to discuss the Perez Molina 
initiative. I am trying to collect as many signatures as possible to 
deliver at the meeting. Three weeks later, 34 countries will attend the 
Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and drug legalization 
will be high on the agenda. This will be the first time ever that 
legalization is debated at a major international Summit! It is an 
opportunity that we cannot afford to waste.

This is an unprecedented event and all activists should take advantage 
of this opportunity to generate massive mobilization of support for 
significant and meaningful debate on drug policy reform, especially as 
obstruction can be expected from the US. There is a window of 
opportunity here, where a truthful debate might finally take place 
(despite US efforts at nipping it in the bud), and we have the 
opportunity to influence this debate. We cannot stay on the sideline and 
we have to get involved.

Can you help?

Many thanks!