[AAACE-NLA] Avian Flu & Advocacy

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Teachers:

If I get Avian Flu I am a dead duck, you might say, as I have a chronic 
autoimmune disease.   So I have a dog in this fight.

I called up and left messages at 5 city official's' offices yesterday, asking 
about their plans in case of a pandemic.  One called back, pretty good.   She 
said she had just gotten back from vacation, etc, so didn't have a response 
right then.   (Hey, I was nice.)   She said she was sure that state and federal 
officials were doing planning.   I reminded her about Katrina.....   Anyway, 
you catch my drift.   Today I will call a city councilor. She has thrown her 
hat into the ring for state senate, so this is a great opportunity for her and 
the community.

A good possibility for a class lesson on telephone speaking (EFF) and letter 
writing, I should imagine.

Really, a great idea if adult literacy students ALL OVER THE COUNTRY got busy 
doing this!!   Advocacy, anyone?   Our own home-grown public health/adult 
literacy movement.   

Andrea
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.literacytent.org/pipermail/aaace-nla/attachments/20060110/7b305091/attachment.htm