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What One Can Do...

Raise Your Voice for Those Who Are Voiceless

Political advocacy is a critical piece of God's mission of global reconciliation and making the Millennium

Development Goals a reality. Jesus continually spoke truth to power and used his own power to help those on society's margins. As Christians, we are called to follow in that example -- to raise our voices for those whom the powers of the world would push to the side.

Here are some excellent MDG advocacy opportunities for One person, One family, One congregation and more.

The Episcopal Public Policy Network

Every Episcopalian should be a part of EPPN. When you join, you will get periodic email alerts when MDG issues (or other major issues on which the Episcopal Church has policy) enabling you quickly to contact your senators and representatives telling them how you feel they should vote. Responding to most alerts takes less than 2 minutes. Sign up by clicking here -- and then tell all your friends to sign up, too. Also email EPPN director Mary Getz to get an EPPN poster with signup cards to hang in your parish hall or narthex.

ONE Episcopalian

ONE Episcopalian is the Episcopal Church's partnership with The ONE Campaign, a broad-based nationwide grassroots movement to rally all Americans ... One-by-One ... to push our government toward aid and trade policies that will eradicate global poverty and achieve the MDGs. Becoming a part of the movement is easy:

1. Become a ONE Episcopalian - Click here to join 2.4 million Americans in signing the ONE Campaign pledge.

2. Wear the White Band -- The white band is the symbol of the ONE Campaign. Wear it to show your support of our government taking a leading role in making the MDGs a reality. You'll be surprised how many times people ask you about it and give you a chance to educate them about What One Can Do to end extreme poverty. You can order a white band from the ONE Store here for $1 or, you can download a form to order 100 at a special price of $33 through ONE Episcopalian.

3. Become a ONE Congregation - Join the more than 100 congregations across the church who are raising their collective voice to make the MDGs a reality. Find out what being a ONE congregation entails and take the ONE Congregation Committment Form to your vestry/bishop's commmittee/college chaplaincy leadership team today.

ONE Vote '08

ONE Vote '08 is an unprecedented bipartisan campaign to make global health and extreme poverty foreign policy priorities in the 2008 presidential election. ONE Vote '08 is asking every candidate to sign on to five achievable goals drawn from the MDGs as well as a presidential platform of achievable solutions that -- if championed by the next U.S. president -- would have a profound impact on the poorest people in the world. By becoming a part of ONE Vote '08, we speak as ONE voice to candidates of both parties saying that unless they address the concerns of the extreme poor around the world, they will not get ONE vote from us.

The ONE Vote '08 website has lots of cool stuff, including a candidate tracker, which lets you know where every candidate is so you can go see them in your area and urge them to support the MDGs in person!