Toolkit

Community Resolutions Toolkit-LPFM Campaign

Pass City Council Resolutions in Support of Expanded LPFM

A resolution is grassroots activism at its best! Organizing to pass a resolution mobilizes people to make leaders accountable to their demands. While the national policies that are being hashed out in Washington D.C. might feel distant and hard to change, city council resolutions can be won by a small group of people with the right organizing. You can have an impact in your own community by encouraging your city council to take a stand on issues that are important to you. Local resolutions send a message to congressional representatives in your area that their constituents are concerned about this issue and are demanding a change! In other words, city councils are an accessible way to have a direct impact on big politics and policies.

Passing a resolution is also a great way to build a local coalition of communities, people, organizations and activists who are concerned about a similar issue. In the process you will educate yourself and others, build a critical mass of support, get some media attention and be one more step in the direction towards creating change.

This page describes how community members in hundreds of communities around the country have planned and implemented successful resolution efforts. Each section provides links to documents and tools they have used. We invite you to use these steps and documents and adapt them to your needs. You may also download a print version of the entire toolkit.

Thanks to the Bill of Rights Defense Committee for providing inspiration and much of the content of this toolkit. http://www.bordc.org/

If you are working on a resolution in your community, please inform us about your efforts at expandlpfm@prometheusradio.org. Send us tools and links that you would like to share through this web site.

We want to provide you with as many resources as possible, but don't restrict your organizing to this toolkit! Use this as a base of ideas and don't be afraid to be creative! Remember, you know your city and what works there better than any outside group.

If you'd like an organizing packet sent to you, send your mailing address to expandlpfm@prometheusradio.org. If you'd like to donate to offset the cost of printing and postage, go to our donate page.

The chronology and tools are presented in five sections:

1 Educate Yourself About LPFM

2 Organize Supporters of LPFM

3 Organize a Community Event

4 Write and Pass a City/Community Resolution to Support LPFM

5 Become Active in the National Expand LPFM Network