Advocacy Actions
What is an email?
Posting facts, stories, or videos to social media helps achieve this outcome.
What is raising awareness?
This term describes how a person sees themselves as part of society and their role in making change.
What is civic identity?
Speaking at a public hearing in front of officials is an example of this type of testimony.
What is oral testimony?
A public demonstration where people gather to express their views is called this.
What is a protest?
Encouraging people to attend events, protests, or meetings helps to achieve this.
What is community mobilization?
The people and environment someone grows up around, like family or neighborhood, are known as this influence.
What is community?
This type of testimony is submitted in a document instead of being spoken.
What is written testimony?
The more of these a petition gets, the more attention is brought to an issue.
What are signatures?
When an issue is talked about in the news or online, it has gained this.
What is awareness?
If someone advocates for education funding because they struggled in school, this part of their civic identity influenced them.
What is their experiences?
This type of testimony is delivered using technology, such as video calls or recorded messages.
What is virtual testimony?
This is the process of choosing leaders or deciding on issues in an election.
What is voting?
This outcome happens when laws or rules are created, changed, or removed.
What is a policy change?
A person raised in a culture that values community mobilization may prefer this type of advocacy.
What is protesting?
Saying “I urge you to pass this law” is an example of this part of testimony.
What is clarifying the change you want?
This term describes actions taken by individuals or groups to create social or political change.
What is advocating?
This outcome focuses on changing laws, while raising awareness and mobilizing people often helps to achieve it.
What is a policy change?
Personal ideas about what is right or important help shape this part of civic identity.
What are values or beliefs?
The most effective testimony usually includes both facts and this.
What are personal stories or experiences?