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Campaigns & Action Alerts

State Action

TIME SENSITIVE ACTION ALERT: Call, Email, or Tag (on social media) your State Senator 

 

The Senate Environment and Climate Committee is hearing the Electronic Waste Recycling Bill tomorrow.

 

ACTION: Contact your senator before 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 6, 2025

     • If your senator IS on the Environment & Climate Committee, give them (or their staff) the message below

     • If your senator is NOT on that committee, urge them to contact their colleagues who are. 

     • Free Tomorrow? Come to the E-Waste hearing, too. Thurs., 3:00 p.m., Rm 1150, Minnesota Senate Building.       

     • Who is my state senator? What is their contact information? (phone & email or link to “mail form”)

 

MAIN MESSAGE: Please support AND urge your Senate colleagues on the Environment & Climate Committee to support SF 1690 for Electronic Waste Collection & Recycling 

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TALKING POINTS (& bill description): Download the pdf (above) and/or see the Electronic Waste handout below.

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​Lenten Letter Challenge (2025)                    and/or  Lutheran Letter Campaign (2025)

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We need you – your congregation, campus, youth group, confirmation class, WELCA group, church committee, or whatever – to be in contact with your Minnesota state representative and senator! It is in relationship with their constituents that our legislators know what we care about, and why.

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Letters can be written during a special time in worship, before or after a meal, as part of a forum or in small groups. It is effective to collect the letters as an offering to God, and to pray that legislators will be moved by them. Remember that we do this as part of our faith, acting as God’s advocacy ambassadors for love of neighbor and creation. Notecards, rather than big impersonal pieces of paper, help make the letters/notes feel more personal to the legislator, and assist in the relationship-building process. Download the PDF or Word document, and print each issue page back-to-back with the corresponding sample letter page. Or, send the pages out in advance and encourage people to bring their letters to your next meeting or gathering to dedicate and send them jointly.

 

Affordable Housing & Homelessness - Sample Letter Handout          (Lenten)            (Lutheran)

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Electronic Waste Recycling - Sample Letter Handout          (Lenten)            (Lutheran)

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Coalition Fact Sheet on Electronic Waste Recycling  (2025 Version Coming Soon)

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​What's the Difference?

  • Different Names

  • Different Colors

  • One Different Paragraph (p.1)

​Why?  

  • Different Congregations

  • Different Contexts & Events

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Previous Campaigns

Federal Action Alerts

For more information about federal advocacy, visit the ELCA Advocacy Action Center website here​

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