INDEX

1. How to be an activist:

 i) rules of thumb

 ii) starting points

 iii) how to get your message in the news media

 iv) sample press release

 v) campaign tactics

 vi) how to lobby

 vii) preparing for the meeting

 viii) the meeting

2. Local lessons learned

3. Rachel's Environment & Health News: Public Participation, part one.

4. Contact information for provincial politicians:

Premier Dalton McGuinty

Minister of the Environment Leona Dombrowsky

Minister of Natural Resources

David Ramsay

Haliburton-Victoria-Brock

MPP Laurie Scott

Contact information for all members of the Ontario Legislative Assembly

Contact information for Barry Devolin, Federal Members of Parliament

Contact information for local governments