OSA

Focus on planning your Valentine's Day of Action, collecting letters and debt checks, building awareness on campus, creating visuals.  Shift Lobby Day recruitment into high gear.

February 5-11

• Create V-Day of Action materials and props
• Fax 2nd V-Day of Action news advisory February 7th, and follow up with phone calls to ensure your media outlets have received it
• Sign-up tablers for V-day of Action
• Students turn in letters to the editor to campus and local papers

February 12-18

• Lobby Day recruitment:  yeses = your goal x 1.5
• V-Day of Action prep checklist:

• Confirm volunteers for tabling hours
• confirm logistics with scheduling
• confirm props and materials
• write news release for distribution to attending media at your event
• prepare press packets that include: your news release, fact sheets, text of any speakers at the event, etc.

*February 14th:  Valentine's Day of Action on campuses

• Make reminder calls to media at 8 a.m. (7 a.m. if you are in Portland)
• Collect child care letters!!! Raise the collective consciousness!!
• Recruit students to OSA Lobby Day!!
• Use this event to create visuals targeting legislative candidates from your area to use at the OSA Lobby Day
• Immediately following the event, send out your news release
• Continue collecting letters through presentations to student orgs, classes, etc.

February 19-25

• Lobby Day recruitment: yeses=your goal x 1.8
• continue collecting letters
• Meet with relevant student groups to brief them on the issue of the OUS and community college budgets and the OSA campaign

February 26-March 4

• Complete candidate posters with messages from students
• Lobby Day recruitment: yeses=your goal x 2

MARCH

Bring it home!!  All of our materials--OUS letters, community college postcards, child care letters and ONG debt checks--should be in the bag by this point.  The focus of this month is finishing the term with a ROAR on OSA Lobby Day and then passing finals!

March 5-11

• March 7 - STATEWIDE LOBBY DAY

March 12-18

• Sign up 2-4 students for OSA Spring Break Lobby Week
• volunteer Appreciation Party!
• Study for final exams

March 19-25

• Send thank-you notes to coalition partners, allies and anyone else who contributed to your campaign
• Confirm students for OSA Spring Break Lobby
• Pass all of your finals!

Mrch 26-31

• OSA Spring Break Lobby Week

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