Participating in Democracy
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Peace & Social Concerns - Participating in Democracy
DFM's Peace and Social Concerns Committee presents this list of resources to help you effectively contact your political representatives. Includes contact information for local, state and national representatives and institutions.
Living in the World
We are a people that follow after those things that make for peace, love, and unity. - Margaret Fell, 1660
True godliness doesn’t turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavours to mend it; not hide their candle under a bushel, but set it upon a table in a candlestick. - William Penn, 1682
For Friends the most important consideration is not the right action in itself but a right inward state out of which right action will arise. Given the right inward state, right action is inevitable. Inward state and outward action are component parts of a single whole. - Howard Brinton, 1943
Individuals can resist injustice, but only in community can we do justice... Much that has been labeled “civil disobedience” is, more accurately, civil initiative; it is the exercise by individuals or communities of their legally established duty to protect the victims of government officials’ violations of fundamental rights. - Excerpts from “Sanctuary as a Quaker Testimony,” a report by Jim Corbett to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting , 1986
- From the Intermountain Yearly Meeting (IMYM) Faith &Practice
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Tips for Effective Contact from Friends Committee on National Legislation
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Follow the Activities of Our State and Federal Legislators
- Congress.Gov Access a wide variety of information about activity in both the House and Senate, including voting records, bill texts, committee meeting schedules and a video archive of House and Senate sessions.
- Searchable Congressional Record Database
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National Government
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Website/email: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Senator Michael Bennet
Washington, D.C. Office
261 Russell Senate Office Building 15
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224- 5852
Fax: 202-228- 5097
Website/email: https://www.bennet.senate.gov/?p=contact
Senator Michael Bennet's Four Corners Office
835 East 2nd Avenue, Suite 206
Durango, CO 81301
Phone: 970-259- 1710
Senator Cory Gardner
Washington, D.C. Office
354 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224- 5941
Fax: 202-224- 6524
Website/email; https://www.gardner.senate.gov/contact-cory/email-cory
Senator Cory Gardner's Durango Office
329 S. Camino Del Rio, Suite 1
Durango, CO 81303
Phone: 970-415- 7416
Fax: 970-259- 4276
Representative Scott Tipton
Washington, D.C. Office
218 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225- 4761
Fax: 202-226-9669
Website/email: https://tipton.house.gov/contact-me
Representative Scott Tipton's Durango Office
835 E. Second Avenue, Suite 230
Durango, CO 81301
Phone: 970-259- 1490
Fax: 970-259- 1563
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State Government
Governor John Hickenlooper
State Capitol, Room 136
Denver, CO, 80203
Front desk 303-866- 2471 Call the front desk for a fax number.
Email: http://www.colorado.gov/apps/feedback/emailColoradoGov.faces
State Senator Don Coram
Phone: 303-866- 2955
Website: DonCoram.com
Email: Don@DonCoram.com
State Representative Barbara McLachlan
State Capitol, 200 East Colfax
Room 307, Denver CO 80203
Phone: 303-866- 2914
Fax: 303-866- 2012
Email: barbara.mclachlan.house@state.co.us
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La Plata County Government
1101 E. Second Avenue
Durango, CO 81301
970-382- 6210
Joe Kerby, County Manager
La Plata County Commissioners
Gwen Lachelt
970-3982- 6215
Brad Blake
970-382- 6216
Julie Westendorff
970-382- 6217
julie.westendorff@co.laplata.co.us
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City of Durango
949 E. 2 nd Avenue
Durango, CO 81301
Ron LeBlanc, Durango City Manager
970-375- 5005
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Durango City Counselors
Melissa Youssef
970-759- 6477
Melissa.Youssef@DurangoGov.org
Chris Bettin
970-903- 7951
Sweetie Marbury
970-259- 0218
sweetie.marbury@durangogov.org
Dick White
970-903- 7293
Dean Brookie
970-749- 3189
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Local Organizations
Our 1st 100 Days https://www.our1st100days.us/
There are too many organizations for P &SC to list and keep up with all of them. The local organizations associated with Our 1st 100 Days may give you a good start on what is going on and point you toward national organizations. You may need to register, particularly your ZIP Code, to access local organizations participating in Our 1st 100 Days.
Calendar of Events Local Organizations are Sponsoring https://www.our1st100days.us/events/
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