From USICD: Support the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities by Using Social Media

CRPD Ratification Social Media ACTION ALERT

#CRPD ACTION ALERT!

Use Social Media to Secure YOUR Senators’ Support for U.S. Ratification!

 

After an exciting spring and summer that has now delivered the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to the Senate floor for one final vote, the Senate is out on recess and the Senators are back in their home states.  We’ve asked you to call and write, visit and go to events and do anything you can to secure both of your U.S. Senators’ support for the CRPD for when they return September 10th.  We thank all of you for all the hard work you have been putting in!

 

But we can’t quit now!  The opposition is gearing up and using social media to inundate the Senators with misinformation about the CRPD.  The disability community needs to answer back, and in greater numbers!  You, your family and friends can use Twitter and Facebook and any other social media you belong to in order to spread the word about supporting the CRPD!

 

Here are some useful tips to help you with Twitter and Facebook:

 

• Important: Use #CRPD to weigh in on your message of support for the CRPD!
• Tweet directly  to your Senators by using the @ symbol and their twitter address. You can find your Senators’ twitter address by going to their website (found here) and looking for the Twitter symbol, or searching for them on directly Twitter.  And remember every state has 2 Senators.  Tweet to both of them! 
• Keep your message short, to the point and POSITIVE!
• Don’t know what to write? Follow USICD on Twitter and get ideas for new CRPD tweets!
• Don’t just post once and walk away – come back again later that day and for days after and keep tweeting! It only takes a few seconds but the impact is tremendous!
• Ask your friends and family to tweet and re-tweet!    
• Re-tweet your friends and family!
• Ideas for messages:

1. Dear @(your Senator’s twitter address here) Please support ratification of the #CRPD!
2. @(your Senator’s twitter address here) Support the #CRPD.  This is a #disability issue!
3.  @(your Senator’s twitter address here) I am a (describe your connection to the community ex. parent of a child with a #disability, person with a #disability, friend of people with #disabilities) and I support the #CRPD.  Please do the same!

 FACEBOOK  

• Visit your Senator’s Facebook page and post positive messages about supporting the CRPD.  You can find your Senator’s Facebook pages on their websites, and you can find their websites by clicking here.
• Choose a time when you know a lot of your friends and family are on Facebook to post so that more people have the chance to share.
• Ask people to Share and Like your links to spread the word about supporting the CRPD.
• Link to USICD’s CRPD Updates page and choose the CRPD “Ratify Yes!” sticker as the image.
• Look through the USICD CRPD Updates page and check out some of the letters of support on the right side of the page, “News and Calls for Ratification” on the bottom of the page, and video clips in the middle of the page.  Write your positive comments about them and share them as a link.    
• Keep your messages positive!

Finally, be sure to let us know what you’re hearing as you activate your Twitter and Facebook accounts  – email Esme Grant (egrant@usicd.org)  with important updates.

    

Most importantly, get out there on the web and show your support!  We need 2/3 of the Senate to ratify and we can’t do it without the whole community!