If you find the magic potion to shake up our usually passive diaspora, let me know. Our communities excel in preaching to the choir but tremble in stepping outside their safe, same-old same-old routines. We all took English in school, how hard is it to write a letter? No time? How about at coffee hour after church instead of gossiping and moaning, at meetings of Soyuz, of Plast and Sum.
I also tried to get these 'patriots' to call or e-mail the White House. It is so easy but no, they reply "why bother, it won't make a difference". They put on events and expect the media to show up and then complain when they don't that we are surrounded by enemies.
In the area where I live with very few Ukrainians, we were able to hold 2 demonstrations, 4 articles in local papers and 2 TV stations aired our event.
Why? Because we called them beforehand, we e-mailed them, we called them afterwards to thank them, we called them again right from the demonstration that their local nightly TV report should not miss this event (they showed up), we found people for them to interview, etc.
We have now compiled a database of media contacts in our area to be used in the future, probably in a few weeks. As long as Ukraine is in the news, we will pitch them stories.
Pani Orysiu, I will pokhvaly vac for the energy and initiativep you have shown. We all need to raise our voices and join this battle. This is one battle we can fight on the home front so they did not die in vain on the Maidan.
----- Original Message -----
From: Orysia Tracz
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:19 AM
Subject: [politics] media
My original comment was meant to shake up some very capable people here to write to the media -- e.g., in Winnipeg, and other Canadian cities. Few if any letters to the editor to expand or correct nasty diatribes by the Canadian titushky have appeared in the Wpg Free Press, e.g., or in the online editions. One person here in Wpg told me to write in, like I usually do. It doesn't look good for the same one or two people to always write in on Ukr. issues. I told him to write... well, you know.... uh..... -- that's not the correct answer. [this is not to khvaly mene yazychku, but to get some of you to write! Of course, discussion in the group is good, no one said otherwise. But the mainstream is crucial]
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