THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE DrugSense FOCUS Alert #304 - Saturday, 19 March 2005 Just over two weeks ago, the Media Director and Advisory Board member for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) - Howard Wooldridge - began his historic cross country horse ride promoting an end to 21st century Prohibition. This year's ride, dubbed "The Lone Ranger Rides Again", will take Wooldridge from the west coast of the United States all the way to the east, ending in New York City. Along the way, Howard will meet with Americans in cities and towns with a focus on speaking to civic groups, church groups and educational organizations. He will be conducting media interviews along the route with radio, TV and print journalists. With the help of volunteer newshawks, the press coverage will be posted to MAP. If you become aware of a printed article, but are not sure how to newshawk it, please contact: One front page article, linked below, was printed March 18th in the Edmond Sun. Reporter Alice Collinsworth attended some of Howard's speaking events. She was introduced to Howard by friends of both LEAP and MAP. We are calling on the many Friends of LEAP across North America to send a letter to the editor of the Edmond Sun in response to this prominent article. Howard delivers his message so well that your LTE need not be lengthy. Thanks for your effort and support. It's not what others do it's what YOU do The article, Two Sides of the Same Coin, can be seen here: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n468/a03.html Read About Howard's Ride http://leap.cc/howard/ Other news clippings about Howard are at: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Howard+Wooldridge Additional suggestions for writing LTEs are at our Media Activism Center: http://www.mapinc.org/resource/ Or contact MAP Media Activism Facilitator Steve Heath for personal tips on how to write LTEs that get printed. PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER Please post a copy of your letter or report your action to the sent letter list () if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy directly to if you are not subscribed. Your letter will then be forwarded to the list so others can learn from your efforts. Subscribing to the Sent LTE list () will help you to review other sent LTEs and perhaps come up with new ideas or approaches as well as keeping others aware of your important writing efforts. To subscribe to the Sent LTE mailing list see http://www.mapinc.org/lists/index.htm#form Prepared by: Stephen Heath, MAP Media Activism Facilitator =

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