The WA Budget still needs your help!

The Washington budget isn’t set yet and HIV prevention and care services are still looking at deep cuts. We still need your help talking to legislators about how you feel. Prevention service are still going to be cut by more than 40% and care services by an additional 20%.

Last week we asked for you to write letters so that we could hand deliver them to the state legislators on AIDS Action and Awareness Day next week. We have received many letters, but we need more.

We are hoping to get more folks from around the state to fill in their own comments and info and return the letters to us by this Friday, February 5th. We need your help to do this - please pass this blank letter along to everyone you know - we'd like to have as many legislative districts in the state represented as possible! Letters can be emailed back to advocate@llaa.org or mailed to Lifelong, 1002 E Seneca, Seattle WA 98122. We will collate them and distribute them in person to the appropriate Legislator on February 10th.

We have two fact sheets that you can download from GoogleDocs– one about Care services and funding and the other about Prevention. We will be passing these on to all the electeds down in Olympia, and ask that you forward them to your lists.

Also on that day we will be conducting a variety of online activities instead of gathering everyone in Olympia. Look for more information in the next week or so. You can also join the Communities in Action Network at www.cannetwork.net or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/aidsactionday . Do let me know if you have any questions. It is our collectivevoices being raised that will help protect the funding for thecritical services we provide.

Yours in solidarity,
Erick Seelbach
Director of Prevention, Education, and Public Policy
Lifelong AIDS Alliance

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