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I interviewed Willie Fontenot for six hours of audio interview time covering all the questions we covered during the podcast in depth and in detail.

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I want you to have every skill and every trick at your disposal to defend your community, your family and your home from polluters, developers, or other special interests. Perhaps there is an issue that you are passionate about and it just never occurred to you that you can raise your voice with a group of like minded individuals. I believe that you are the missing voice and I sincerely pray that you will bring your voice into the political debate.

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Eric James Wolf

Summer 2007

How to Form your own Advocacy Group with Willie Fontenot

Retired advocate Willie Fontenot is interviewed for half an hour. He lays out in basic graphic detail how to form, run and operate your own advocacy group. He talks about common mistakes, common assumption and how to plan a successful campaign so that you with limited means and resources can successfully influence events in your community and protect your neighborhoods long-range interests.

I ask Willie the following questions.

• What is the most important idea that I should know before I start my advocacy group?
• How do I go about starting an advocacy group?
• What should I know about running an advocacy group?
• How should my group plan it's campaign?
• How do I go about raising money for my group?
• Should I be afraid of upsetting other people by my groups actions?

You can listen to this show by clicking the link below.Summer 2007 How to form your own advocacy group with Willie A. Fontenot.

Autobiographical note

About William A. Fontenot

From April of 1978 to April of 2005 William A. Fontenot served as the Community Liaison Officer for the Louisiana Attorney General's Office. His duties were to assist individuals, groups, local officials, other agencies, businesses and others, such as the news media, with environmental problems, issues, or questions. In this capacity he had the opportunity to assist thousands of individuals and help organize more than four hundred groups with a wide variety of problems and issues throughout Louisiana and more than thirty other states.

William A. Fontenot have been very active with a number of organizations since 1969 after graduating from college. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Clean Water Fund. For the sixteen years before that he served on the board of Clean Water Action. Other groups he has been closely affiliated with include the Mississippi River Basin Alliance, Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN), the Labor Neighbor Project, the Louisiana Wildlife Federation and the New Orleans Group and the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club. William A. Fontenot is considered the grandfather of the environmental justice movement if not it's midwife.

Articles of Interest.

Willie has written the following three articles.

On Forming Your Advocacy Group (Part 1)

On Forming Your Advocacy Group (Part 2)

Additional Suggested Reading from William A. Fontenot

Smoke from EXXON Refinery,
Baton Rouge, LA
December 24, 1989
Photo by William A. Fontenot

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