CALL TO ACTION
By November 19
Do you live in Brookline? If yes, we need your help. Please contact your Town Meeting Members before November 19, and ask them as a constituent, to please support WA18, Home Rule Petition. Here is some information that you may want to include. Please make your message your own, so your TMM will pay attention. Scroll down to the list of Town Meeting Members by precinct with contact information and a map to find your precinct. Any questions, please email us.
Sample Email
Dear Precinct ____ Town Meeting Member,
My name is _________________, I live in Precinct _____. I am writing as your constituent asking that you support Warrant Article 18 Home Rule Petition. I am deeply concerned about the negative impact of SGARs on our environment, wildlife, pets and people. We in Brookline can do better. Please vote yes on Warrant Article 18 Home Rule Petition.
Sincerely,
_____________________
Feel free to add your thoughts and concerns.
PLANNING MEETING
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
at 7:00 PM on Zoom
RSVP at friendsofbrooklineraptors@gmail.com to receive Zoom link
Help us develop plans to continue our advocacy work. If you are unable to meet, but would like to help, please email to let us know your interests and/or availability.
FIRST MEETING
Monday, October 7, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Denny Room Brookline Department of Health. 11 Pierce St. Brookline 02445
In-person or via Zoom
Special Guest Speaker: Heather Packard from The Mass Audubon Society
- Learn how Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) are killing wild-life, pets and Raptors, including hawks, owls and eagles.
- Learn about alternative, more effective ways to manage the rat and rodent population, while saving their natural predators.
- Learn how hawks and other raptors can eat 1,000 rats a year.
- Learn about the warrant article that has been submitted to town
meeting.
Photo Credit: Amelia Szymkowicz, Friend’s of Halls Pond
Friends of Brookline Raptors 