Get Involved - Act Now

1. Send an email to your Representative!

Use our on-line form to quickly and easily let your Representative that you want them to do everything they can to press for the end of U.S. support for human rights violations in Ethiopia.

2. Call the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

3. Write a letter to Condoleezza Rice

Here is the text of a letter sent to Secretary of State Rice, asking her to intervene on behalf of Dr. Nega. Thousands of letters like this one have been sent to Dr. Rice already. You can download an .rtf version of the file here.

You might think that sending a letter is ineffective—you are wrong. Politicians take letters from concerned citizens very seriously, because the effort taken to send such a protest is one of the only ways they have of measuring discontent among voters.

4. Call U.S. Embassies

1. This is the official website of the United States to Ethiopia in Addis Ababa: http://addisababa.usembassy.gov/.
2. Here is a the official website for the U.S. mission to the UN: http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov/.
3. This office advises the Secretary and guides the operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. For information about U.S. foreign policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa can contact the Bureau of African Affairs' Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at (202) 663-0500.

5. Call the Ethiopian Embassies

1. Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
   http://www.ethiopianembassy.org/index.shtml
2. Ethiopian Mission to the UN
   http://www.un.int/ethiopia/eth03_pgs/opener.htm

6. Contact Mike Gonzalez at the Ethiopia Desk in the U.S. State Department (202-647-6473).

Email info@freenega.org for more information on how to get involved.