GET INVOLVED WITH A LOCAL ICC ALLIANCE

• Read about alliance purposes, formation, and priority activities
• Locate existing alliances in your area
• Read about forming a local ICC alliance
• Read about ICC alliance activities around the country

INTEGRATE THE ICC INTO YOUR ORGANIZATION'S REGULAR ACTIVITIES

• Read AMICC's local advocacy handbook
  
  
• Download and distribute an AMICC brochure or request copies by mail
  Print out both pages, make a double-sided copy, and fold in threes with "What is the ICC" folded inward so that it faces "Why hasn't the US ratified the ICC Statute." You can print either regular or color copies.

PARTICIPATE IN A CAMPAIGN TO BUILD LOCAL ICC SUPPORT

• Download and distribute a flyer about alliance building: "Start or Join a Local ICC Alliance"
  
  
• Hold religious celebrations to celebrate the important work of the Court. Presbyterian members of the Faith and Ethics Network for the ICC developed a congregational observance to be used at services on the second weekend in March, when the first 18 judges of the ICC were sworn in. It can be modified by use by other faiths and used throughout the year.
  
  
• Organize ICC events on days of remembrance and celebration:
  
  
  • January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day (UN)
  • March 8, International Women's Day. Publicize the contribution the ICC has made to progressively defining and punishing sexual and gender-based violence. For materials on this topic, visit the website of the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice or download their factsheets:
    
    
    • Women and the ICC
    • Treatment of Sexual Violence in International Law
    • Gender Mainstreaming in the ICC Statute
    • Road to the ICC and Gender Integration in International Law
    • Definitions of Crimes of Sexual Violence in the ICC
    
    
  • April 6, Anniversary of start of Rwandan genocide
  • April 17, Anniversary of takeover by Khmer Rouge, beginning Cambodian genocide
  • April 18, Holocaust Remembrance Day (US)
  • April 24, Anniversary of start of Armenian genocide
  • June 4, International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
  • July 17, International Justice Day
  • August 9, International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
  • Third Tuesday of September, International Day of Peace
  • October 24, United Nations Day
  • November 20, Universal Children's Day
  • December 10, Human Rights Day
  
  
• Conduct local polls to gauge support for the ICC. Such results can be used to bolster support by your representatives to vote right on ICC legislation. Further details can be found in the alliance manual.

SPEAK UP ABOUT THE ICC

• Generate ICC support from conservatives. Questions and answers.
• Learn about US government arguments against the Court and responses to them.
• Learn how to use the media as an advocacy tool.
• Learn about national polls, notable supporters and organizational commitments to the Court.