Help honor Peter McWilliams

Peter McWilliams touched millions of people through his books and activism. Let's make sure his contributions are acknowledged.

Here are a couple easy ways to help spread the word.

• Send an e-mail message to your friends and family. Think about the way a joke makes its way around the Internet to millions of people. We can do this with the Peter McWilliams tribute too. Send a note to your friends, family, or co-workers, and encourage them to pass it on.

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  Would you take a minute to help us honor a hero? Peter McWilliams died on June 14, 2000 at the age of 50, a casualty in the war on drugs. We all touch other people's lives, whether we know it or not. We all leave the world changed in some way. This tribute is our way of standing up for one good man, whether or not we knew him personally, even if we never heard the name of the man behind the good deeds until after his passing. It's our way of saying "we noticed." Peter McWilliams touched the lives of millions with his books on personal growth and individual freedom, such as "Life 101" and "Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do." He became a crusader for medical marijuana. Voters in his home state of California agreed with him that marijuana should be legal for medical purposes when they passed Proposition 215 in 1996. But the federal drug warriors ignored the voters, and his activism made him a target. For helping a friend produce medical marijuana, they charged him as a drug kingpin in federal court. In the end, he was facing five years in prison, bankrupt from legal battles, unable to work, and forbidden to use the medical marijuana he himself needed to keep down the medication for his AIDS and AIDS-related cancer. He was waiting for the final sentence from the judge. But he could not wait very long. He couldn't keep down his medication, and we lost a hero. Please take a minute to sign your name to the ForAHero.com Web page: http://www.forahero.com/ If you want, jot down a thought in his honor, or write a word of condolence to his family. Give your location, if you wish, so we can see how far Peter McWilliams' life and death have been felt. Take a second and help us say "this one man will not be forgotten." Sign http://www.forahero.com/ and forward this message on to your friends and family. Thank you.

• Print out some handbills right now. These are perfect for passing out at protest marches and rallies ... stuffing in mailboxes ... hanging on your door ... you name it. Click here for the Adobe PDF version. (To download the Adobe reader for free, click here.) Click here for a slightly lower-resolution HTML version of the handbills. Four to a page.

• E-mail a letter-to-the-editor of your local newspaper. Here's an Internet contact list for more than 10,000 papers. (If you get a letter printed e-mail Chris Whitten. If you'd be willing to let other people use it as a template we'll put it up here on the site.)

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  ForAHero.com Contact Information

  This is an informal network -- a group effort. Here are some of the coordinators.

  • Chris Whitten, president of Interesting.com, chairman of The Henry Hazlitt Foundation, 401 N. Franklin, Suite 3E, Chicago, IL 60610.

  • J.D. Tuccille, editor of .

  
  

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  ForAHero.com is an informal effort coordinated by friends and fans of Peter McWilliams along with a group of sponsor organizations. Please join us. Click here for easy ways you can help. To get occasional updates on our progress, enter your e-mail address here:

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  The Web site is donated by The Henry Hazlitt Foundation as part of . E-mail or click here for more contact information.