There's no "I" in OAW

If you're reading this, then you are probably either an overseas American yourself or are a friend of overseas Americans. And we need your help. This is a group effort. There are over twenty of us here in Washington participating in OAW, but there are thousands of you out there who can lend a hand from right there in your living room. You don't even have to get up from your computer.

Everyone in Washington is competing for a limited amount of attention from Congress on thousands of issues, so we need your help to make our voice as strong as it can be. Here are some things you can do to assist OAW and, more generally, to help AARO:

- Tell friends and colleagues about OAW and AARO. Email your friends or post links to www.overseasamericansweek.com, www.aaro.org or www.aaro-oaw.org on Twitter, Facebook or wherever else you're active online.

- Join the AARO groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, Meetup and InterNations.

- Join AARO at www.aaro.org (join now for only 20 euros as part of our spring membership drive).

- Write a letter. Use our model letter to ask your Representative to join the Americans Abroad Caucus.

- Give us the names and email addresses of any media contacts that you may have -- political columnists, bloggers, journalists at papers read either on Capitol Hill or by the American community abroad, etc.

Thanks!