The 20/20 Vision Thing

Shana Milkie was always an activist at heart, but the demands of fulltime motherhood kept her out of the loop. The Ann Arbor, Michigan resident says she "wanted to get involved, but I was nervous about it. I'd never written to a congressman, and I didn't know how ordinary people did that. Then I saw an ad for 20/20 Vision in an alternative paper."

That was seven years ago. Now Milkie leads a 20/20 Vision core group, buttonholing congressmen every month about peace, justice and the environmental way. Her group gets involved in both national issues, like the campaign for a comprehensive test ban treaty, and local ones, like the grassroots effort to stop a landfill in the suburbs of Detroit. "This absolutely fits in with my life," Milkie says. I can write letters during my two-year-old daughter's nap."

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