The false campaigning, flyers, mailers, anonymous posts on blogs, radio appearances and so on in the 2009 city elections in Jackson has encouraged many of us to get together and call for more truth and transparency in local government, campaigns, media and on personal blogs.
So today on Election Day, the JFP is announcing the Jackson Truth and Transparency Initiative as a community project going forward. We invite you to join us, regardless of your political leanings. We want your ideas, your energy and your support for this very important initiative.
Going forward, we hope the project becomes a way to encourage Jacksonians to stop spreading so many falsehoods and to factcheck information before putting it out there. We hope to develop a "best practices" for local blogs to voluntarily sign on to pledge that they will not spread unsubstantiated rumors and operate as breeding grounds for anonymous posters to spread lies for their own personal benefit and vendettas. We want to encourage more people to post on Web sites under their own names wherever possible and avoid anonymity, and the abuses that often accompanies it (much as people already do on Facebook).
We want to promote open and transparent government and work together to test public servants to see how well they respond to efforts to bring sunshine into local government and politics. And we plan to develop a "No dirty tricks" pledge that we will ask all politicians to sign onto, pledging that they will help root out and discourage dishonest campaign tricks in their own and others' campaigns.
Please feel free to pledge below to support this project, as well as offer your suggestions.
COMMENTSBump. Let’s make bright, sunny lemonade from sour, rotten lemons!
OK, that sounded goofy, but you get my point. Let’s join together for truth and transparency in Jackson.
posted by DonnaLadd on 05/19/09 at 03:22 PM
Sounds like a good idea, Donna. Maybe you should move this to a more prominent place on the Web site.
posted by LatashaWillis on 05/21/09 at 07:34 AM
If you’re interested in joining the JFP in the Jackson Truth and Transparency Initiative, let us hear from you.
As Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
One of her lesser known quotes seems especially apt given the ugliness of the recent mayor race shenanigans: “No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.”
posted by Ronni_Mott on 05/21/09 at 09:24 AM
“No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.”
That’s a great quote, Ronni. I hadn’t heard it.
posted by DonnaLadd on 05/21/09 at 09:59 AM
Ronni,
Is the quote, “No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded”, from Margaret’s “A Rap on Race” which she co-authored with James Baldwin?
posted by justjess on 05/21/09 at 10:14 AM
More for Adam Lynch….I have been working on a chronic lower back condition, so I speak from experience not conjecture…this is no hoveround joke!
Today, as traces of pain leaves my back replaced by a faint soreness, after months of self therapy, we reach today’s Holistic Healing action, which we just tweeted: 4/10/2010:play basketball, soak n tub of hotherb water; rubself allover with oliveoil n thesun; bath in coldwater; feel backpain leave as you walk without stooping—feels oh so good!
The secret seems to lie in the effect that the cold herb water splashing and soaking and bouncing up and down in the tub had on this longstanding condition just last week, when an immediate reduction of the intensity of the pain was noted. This is remarkable, as it comes on the heal of information just received today about brown fat as opposed to white fat.
Such a breakthrough in the condition of my lower back appears to be connected to findings of research (released this week in the New England Journal of Medicine)proving that cold temperature affects the manner in which brown fat (which was thought to be found only in babies and animals but now proven to exist in adults, located primarily in the neck and chest)actually burns calories, and enhances the immune system.
I will continue to blog and tweet on Holistic Healing choices of actions available to people who are serious about improving their health without so called side effects and minus crippling results using technology that works on chronic degenerative imbalances of the mind/body/soul.
Doctor Daddy
(PS. Adam if you are brave enough to employ these alternative remedies that are outside of the range of accepted contemporary practices and that work to relieve your ill condition…you know what to do for the po doctor!)
posted by doctor daddy on 04/12/10 at 12:35 AM
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