Change.gov ‘citizen briefing book’
The incoming Obama administration’s CHANGE.GOV ‘Citizen briefing book’ website is very interesting – you can post an idea, and have people comment and vote it up and down. Government 2.0…
For instance, here’s an entry on the School of the Americas (where the US military trains Latin American military in the arts of repression, look it up if you don’t know) that I just commented on – http://tinyurl.com/a866nj
Dear President Obama, The School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is part of the conventional thinking that military repression is a solution to social and political problems. The existence of the SOA/ WHINSEC is part of a larger failure in U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America. It is a symbol of oppression and U.S. domination for most Latin Americans and should be shut down without delay. I am urging you to issue an executive order to close down the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)
Please consider participating in this subject and look up others that you care about (of course Israel/Palestine, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan) and vote up (or down). You’ll need to register, though and registration is quick.