A Call for Active Citizens

Originally posted to sCNN – the smallChangeNewsNetwork

Here’s a good example of the kinds of things that sCNN wants to connect…

Ted Ernst works in Chicago, running a government program for wards of the state who are graduating into adulthood. In a normal year, he takes several weeks of unpaid time off, buys his own plane tickets and flies to Africa to organize and teach organization. He supports that work by email and other activities from Chicago, as well. If a tsunami hit the African coast, he’s the guy I’d want to pour some money into. I love that he’s started all of this work on his own dime (and with his partner Regula), on the web in wiki and blogs, and on the ground with shovels and malaria nets.

sCNN wants to be a linking space to more work like this. It wants to be a center among centers… so that all of it/them can grow stronger. I’m building out the Blogrolls this week… what projects and people should be listed here? A first draft of guidelines for posting should also be coming this week, but please don’t wait for that. Tell us which blogs and bloggers you think belong here. Thanks!

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