User:JenniferForUnity
Welcome to my page. My name is Jennifer. Please talk to me... or check out my contribs :-)
A plug for the Unity Wiki
The Unity Movement is, roughly, the group of USians interested in Unity08. The big gripe is that politicians seem to be happier stroking America's factional identities with policies that recognize (or diss) various christian/queer/racial groups in ways that can't help but anger significant numbers of people. There are only so many "politician hours" in a year so these divisive issues inevitably take attention away from (1) a ballooning national debt and expanding government, (2) dying oceans (coral and fish stocks are collapsing), and (3) a looming energy shortage that's unprecedented in the history of human civilization. Basically, the US government seems to simply be failing to govern.
Some of our big values are Pragmatism, Civility, Inclusion, Compromise, and Transparency... but what really distinguishes us from "other political wikis" is that we're scheming up a net based political revolution in 2008 with an online presidential convention and alliances with professional politicians. If this sounds like something you'd be into, I'd really appreciate it if you would check out The Unity Wiki. There's a sister Unity Supporters Web Forum but here at Wikipedia what I'm really hoping to find are wiki people committed to a better world and willing to help edit a wiki to that end.
The Unity Movement is still small but shooting for exponential growth... early adopters are crucial and we really need you.
(The following people (other than me) have edited the Unity08 article and might be espcially interested in this: Jersey Devil, Sludge, Rehpotsirhc, Nat Krause, Wknight94, Daneanderson, Jtalledo, Grumpyyoungman01, Mineralè, Onemanbandbjm, and Appraiser.)
An Introduction
Hello to whoever is snooping on me :-)
JenniferForUnity is the net name I use for political stuff on the net. Unity08 is the "profesional arm" of the Unity Movement and I guess in a weird way I'm sort of the leader of the "net roots" arm. I just bounce around and try to direct normal people who bump into the idea of Unity and want to do something about it towards other people like them. My hope is that something cool grows out of lots of peer-to-peer interactions by political amateurs... like me :-)
My biggest issue is election reform, specifically things like Ranked Pairs Polling and the Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes by the Single Transferable Vote (which can be implemented to accomplish a Proportional representation version of Ranked Pairs), and more general "international voting standards" stuff like secure balloting, giving "voting rights" status as a human right, and having elections oversight be non-partisan.
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Response to your inquiry
Thanks for noticing my edits. I do quite a bit of spelling correction when my attention is divided. Otherwise I write about Minnesota history, places, or people. I've also spent time today working on the God-awful article Renewable fuels (I'm not done yet). I'll add you to my LJ friends if you'd like. I didn't find JenniferForUnity there; what do you go by? Appraiser 02:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC) aka bchbum_98.
- LiveJournal doesn't like long logins... http://jenforunity.livejournal.com/ :-)
- - JenniferForUnity 05:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)