Online voters push for arts in Obama administration
Here's a message I received from a music educator and self-desrcibed desktop activist named Timothy Kjer about an initiative that sounds very worthy to me:
FROM TIMOTHY KJER:
I wanted to see if I could get your quick help. I'm not sure if you've heard, but there's a movement of citizens inspired by the presidential campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think the Obama Administration should change America. It's called "Ideas for Change in America." I've submitted an idea and wanted to see if you could quickly vote for it. The title is: Save the Arts Coalition.
The top 10 ideas are going to be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a real chance at becoming policy. Right now this idea is currently in 703rd Place in Economy and needs 1025 more votes to make it into the second round.
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Just FYI there is currently an online petition to request creation of cabinet level Secretary of Arts position -I'd assume similar to the Ministries of Culture of most European countries. Not sure this idea will ever take off in the US, but I find it interesting that it has received the traction it has on line (http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html).
Posted by: Louis Bothwell | December 31, 2008 1:15 PM
The bad news is that the voting for my Change.org "Save the Arts Coalition" idea has closed and my idea did not survive. The good (and perhaps better) news is that we now have an online petition for Obama to establish a Secretary of Arts in the cabinet. Please sign and spread the word ASAP! Thank you Tim Smith and Louis Bothwell!
http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html
Posted by: Tim Kjer | January 2, 2009 9:51 AM