Candidate for U.S. President Participating in CouchSurfing Project

For many years and especially since the 2003 run-up to the invasion, I have been studying media and American politics, and thinking about how to build inoculations against the combination of media consolidation and market fragmentation that helps a relatively few powerful people mislead and misinform so many good people.

This process has lead me to believe strongly that lack of governmental transparency lies at the heart of this problem, and also convinced me that the solution involves a level of transparency that would give anybody with Internet access far greater ability to monitor our public servants and even the press has today. (Details at Wilson2008.com)

Because this is not the kind of solution that mainstream candidates and media conglomerates—both of whom largely achieved their positions by being expert at limiting and controlling information—and because such radical change must take place particularly at the Executive Branch, I decided to run for U.S. President in order to try to bring national attention to this issue, and hopefully guilt the other candidates into making transparency a major part of their platforms.

CouchSurfing comes in to this picture because the project offers a way to travel around the country and spread the message without spending larges sums of money on hotel rooms. The reason I am writing is to announce my effort to the CourchSurfing project and to encourage everybody to join a group that I have set up to coordinate the effort. The group is called “Kelcey Wilson for U.S. President in 2008 - Help create a National Solar Power Grid” and can be found here: www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=9004

With optimism,
Kelcey Wilson
www.wilson2008.com
619.358.3396

Posted January 21st, 2008 - 6:48 pm by Kelcey Wilson from San Jose, United States

Creation of the CS Human Rights Watch group

CS Human Rights Watch group was created on the 1st of January 2008 and it shares the spirit of Couchsurfing itself of Creating a Better World.

The Mission Statement of the CS Human Rights Watch group (still open to discussion in the group) is to provide CS members with an easy platform to:

- denounce any abuse of Human Rights worldwide;
- get local information regarding the situation in countries in conflict areas;
- discuss and share information related to Human Rights issues.


We encourage all members with time and will to participate in the group to join us:
www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=9055

Best regards
HRWg

Posted January 8th, 2008 - 11:01 pm by Diogo Quental from Porto, Portugal