Saturday, 26 of May of 2012

Happy Sunshine Week!

The Bush administration won’t tell you this, but March 12-18 is Sunshine Week, a period of time dedicated to celebrating and advocating free access by American citizens to government information. Thomas Jefferson did not say, “An informed citizenry is the bulwark of a democracy,” but he should have. Unless citizens can know what’s going on in their government, there is no hope that they will be able to fully advocate for well-supported positions, as is their right and responsibility. And, as George Orwell pointed out in 1984, a state which is able to shove inconvenient information down a memory hole is a state that controls its citizens rather than the other way ’round.

Visit sunshineweek.org for links to websites promoting open government, resources for journalists and free information activists on college campuses, a discussion blog and a toolkit of resources to help spread the word about this woefully under-publicized week. Let the sunshine in!


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