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Internet Petitions...a Waste of Time?
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Best intentions aside, seems like studies have shown that online petitions actually aren't all that productive. Yet, all hope is not lost. Project Jason has a wonderful task for all of us, to help implement an essential bill to aid many loved one's missing persons. And with the way they have it set-up, it's just as easy as signing an online petition, yet the impact is far greater.
http://www.projectjason.org/legislation.html

These are the basic steps involved:

1) If you are interested in helping make a difference in the lives of thousands of missing persons and their families, send an email to campaignforthemissing@projectjason.org Give us your name and the state in which you live. Campaign volunteers are asked to work as a team and post updates on a special area of Project Jason’s forum.

2) Look up the name and contact information for your state senator. This is the official who works with state law rather than federal. You may look up your representative here http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm

3) Send either via email or US mail the prepared letter you will find at the end of this posting to that representative. You are asking them to sponsor this bill and to present it to the senate.

4) If you get a negative response, write to other senators until sponsorship is obtained. (My hope is that there will be more than one person in each state working on this, so that no one person is working on it.)

Sample Letter

This is a sample letter you may use to send to your state senator to ask for sponsorship of the model legislation.
Dear Senator _________,

It has come to my attention that there is a very real and growing problem here in the state of ____________.

Each year, families in __________ struggle with the agony of having to report a missing loved one. Far too often missing persons investigations grow cold, leaving many to cope with this loss. Historically, the law enforcement community's ability to locate and ensure a safe return of those missing has been hampered by an inability to share resources and information when conducting investigations and identifying remains.

In collaboration with experts representing State and local law enforcement, policymakers, forensic scientists, medical examiners and coroners, and crime victims, the U.S. Department of Justice has developed model State legislation. This model legislation seeks to address the national problems of missing persons and the identification of human remains.

For cases involving missing persons, law enforcement's ability to locate and ensure a safe return must be improved. Law enforcement must be granted additional tools to identify high-risk missing persons cases and promptly disseminate critical information to other law enforcement agencies and the public. This model legislation provides framework for improving law enforcement's response.

It suggests ways States can improve the collection of critical information about missing persons, prioritize high-risk missing persons cases, and ensure prompt dissemination of critical information to other law enforcement agencies and the public that can improve the likelihood of a safe return. At the same time, this model legislation suggests an approach for collecting information during the missing persons reporting process that can later be used to help identify human remains.

The model legislation will also ensure that information that could help identify human remains is promptly collected and reported to national databases. Specifically, the model legislation suggests a mechanism for improving death scene investigations, centralizing within the State the reporting of unidentified remains, ensuring the delivery of human remains to an entity that can conduct an appropriate examination, ensuring the timely reporting of identifying information to national databases, and maximizing available resources that can reduce the cost of identifications.

There are an estimated 40,000-50,000 unidentified deceased persons in the US. Many of these persons may be reported missing, but without the model legislation in place as law, this number will continue to grow. This leaves families of the missing without answers, sometimes for years, and unfortunately, sometimes forever.

With more than 100,000+ missing persons cases open in the US, it is clear that we must place more importance upon actions taken that will decrease this number. We are, after all, not talking about numbers, but about human beings. These missing persons are loved and missed by their families. We need to take swift and firm action to put into place laws which will give these families hope and increase the number who come back home.

As my state representative, I ask you to strongly consider sponsoring this bill in the next legislative session. Thank you.

Sincerely,

XXXX XXXXX
Address/Email


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I Am Ready for Love and Logic

My neighbor friend and I are going to start taking this parenting class tonight called Love & Logic, I think their classes are nationwide...I've heard great things about it, so I'll let you all know! ;)

Love and Logic is a philosophy founded by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline, M.D., and is based on the experience of a combined total of over 75 years working with and raising kids. It provides simple and practical techniques to help teachers and parents have less stress and more fun while raising responsible kids. Love and Logic offers many useful techniques that teachers and parents can begin experimenting with immediately. Here are some examples:

* Locking–in sadness or empathy before delivering consequences
* Setting limits with enforceable statements
* Sharing control through lots of small choices
* Building relationships with the One Sentence Intervention
* Neutralizing arguing with the Brain Dead technique
* The Anticipatory Consequence

Love and Logic is easy to use, raises responsible kids, and changes lives.

http://www.loveandlogic.com/

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford have put together a terrific list of Open Source tools that can be used by activists to spread the message and promote interaction by enewsletters, forums, blogs, wikis and epetitions. They wrote an article for Steven Clift's excellent Democracies Online Newswire.








1. ActionApps (On-line Magazine/Content Sharing) http://www.apc.org/actionapps/
2. PostNuke (Slash Forums/Portals) http://www.postnuke.com/
3. Drupal (Blogs) http://drupal.org/
4. Active (News Posting) http://www.active.org.au/doc/
5. phpList (eNewsletters) http://www.phplist.com/
6. phpBB (Forums) http://www.phpBB.com/
7. WebCards (eCards/email2friends) http://webcards.sourceforge.net/
8. TWiki (Wiki/Group Documentation) http://www.twiki.org/
9. Back-End (eActions/ePetitions) http://www.back-end.org/
10.FPDF (eLeaflets/ePosters) (Dynamic PDF/Graphic Generation) http://www.fpdf.org/

http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/2004/01/top_10_open_sou.html

Garden for the Missing

109,000 people around the United States have vanished without a trace. Can you help? Garden for the Missing is a location within Second Life (a popular interactive 3D virtual world) which displays missing persons posters to thousands of Second Life residents.

The main location is at the Remora region (think of a region as a sort of city, and Second Life like a country). The Garden for the Missing contains over 170 posters of missing persons. We also have a garden located at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons region.

We invite you to visit these locations! Stop by and read the stories of the missing, enjoy the virtual beach and rooftop gardens, tell your friends and help raise awareness for these souls. All missing persons posters are clickable so that you can read more about their disappearances. The photos of missing persons are sourced from a range of US-based organizations including Project Jason, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, The National Center for Missing Adults, and BeyondMissing.

You can visit the garden at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Remora/203/148/21 and if you are not a member of Second Life, you will need to download the program and sign up. It is free to join!

http://www.gardenforthemissing.org/

13 Ways To Be A Better Online Activist With Social Networking

13 Ways To Be A Better Online Activist With Social Networking
By Rimerman Deane

There's great ways to be an activist online... Learn ways to turn it up! There's lots of resources out their to get people activated in support of your environmental or social justice campaign.

Quicker Way to Locate Missing Children

Kristi's Social Media and PR Blog: Quicker Way to Locate Missing Children: "The National Fraternal Order of Police announced that they have released a photographic system, PhotoAlert, that is intended to speed up the process of recovery missing children. 'By using proprietary GPS technology, National PhotoAlert meets that demand in missing children cases by issuing geographic-specific alerts to thousands of recipients each minute including law enforcement and government agencies. Recipients receive both a photograph and text information of a missing person.'"

Rachel Conger

Actively Aware

Peace 4 the Missing 4 All

Songs for our Missing Loved Ones

To quote our Ange..."Music is the Soundtrack of our Lives"

Somewhere over the Rainbow 4 Alice Donovan from her daughter Ange

Nothing Else Matters 4 Dwayne and Bryan Ferrell from their Mammabear

Lullaby for a Stormy Night 4 Diana Harris from her daughter Christine

Pride and Joy 4 Lisa Michelle Hatchell from her Mama Alonie

Edelweiss 4 Jack Huizenga from his daughter Sara (Maggie's Rose)

I'll Stand By You 4 all Peace 4 the Missing members from Delilah

Far Away 4 Emily from her Daddy, Michael Sanchez

Please join us at Peace 4 the Missing, all are welcome...
http://peace4missing.ning.com

Please Join us to feature your Missing Persons at Peace 4 the Missing

A Missing Persons and Social Awareness Network for those with missing, a missing or social awareness organization and for all those who care...

Find more photos like this on Peace 4 the Missing

A Plea for HELP from Jessie Foster's Mom

~LostFaces~ of the Missing: A Plea for HELP from Jessie Foster's Mom

PLEASE HELP ME. My Canadian daughter, Jessie Foster, born in Calgary, AB and raised mostly in Kamloops, BC went missing from her home at 1009 Cornerstone Place, North Las Vegas, NV USA (who goes missing from their home???) on March 29, 2006.

Yes we CAN make a DIFFERENCE!

An interactive site dedicated to missing persons and their families and friends, law enforcement, journalists, media, and those with a heart for the missing to congregate and exchange information and support. http://peace4missing.ning.com

Visit Peace 4 the Missing

Peace 4 the Missing

~LostFaces~ of the Missing: Peace 4 the Missing

LISA HATCHELL VANISHED ON HER BIRTHDAY, 5 YEARS AGO, TODAY!

~LostFaces~ of the Missing: Today is my Birthday, Today I Vanished...

Please don't forget about Lisa Michelle Hatchell today, July 19th is both her birthday as well as the very day 5 years ago that she went missing.

Please go and read Lisa's story here! And VOTE yes to spread awareness help bring her HOME!
http://current.com/items/89116904_to...helle_hatchell

MYSTERY
The vanishing: Hatchell was last seen at 54th and Warrington in West Philly.Five Years Gone

Army vet Lisa Michelle Hatchell is still missing. Her mother wants to know: Does anyone in Philadelphia care?

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/17349/news

Read about the case for details............
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16...
http://mothersarevanishing.blogspot.com
http://lostfacesofthemissing.blogspot.com/
http://peace4missing.ning.com
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http://www.peace4missing.ning.com/

http://activelyaware.blogspot.com

Today is my Birthday, Today I Vanished...the story of Lisa Michelle Hatchell

Lisa Hatchell, Missing Mother

Lisa Hatchell's birthday is July 19. It also marks the 5 year anniversary of being missing. She has 2 small children and a grieving mother who need answers. Once again I am enlisting the help of all of you here to give up just a few minutes and make a phone call, write an email, hit up a friend in high places. I know a lot of you know people who can bring awareness to subjects that have just smoldered on the back burner of the internet and bring it to the main stream. Please lend your hand and make this happen, there isn't much time and....It's her Birthday!....

Read about the case for details............
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1699

http://mothersarevanishing.blogspot.com

July 19th marks both Lisa’s Birthday as well as the very date that she disappeared. Such a bittersweet day, I can only imagine, for all those who love her as they celebrate her birth while at the same time are constantly painfully aware of the day she went missing. In honor of Lisa, Peace 4 the Missing is dedicating July 19th as Lisa Michelle Hatchell Day.

Please leave a message of support, encouragement, prayers…for Lisa’s Mom and two Children who so miss her. Let’s surround them with our compassion and love especially on this most difficult day.

http://peace4missing.ning.com

Campaign towards a National Missing & Unidentified Person's Day!

PLEASE go to the link below and sign the petition for a National Missing and Unidentified Persons Day!!! Spread the word of this petition link to everyone you know and post wherever you're able!

Thanks!!!

Petition for a Missing Persons Day Worldwide!
www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/280079339#top

Also, please join as well as invite your contacts to join Peace 4 the Missing to strengthen our numbers towards accomplishing this as well as hopefully many to come great causes.
www.peace4missing.ning.com

We Need to Teach our Children how to stay SAFE

For decades, children were taught to stay away from "strangers." But this concept is difficult for children to grasp and often the perpetrator is someone the child knows. It is more beneficial to help build children's confidence and teach them to respond to a potentially dangerous situation, rather than teaching them to look out for a particular type of person.

NCMEC is the nation's resource center for protecting children. Our prevention and safety education programs and materials contain information and tips that will help you keep your children safer. The Just In Case... and Know the Rules publication series are especially important for parents and guardians.

http://www.findthekids.com/

My Dad is Coming Home!

I am a 33 year old Mother of 2, hardly a child anymore, much too big really to completely justify sitting in my Daddy's lap, but today I am 4 years old again, standing at the door with uncontrollable excitement, ready to bound outside at any moment and jump back into my Daddy's arms.

He has been "gone" for seemingly forever now, having spent nearly 6 weeks in the hospital, highly isolated from the majority of human contact, fighting to fight this monster called AML, Acute Mylenogeous Leukemia.