
{"id":7664,"date":"2009-10-23T00:11:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2009-10-23T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T08:11:13","slug":"endorsement-letter-vote-for-slade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/10\/23\/endorsement-letter-vote-for-slade\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement Letter: Vote for Slade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing to express my support for Sammy Slade as a candidate for Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board of aldermen.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a farmer and journalist who covers food policy for a national<br \/>\npublication. In my work, I travel regularly, observing how communities are responding to the ill effects of a food system that thrives on low wages, cheap energy and lax environmental controls while churning out low-quality, health-ruining food.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve known Sammy since I moved part-time to Carrboro in 2006. Over and over again in that time, he has demonstrated his commitment to Carrboro as a robust, inclusive and economically vibrant community \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one that sees food production as a tool for economic development and public health. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been especially impressed by his efforts along with other local citizens to establish the Carrboro Community Garden \u00e2\u20ac\u201cwhich has quickly become one of the best-run and productive community gardens I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy also played a key role in launching and organizing the annual Carrboro Farm Tour \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one of the most innovative efforts I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen to raise community awareness to the potential of (truly) local food production. And he works in less visible ways, too; for example, he acts as chair of the Carrboro Local Living Economy Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>We currently have a former community organizer as president. The time has come to empower community organizers at the local level. I have no doubt that Sammy will be a responsive, responsible and inclusive alderperson \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one with a vision, based on years of experience, of Carrboro as a resilient and dynamic community.<\/p>\n<p>TOM PHILPOTT<br \/>\nFood editor, <i>Grist Magazine<i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing to express my support for Sammy Slade as a candidate for Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board of aldermen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7665,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions\/7665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}