Subject: Aaron Jackson

• Rainn Wilson Hosts a Party for Broward's Own Ghandi, Aaron Jackson

  As you can read in the cover story of this week's "print product," Rainn Wilson - Dwight Schrute from The Office - threw a party last month for Aaron Jackson, a local 27-year-old rich kid living as pauper, giving everything he has to orphanages in Haiti. Aaron's charity, Planting Peace, has shelters in Cambodia, Ecuador, and Guatamala; they've initiated efforts to conserve the Amazon, planted trees on barren Haitian hillsides, and organized environmental cleanup programs across the Un

  January 14, 2009

• Buddha Thinks Aaron Jackson is Hot

  Aaron Jackson, the laid back, scruffy local saint, who just so happens to be the cover boy in this week's print product, has a lot of fans. Among them: Larry King, Rainn Wilson, Charlie Crist, and rock stars and actors all over Hollywood, California. But none of those famous admirers occupy such a lofty spiritual -- and geographical -- plane as The Buddha, who offered the Juice an exclusive interview. The icon, it seems, is less wowed by Aaron's penchant for self-sacrifice as by his steely ga

  January 19, 2009

• Letters for July 28-August 3, 2005

  July 28, 2005

• Letters for August 4-10, 2005

  August 4, 2005

• Letters for August 11-17, 2005

  August 11, 2005

• Letters for September 1-7, 2005

  September 1, 2005

• Mano a Mano Against Poverty

  Planting Seeds of Hope

  June 5, 2008

• Urgently, Aaron

  September 18, 2008

• Reno 911 Throws a Party for a Local Hero

  Last night was the premiere of the sixth season of Reno 911 - the best police show since...ever. To celebrate, the cast and crew had a party at Largo on the Coronet, in L.A. The party was also a fundraiser for New Times' favorite philanthropist, Aaron Jackson, and his charity Planting Peace. We've written about his orphanages and shelters, and his efforts to rid the world (especially children) of intestinal parasites here, here, and here. It's good to see the good folks at Reno are hel

  April 2, 2009

• With the help of Rainn Wilson, Aaron Jackson tries to cure a country.

  January 15, 2009

• Stomp the Worm

  Saint Aaron to the rescue in Haiti

  April 19, 2007

• Saint Aaron

  Living like a pauper himself, a young man from Broward is trying to save Haiti's children

  July 21, 2005

• Letters for August 18-24, 2005

  The Truth Is Out There

  August 18, 2005

• Local Hero Does NOT Kill Children

  Aaron Jackson does a lot of good in the world.Aaron Jackson, founder of Planting Peace -- a locally based nonprofit running orphanages in Haiti and shelters around the world -- says he does not "kill children." That's right, not even one. I've hung out with the man on several occasions, for extended periods of time, and as far as I can tell, he's not lying about this. It's only really an issue because of a web copyediting mistake at the Orlando Sentinel. A few weeks ago, the Sentinel publ

  August 21, 2009

• Aaron Jackson Gets the St. Pete Times Treatment

  ​Though last night's Planting Peace fundraiser at the Bubble was canceled due to last-second scheduling conflicts, the charity's founder, Aaron Jackson, was in town from Haiti (where Planting Peace has several orphanages), and that gave me the opportunity to ask him about this week's big feature spread in the Sunday edition of the St. Petersburg Times and for him to challenge me to a dance-off. The newspaper story tells Jackson's riches-to-rags tale, how he started his char

  September 10, 2009