Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Oldest Federal District Gets Ready to Respond.

Barack Obama's first fiscal year has started. The US Gov will purchase over 500 billion dollars worth of goods and services in Fiscal year 2010.

FACTS
  • GDP $14.441 trillion ie The US Economy
  • 40.7 million[African American Citizens of the United States [[1]13.5% of the total U.S. population]
  • African American Business Receipts with a combined buying power of over $892 billion currently and likely over $1.1 trillion by 2012.[
  • In 2002 African-American owned businesses accounted for 1.2 million of the US's 23 million businesses.
  • The 1.2 million black-owned businesses in the United States employe more than 756,000 people and generate nearly $89 billion in business revenues.
  • Almost 4 in 10 black-owned businesses (38 percent) were owned by women.
  • New York had the most black owned firms, followed by California, Florida, Georgia, and Texas
To: The Citizens of the United States

From: Dr. Robert Day, Convener, National Fairness and Growth Symposiums and Joseph Debro, General Chairman, National Fairness and Growth Campaign Committee

50 years or is it 400 Years = less than 1% (ie .99%) nationally according to the US Census Bureau or less than a half of one percent (ie .4955%) in Ohio of all business revenue earned by African Americans. What has been the ramifications and implications of these shameful, tragic figures on the economic health of black communities and the country as a whole?

Now is the time for a change.

The ramifications and the implications of these shameful, tragic figures on the economic health of Black communities are staggering. This lack of economic parity has led to higher crime rates, higher rates of imprisonment, higher rates of unemployment and lower educational achievement. This downward spiral in the Black community effects the whole country.

This letter is written to inform the country of the steps that our virtual organization has taken and our plans for the future. We think that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and its counterpart, other recovery initiatives, the general budget provides an opportunity to redress some of the systemic and personal economic equalities.

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign has created a grassroots campaign of practitioners who have a long term operational knowledge of past practices . These business people are very familiar with the philosophies, strategies, approaches, programs and projects ostensibly designed to address the history and practices of discrimination towards African Americans that levels the playing field. By extension we also address discriminatory practices towards other groups

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign will be a significant advocate for the "greening" of America especially in its vulnerable communities. The Campaign does not have negative presumptions regarding current planning or execution of the Congress or President Obama’s administration budget or initiatives. We seek to provide solutions gained from the hard earned insight into potential enforcement of existing public laws, regulations, new initiatives and programs through the use of “Best Practices” that level the playing field(s).

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign seeks not to have negative presumptions regarding the current planning or execution of the ARRA and TARP or the FY 2010 general budget. We seek to provide solutions gained from the hard earned insight into potential enforcement of existing public laws, regulations and new initiatives and programsthrough the use of “Best Practices” to Erase the Digital Divide.

In erasing the Digital divide we reject the notion that there is not available a shovel ready American next generation workforce ready to be trained. We are calling on creating a public private partnership that would oversee a possible investment of over $260,000,000,000 in a million American youth over a ten year period starting no later than December 31, 2010 is made to create a next generation workforce in 25 Urban Areas, 25 Statewide Rural Regions and 10 Native American Tribal lands.

This is a follow up to our previous symposium regarding our concerns and hopes relative to the very fast moving American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan (ARRP), now public law as of February 17th, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and its counterpart the TARP initiatives and implementation of the FY2010 Budget.

It is our plan to develop aoer the next two weeks a development strategy that will support over a million students on connected campus around the nation. It would also connect a total of 500 million people via our global public private sector distance learning infrastructure that will Erase the Digital Divide. This includes 200 million people living in the United States and 300 million people in other countries. It is to be built a multinational shovel ready patent protected next generation third frontier digital infrastructure that supports a logistics infrastructure built around the United States Postal Service.

It will be financed in it's prototype state by a 200 million dollar underwriting according to the Principles and Findings of the National Fairness and Growth Campaign and all current federal state and local laws, including Presidential order in force as approved by the US Attorney General.

All this will be financed as a private public partnership under current federal law, agency and department funding and Presidential Orders. It will employ over 60,000 people by September 2010. It is our goal starting with Cincinnati to enroll a million people in schools and colleges by December 2010 to become part of the Change in Americas workforce.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

DC Change revisites 4 years later Hurricane Katrina

We had 4 years ago on this date Hurricane Katrina which made its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. The most severe loss of life and property damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana - Don't forget it, I haven't !!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Detroit Solidarity with National Fairness and Growth Campaign

The National Fairness and Growth Campaign will on 28 August 2009 conduct a Conference Call from Detroit MI with Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850 and Participant Access Code: 570587# that is overseen by the National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee to empower a million African American households in 25 cities, 20 states and 5 Native American lands through collective action.

If you are in Detroit and reading this email me for more details at hershel@nationalfairnessandgrowthcampsign.org. Washington DC is the centerpoint of our international effort to sell goods - including cars produced out of Detroit.

IT IS TIME FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION!!!

For more info goto the website in development at http://nationalfairnessandgrowthcampaign.org/SYM_8.html

Friday, July 31, 2009

National Fairness and Growth Campaign Conference Call Today

For those who are believers in the Book As-Salāmu `Alaykum Brothers and Sisters,

National Fairness and Growth Campaign Steering Committee

  • General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) and Board Member of Housing Assistance Council
  • Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsay, Founding President , Ohio Fairness Campaign
  • Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change
  • Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, former Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and on the board of the CRA Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Convener Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural Redevelopment
Steering Committee Advisor and Panel Moderator
Lawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW, LTD

Symposium VII

July 31, 2009

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST

Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850
Participant Access Code: 570587#

Opening by General Chairman

Introductions

Recap of Symposia to date.

New Statistics

Status of Initiatives, Health, Broadband, and Energy

Half Hour Break


Status of the Campaign Fundraising mechanism

General topics from teleconference participants

Announcement of Launch of Fundraising Effort on 7 August 2009

Announcement of Next Meeting in August in Detroit

Next Steps including a presentation at 1PM by Organizing for America on the Presidents Health Care Plans

Close of the National Fairness and Growth Campaign at 2 P.M.
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Open The Cincinnati Change Community Briefing 2 - 5 PM

Presentation at 2 P.M. by the city of Cincinnati on the first time in 60 years a new Cincinnati Comprehensive Plan that includes:

Health Care

Erasing the Digital Divide

Next Generation Workforce Employment

Urban Transportation Solutions

Green Energy Implementation

Comprehensive Housing Program for the City

Economic Development


based on the

Cincinnati Change Development Statement

Development in Cincinnati should be for the people in the city who are in the place they are in the city. This is not to say that we should not have new people come into the city, but...what about those in place. In these times lets make the change for those who live here NOW!!!

Cincinnati Change is committed to development in line with The United Nations Global Compact.

The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption

This is the training ground for DC and ward 7's 72,000 people.

submitted by
Hershel Daniels, Junior
Chief of Staff to Fred Hargrove, Sr. and Cincinnati Change, Director


Friday, June 26, 2009

National Fairness and Growth Campaign Today

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National Fairness and Growth Campaign

Symposium VI

June 26, 2009

10:30 PM - 1:00 PM EST

Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850
Participant Access Code: 570587#

Opening by General Chairman
Introductions
New Statistics
Announcement of Launch of Fundraising Effort on 29 June 2009
Past Recommendations Revisited
Proposed Initiatives to be launched during this symposium -
  • Faith Based
  • Workforce
  • Health
Focus on Energy Initiative

Featuring:
Curtis Maples volunteer Adviser and Student in Electrical Engineering
Danny Owen, Veteran and Pioneer in the fossil Fuel and Alternative Fuels industry

Announcement of Next Meeting last Friday of July [31] Philadelphia

Close

Friday, June 19, 2009

junetenth 2009

STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THE OCCASION OF JUNETEENTH

On this day in 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, those who found themselves still enslaved in Galveston, Texas had their hopes realized and their prayers answered. Contrary to what others had told them, the rumors they had heard were indeed true. The Civil War had ended, and they were now free.

General Gordon Granger issued the call with "General Order No. 3" saying "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. " June 19, or Juneteenth, is now observed in 31 states. Nearly a century and a half later, the descendants of slaves and slave owners can commemorate the day together and celebrate the rights and freedoms we all share in this great nation that we all love.

This moment also serves as a time for reflection and appreciation, and an opportunity for many people to trace their family’s lineage. African Americans helped to build our nation brick by brick and have contributed to her growth in every way, even when rights and liberties were denied to them. In light of the historic unanimous vote in the United States Senate this week supporting the call for an apology for slavery and segregation, the occasion carries even more significance.

From our President at
THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
_____________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 19, 2009

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty re-election fundraising

How much money is $2,042,225.63?

Well, in District political campaigns, look at it this way: It took former mayor Anthony A. Williams 29 months to reach that total in 2002—and much of that sum was collected after his legendary primary-petitions fiasco scared the city’s business community into shelling out for its bow-tied protector.

Current Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has done it in three months, nearly two years prior to the next election, and in the midst of the worst economic crisis since Boss Shepherd ruled this town.

How furiously do people write checks to the Fenty cause? Hell, in an eight-day span of December—a week that included the massive birthday bash hosted at the home of developer Chris Donatelli—his reelection reeled in checks worth $1,088,129.

It’s an impressive fundraising feat for this town—one that will almost certainly forestall anything but token competition—and one that inspired a series of platitudes from Hizzoner unusually stultifying even by his standards. You know, stuff like “we’re working as hard as humanly possible” and “you only campaign at one speed” and “we can’t take anything for granted.”

Such a feat deserves more analysis than that. If Fenty isn’t going to crow about the Green Machine’s prowess, LL will.

CAP AND TRADE

With a $2,000 limit on donations, it can be hard for any lonely old business to get noticed. But there are several ways around the rules.

1. PLAY THE CORPORATE SHELL GAME. Check out Roadside Development, the firm currently trying to redevelop the O Street Market in Shaw. Like a lot of developers, Roadside has a bunch of projects, each with a separate corporation set up. The firm itself was good for $2K, as were principals Richard Lake, Armond Spikell, and Todd Weiss. But add in max donations from Burke Roadside LLC, O Street Roadside LLC, and Clarksville Roadside LLC, and you’ve nearly doubled down, from $8,000 to $14,000.

2. SQUEEZE THE EMPLOYEES. Sometimes you have to go below top management if you’re really going to pad those fundraising numbers. Some local employers seem to have a Midas touch when it comes to persuading their employees to contribute of their own free will. One is local accounting and consulting powerhouse Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates; the company itself and the three guys in its title were enough to produce $8,000 for the Fenty fund, but 15 additional donations from other TCBA employees and family were enough to push the firm fundraising north of $30,000. Fenty racked up $2,000 donations from folks with titles like “Payroll Administ.” and “Office Manager.”

3. GET THE FAMILY IN ON THE ACT. For some enterprises, there’s no need to tap the employee base—family ties provide all the resources you need. Sure, the Ratner clan behind Forest City Enterprises knows how to spread the wealth, but the true master of shaking the family money tree goes is developer Franklin L. Haney.

First off, Haney tossed in a $2,000 donation from Chattanooga, Tenn., where from the same address he donated $8,000 from four different corporate entities. But that’s just a warmup: Haney has five kids. There’s Emeline Michelle Maddux ($2,000) of McLean, who’s married to Victor Maddux ($2,000). Mae Grennan ($2,000) lives in Spring Valley with husband Anderson Grennan ($2,000). Margaret Haney ($2,000), of Georgetown, is married to Chris Ferguson ($2,000), and her sister Mary Alice Haney ($2,000) is a movie producer way out in Pacific Palisades, Calif., married to Graham Larson ($2,000). The only Haney sibling, in fact, who didn’t donate, was Frank Haney Jr. But his wife, Katelin Dial ($2,000), did.

GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT

Nothing wrong with showing a little love to the boss, right?

Certainly not for employees of the District government—67 of whom forked over $12,644 to the chief executive.

Among top executive honchos, donors included school-construction czar Allen Lew ($1,000), DCRA chief Linda Argo ($500), Housing Authority chief Michael Kelly ($100), and Department of Housing and Community Development Director Leila Edmonds ($500). Taxicab Commission chair Leon Swain kicked in $700, and gay-and-lesbian affairs chief Christopher Dyer, humbly billing himself as “civil servant,” gave $100.

It was also an opportunity to say thanks for promotions: Millicent Williams, plucked from Serve DC to head the Children and Youth Investment Trust Corp., gave $200. General Counsel Chip Richardson, who took Peter Nickles’ old slot, also gave $200, and Tracy Sandler, recently promoted from bullpen functionary to Boards and Commission head, threw in $150.

The departed and soon-to-be-departed weren’t stingy, either: Former policy chief JoAnne Ginsberg and Obama-bound CTO Vivek Kundra both threw in $1,000.

Among those in communications, mayoral flacks Mafara Hobson ($150) and Leslie Kershaw ($50) kicked in, but they both have a ways to go to match OPM flack Bill Rice, who was good for not one but three donations totaling $401.

As far as that other branch of government: Fellow green machiner Muriel Bowser forked over $500, but only two other D.C. Council employees stepped up with a little something. Both owe their jobs to folks who aren’t exactly Fenty allies—Susan Banta, hired by Chairman Vincent Gray to direct his Office of Policy Analysis, gave $100, and James Pittman, Harry Thomas Jr.’s committee counsel, gave $50.

FENTY'S GOOD LUCK CHARM

When Fenty launched his re-election campaign, his fundraising functionaries had no doubt as to who would get their first call.

That would be Bruce Klores. "It was clearly superstition," he says.

Klores, a trial lawyer based in Dupont Circle, has been the earliest donor to Fenty "at least since the last campaign, and probably for the ones before that," he says. And remember---Fenty's never lost a race. So when Hizzoner's money people called him up in October and asked if he wanted to be first, he said he'd be happy to. "I didn't care if i was No. 1 or not...[but] he's got a pretty good track record," Klores says, "so if he's superstitious, more power to him."

Klores signed a $2,000 check on Oct. 26--Fenty 2010's only collection until Nov. 2.

He didn't stop there. He kicked in another $2,000 from his firm; his wife and one of his law partners wrote checks, too. And if you thought Donatelli's birthday tent bash was Fenty's first fundraiser, think again: Klores hosted about 40 donors in his office for a breakfast the day before that bash---"lawyers and some local business people...personal friends and family."

So far Klores' luck is holding; the lawyer seems a little shocked at the $2 million haul. "It's a lot of money for a mayoral campaign, but if he thinks he needs it...that's what the cost of doing business is, I can't criticize him for that."

By Mike DeBonis

Special LL thanks to Will Atwood Mitchell and Ryan J. Reilly for research assistance.

DC Change, will make a change starting NOW

We expect change Mr. President