Thursday, October 1, 2009

NEO Alliance for Change wants to bring some of that 500 Billion Dollars to NEO.

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, September 6, 2009

John Oatternson Green the founder of Labor Day in Ohio

The NEO Alliance for Change joins the Cleveland Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists in Commemoration of the Father of Labor Day, the Honorable John Patterson Green (1845-1940)

Representative John Patterson Green (1845-1940Align CenterThe Cleveland Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists which consists of members from seventy-seven international and national unions recognizes John Patterson Green’s legislative sponsorship of Labor Day in Ohio. House Bill 500 was passed on April 28, 1890 and consisted of one sentence:

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, that the first Monday in September of each and every year shall be known as Labor Day . . .”

In 1894, the U.S. Congress passed a bill making Labor Day a national holiday.

Patterson Green’s efforts preceded the accomplishments of organized labor leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Sleeping Car Porters; John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers; Philip Murray, United Steel Workers; Jimmy Hoffa,Teamsters; Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers; and Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers.

Born in New Bern, North Carolina, John Patterson Green became Cleveland’s first black lawyer and first black elected official (Justice of the Peace) and was also the second African-American elected to serve in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1882.

John P. Green's parents were African-Americans, but free. Too poor to attend school, he worked as a harness maker, a tailor, and a waiter before writing and self-publishing Miscellaneous Subjects by a Self-Educated Colored Youth when he was 21. After the book's success, he attended high school and law school, and became one of the first black elected officials north of the Mason-Dixon line when he was elected Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, in 1873. In 1881 he was elected to the Ohio House, and in 1891 he was elected to the Ohio Senate.

In addition to Miscellaneous Subjects by a Self-Educated Colored Youth (1866) he wrote Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas (1880) and Fact Stranger than Fiction (1920, autobiography)

As a legislator, he sponsored 21 bills favorable to labor issues, including House Bill 500 in 1890, which established a state holiday honoring working men and women. Labor unions had staged annual parades and picnics since 1882, but Green's bill made Labor Day an official holiday in Ohio, to be celebrated on the first Monday of September, effective in 1891. Three years later the US Congress followed suit, making Labor Day a national holiday. After leaving the State Assembly, Green worked for many years as a lawyer and postal official, and at the time of his death -- struck by a streetcar at the age of 95 -- he was the oldest attorney practicing in Ohio.

During his second elected term in 1890, the state of Ohio enacted Labor Day legislation that earned him the title “Father of Labor Day in Ohio.” The former common laborer and lawyer wanted to honor all working men and women in Ohio with the idea of establishing a holiday to celebrate the contributions of workers (not politicians).

The Honorable John Patterson Green served three successive terms in the Ohio General Assembly, including two terms in the House of Representatives (1882-1883 and 1890-1891). In 1892, he was elected to the Ohio Senate, making him the first African-American elected to a state senate north of the Mason-Dixon Line in the United States. While serving as an Ohio state legislator, John Patterson Green sponsored and supported 21 major bills on behalf of labor.

During his professional and legislative career, he counted among his closest friends Mr. & Mrs. John D. (Ms. Lara C. Spellman) Rockefeller, Marcus A. Hanna and George A. Myers—all captains of industry. He also was a friend of and assisted Civil Rights leaders, such as Harry Smith, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Charles Chestnut, and other black leaders of his day.

Mr. Green was also befriended by and received appointments to federal positions by Presidents James A. Garfield and William McKinley. Of all his associations and accomplishments, however, the Honorable John Patterson Green was most proud of his work to honor all working men and women of this nation by initiating Labor Day.

Robert E. Saffold is a former member of Laborers Local 935 in Warren and was elected union department chairman of Local 1375 United Steelworkers of America (Republic Steel) in Warren. He is a registered lobbyist for the Ohio Minority Contractors Association and current chairman and CEO of the African-American Business and Contractors Association Inc. This material on John Patterson Green was researched at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio by Minister Robert E. Saffold. He was project coordinator for the research and publication of this piece for the Cleveland chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.

Since its founding conference in 1972, The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) stature among African American workers has grown. Currently, more than 77 different international and national unions are represented in CBTU. With 50 chapters nationwide and one in Ontario, Canada, CBTU is maximizing the strength and influence of black workers in unions and empowering their communities.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Hurricane Katrina Revisted - 4 years later

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

The Campaign for Change continues in Cleveland

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. From Cleveland we will take the helm in creating a LEED lakeside energy development with an African American Engineering firm in the forefront.

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

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.

Cincinnati will be the training ground for us in planning NEO Ohio.

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

Friday, July 3, 2009

July 3 2009 The Prep

Tomorrow we will ask the National Fairness and Growth Campaign to create a new independent means tested public private broadband wireless network built on the Daniels IDIQ which would be developed based on 80,000 network access points built in buildings in 29 countries in NE Ohio with its headquarters in the Cleveland Empowerment Zone.

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

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Fathers Day 2009

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release June 18, 2009

FATHER'S DAY, 2009
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

The journey of fatherhood provides unique and lasting joys. Cradling a baby in his arms, a father experiences the miracle of life and an unbreakable bond. Fathers imagine a world of possibilities awaiting their children and contemplate the privilege of helping them reach that expanse of opportunity. As kids grow and mature, they look to their dad for a special kind of love and support. Providing these necessities can bring great happiness.

Fatherhood also brings great responsibilities. Fathers have an obligation to help rear the children they bring into the world. Children deserve this care, and families need each father's active participation.

Fathers must help teach right from wrong and instill in their kids the values that sustain them for a lifetime. As they encounter new and challenging experiences, children need guidance and counsel. Fathers need to talk with their kids to help them through difficult times. Parents must also help their children make the right choices by serving as strong role models. Honest and hard-working fathers are an irreplaceable influence upon their children.

Communities must do more to counsel fathers. Family and friends, and faith-based and community organizations, can speak directly with men about the sacrifices and rewards of having a child. These groups can support men as they take on the great challenges of child-rearing. Through honest and open dialogue, more men can choose to become model parents and know the wonders of fatherhood.

On Father's Day, we pay tribute to the loving and caring fathers who are strengthening their families and country. We also honor those surrogate fathers who raise, mentor, or care for someone else's child. Thousands of young children benefit from the influence of great men, and we salute their willingness to give and continue giving. We also express special gratitude to fathers who serve in the United States Armed Forces for the sacrifices they and their families make every day. All of these individuals are making great contributions, and children across the country are better off for their care.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, in accordance with a joint resolution of the Congress approved April 24, 1972, as amended (36 U.S.C. 109), do hereby proclaim June 21, 2009, as Father's Day. I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on this day. I urge all Americans to express their love, respect, and admiration to their fathers, and I call upon all citizens to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.