Nati Action Agency Nati Action Agency: January 2006

Monday, January 23, 2006 

Whats A Crime?

This was a crime!!

In general a crime is in a broad sense an act that violates a political or moral law of any one person or social grouping.

In the narrow sense, a crime is a violation of criminal law; in many nations, there are criminal standards of bad behaviour. However, not all violations of the law are considered crimes, for example most traffic violations or breaches of contract.

In many languages, "crime" means "felony" in English, and are not to be mistaken.

 

Lets Tackle Crime

CINCINNATI CHANGE believes that one of crucial root causes of crime is poverty and that we can change the conditions from which crime takes root. It is a mission of Cincinnati Change to change the conditions in which children live so that they can grow up and become adults in a nurturing and supportive community environment.

We started out the year recalling the number 2 event in the US, in our view. The War on Terrorism and the hope for Democracy.

We believe that the new phase the war is going in that it will have even a longer term affect on us as citizens of the United States of America. Our job is to make sure that the 8 trillion dollars spent since September 11th 2001 will rebuild America over the next five years as we spend $10 trillion dollars worldwide to bring about democracy, safe communities and peacefull coexistence.

We will create in Cincinnati a business headquarters for a African American owned professional Military corporation that serves clients from around the world.

We believe that our nation can stand as a shining example to all the world of freedom and democracy, a unique honor that comes with a responsibility to lead. First we must make our streets safe and our communities secure.

We can and have to win the War on Terror in Der Nati, first.

For mine and your children, grandchildren and those relatives known and unkown lets make 2006 a transition year.

Peace in the Hood with Jobs in the Hood

We don't have all the answers but through the net we hope to bring about change in greater Cincinnati that is, in part, coordinated through a public private faith based partnership called Nati Action Agency.

Cincinnati Change believes in America should preserve our national strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the world starting with Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sunday, January 15, 2006 

Top 20 Meanest Cities to Homeless

While most cities throughout the country have either laws or practices that criminalize homeless persons, some city practices or laws have stood out as more egregious than others in their attempt to criminalize homelessness.

The National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty have chosen the following top 20 meanest cities in 2005 based on one or more of the following criteria: the number of anti-homeless laws in the city, the enforcement of those laws and severities of penalties, the general political climate toward homeless people in the city, local advocate support for the meanest designation, the city’s history of criminalization measures, and the existence of pending or recently enacted criminalization legislation in the city.

Although some of the report’s top 20 meanest cities have made some efforts to address homelessness in their communities, the punitive practices highlighted in the report impede true progress in solving the problem.

1. Sarasota, FL
2. Lawrence, KS
3. Little Rock, AR
4. Atlanta, GA
5. Las Vegas, NV
6. Dallas, TX
7. Houston, TX
8. San Juan, PR
9. Santa Monica, CA
10. Flagstaff, AZ
11. San Francisco, CA
12. Chicago, IL
13. San Antonio, TX
14. New York City, NY
15. Austin, TX
16. Anchorage, AK
17. Phoenix, AZ
18. Los Angeles, CA
19. St. Louis, MO
20. Pittsburgh, PA

We are glad to see we did not make the list.

Some facts:

On any given night in America, an estimated 750,000 people are homeless, and between 2 million and 3.5 millions Americans will be homeless for some portion of the year, many of them single mothers with their children (Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness).

There are many factors contributing factors, including a shortage of affordable housing, job loss, disability, mental illness and domestic violence. And while homelessness is generally a temporary situation, some shelter waiting lists have grown from days to weeks. And the problem is getting worse.

According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors 2002 Survey on Hunger and Homelessness, across the 25 cities participating in the survey, requests for emergency shelter grew by 19% last year, including an increasing number of families with young children -- the steepest climb in a decade. For shelters already stretched beyond their limits, this translates to an urgent need for donations and volunteers.

IN CINCINNATI

1. 25,000 people experienced homelessness at some point during the year 2000.

2. The local homeless population is rising rapidly, from 10,000 in 1986 to 20,000 in 1993 to 25,000 in 2000.

3. Homelessness has increased locally by 150% in the last 15 years.

4. The top two reasons people report for becoming homeless in Cincinnati are loss of income and the lack of affordable housing.

5. 12% of homeless women in Cincinnati are homeless as a result of domestic violence, the third highest reported cause of homelessness for women.

6. One third of the homeless population in Cincinnati is children.

7. African Americans make up 68% of Cincinnati’s homeless population.

8. African Americans are 43% of Cincinnati’s population.

9. About 20% of the homeless in Cincinnati are drug abusers or alcoholics.

10. Ohio is #4 among states in hate crimes against the homeless.

11. 60% of homeless men in Cincinnati work at least part-time.

12. Almost 60% of homeless men here are high school graduates; almost 5% have college degrees.college degrees.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 

Nati Action Starts Operations in April with Annoucement in Washington Park at 11:30 on MLK Day 16 Jan. 2006


On 16 January 2006 at 11:30 Cincinnati Change is creating a limited liability company called Queen City Development Group at Washington Park right across from Music Hall. Then we will walk in for the FREE 12:00 Martin Luther King Day event with Bishop E. Lynn Brown, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Second District, Cincinnati.

E. Lynn Brown was elected the 46th bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 1986 in Birmingham, AL. He was born April 2, 1936. As a native of Jackson, Tennessee, Bishop Brown joins the sainted Bishop Isaac Lane as one of the only two bishops of the church born in Madison County, Tennessee, the birthplace of the CME Church. According to family lore, in 1870 his great grandmother was the cook for one of the bishops of the M.E. Church, South, during the organization of the CME Church. Thus, his nurture in the church from the "incipiency of his being" all the way through college on the very grounds where Christian Methodism originated is unique.

Bishop Brown's elementary and secondary education was from the public schools of Madison County, TN. He matriculated at Lane College in Jackson where he came under the directing influence of Chester A. Kirkendoll, the 35th bishop, who was the president. He earned the BA degree from Lane. His theological training was at Phillips School of Theology at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA which he entered as the recipient of a Fellowship Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. He earned the M.Div. degree. Several honorary degrees have been conferred upon him. He has taught at the Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis, lectured extensively, and has earned a national reputation as a preacher.

The hallmark of the entire ministry of Bishop E. Lynn Brown has been his community activism. He has been at the forefront in the struggle for justice. He received the Outstanding Community Service Award. As a bishop he has served as Chair of the Department of Lay Activities and has served as Chair of the Department of Evangelism, Missions, and Human Concerns.

He serves on the National Board of Directors of SCLC and the Board of Directors of the National Congress of Black Churches (NCBC). The NCBC repersent denominations with 65,000 churches and membership of over 20-million. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Phillips School of Theology.

Bishop Brown is married to Gladys (nee Stephens) Brown, and is the father of Alonzo Victor and Cheronda Patrice. His office and residence are in Cincinnati. Bishop E. Lynn Brown, is also the Chairman of the Board of The Center for Closing the Health Gap.

This year he leads the celebration of the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. as it's Chairman. This day is offen called Martin Luther King Day and is on Monday January 16, 2006 at the Cincinnati Music Hall for a free concert starting at noon.

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr, Ph.D. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Baptist minister and political activist who was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement. King won the Nobel Peace Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom before being assassinated in 1968. For his promotion of non-violence and racial equality, King is considered a peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world. Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor.

We have established Cincinnati Change to adhere to many of the principles that he stood for.

Besides winning the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, in 1965 the American Jewish Committee presented the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the American Liberties Medallion for his "exceptional advancement of the principles of human liberty." Reverend King said in his acceptance remarks, "Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free."r King Jr.,

Martin Luther king was aregisteredd Republican and may have supported affirmative action.

Among his comments:

"Whenever this issue [compensatory treatment] is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the first would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up."

"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis. "

"... for two centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages and potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro: it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races."

"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry.... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water...."

On April 3, 1968, King prophetically told a euphoric crowd:

"It really doesn't matter what happens now.... some began to... talk about the threats that were out -- what would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers.... Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. And so I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

King was assassinated the next evening, April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, while preparing to lead a local march in support of the heavily black Memphis sanitation workers' union which was on strike at the time.

Over the next 5 years Queen City Development Group will create in the south over 2,000 acres of real estate developments that will serve as relief centers, under contracts, for a million people by 2010 with 1,000 Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana businesses lead by Fred Hargrove P.E., MBA whose Engineering Company is taking the point in a joint venture that will tread in thdangerousus waters of rebuilding the south and being ready when this happens again.

We will partnership with an Inter Faith Based Leadership lead by Pastor Wanda Lloyd-Daniels, of Ammons United Methodist Church who is also a journeywoman of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, owner of Lloyds General & Electrical Contractors, a Ohio company that is 20 plus years old general contracting and technology company that is a FBE/MBE/SBE and she is the head of the Cincinnati Hamilton County Black Republican Forum.

This company will create on Tuesday, 17 January 2006 a proposal to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a proposal for less than $100M in an IDIQ contract to care for 7,000 households and their facilities in the Gulf. Under the contract the federal government is paying the bill over 5 years ($100M or less) with companies drawn from around the nation, a 30% preference given to team like ours that located in the affected areas and are SBA 8A firms. The contract starts in March 2006.

Over the next five years we will recruit over 10,000 businesses and 100,000 people in the Gulf to pick up the bill afterwards, either through their representative government and constitutional right to redress grievances to the government and or direct contracts with our subsidiary Queen City Development Group and it's affiliate Gulf Change through the business process developed by Hershel Daniels, Junior.

Gulf Change will perform basadministrativeive functions as a contractor with Union workers through Lloyds General and Electrical Contractors, Inc., if we conclude a Cincinnati based planned labor agreement whereas we get access to pension funds to -

1 build homes for 100,000 people over next ten years; promote the establishment of substantial autonomy and self-government in communities through the use of fiber to the home enable community access technology master territory licensee's who use our patent in communications as their competitive advantage in the Gulf states demonstration;

2 facilitate a political process at a neighborhood level through the internet to determine regions future based on development from 16 Jan. 2006 till 19 June 2006 of a plan to house and rehabilitate the lives of 100,000 people and from then to create the financial and technical ability to implement the plan by December 31, 2006;

3 create 10 centers in the Gulf to provide for the coordinate humanitarian and disaster relief of all international agencies for a million people in the America's and as part of a internal effort lead by AID and Gulf Change, first headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio for a 18 month staff training period; Fred Hargrove Sr. and partner companies, educational institutions and governmental agencies who will support the reconstruction of key infrastructure with over 100 companies who will invest in the redevelopment including foreign companies who operate key urban infrastructure including phone systems, water works and sewage plants;

4 maintain civil law and order thought eh creation of a private military company that in Cincinnati has the public police powers empowered to them through the city of Cincinnati under it's laws, and;

5 promote human and civil rights for Americans and create a environment whereas American citizens can live safe and secure lives; and assure the safe and unimpeded return of all displaced persons to their homes in the Gulf.

Gulf Change is to be created on a model created by Hershel Daniels, Junior that e think is a business process that created a master holding company called Gulf Change as a for profit Business that is divided into nine holding companies which it calls "Change Agent Commands".

These Change Area Commands are:

CAC I: Public Safety and Security including NBC, Justice, Public Safety and Fire Protection

CAC II: Contract Civil Administration and Metropolitan Assets Utilization

CAC III: Neighborhood Democratization, Institution Building and Community Development

CAC IV: Reconstruction and Economic Development

CAC V: Public Private Partnership Agreement Monitoring Team

CAC VI: Lifelong Education and PLA Workforce Development

CAC VII: Health & Human Services and Support including assisted living faculties


NATI ACTION AGENCY

a operation of Cincinnati Change going on it's own in April 2006 as a seperate not for profit organziation who is provider to Gulf Change for the room and board, in Cincinnati, along with the training for 1,000 health care professionals from the Gulf over the next two years.


CAC VIII: Faith Based Leadership and Family Support & Development

CAC IX: Professional Services Support

Friday, January 06, 2006 

Our Action On Crime

The Peace Bell is a symbol, nuff said.

Lets talk about action. It’s a new year and lets get down with the new City Council. They got right down to business right away on the budget. They passed a budget and set the stage for a consensus to develop on how we define public safety.

We would go about achieving it when City Council Law & Public Safety Committee reviewed the shooting incident that occurred on Christmas Eve, in depth. This is after the CCA does it’s jon and we have a ruling from Dr. O. Who shot who?

Remember public saftey is the issue we pay over 120M a year for, we can ask questions - we own the city. Before anyone has a problem with what we say you should know one of us wrote the OPTA training manual and started for a College in Ohio their Criminal Justice course.
This incident in Roselawn which resulted in the death of one 19 year old Chanel Jordan, who was coming to pick her brother up, fact or fiction. Lets put it in the Blog on uptown security - here.

Cincinnati Change and partners will create dances for teens starting in April at our 20,000 sq. ft. building.

Cincinnati Councilman Cecil Thomas, chair of the Committee, has said it was a productive meeting, but now a holistic approach is needed to attack the problem, with council, police and parents working together. A number of community members spoke about the violence in the community and the need to take action against the problem. Cincinnati Change has declared 2006 as the year of Peace In the Hood along with Jobs in the Hood.

What that means is that we are bringing 100 Cincinnati Change Agents together to do teen dances by April. At these dances we will address the racial division in the city. Join us in this. We need all the help we can get. Goto to web site and give us the word on what you want to change in Cincinnati.

In 2005 racial division has not been reduced under previous leadership, but we have hope for 2006. We still had to much disconnect between the African American and poor in Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Police Department even with the Department of Justice Memorandum of Understanding (DOJ) and the Collaborative Agreement (CA). The Big story is the change in leadership of the FOP and the coming together of the African American community around the issue race and crime.

The image of police officers and the city as a whole is still recovering from race riots that erupted in April 2001, following the shooting death of an unarmed black man who ran from a white police officer trying and subsequent police slow down. The perception that emerged has been said to have embarrassed Specialist Kathy Harrell, the first woman elected president of Queen City Lodge No. 69 of the Fraternal Order of Police.

“The whole city got a black eye from it,” she said in an interview. “But did we grow from it? Yes. Have we proven we’re still an excellent city? Yes. Are there concerns that have to be dealt with? Definitely.” We hope to work with her and other interested parties who believe that we can have Peace in the Hood along with Jobs in the Hood.

We will create those jobs based on the construction of new buildings and the rehab of other buildings we own.

Cincinnati Change was incorporated Juneteenth 2005, June 19th 2005, as a not for profit organization. Development efforts, that succeeded and failed in 2005, set the state for the mission of Cincinnati Change. We will serve as an innovative, proactive partner in supporting comprehensive economic development, workforce needs creation along it’s development, quality housing development that is lead free and environmentally safe, supportive of historic conservation efforts where they make sense, land use management based on creating a land trust for the city.

Cincinnati Change will become supportive of creating in Cincinnati a worldwide arts and cultural amenities infrastructure that is a tourism destination managed by an African American owned and managed company. It would also support the creation of a comprehensive human and social services infrastructure for all Cincinnati’s citizens through established programs along with the creation of a new unified command and control agency for the residents of the city to be called The Nati Action Agency.

In 2005 Cincinnati Change bought interest in it’s headquarters at 2439 Auburn Avenue in preparation for starting operations in February 2006. Cincinnati Change believes that the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person’s dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored by each other and those who we elect.

Cincinnati Change believes in the equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability, including, if needed, timed affirmative action. Cincinnati Change believes in free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity through creating content for the third frontier - join us, help us change Cincinnati NOW.

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