PowerNomics: Restore and Rebuild Detroit
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Rally and Economic Summit
August 20, 2005
Moderator - Bob Law, Entrepreneur and Radio Personality
Hosts: Councilwoman JoAnn Watson and Wayne County Commissioner, Kwame Kenyatta
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Claud Anderson
President City Council, Maryann Mahaffey
Councilwoman Joann Watson
Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins
Councilwoman Sharon McPhail
Kwame Kenyatta, Wayne County Commissioner
Alderman Dorothy Tillman, Chicago
Jim Clingman, Blackonomics
Dr. Rosie Milligan, Los Angeles Publisher
and many others.
Join the tribute to Detroit Progressive PowerNomics Leadership and to new leadership from across the nation as we come together to demonstrate:
\ That Black Detroiters and supporters across the nation are committed to Powernomics principles and building a Black Business District;
\\ That Blacks in Detroit are the majority population and expect to be treated like and will act like the majority in all matters going forward
\ Detroit is the PowerNomics beginning that will spread to all urban areas where Blacks are the majority-underserved population
\ Blacks will support only those who support them, regardless of race.
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For more information call 313-491-8315
INFORMATION SHEET
PowerNomics: Restore and Rebuild Detroit
Rally and Economic Summit
August 20, 2005
Entire Event Inside Cobo Hall
Assemble at 10:00 AM
Program begins promptly at 11:00 AM and concludes at 2:00 PM
August 20, 2005
Suggested Hotels
Pontchatrain Hotel
2 Washington Blvd, Detroit, 48226 – 313-965-0200
Closest to Cobo Hall (across the street)
Rooms from $89. This price available if identify selves as part of PowerNomics
group. Must make reservations by August 16 to get this rate.
Holiday Inn Express
1020 Washington Blvd., Detroit - 313-887-7000
Second Choice. Within walking distance of Cobo Hall, but farther away than the Pontchatrain.
Transportation
People Mover, overhead tram that circles downtown area has stops near Cobo Hall and several downtown hotels.
Contact Numbers s
For more information call 313-491-8315
Agenda
PowerNomics:
Restore and Rebuild Detroit March and Economic Summit
August 20, 2005
Purpose: To demonstrate wide support and commitment within the City and from Black dominated urban areas across the nation for the PowerNomics Plan for Detroit to
economically empower the city’s under-served majority population.
Goals: The goals of this summit of commitment are;
to give support to Black Detroiters who want to implement the PowerNomics plan to industrialize their community and build a model Black Business District based upon the City’s competitive racial and cultural advantages;
to motivate summit participants to return to their respective Black cities and begin building industries and a Black Business District;
to publicly demonstrate that Black Americans are committed to PowerNomics principles and when they are they majority population, they expect to act like the majority and win; and
to present elements of the PowerNomics Plan along with success models in economics, education, politics, and community building.
Anticipated Outcomes: Participants will return to their respective communities and;
1. promote the PowerNomics Plan;
2. convince Blacks to act like a majority population whenever they are in fact the majority population;
3. persuade their city council to enact a resolution indicating Blacks are the majority population;
4. identify and secure an area suitable for redevelopment into a Black Business District;
5. support only individuals, institutions, or political parties that support Black America economically;
6. withhold support from individuals, institutions, or political parties who do not support Black America or do harm to it.
PROGRAM AGENDA
10 Min. Mr. Bob Law, Master of Ceremony, Businessman, radio talk show hosts, and seasoned activists from New York.
Topic: Purpose and goals of the Summit.
Part I:
Presenters Address Key Elements of Detroit’s PowerNomics Plan
20 Min. Dr. Claud Anderson: PowerNomics Corporation (Bethesda, MD)
Topic: Profiles and analysis of structural racial inequalities in Detroit and America which render Black people null and void;
Summary of PowerNomics Plan for Detroit.
10 Min. Dr. Rosie Milligan: (Businesswoman, publisher, and activists from Los Angeles)
Topic: Build functional physical communities & a sense of community.
10 Min. Mr. Jim Clingman (Author, syndicated columnist, college professor and activist from Cincinnati, Ohio)
Topic: Practicing Group Economics with appropriate behavior.
10 Min. Mr. Amefica Guyuka (Member of the National Association of Owner and principal of an African American chartered school in West Palm Beach, Florida.)
Topic: How the PowerNomics Plan can aid Blacks to control their schools, offer relevant programs that equip Black children to economically and politically compete in marketplaces and political areas in Detroit and across the nation.
10 Min. Dr. Earl Trent (Pastor, Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Washington, DC Topic: Re-capturing the traditional role of the Black church and redirecting its spiritual and economic resources into the economic Empowering of Black people and their communities.
Part II:
Presentation of PowerNomics Models
10 Min. Alderman Dorothy Tillman, City Alderman, Chicago, IL.
Topic: A Model use of Public Office to Build a Black Business District.
10 Min. Pastor Kenneth Whalum, Memphis, TN.
Topic: BAMM: A Model PowerNomics Project for supporting Black Businesses in Memphis, TN.
10 Min. Fred Caldwell Pastor, Greenwood Acres Full Gospel Baptist Church, Shreveport, LA.
Part III:
Call’Em Up (Appropriate Behavior)
This section of the program is to recognize local elected officials who have demonstrated appropriate behavior in politics and government in the past. Bob Law, the M.C., will call these individuals to the stage and recognize them with an “Appropriate Behavior Award.” Bob Law will indicate their current status as candidates for certain public offices as indicated below;
Detroit City Council Candidates: JoAnn Watson, Kwame Kenyatta, Maryann Mahaffey, Barbara-Rose Collins, Maureen Taylor, and others.
City Council Member and former Mayoral Candidate: Sharon McPhail
Detroit School Board Candidates: Theo Broughton, Marie Thornton, and Rev. David Murray.
Call Up and Acknowledge State Delegations from Across Country
Call ‘Em Out (Inappropriate Behavior)
Agnes Hitchcock announces the Sambo Awards Ceremony. She also discusses the group’s accountability purposes and the kinds of Sambo dis-honors and activities associated with the ceremony.
Part IV:
Conclusion
I. Bob Law summarizes Action Steps representatives should take when they return home; distribute handouts;
II. To Do List When Return Home
(A refined list will be distributed to all. No more than one page.)
1. Change your language. Use these terms and insist that everyone else, black, white
or any other ethnic group use these same terms;
2. Get resolutions passed where Blacks are the majority population;
3. Demand that Blacks be treated like the majority and the majority of contracts be
awarded to them;
4. Get cities to pass residency laws for city jobs;
5. Identify and begin to secure 40 acres sites in cities to build a Black Business
District;
6. Demand that school curriculums incorporate PowerNomics principles; preparing
students for ownership and employment specific to industries that will be the anchor
for Black Business Districts;
7. Apply PowerNomics principles to politics;
8. Do not support any individual, corporation or group that does not support or harms Blacks;
9. Withhold support from individuals, corporations and groups that harm Blacks;
10. When Blacks are the majority they should be treated like the majority and they should win.
New Black Group Leaders from Out-of-State
Dr. Rosie Milligan West Coast Support Group for the Harvest Institute
(Los Angeles, CA)
Tom Pope Talk show host, PowerNomics Radio Network, Washington, DC
Carmen Crockett President, PowerNomics Group, Springfield, IL
Greg Edwards Director, Akron, OH Black Chamber of Commerce
Jim Clingman Author and columnist, Cincinnati, OH
Black Farmers of America, Memphis, TN
Bobby Casten President, PowerNomics Group, Greenville, SC
Carlos Lester Omni Tech School, Atlanta, GA
Alvis Akins City Council Member, Durham, NC
Dorothy Tillman City Council Alderman, and President of the National Reparation Convention, Chicago, IL
Amefica Guyuka Administrator, Member, Africa-American Charter Schools Association
West Palm Beach, FL
Fred Caldwell Pastor, Greenwood Acres C, Shreveport, LA
Kenneth Whalum Organizer, the BAMM Project, Memphis, TN
Dr. Earl Trent Pastor, Florida Ave. Baptist Church, Washington. D.C.
Samuel Radford Regional Director, Citizen Action of New York, Buffalo, NY
Other Possible Out of State Attendees Too Numerous To List
2 Washington Blvd, Detroit, 48226 – (313) 965-0200
Rooms from $89. This price available if you identify yourself as part of the
PowerNomics group. Must make reservations by August 16 to get this rate.
1020 Washington Blvd., (313) 887-7000
People Mover, overhead tram that circles downtown area and has stops near Campus Marcius Park and Cobo Hall
For more information call 313-491-8315