hartman - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T08:11:57Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/hartmanLink For Chicago Grassroots Poll On Mayoral Candidate and Agenda -- Pass LInk On and Vote Now !!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/link-for-chicago-grassroots2010-09-14T01:30:29.000Z2010-09-14T01:30:29.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><br /><div style="text-align:center;">Mark S. Allen<br />Associate Editor<br />The South Street Journal Newspaper<br />Founder, <span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_0">Black Leadership Development Institute</span>, BLDI<br />Chairman & Lead Organizer, Voter Restoration Project<br /><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_1">449 East 35th Street, 1st Floor<br />Chicago, Illinois 60616</span><br />(Office) <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_2">312-624-8351</span> (Cell) <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_3">773-392-0165</span><br /></div><br />-<br /><div style="text-align:center;">THE CHICAGO MAYORAL GRASSROOTS POLL ON CANDIDATE AND AGENDA<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e30xgbrsge1mrlex/start"><span class="yiv582681195yshortcuts" id="yiv582681195lw_1284421569_0">http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e30xgbrsge1mrlex/start</span></a><br /><br /><br />Thank you to Hermene Hartman, veteran educator, activist and publisher ofN'DIGO Magapaper and Melody Spann-Cooper, President of the historicBlack/Talk Radio Station WVON-AM 1690 for being the latest of our keyBlack leadership and media outlets to help follow the process of allowing grassrootspeople and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_4">other voices</span> to be a part of shaping the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_5">selection process</span>and the issues that shape the final agenda of the <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_6">Mayoral candidate</span>from the Black community!<br /><br />As I blogged last week, I challengedour collective leadership, especially those that played a role like Idid in the candidate selection and Black and grassroots agenda of<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_7">Chicago Mayor Harold Washington</span> -- the only successful formula that aBlack candidate actually won and a Black and grassroots agenda wasadopted and showed real signs of progress and empowerment. While somewill argue that polling people by e-mail is unscientific, these sameunscientific means still laid the foundation for ordinary people tohave their say in who the candidate will eventually be, and mostimportantly grassroots organizers and ordinary individuals had theirsay and saw themselves and their constituent issues in the shaping ofthe <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_8">Mayoral candidates</span> agenda. This current poll gives thousands oforganizers and individuals that opportunity again.<br /><br />Twenty-oneyears ago I was a youth organizer for the late Lu Palmer's ChicagoBlack United Communities (CBUC) and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_9">The Task Force</span> For Black PoliticalEmpowerment organizations and a key part of soliciting the input ofyouth in the candidate selection and agenda setting process, and waslater humbled to be placed out front by our elder leaders as one of theofficial youth coordinators of the '83 Campaign of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_10">Harold Washington</span>.Twenty-one years later as a former talk show host and producer fromWVON-AM, a veteran community activist and Associate Editor of The SouthStreet Journal Newspaper, I am humbled to have been contacted byHermene Hartman and asked to step up again and help to solicit theinput of others in polling candidates and developing "agenda"priorities that ordinary people can "see" their input into theprocess.! This process is SO critical when we try to hear from thoseconstituent voices that have not voted in over 21 years for a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_11">Mayoralcandidate</span> and if they see themselves and their input again will thatget them actively and systematically involved.<br /><br />As of thiswriting, there were less than 200 participants in the candidate andagenda polling and I hope that our help at the grassroots level willget us to at least 1,000 responses by this Friday, so today I startwith distributing this link to a grassroots e-mail base of over 20,000names !!! And for once in an important process as this, these 20,000names of grassroots e-mail contacts have never been contacted by anymajor news media agency, but for us at the grassroots level, theirinput is critical to us and this and this process, and will publiclyreported where the ordinary people again will SEE themselves and theirinput, and hopefully that will help us get thousands of voters backinto this upcoming <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284427413_12">Chicago</span> Mayoral election process of 2011.<br /><br />Okayorganizers, activists and all who read this blog and one of the 20,000getting this link today, also have lists of their own to share thelink, so there is no way that we should not have at least 1,000responses by this Friday !!! Lets this phase or the "organizing" continue !!<br /><br /><br /></div><br /></div>Chicago Hosts 3rd Follow-Up To Sharpton's National Action Plan with National Convention of Black Wall Street Organizations August 20-23https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/chicago-hosts-3rd-followup-to2010-08-15T08:58:26.000Z2010-08-15T08:58:26.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><div style="text-align:center;">SATURDAY, AUGUST 14th, 2010<br />Chicago Hosts 3rd Follow-Up To Sharpton's <span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_0">National Action Plan</span> with <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_1">National Convention</span> of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_2">Black Wall Street Organizations</span> August 20-23<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hermene Hartman, publisher of N'DIGO, The Rev. Dr. Al Sampson, Wallace "Gator" Bradley confirm for <span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_0"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_3">National Black Wall Street Convention</span></span>! Key participants from Rev. Al Sharptons National 12 Month <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_1"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_4">Action Plan</span></span> now join The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, Cheryle Robinson Jackson, Attorney Tom Todd Confirming ForHistoric 1st <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_2">National Convention</span> Of <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_3">Black Wall Street Organizations</span>August 20-23 In <span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_4"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_5">Chicago</span></span> !</span></font></div><div class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221entry-header pkg"><div class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221entry-meta"><div class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221userpic pkg"><a></a></div><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221vcard author"><a class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221fn url" target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/profiles/Marksallen"><span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_0" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"></span></a></span><a class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221comment" target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/and-the-ordinary-people-said/2010/08/the-rev-jesse-l-jackson-sr-cheryle-robinson-jackson-attorney-tom-todd-confirmed-for-historic-1st-national-convention-of-black-wall-street-organization.html#comments"><span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_1" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"></span></a></div><div class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221about-the-blogger pkg"><div class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221userpic-large pkg"><div class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221userpic pkg"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/profiles/Marksallen"><br /></a></div></div><div class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221blogger-info"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221vcard author"><a class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221fn url" target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/profiles/Marksallen"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_0">Marksallen</span></a></span><p class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221short-bio">One of the <span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_2" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_1"><span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_5"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_6">first community organizers</span></span></span></span> to work with <span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_3" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_2"><span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_6"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_7">Barack Obama</span></span></span></span> in <span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_4" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_3">Chicago</span></span> for over 20 years. 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size="6">Cheryle Robinson Jackson, <em>("Chicago Will Be The Next <span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_5" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_4"><span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_9"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_10">Black Wall Street</span></span></span></span>,")</em> former President/CEO of The <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_8" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_6" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_5"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_10"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_11">Chicago Urban League</span></span></span></span></span> confirmed as a Honorary Chair, and The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr,President/CEO of The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition just confirmed as theOpening Reception Speaker For the historic 1st <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_9" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_7" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_6">National Convention</span></span></span> of <span style="border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_10" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_8" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_7">Black Wall Street Organizations</span></span></span> in <span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_11" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts">Chicago</span> August 20-23. Also confirmed as featured speaker is the legendary <span style="border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_12" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_9" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_8"><span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_11"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_12">Civil Rights Attorney</span></span></span></span></span> Thomas "TNT" Todd !! To register or for more information call <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_13" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_10" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_9"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_12"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_13">312-624-8351</span></span></span></span></span></font></strong> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.blackwallstreetdistrict.com/"><span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_14" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><strong><font style="font-size:1.56em;" size="6">www.BlackWallStreetDistrict.com</font></strong></span></a><br /><br /><strong><font style="font-size:1.25em;"><font style="font-size:1.25em;"><font size="6">Mark S. Allen, Board Member,<span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221lw_1281108513_15" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_11" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_13"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_14">Chicago Black Wall Street Project</span></span>, and one of the <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_14"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_15">National Community Organizers</span></span> of <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_15"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_16">Rev. Al Sharpton's National 12</span></span> Month Action Plan.<br /></span></span></font></font></font></strong></p></div><p align="center"><strong><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yiv1472084221yshortcuts"><font style="font-size:1.56em;" size="6">***********************************************************************************</font></span></strong></p>"We did it before in <span id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_12" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_10">Tulsa</span></span> -- We did it before in Bronzeville, We did it with Operation Breadbasket's <em>Keeping Slices Of Our Bread In Our Own Black Communities,</em> and we are going to do it again!!! Join this historic national planningmeeting that will lay out the plans to build and rebuild Black ownedand operated <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970lw_1281550815_13" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yiv1962158970yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yiv1801289656yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015yiv1801289656lw_1281830810_11"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_16"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_17">Black business</span></span></span></span> and jobs districts throughout Chicago and in majority Black populations across the country"<br />***********************************************************************************************<br /><br /><br />The success of Rev. Al Sharpton's National 12 Month Action Plan continues with <br />the <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_17"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_18">first National Convention</span></span> of Black Wall Street Organizations inChicago August 20-23. <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_18"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_19">Mark Allen</span></span>, one of the <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_19"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_20">national communityorganizers</span></span> for the development of Rev. Sharpton's National 12 MonthAction Plan is board member of <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_20"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_21">The Black Wall Street Chicago Project</span></span>and one of the local organizers of the upcoming national Black WallStreet Organizations in Chicago.<br /><br />Several of the key participants in Rev. Sharptons National "MeasuringThe Movement" TV Broadcast in <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_21">New York</span> are now confirming theirparticipation in promoting the ongoing agenda being adopted fornational organizing at the upcoming <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_22"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_22">National Black Wall StreetConvention</span></span>.<br /><br />Specifically today, confirming are Hermene Hartman, publisher of N'DIGOMagapaper, the Rev. Al Sampson, pastor of the <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_23"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_23">Fernwood United MethodistChurch</span></span> and a former friend, and staff member of Rev. Dr. Martin LutherKing's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and was ordainedby Dr. King, and Wallace "Gator" Bradley. Hartman, as she did in NewYork on the direction needed to sustain and increase Black businesseswill present an outline on The State of Black Business in Chicago withrecommendations for "measurable" movements for Chicago that can also bemodeled nationally; Rev. Sampson will lead the church delegation ongoing "back-to-basics" with Dr. King's "<span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_24"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_24">Liberation Theology</span></span>," as wellas the national campaign for <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_25"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_25">Black churches</span></span> to adopt Black FarmersProjects in "measuring" increasing local job creation in urban areas;and Bradley will lay out a local model for national implementation forinnovative ways to increase employment and business opportunities forex-offenders and at risk youth.<br /><br />With todays addition of Hartman, Rev. Sampson, and Bradley, they nowjoin others who confirmed like The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, LegendaryCivil Rights Attorney Tom Todd, Former <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_26"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_26">Chicago Urban League President</span></span>Cheryle Jackson, Survivors of the original Black Wall Street in TulsaOklahoma and others for this historic 1st National Convention andPlanning meeting of <span class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_27"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_27">Black Wall Street Organization</span></span> in the spirit andpartnership with Sharpton's "Measuring The Movement - <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(54,99,136);" class="yiv315081015yshortcuts" id="yiv315081015lw_1281837186_28"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1281862381_28">National 12</span></span> MonthAction Plan," and the pledge made at Sharptons National Convention todevelop a "measurable" agenda that included rebuilding the Blackeconomy with Black owned and operated business and job districts inmajority Black and urban areas.<br /><br /><br /></div>