OPERATION: REBOOT, Getting House in Order

OPERATION REBOOT

Operation Reboot is a process used by the office of Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association, to provide strategic planning, channel development and due process.  It requires a close look at strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats for paradigm building.

It is geared to "put-things/group/committee/house/organization in order.

Operation:    Reboot – Accountability Matters is an outgrowth of the recent attempted Sabotage of the Milwaukee NAACP Branch 2010 Election Process, September 18, 2010, subsequent missteps by the local branch and the National office; and, the NEW Tea Party Report.

Purpose

To provide leadership in “getting house in order” for value-added quality of life and economic development issues facing Milwaukeeans, especially African Americans and other People of Color.

It includes addressing:

·         September 18, 2010 aborted meeting by President Jerry Ann Hamilton, Attorney Henry Hampton and supporters.

·         September 18, 2010 Interruption of Membership Meeting for personal and wrongful act to include the Executive Committee

·         September 18, 2010 Protest-Walkout of 4 Executive Committee Members from Impromptu Called Executive Committee Meeting.

·         September 18, 2010 Grab/Snatch of “Sign-In Sheet” by Mrs. Elonza Stanley from Executive Committee member Vel Phillips and sign-in sheet given to Attorney Henry Hamilton to disallow members Attorney Vel Phillips, Bettye Loving, Rita Johnson and Gloria Watkin to take their names off the list.

·         September 18, 2010 Creating a potential danger with a law enforcement officer, Captain Gregory Moore of the Milwaukee Police Department was “left-in-control” while President Hamilton went upstairs for the Impromptu Executive Committee meeting.  

Captain Moore is not one of the 8 officers or 24-seat Executive Committee.  There were officers, executive committee members, ex-officers/ex-committee members and life-time members that would have been in-line with protocol.

Luckily, the confrontation that developed between Captain Moore and Attorney Tearman Spencer did not elevate to a well-known disaster.

·         September 18, 2010 Creating a Conflict of Interest with a public servant – with law enforcement office, Captain Gregory Moore of the Milwaukee Police Department was “left-in-control” while President Hamilton went upstairs for the Impromptu Executive Committee meeting.

·         September 18, 2010 misfeasance act, Vote-by-10 Executive Committee members, to:

o   Endorse 1^st Vice President Wendell Harris for 2010 President

·         September 18, 2010 misfeasance act, Vote-by-10 Executive Committee members, to:

o   Removal of all funds from Columbia Savings & Loan without proper procedures/protocol

·         September 24, 2010 Freedom Fund Dinner Announcement and Endorsement of Wendell Harris, 1^st Vice President

·         September 18, 2010 verbal attack and lack of civility of member Rosa Caradine Lewis, Acting Parliamentarian,  – Her personal, in-the-mike, threat to pick Attorney Vel Phillips up and take her to her seat if she came up to the podium again.

·         September 18, 2010 erratic behavior of President Jerry Ann Hamilton and her son – Attorney Henry Hamilton.

·         September 18, 2010 erratic behavior of 1^st Vice President Wendell Harris, withdrawal of Candidacy for President.

·         September 18, 2010 Bizarre and erratic behavior of turning off lights while meeting was in session, pre-mature and improper attempt to adjourn  Membership Meeting.

·         September 18, 2010 Bizarre and unwarranted call to Milwaukee Police Department to “evict” members in a Membership meeting to avoid the election of the 2010 Nominating Committee.

·         President Jerry Ann Hamilton’s subsequent BOGUS, unwarranted, not asked for by Membership and not authorized by Membership - Call for Takeover by National.

Seen as another attempt by President Hamilton to usurp the Constitution and Bylaws by calling for National to be complicit in her wrongdoing, especially since this has happen before with a “bullying, name calling and intimidation” by members representing National.

·         President/CEO Ben Jealous 3-Year Suspension of Dorothy Coleman, Al Lambert and Bettye Loving.

·         President/CEO Ben Jealous and Chairwoman Roslyn Brock failure to respond in civility or otherwise to Milwaukee Branch Members requests for input and "leadership".

·         Call for Action and Call for Leadership-by-Example.

More to come . . .

·         SUSPENSION OF:

• ELMER Anderson
• DOROTHY Coleman
• MARY Glass
• GEORGE Hooper
• RITA Johnson
• BETTYE Loving
• WALLACE White
• LAURI Wynn

VISIT - YOUR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY ON THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

OPEN HOUSE - UW-Milwaukee
October 29-30, 2010 (Friday and Saturday)
UWM UNION2200 E. Kenwood

Visit.  Learn about Education Attainment possibilites - certificates, degrees, personal development; and, see how your tax dollars and the ARRA - American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding is provided at the local public university.

Do not miss the Open House.

Friday and Saturday, October 29th & 30th.
Parking:    Union Underground, 2200 E. Kenwood and 3409 N. Downer (overflow parking) - state visit is for Open House - parking is FREE.

Street/meter parking have parking restrictions, be sure to following parking instructions to avoid tickets and fines.

More information
Department of Recruitment and Outreach at 414.229.2222.

Dr. Samuel Betances: An Inspirational Choice - Racine Freedom Fund Dinner

                                                                Dr. Samuel Betances

Dr. Samuel Betances is a biracial, bicultural, and bilingual citizen of the world. He has worked in all fifty states, all six U.S. territories and in various countries including Japan, Korea, Germany and Mexico. This great motivator was not supposed to make it. Out of the bowels of inner city poverty, stigma of minority group status, violence, welfare and illiteracy in two languages, he arose.  Dr. Betances embarked on a journey from dropping out of school to a Doctorate from Harvard University.

Dr. Betances is the Keynote speaker for the Racine 60th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner, on Friday, October 29 at the Racine Marriott Hotel, 7111 Washington Avenue. Social hour is from 5-6 p.m. and the program begins at 6:30 p.m. The theme is “One Nation, One Dream.”

Tickets are on sale at the cost of $50 per person. For ticket information, please call (262) 672-9929.

Judging by the Racine Post and a recent comment on JSOnline, Racine is also weighted with behavior that is inappropriate by its President and others.

Dr. Betances is a great fit.  However, I do not know if he is going to speak to collaboration and the importance of the branch re-ordering its priorities, especially its leadership.

I do say, he is well worth the time and investment for one's growth.

OPERATION: REBOOT, Replacing Paralysis

Milwaukee, WI - Operation:  Reboot is to focus on behavior that has caused a paralysis to our local branch, Racine and any other branches; but, willing to work together to raise the bar for the following:

      Best Practices

      Building a BOTTOM-Up Recovery

      Building Economic Development

      Building TRUST

      Education and Technology Attainment

      Membership and Donor Care

      Principled-Centered Leadership

      Replacing Concentrated Poverty with Economic Affluence

      Transparency

      Urban Sustainability

Stay tuned.

MPA 2011 SOCIAL JUSTICE SUMMIT - - Work-Education-Technology-Economic Development.

Milwaukee,WI - Milwaukee Professionals Association launched All Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative-Plan-Project on January 26, 2010.  A 2010-2020 project to address "concentrated poverty" in Milwaukee.

Today, the plan calls for the announcement of the first building-block for 2011. 

It is:  MPA 2011 SOCIAL JUSTICE SUMMIT - - Work-Education-Technology-Economic Development.

Specific mapping of stakeholders will take place during the months of November and December 2010.

Saturday Talks

Saturday Talks will commence in November for planning sessions.  They will be held from 1-3:00pm at UW-M.

Milwaukeeans and supporters are welcome to join in the planning. 

The "prerequisite" is willingness to "work in solidarity" to create a hands-on  summit designed to impact the infrastructure of the City of Milwaukee.

It will be held during African American History Month.

• Work - neighborhood-level entrepreneurism, apprenticeship and employment.
• Education - public and private school environments (secondary, 2-year, 4-year and graduate levels)
• Technology - home, business, neighborhood and school
• Economic Development - Bronzeville District (Harambee Neighborhood)

ALL Hands on DECK, WE, Not Me Initiative

                           A plan and project

Fast Facts

·        Infrastructure and Sustainability Design

·        Residential and neighborhood-level business-driven

·        10-year encouragement of Education and Technology attainment (diploma-degreed-certificated)

·        Bottom-Up Recovery Program

·        Economic affluence for Middle Class wealth

·        Health Wellness

·        Neighborhood beautification with Environment Focus

·        Entrepreneurism in WORLD-WIDE production and Career Diversity   

MILWAUKEE PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION CITY-WIDE Neighborhood Design: 2010-2020

Creating the work-education-technology-economic development for the City of Milwaukee so it has the richness of all cultures; especially the “fingerprint” and “DNA” of People of Color and the Work-Challenged.

http://mpapublicpolicyreview.ning.com      Email:  mpapublicpolicyreview@gmail.com

For more,
visit: http://mpapublicpolicyreview.ning.com/

TEA PARTY REPORT - 94 PAGES

The report titled

"Tea Party Nationalism:  A Critical Examination of the Tea Party Movement and the Size, Scope, and Focus of Its National Factions"

was written by Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart of the Kansas City-based Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.

This is a 94-page report released, October 20, 2010.  Below are three paragraphs of the “Foreword” by 

Ben Jealous, President/CEO – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-NAACP

We know the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will.  That is why the NAACP—an organization that has worked to expose and combat racism in all its forms for more than 100 years—is thankful Devin Burghart, Leonard Zeskind

and the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights prepared this report that exposes the links between certain Tea Party factions and acknowledged racist hate groups in the United States. These links should give all patriotic Americans pause.

I hope the leadership and members of the Tea Party movement will read this report and take additional steps to distance themselves from those Tea Party leaders who espouse racist ideas, advocate violence, or are formally affiliated with white supremacist organizations. In our effort to strengthen our democracy and ensure rights for all, it is important that we have a reasoned political debate without the use of epithets, the threat of violence, or the resurrection of long discredited racial hierarchies.

This July, delegates to the 101st NAACP National Convention unanimously passed a resolution condemning outspoken racist elements within the Tea Party, and called upon Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use white supremacist language in their signs and speeches, and those Tea Party leaders who would subvert their own movement by spreading racism.

Click here to read the report (.pdf)

Risk Management Coming to the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP

by:   Mary Glass

Train wrecks in organizations happen every day.  Our news media make a living on same when talking about personal affairs, personalities, leaders, politicians, celebrities, wealthy individuals, etc.  However, business professionals and those who want to protect the IMAGE and/or BRAND of the organization seek logical steps/processes/approaches to minimize and/or eliminate risk that may be associated with:

Ø  Compliance.........Mission, Vision, Bylaws, U.S. law and Constitution

Ø  Customer Care....Membership, Perspective Members, Donors, Public

Ø  Financial..............Membership, Donors (public and private) and Public support

Ø  Investment..........Staff, Time and Programs

Ø  Market.................Member-Public-Neighborhood-City/State/Region/National

Ø  Operation............Officers (8), Executive Committee, Staff and Volunteers

Milwaukee Branch

The Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP has gone too far and stayed too long.  Therefore, it will take significant overhaul to “get the house in order”.  

From the initial review, there is plenty of blame to spread around.  Blame due to lack of knowledge (officers, executive committee, membership, state and national staff-officers).

Blame due to knowledge of; but, failed to call for accountability (officers, executive committee, membership, state and national staff-officers).

Blame due to lack of communication (officers, executive committee, membership, state and national staff-officers)

Blame due to lack of training, transparency, best practices, truth-telling, accountability and following bylaws, mission, vision and ethical conduct.

NOW, it is at a crescendo – massive train wreck stage and lacking in defense with core values in place.  Strategies of the business model is badly flawed and those who knew OR should have known are into “cover-up”, misrepresenting the truth, complicity in bullying and bias Code of Conduct, denial, massive fear; and paralysis.

Whereas, the initial instinct is to squash and do damage control, Risk Management must begin here.  Yes. It will mean identifying the threats, strengths, opportunities and weaknesses in the exposure.  It is to simultaneously adopt a winning hand of support of the membership to reduce some of the damage now and long-term that can abuse the growth of membership, branch and organization.

It is your MOVE President Ben Jealous and Chairwoman Roslyn Brock.  Here’s where you earn your title, strength, positive reputation and delivering the NAACP over a difficult time. 

A time that if you continue to exhibit a Code of Conduct that is “risky” and appear deceptive, arrogant, disrespectful, lacking in transparency, lacking in best practices, lacking in sensitivity for concerns given to you by the Milwaukee Branch membership, appearing bias with bullying as a solution, lacking in principle-centered leadership, failing to respond timely to inquiries will yield an avoidable Big train wreck in the public domain.

Risk Management can be an extremely complicated endeavor by failing to do the basics in collaborations, communication – TALKING for solution-building and building TRUST.  We can turn this unfortunate situation into a HUGE opportunity for the Milwaukee Branch and our entire NAACP organization. 

CALL TO ACTION - President Ben Jealous

Chairwoman Roslyn Brock and President/CEO Ben Jealous

Call for Action Letter - Shorten Version, Excerpt

Broken System

Greeting President Ben Jealous!

Congratulations to you, your family and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People/NAACP in your selection to Time Magazine 40 Under 40.

Fixing a Broken System

The headlines of the Time article are very apropos for my email this afternoon and the Recommendations and information I have sent to your attention and the attention of Chairwoman Roslyn Brock. 

We have a “broken system” here in Milwaukee.  And judging by a comment to a recent Journal Sentinel article, National NAACP suspends Milwaukee branch elections, “Please investigate the Racine NAACP, too. We have the exact same problems. After revelations of corruption and fiscal mismanagement, the Racine NAACP "leaders" have hunkered down to squelch dissent and silence whistleblowers.  There's no one here but foxes guarding the chicken coop,” ( per comment of OrbsCorbs - Oct 05, 2010 10:29 AM); we also have it elsewhere in the State of Wisconsin .

We need to quickly seize the moment and "restore faith in the process". 

In the Milwaukee Branch case, it is "storing/creating" for the new member or perspective member and "re-storing for the experienced and/or life member" of the NAACP.  Either way, it calls for principle-centered leadership, best practices, truth-telling, transparency, accountability and customer care no matter who is at the helm. 

An immediate response if needed from you.

Respectfully,

Mary Glass – Member, 2010 Nominating Committee Secretary – Milwaukee Branch

ALL HANDS on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative-plan-project

MPA-Milwaukee Professionals Association is calling on the NAACP and other advocacy groups to join in the "solidarity" of All Hands on Deck, We, Not Me Initiative.
This initiative-plan-project is designed to eradicate Concentrated Poverty by creating a BOTTOM-UP economy at the neighborhood-level that will be the engine for the NEW Middle Class in Milwaukee during the 2010-2020 decade. It supports President Barack Obama's Call to Service for a nation that has accelerated education attainment (diplomas-degrees-certificates) and technology attainment.


Both of which or vastly lacking for the 21st Century in People of Color and Work-challenged cities.
For the complete article, go to:
http://mpapublicpolicyreview.ning.com/profiles/blogs/all-hands-on-deck-we-not-me

President Jerry Hamilton adopts Disenfranchisement strategy of Politicians in MPS Takeover

                        President Jerry Ann Hamilton - Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP

For the 2010 election of the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP, President Jerry Ann Hamilton adopted the strategy of “what she said was the strategy of politicians in the Milwaukee Public School Take-over”.

It is vote dilution - to “moot the right to vote” according to the Bylaws, starting with the 2010 Nominating Committee.  The tactic she and her son, Attorney Henry Hamilton, exhibited on September 18, 2010, during a NAACP Membership meeting for the election of the 2010 Nominating Committee mirrors disenfranchisement. 

Their (President Jerry Ann Hamilton, Attorney Henry Hamilton, 1^st Vice President Wendell Harris and others) bizarre efforts of arbitrary and capricious take-over did not work.

The Membership stood firm and followed the Bylaws.  Even though they waited patiently for the meeting to start and were wrongfully treated (ballots taken by Attorney Hamilton, lights turned out during discussion, police called, police ordered Membership from room and building), they remained steadfast.  The Membership of about 50 people went across the street to Stella’s Restaurant parking lot, 2740 N. MLKing Drive and the 2010 Nominating Committee was created.

President Hamilton then exercised another BOGUS attempt to “curtail the right of Membership vote” by calling National and “momentarily usurping the NAACP Bylaws” with a “NATIONAL TAKE-OVER”.    This take-over was not asked for or authorized by the Membership. 

The 2010 Nominating Committee remained vigilant and moved forward vigorously to engage the Membership (even though President Hamilton refused to share Membership list and Executive Committee).   We do see now a list of officers and executive committee members names have appeared on the Milwaukee NAACP website after the 2010 Nominating Committee refused to stop and remained faithful to the Bylaws.  In spite of the divisive acts and detracting efforts, the 2010 Nominating Committee recruited 6 candidates and interviewed 4 very impressive candidates for officers and executive committee.  If the timeframe is extended to October 30, 2010 as was recommended by Secretary Mary Glass – 2010 Nominating Committee, a complete slate can come forth.

These are comments of President Jerry Ann Hamilton during the rally at Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda, November 3, 2009, on to Stop the Takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools (per Wisconsin Eye).

“Thanks to all of you, and we are here for the long haul.  Are we not?

The NAACP has a long history of fighting voter disenfranchisement, vote dilution can take many forms, politicians may directly eliminate a citizen’s right to vote, or as attempted here, politicians may leave intact the right to vote but undermined the effectiveness of a citizen voting power by curtailing the power of an elected body. 

In the end, even the most simple-minded realize that the effect is the same.  The voice of the voter is mooted", President Jerry Ann Hamilton, November 3, 2009.

Just as President Hamilton was speaking of disenfranchisement by the politicians, she has chosen the same path to moot the vote of the Milwaukee Branch.

The “undermining” includes calling on National to do the “dirty work” - A game of SNOOKERING.

You can click on "Watch" below and hear President Hamilton for yourself.

11.03.09 | Coalition to Stop the Milwaukee Public School Takeover Rally (Part 1)

The Coalition to Stop the MPS Takeover held a rally in the Rotunda of the Milwaukee City Hall on November 3, 2009. Speakers at the rally included: Wendell Harris: NAACP, Milwaukee Branch; Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Voces de la Frontera; Melissa Tempel, Educators’ Network for Social Justice; Kate O’Neil, Caucus of Rank and File Educators (Chicago); Tom Mueller, MICAH; Amy Stear, 9to5; Thomas Harris, People United for MPS; MPS School Board President Michael Bonds; Mike Langyel, President of the MTEA; Charisha Allen, Mothers of the Struggle; Charlie Dee, AFT 212; Alderman Tony Zielinski; and Tom White, President, Wisconsin State Conference of Branches – NAACP; Mary Glass, Chair of BNA; Jerry Hamilton, NAACP President – Milwaukee.

Watch | Listen | Link | Buy

There are several speakers.  Click “watch”, then click Express setting, then Finish.

Go to 24.19 (timer) on the tape to listen to President Hamilton.

Congratulations to NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous - Time Magazine Honor

 
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Ben Jealous, President-CEO Selected to Time Magazine's 1st 40 under 40 List.

We congratulate CEO Jealous and look forward to continued growth in the areas of merit mentioned in the article.  The full article can be seen at:   http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2023831_2023829_2025184,00.html

THANKS to the Candidates

To the very impressive CANDIDATES and Ms. Ruth Zubrensky.

George Hooper and Mary Glass

To the INTERVIEWEES

2010 Nominating Committee INTERVIEW

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Interviewers:                                    Mary Glass         – Secretary

                                                          George Hooper  – 2010 Nominating Committee Member

Witness/Consent Signer:             Ruth Zubrensky – NAACP Member

Welcome!

In order to make the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP the leader it should be in the Midwest and the nation, we must have strong, transparent, committed, accountable and state-of-the-art/world leadership. 

The City of Milwaukee has many deplorable labels; some true and some not so true.

For sure, it is a Concentrated Poverty city.  Recently, it ranked as the 4^th poorest in the nation – trailing Detroit, MI and Buffalo, NY.  The good news is:   it has many avenues of growth, if we put in place a strong civil and human rights group with a focus on quality-of-life, economic development and legal redress.  Thus, a huge opportunity is available for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – Milwaukee Branch.

At a time when the state of Wisconsin is electing its next governor, from Milwaukee (mayor or county executive), we are out of the loop with “paralysis of the membership”.

George and I not only welcome you, but commend you on your step forward to make a difference during this period of challenge. 

We have scheduled October 14-15, 2010 as dates of Interviews for the 2010 Slate of Offices for the Milwaukee Branch of NAACP.

We embrace the paradigm of economic change for Milwaukeeans and Wisconsinites in Milwaukee County.

George Hooper

Mary Glass

2010 Nominating Committee Members