Mary Glass - EDITORIAL YAHOO! National Day of Action - A Look at Mayor Tom Barrett

MILWAUKEE, WI - On Thursday, November 19, 2011, National Day of Action, was royally celebrated by the People's leadership protest of Milwaukee's Occupy the Hood movement. It put a NEW face of a wake-up call for Milwaukeeans at the neighborhood level (the half-million base) and the City of Milwaukee's high rollers that are elected/appointed/hired/volunteered/donors.

The call was authentic. It was a CALL for a permanent Standdown of the oppressive actions of those well-connected running rampart with greed and discrimination.

It is amazing what can be done if there is a "Will". It has unseen powers that travel in air, ideas and synergy.

It was held on the near northside on the North Avenue bridge, over I43 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - one of the core areas of People of Color and the Work Challenged. It was at a point of entrance/exist of the BRONZEVILLE District - an example of by-design derailment-to-date of economic stewardship by Mayor Tom Barrett and the Common Council.

Bogus Promises
Mayor Tom Barrett, the CEO of Milwaukee, has spent his efforts the last 8 years in "outsourcing" Milwaukeeans wealth - resources and funds. Instead of working with the majority of the people as he promised in 2004, he joined in treaty with those that represents the 1% - Milwaukee Metropolitan Association of Commerce, the Milwaukee 7 and the Greater Milwaukee Committee, against the 99% - African American, other People of Color and the Work Challenged stakeholders (un-, under-employed; un-, under-graduated; un- under-financed neighborhood-level businesses; disabled and re-entry, especially those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, boomerang employment, boomerang retirement and students w/degrees but no employment).

He and his well-connected and greedy cronies have sat on committees and forged a Southeastern Wisconsin agenda that has raped repeatedly the funding coffers and resources of this city. The proof is the 190 neighborhoods, land-filled mines, that are reported time-and-time again of deficits in quality of life and economic development.

Report-after-report, survey-after-survey, pollster-after-pollster, researcher-after-researcher say the same thing; but, NO CHANGE. The People yesterday said, "It is time for a change."

We can/will not enable or allow outsiders living and paying taxes in nearby burbs continue to take, lobby and dictate/"drain" the coffers of the iconic city of Milwaukee - its half-million constituents bring $MILLIONS each year and each project spearheaded by Mayor Tom and POSSE goes to underwrite projects, corporations, plans and pet projects that do not have the authorization of the People and best interest of the People.

SOUND OFF
It is time for SHOW and TELL.

"What have you done for us Mayor TOM since you took office in 2004?"