ALL HANDS on DECK, WE, Not Me Fast Fact

ALL Hands on DECK, WE, Not Me Initiative - The shorten version for the title is: "U-WE" Initiative.

A plan and project for "re-defining", "re-branding" and "un-trapping” over a half-million urban stakeholders of the City of Milwaukee from the ravishing jaws of ENDURING CONCENTRATED POVERTY.

It is a plan-program that calls for EVERYONE – man, woman, child – to do their part.
Poverty rises to the top like “cream” - A super cause-and-effect that perpetuates itself by default.

It is an automatic guarantee due to “by-design” discriminatory practices of greed, disregard, policies designed to control and exploit; and, double-triple-standard laws.

For decades, many reports have surfaced annually sharing the terrorism - despicable outgrowths of “by-design, enduring concentrated poverty”. Some of the consistent “predators” are:

• Corporate greed
• Crime statistics
• Demonizing the victims
• Discrimination – double and triple standards
• Displaced decision making and planning from the neighborhood-level
• Disrespect and disregard
• Education and technology deficits
• Exploitation
• Health deficits
• High and disproportionate INCARCERATION - same crimes
* High under- and un-employment
• High under- and un-financed business packaging
• High under- and un-skilled
• Housing deficits
• Lack of “accountability” by ALL
• Lack of “accountable” political representation
• Lack of “awareness” of stakeholders
• Lack of “due process” in justice system
• Law enforcement abuse
• Massive segregation that promotes “separate and unequal” tactics
• Spatial mismatch

Milwaukee remains the No. 1 apartheid city with conditions of the City of Milwaukee designed to control and perpetuate the “status quo”. What also follows is arrogance, expected privileges from those receiving disproportionate to appropriateness and fairness.

Documentation
From President Lyndon Johnson's Kerner Commission Report on "provocations of rioting" (1964), Atlanta Constitution report on "redlining" - The Color of Money (1989), Federal Reserve and Brookings Institution (spatial mismatch) - Enduring Challenges of Concentrated Poverty (2008) to Daniel Denvir (slideshow rating of top 10 segregated cities) - The 10 Most Segregated Urban Areas in America (March 29, 2011)*, African American, People of Color, and the Work-Challenged have weathered the storm.

It is important to note, that the decades of storms have taken a toll. It is important to note, that IN SPITE of the rampart wrongness, “hidden talent” and “emerging markets” are part of the BOTTOM-UP Recovery. It is time for us to CHANGE.

* For more about Daniel Denvir’s recent report, go to:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/29/most_segregated_cities/index.html
March 29, 2011