The Little Oil Pimp Should Rule No More - Restore Gore

How’s the weather by you? Comfortable that the food you put on your table is safe? Do you feel good about the direction the country is going in?

We have been had, took, bamboozled, and if we don’t take our power back, we’re dead. I want to live. How about you?

The word evil is live spelled backwards. Based on results, there is evil in the White House and it’s up to We The People to clean it out. Demand truth and justice, please.

We are at the most critical time in human history. Albert Einstein said if the bees leave then man has 4 years left. The disappearing bees is a fact. The rapture is in process. It’s time for each soul to take a stand for good or evil, survival or death. Let's do what we can to survive.

We need Al Gore in the White House now. Today.

Why?

The number one issue we are dealing with is the environment. The leading environmentalist in the country is Al Gore.

I’ve been working with Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum on his recently release book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.

In the book Richard gives chapter and verse of how to use hemp to help solve the problem of global warming. Hemp is a biomass champion that scrubs the air of the excess greenhouse gas CO2 as it grows and burns clean as biofuel four times more efficient than corn. Hemp oil can do anything fossil oil can do, only without polluting.

An additional service that hemp can serve is to supplement the upcoming food crisis because hemp is a wind pollinated plant. A 20% recreational hemp tax could finance large scale growing on unused federal land and create a slush fund to help folks out dealing with natural disasters, i.e. Katrina.

I write about Richard’s work because with all this information on how to heal our environment by reducing the cause, excess CO2, the way the government is structured, we just keep on burning overpriced toxic energy, taking toxic medicine, and killing ourselves to the beat of fear on earth.

With Bush, this solution is still illegal. Gore can restore sanity to our government and possibly our environment.

I want my president back, the one who received the most votes. Restore Gore to his rightful role. Commission John Kerry, the other elected President of the United States to serve as Vice President. These men have made their positions on the environment known. The choice is ours.

We can still have an ’08 election (or one 4 years from when Gore/Kerry is restored to President). Yet, this next year is key to our survival and to have it in the hands of George Bush is folly. The closer we are to the truth, the more freedom we have.

The little oil pimp should rule no more.

Restore Gore.

American Media - Villains and Heroes

The American media over the last 30 years has countless villains and heroes. Many of those who stood up for truth have been fired, jailed, ignored and/or suicided for telling the truth. This is most evident in the five year old blackout of 9/11 truth. If this article only serves as a call to end the environmental solutions and 9/11 media blackout now, it's served its purpose.

Freedom of the press is an illusion in America. That can change on a dime with your help. Use the web to contact the media and demand truth be restored to news.

Instead of getting news we can use, we get whose zooming who. In February ’07, when the story broke that bees were dying, and according to Albert Einstein that means we have less than 4 years left on the planet, we were overrun with stories about how Anna Nicole is still dead and 'who is dat baby's daddy.'

The press ignores the real issues, like toxic energy is killing the earth, and talks about the price of gas could go to $4 a gallon.

Back in the '70s, 80's & 90's free energy magnetic generator inventor Bruce DePalma (Brian’s older brother) was ignored most of his adult life by the press. I published DePalma’s papers as DEPALMA, FREE ENERGY AND THE N MACHINE as a prayer to let his spirit know he is heard as a beloved published author.

We get plenty of 'Ohhhhhhh, Imus shouldn't a' said that' [in the old America the right to free speech trumped what was said], but not a peep other than web video on a simple, but illegal solution to global warming. Even with the stakes as high as the safety of the planet, the American Media is silent on what's really going on.

We can solve global warming. Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum just wrote a book called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION based on the old government program to win WWII. He details chapter and verse how to eliminate carbon emissions from energy use by using clean burning hemp biofuel. Hemp can serve double duty in healing the earth because it also is a champion at scrubbing the air of the excess greenhouse gas CO2 as it grows.

Nazi's with an interest in oil and other toxic energies have taken over the American Media, i.e. Bush’s brother and Fox News. Until the rules radically change, politics trumps competence in the news rooms, ratings more important than truth. The press is not free to speak the truth. If they were, I'm sure Richard would have been interviewed by somebody in traditional American Media by now.

It’s been going on a long time. Bush Sr.’s father, Prescott Bush, was Hitler's US banker (yes, the president of the United States is the grandson of Hitler’s US Banker). The Nazis, who the European community was wise enough to throw out, came to America, and are now fully in power by stolen elections, a gutted constitution, and fear, fear, fear.

Why?

To keep the planet on toxic energy took fear. It is difficult to pump fear in the face of truth. Millions of people from around the world marched in protest to the Iraq war. Thousands of people protested the Bush invocation as he was guarded into the White House. While witnesses on 9/11 were saying “explosions” we were told the building fell, or burnt as a result of being hit by planes. Little to no coverage of what's really going on.

'If you're over 10

And you watch CNN

And believe everything

You're in too deep'

Rasta song

Back in the early 80's, the media was reporting that AIDS was a gay disease that was a death sentence, that crack was the result of weak souls who could not control themselves, oil was the way to go, and money was the most important thing in America.

Of course now we know that:

AIDS is not a gay disease, never was. They were just the cases most reported by the media. Twenty years after her healing without traditional medicine by working with The Healer Within, Niro Markoff is still alive and healthy, teaching folks from her experience.

Crack was the result of targeting individuals during difficult times for addiction so the Reagan administration could have a slush fund (Iran Contra), Check out Gary Webb’s book DARK ALLIANCE about Iran Contra, the book that got him killed.

Oil is killing us and American greed has caused her to sell out like crack whores in search of a fix.
The problem reaches all the way up to the FCC. The son of a general was made the head of the Federal Communications Commission. Michael Powell, son of Colin, actively threw honest reporters off the air. He left shortly after his father left his job as Secretary of State. It’s just the way things have been done for a long time. Here’s some more national examples.

1. The great, former CBS chief Watergate reporter Daniel Shorr was fired for working to get the truth out.

If you don’t know who Daniel Shorr, is:

"Schorr attracted the anger of the Nixon White House. In 1971, after a dispute with White House aides, Schorr's friends, neighbors, and co-workers were questioned by the FBI about his habits. They were told that Schorr was under consideration for a high-level position in the environmental area. Schorr knew nothing about it. Later, during the Watergate hearings, it was revealed that Nixon aides had drawn up a list of enemies, and Daniel Schorr was on that list. Famously, Schorr read the list aloud on live TV, surprised to be reading his own name in that context. Schorr won Emmys for news reporting in 1972, 1973, and 1974 .After Nixon's resignation, Schorr attracted controversy when he received and published the leaked Pike Commission's report about illegal CIA and FBI activities in 1976. Called to testify before Congress, he refused to identify his source on First Amendment grounds, risking imprisonment. This did not mollify CBS executives, and Schorr resigned his position in September 1976.

He is now a senior news analyst for National Public Radio."

When CBS News refused to allow Shorr to report a story, he then gave the story to the Village Voice to get out. It was one of those 'you'll never work in this town again if your loyalty is to the truth' messages that was heard loud and clear. It was 5 years before Ted Turner brought Shorr back to the forefront when Turner asked Shorr’s help to create what is now CNN.

2. Successful American journalist Rita Cosby had the courage to call Ira Einhorn to tell him her show was going to do a story. Ira Einhorn was put in a murder frame for speaking up for the environment back in the 1970’s. Yet the courts continue to simply refuse to hear the appeals. There is no scientific evidence he murdered Holly Maddux, not a stitch.

I don’t think Rita Cosby had time to hang up the phone before they decided to cancel her show and let her contract run out.

In my opinion, Rita Cosby is another great journalist who has lost her job as a result of having the courage to look at the truth when the country is being run by People Of The Lie. Cosby needs to be her own television network, and sell the shows to others. She can start with a web back and bring web reporting up a couple of levels.

Other notable journalist standing for truth include.

3. Keith Olberman at MSNBC who is leading the charge for truth and justice on his show Countdown. Check out his videos on you tube, Google and yahoo for a taste.




4. Veteran reporter Helen Thomas has spoken truth to power many times. Her words must seem prophetic to some now. “George Bush Is The Worst President Ever”.

5. Rosie O’Donnell is being raked over the coals (bad choice of words) for speaking up about the truth of 9/11. It was an inside job.

6.. Hunter Thompson, the first interview in the Loose Change video was suicided. He was a reporter who spoke the truth. He reportedly committed suicide while on the phone with his wife with his daughter-in-law and grandchild in the house.

7. Phil Donohue was taken off of MSNBC for questioning what was going on with the war. The same thing happened to my sister, Robin Hardin, on a local level when she was ripped off the air in Detroit for asking questions about what was going on in her city, despite the fact that her ratings were good.

8. Gary Webb’s research on Iran Contra revealed the evil and racism in American government. He was suicided on moving day into his new house. The coroner's report said Webb shot himself twice in the head, with a shotgun.

9. Dan Rather and the 60 Minutes team did the piece on the president’s lack of military service. It cost Rather a 50 year association with CBS. He went straight to the future Dan Rather Reports in HDTV. You go boy!

There are many more examples.

There is nothing we cannot overcome, and the corruption in the American government is about to be flushed. Not violently, but by the light of truth. The Bush Administration stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. They were responsible for 9/11. Now what?

I thank the traditional media for the signs they are showing that they are waking up.

END THE 9/11 AND GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS MEDIA BLACKOUT - SEE THE TRUTH AND REPORT THAT.

I thank the Lord for the web and its ability to place truth along side of the illusions.

It is up to us to separate the wheat from the shaft. This many grains, we all need to be involved.

What would you do if a solution to global warming was illegal?

Let’s make a global warming miracle here.

Since we all live on the earth, we each must make her a priority too.

From: A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 23, 5.1-6

"...you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. This change requires, first, that the cause be identified and then let go, so that it can be replaced. The first two steps in this process require your cooperation. The final one does not."

WE “ARE NOT TRAPPED IN THE WORLD WE SEE”

We can change our way of living. It's time to put down the drama and deal with the issues at hand at the level of cause and effect. Together, we can do it.

What’s true about global warming? There are excess levels of the greenhouse gas CO2 in the air, at cause for the documented heating of the earth. The glaciers are melting. The weather is changing rapidly. 80% of the adult bee population left the hives in February ’07. Einstein said we’ve got 4 years from when the bees left the hives to be on the earth. The clock is ticking and a solution to global warming is illegal...at least illegal from the perspective of the oil controlled government. I beg of you, if you are in the United States to support the Industrial Hemp Act of 2007.

“This change requires, first, that the cause be identified”

One of the main problems at cause for global warming is excess CO2. While folks argue about the source of the excess gas, science says it's affecting the planet in a not so positive way for our survival here. If you have not done so yet, please see Al Gore’s AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.

“and then let go”

Let us let go of lifestyles that are killing us. Toxic energy and polluting the environment does not support life.

Now, stop pretending not to know there is a simple solution to reversing the effects of excess CO2 in the air. That is by removing the cause - sufficiently reducing the excess greenhouse gas, CO2.

How? HEMP. HEMP. HEMP.

My friend at the USA Hemp Museum, Richard M. Davis, has a new book, HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION. It's available in both color and black&white on line at lulu.com. The book was conceived at last year's Los Angels Million Marijuana March.

Richard M. Davis is scheduled to speak at this year's Global Marijuana March, ’07 in Los Angeles, the first Saturday in May.

Richard has in his book information we need to save ourselves from the results of using toxic energy. If you are interested in doing something to save your life, and man’s existence on the world, I urge you to buy and read his book when it’s available. In the meantime, visit the USA Hemp Museum’s bio fuels room. Richard’s working on a plan to use the old HEMP FOR VICTORY program successfully run during WWII as an effort to help win the war.

Just a few things I learned from Richard's book:

1. Hemp is a bio mass champion when it comes to scrubbing the air of excess CO2 gas as it grows.

2. As a bio fuel, hemp burns clean and many power plants are already adapted to burn hemp. It can be processed to run in both diesel and automatic engines for cars, planes, trains, etc.

3. After harvest, the hemp plants can also be used for paper, wood, fabric and at least 50,000 other productive uses.

4. Since hemp is wind pollinated and not bee pollinated, it can step up as a food source to feed hungry populations, building peace on earth by reducing stress in individual lives.

We’ve made part of nature illegal, soiled her delicate balance, and wonder why we have a problem with the environment. How dare us tell nature what she can and can not grow. Actions have consequences, as do reactions.

“The first two steps in this process require your cooperation.”

Let’s take some positive actions and save ourselves. Here's a few recommendations from the book.

1. Legalize hemp, tax it at 20%. Use part of those funds to help people dealing with global warming, i.e. Hurricane Katrina victims. Use another part to finance hemp growing. Immediately make available 10-20% of un-used federal land for family farmers to grow hemp to scrub the air of excess CO2. The federal government owns about 650 million acres of land (not counting DOD) so a lot of unemployed workers could find jobs and start small businesses. Monitor the environment for maximum effectiveness.

2. Make available hemp and other alternative, clean, environmentally supportive energies like wind, solar, hydro and magnetic.

“The final one does not.”

Logic says if we reduce the cause, our part - the effect will naturally be reduced, if it's not too late already.

The nerve of man to make a plant illegal. Taint' fittin'. It just 'taint fittin'.

For more on the opening quote check out: Forgiveness

How To Bridge The Digital Divide

DO IT NOW!!!

INTRODUCTION
WHY BUILD THE BRIDGE
CYBER CLUBS
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW?
HOW TO SUCCEED
RAILROAD TRACKS

GIVE THE GIFT OF COMPUTERIZATION
START A CYBER CLUB

(SET UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS CLUB)

AT YOUR BANK TODAY

INTRODUCTION

We have a problem to solve. Though we are clearly in the information age, we are still using industrial age thinking in solving our problems. For example, all this talk about jobs. NAFTA was passed and here in the United States, jobs are fewer and harder to find. However, in the Information Age, one can earn a living at home on line. All that is needed is a computer and the skills to complete the task. Regarding our health crisis, making more information on how to take care of oneself available in the style of Web MD, pressure could be reduced off the health care system, making available more resources to folks who really need it. Computers are really the keys out of Babylon where we can once again all speak the same language, web.

Albert Einstein explained it best in his 1938 "Message For Posterity." Our technology has exceeded our humanity, and now is the time to create balance. Everyone who wants to be computerized, should have a right to computerization.

Make no mistake about it. Second hand information in the information age is truly the new slavery. If you have to go to another for your daily data, by the time you get it, if you get it, it’s old news. Talk about second-class status.

Uncensored web access means no country can determine that their people cannot know the truth. Freedom of thought is the bounty for getting whoever wants to be on the information super highway on the road.

With computers and other forms of technology, we have in our hands the ability to create peace on earth as a result of better managing the world's assets...food to the hungry, clean water to the thirsty, housing for the homeless.

Q and A

Who is not on line yet?

The vast majority of the world's population is not yet computerized. Our greatest treasure may be found in the realm of the billions of unread voices yet to be on the web.

What is the digital divide?

The digital divide is the space in our society between the computerized and the non-computerized. The distance between the technology haves and have nots? We live in a world of technology haves and have-nots. Like A Tale Of Two Cities, failure to address the issues can result in creating a future resembling The Time Machine.

The digital divide is dangerous, yet can be made safe if we all just work together to build a bridge to cyber freedom.

When does the bridge need to be built?

Now.

Where to begin?

In our own communities, wherever we are. Those of us with the skills and the technology need to openly share information with those who don't have access. Begin with making sure those around you are computer literate and expand from there, i.e. through your place of worship, community centers, recreational groups (i.e. Bridge night where the games and cards are made on the computer.)

Why build a bridge to close the digital divide?

You never know where the next great solution is going to come from.

How to bridge the digital divide?

Simple.

Make sure everyone has computer access and the basic training to use the equipment.

How is that simple?

Make equipment and internet access available in all schools, libraries,

town halls, houses of worship, etc.

Computer companies know the value of creating customers by letting them train on their brands of hardware and software. Stress the sales times, Dr. Kings Birthday Weekend and July 4th weekend, generally the best times to buy equipment.

Set up computer clubs where folks can make contributions into one's technology fund rather than buy a $100 pair of sneakers.

In the information age, access to modern technology i.e. that which gives web access, is a part of civil rights.

We all have a right to be connected.

Since we never know who’s life experience will hold the key to solving the problems of disease, environmental destruction, economic empowerment, or our next really good laugh, we can’t afford to leave any soul behind who wants to participate in the Information Age Evolution.

The way to bridge the digital divide is to do something about it. When the problem is a lack of adequate computerization, the solution is simply to adequately computerize. Web conferencing, computer enriched literacy programs and organizational participation can dramatically help transform the digital divide into opportunities wide. One of the things that amazed me most during my years of training is the number of folks who can't really read. They may be able to sound out a few words, but wherever they went to school failed to teach them how to comprehend the images in front of them. We need to use computers to help folks learn how to read, do math and think.

The solution to the problem of how to bridge the digital divide involves access to both equipment and education. For example, internet access without the confidence and ability to effectively use the technology, is like having a microphone and not know how to turn it on or what to say.

The HOW TO COMPUTE training notes are posted

WHY BUILD THE BRIDGE?

The evidence is too precise to ignore any more. Maximizing cyber opportunities is critical to the success of any economy. Information on the web is already helping save lives, i.e. various on-line medical tests one can take to determine when it's time to see a doctor.

Many companies only have additional product information on the web. Some days, the best air fare is found the week before a flight on the web. Given modern homeland security issues, checking a product number against the FDA site for re-call information is a good thing.

I have a theory that during WWII enough people chose good over evil so that we were given the power of computers. The Enigma Machine, an early computer, was developed by the Allies and used to break Hitler’s code, thereby turning the tide of the war. The power of our modern Enigma Machines, computers, has changed the tide in many lives in no less a dramatic fashion. Folks are overcoming now.

The oldest referenced structure in the bible is the Tower of Bable. According to Genesis, during the time of Babylon’s ego, language was confounded. With computers and their language translation capabilities, people from all over the world can speak and be understood. A real chance at world peace based on communication.

Computerization is an empowerment tool on many levels, like the joy on the face of a young man in Harlem the first time he communicated with a soul from Japan about a mutual artistic passion. Or the peace of senior Miss. Ruth who was able to communicate with younger members of her family in another state through a computer, which translated into them becoming even closer. Or the accomplishment of a young father building stronger communications bridges with his six-year-old daughter during conversations they would have while together at the computer screen.

With computers, it no longer matters what one learned or did not learn in school. You can learn on line. The information, the commodity of kings, is available to all who know how to use a computer, the Internet and an assortment of educational tools.

As Anthony Robbins says in his book AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN…”I can’t overemphasize the power and value of gaining even one, single distinction – a sole piece of information – that can be used to change the course of your life. Information is power when it is acted upon, and one thing is that you never know when you’re going to get it.”

Illiteracy can become an ancient concept. In computer class, the most popular book is the dictionary, as anxious minds search for just the right spelling to get their questions answered.

Adequate computerization provides a way that national testing of school children can work. It gives students access to the same information at the same time. All 14 years of school can be available on the web, with interactive programs that test and teach. Any person who goes through a web-based education should be able to pass the national standards test. This is not difficult if we allow the needs of the students to hold greater weight than the needs of the unions and school officials.

The difference between a computerized and non-computerized life is like the difference between a Mercedes and a mule. Take insurance. Via the web, one can quickly gain access to tools that compare up to the second insurance rates offered by a multitude of companies. Without the web, one usually relies on whatever dated print or phone information is available.

Still, the best way to fight poverty is with a legal income. Anyone can be a salesman with Amazon, Yahoo Classifieds, ebay.com, and other on-line sales listing. Driving instructions, medical treatments, food information, breaking news, spirituality, sports, humor, art, it’s all there.

CYBER CLUBS

We've started with two basic types of cyber clubs. One is to encourage folks to systematically save money for computer purchases like one saves for Christmas season.

The second type is to gather a group of folks together and go computer shopping.

In the mid-90's when conducting ‘computer buying groups’, we had one

Radio Shack in Harlem, close to Columbia University, which had an extremely limited computer selection and programs were minimal. We ended up having to go down town. At the time I felt that they didn't want us down town either.

Access to technology is meaningless until we learn how to use it to empower our lives. The first step to bridge the digital divide though, is access.

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW? COMPUTERIZE

Here are C.U.R.E.'s recommendations onhow to bridge the digital divide.

1. Encourage banks to set up “Cyber Clubs”, much like the old “Christmas Clubs” where people can make deposits into an account for future technology purchases. As an alternative to giving a child a doll or game for a gift, take that money and deposit it into the account. These clubs can make group purchases during July 4th and Dr. King’s Birthday weekends offering additional buying incentives based on volume discount buying. They can also keep people informed of the newest, latest and most effective equipment and programs to purchase. Financial management, i.e. “computer banking” computer user groups can be formed to use the technology to enrich the community.
2. Provide incentives for community organizations to offer free computer training to their membership. Teach the basics necessary to write letters, get on and use the web, balance a budget or record one’s family tree. Trainers can be available on line with e-mail correspondence.
3. Encourage business growth. With a computer, whatever one does best, they can do as a business. For example, if someone braids hair, show them how their computer can keep their books, appointments, send out customer mailings, encourage word of mouth, file taxes, etc. Sales development clubs, on the web and off, can also encourage economic growth. These clubs can reach beyond national borders. Also, auto responder book sales and other residual income sites can be established.
4. Hold more and targeted local, state and national and international “town meetings” on the web with elected and appointed officials answering questions and listening to solutions from constituents. Network ideas with resources and people to accomplish the mission of safe, effective computerization for all who want it.
5. Provide additional tax and financing incentives to open computer stores, training centers, wherever. It’s not just low-income people who need access and training. We all do. I still can’t believe the many times I heard “I never thought I would ever be able to use a computer,” or “I’ve never even touched a mouse.”
6. Encourage intelligent, cross cultural-religious-economic-racial-gender, etc. computer use. With computers we see the quality of one’s ideas before we see the body they are in or the lifestyle they live. The opportunity to build bridges is to great to ignore.
7. Encourage non-violent conflict resolution through a computer. It’s tough to use a computer and a gun at the same time. Also arguments over modems cause less violence.
8. Promote the joy of computing.
9. Ask computer companies to stop red-lining inner cities.

Consider reparations for the American people. It was American tax dollars that financed the creation and development of computers. Money that could have gone into family inheritance funds. Yet, this technology was not given freely to the people, but to business interests. The skinny is, since our grand parents, through their tax dollars, helped finance the creation and development of computers, where's our royalty checks? Investors should get a royalty too.

HOW TO SUCCEED

The systems for successfully bridging the digital divide are already in place. Community organizations, one-on-one at home sharing information, economic encouragement and technology already exist to expedite the process. With sponsorship opportunities for computer hardware, software and humanwear, the process can pay for itself via an empowered tax base.

Dr. Martin Luther King was right. In my experience, which began on computers in 1977 at ABC Radio’s WPLJ-FM, the table of brotherhood that Dr. King spoke of in his I HAVE A DREAM speech is a table with a computer on it, and good people around it, using the computer to solve problems and have a good time.
Just like Dr. King was a champion of civil rights, we must all become champions of cyber rights. Government, business, non-profits and individual intervention will not only close the digital divide, but where there was a hole in the ground, new opportunities will be found.

How does one champion cyber rights? If you know how to use a computer, find someone in your life that does not know and teach him or her. If you don’t know how to use a computer, find someone who does and ask them to teach you. Help your organizations and institutions become computerized too. If you can comfortably afford it, buy a computer for a family who doesn't have one. Everyone has something to contribute.

I personally recommend beginning with each individual saying their own prayers for divinely guided computerization.

Regarding the question can anybody learn computers, bring to mind the image of an illiterate person who has already learned how to read the screens and push the buttons on their ATM. We are limited only by our imaginations.
Finally, a message from Miss. Roxanna Dawson. The Railroad had issued a challenge to Harlem that I was actively looking for the first person we could not train how to use a PC. Since the cost of the training is that it be passed onto at least two other people, we could not back up the challenge with money, but thousands of the people came anyway over a four-year period.

Roxanna, at 92 years old, came and said she was that person we could not train. I asked her why and she said because she was blind. I asked her if she was totally blind or legally blind. I had read Huxley’s THE ART OF SEEING so I know the difference. I put Roxanna’s fingers on the home row keys and had her type her name. I made the type big and she jumped back from the screen and yelled, “I can see.” The people in the training room at Harlem's Minisink Townhouse went electric. She turned around and said with a smile of deep pride, “If I can do it, the rest of your have no excuse.”

For her second lesson, I sat her at a computer with a 26-year-old woman and they learned how to use a mouse together. In between practice and laughter, they talked about community issues at a level that’s helped me grow ever since. Healing can be found in networking.

In summary,since the cause of the problem is a lack of adequate computerization,the solution is simple – computerize.

It’s easier than it seems,and when done right,its rewards are tremendous.


RAILROAD TRACKS

Computer Underground Railroad Enterprises, (C.U.R.E. or the Railroad), has trained thousands how to use a computer,in the 1990's in the great community of Harlem, NY and elsewhere in the USA.

The cost of the training is that it be passed onto at least two other people.

The Computer Underground Railroad is just a continuation of the original freedom concept. The real lesson from the original Underground Railroad is that those who have freedom, have a responsibility to share that freedom with those who do not. Those of us who have computer literacy, must share that information with those who do not. Until that’s accomplished, we’re just a slave system in another form. When that is accomplished, everyone is free with the help of ‘a friend of a friend.’ Free to understand, grow, pray and prosper.

Back in the late ‘80’s Harlem’s great community service diva, Mother Clara Hale, told me that there was something going on with computers and I needed to come uptown to help people become computerized. I won’t repeat what she said about Harlem’s politicians on the issues. History speaks for itself. She was right.
For example, Hale House became famous for helping babies and their mothers with AIDS and crack addictions. In the 80’s I was told by Harlem’s leadership that AIDS was not a Black problem (like race should make a difference). They said the best way to handle AIDS was to not talk about it. They’d put another record on the radio, rather than have on Niro Markoff Asistent who’s book WHY I SURVIVE AIDS tells how she healed herself of HIV with ARC (aids related complex).

With computers, it becomes easy to learn what's really going on. In the 80's and 90’s, the politicians did little about the 5 open sewers that surround Harlem, the location of the majority of Manhattan’s bus depots in Harlem, the threat of the Hanta Virus or plague from the large rodent population, inadequate disaster relief programs or information available on how to deal with the dramas on hand.

People need to be able to interact with new technology. When I lived in mid-town Manhattan in the 80’s and early 90’s, I had many computer stores in walking distance of my apartments. When I went to Harlem in ’94, there was not one computer store…a place where you could “kick the tires”, try new technologies, and take a test drive of new software. Ride a train down the tracks.

When I left Harlem in ’98, despite pleas to elected and appointed officials, Harlem still did not have a computer super store. Not even all the time spent on the Empowerment Zone helped. Instead, I was told that most people had no interest in computers or that computers were of the devil. It turns out it wasn't the computers that were of the devil (ooooooooops).

The training notes updated from Word '97 to Word 2000 and 2003, were given to all who came to learn how to compute. I stopped counting at 3,000 people over a four-year period, 1994-1998. Though millions of dollars were raised for education during that time by others, the railroad accomplish what it did on donated loaned computers, training space and programs and a $10,000 grant from Columbia University and City College, plus whatever I earned and the hard work of all who participated. I was not invited to speak.

 
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