Uptown Security

Uptown Security will start a program of conflict analysis and dispute resolution (CADR). It is to be housed at 2439 Auburn Avenue. We will train over the summer of 2007 300 students age 14 to 21 conflict analysis and dispute resolution (CADR) with support from the community and in partnership with the 100 Male March Uptown starting on 29 April 2007.

The requirements for our CADR program are to be based on the teaching of Martin Luther King. The program will be lead by program director Dr. John Hurdelman with program manager Col. Charles Britton (ONG-Ret.) having over 20 years experience in CADR.

Our major goal is designed to provide a sound pre-professional training ground for students who intend to pursue professional conflict intervention positions. The summer program is designed to provide specialized pre-professional training with emphasis on analytical and practical skills in field situations. Although anchored in a liberal arts tradition and strongly rooted in the social sciences, the program is designed to easily allow students to study in other fields outside CADR including a the business of arts & entertainment track, a science and technology track, a construction and community development track, a sports and athletics track ran with Olympic and Professional Athletes along with a social services track that enriches CADR skills in interpersonal relationship among their peers.

Cincinnati Changes staff will work with students individually to develop strong analytical and practical skills. Students are also guided in the development of a work ethic appropriate to professional conflict resolution practitioners.

Students when taught conflict analysis and dispute resolution will serve in the field working with alliances partners of Cincinnati Change i.e. organizations and institutions that need conflict resolution services.

Dear Nubian Oracle,

Today, we sadly find ourselves at the very point in Iraq I feared most when I opposed giving the President the open-ended authority to wage this war in 2002 – an occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences in the midst of a country torn by civil war.

We have waited and we have been patient. We have given chance after chance for a resolution that has not come, and, more importantly, watched with horror and grief the tragic loss of thousands of brave young Americans.

The time for waiting in Iraq is over. The days of our open-ended commitment must come to a close. And the need to bring this war to an end is here.

That is why today, I’m introducing the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007. This plan would not only place a cap on the number of troops in Iraq and stop the escalation, it would begin a phased redeployment of U.S. forces with the goal of removing of all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 31st, 2008 – consistent with the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that the President ignored.

The redeployment of troops to the United States , Afghanistan , and elsewhere in the region would begin no later than May 1st of this year, toward the end of the timeframe I first proposed in a speech more than two months ago. In a civil war where no military solution exists, this redeployment remains our best leverage to pressure the Iraqi government to achieve the political settlement between its warring factions that can slow the bloodshed and promote stability.

The U.S. military has performed valiantly and brilliantly in Iraq . Our troops have done all we have asked them to do and more. But no amount of American soldiers can solve the political differences at the heart of somebody else’s civil war, nor settle the grievances in the hearts of the combatants.

When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances, for waiting and patience, is over. Too many lives have been lost and too many billions have been spent for us to trust the President on another tried and failed policy opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and even the Iraqis themselves.

It is time to change our policy.

It is time to give Iraqis their country back.

And it is time to refocus America ’s efforts on the challenges we face at home and the wider struggle against terror yet to be won.

Sincerely,

U.S. Senator Barack Obama

This WAR is for REAL !

Who we at War with in totality is not yet clear, but to get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. The war in Iraq is a very large battle front. Even the War on Terror now is just a battlefront.

Cincinnati Change believes that the United States of America, our country, is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it.

This War will be as bloody as the Civil War and as great a challenge as the Second World War.

We are in World War IV whether we like it or not, or whether we know it or like it. We cannot appease our out of this, the other side wants to win.

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let’s examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?

Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Leon Klinghoffer October , 1985
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.

WE WILL NEVER FORGET
(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

Accreditation is a familiar word in numerous industries and professions including education and medicine. Accreditation was introduced to the Law Enforcement community in 1979 when several professional groups collaborated and formed the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). The founders of CALEA were professionals from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE); National Sheriffs' Association (NSA); and Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).

The overall purpose is the professionalism of law enforcement agencies by improving the delivery of law enforcement service by offering a body of standards, developed by law enforcement practitioners, covering a wide range of up-to-date law enforcement topics. It recognizes professional achievements by offering an orderly process for addressing and complying with applicable standards. The process is entirely voluntary. It is entered into by the law enforcement agency voluntarily. The agency chooses to comply with applicable standards voluntarily and voluntarily chooses to remain in the accreditation process.

Cincinnati has entered and passed this procedure. The standards address seven major areas consisting of: law enforcement roles, responsibilities and relationships with other agencies; organization, management and administration; personnel structure and process; traffic operations; prisoner and court-related operations; communications; and property and evidence control.

The Cincinnati Police Department applied for CALEA accreditation in 1995 and received initial accreditation in 1997. As part of the process, three qualified assessors hired and trained by CALEA, visit the agency every three years to assess the agency's compliance with applicable standards. They spend nearly one week onsite. Where Cincinnati Change can help we will.

They report their findings to the Commission staff. After a review of the report, the Commission staff refers the report to a committee comprised of CALEA commissioners. A hearing is held between candidate agency representatives and the committee. The committee then votes on the recommended status of the agency and refers its findings to the full commission for a vote. The Cincinnati Police Department was reaccredited in 2000 and 2003 by vote of the full commission after the onsite assessments showed the Department met the requirements set forth by CALEA for reaccreditation. The next onsite will be in 2006.

Cincinnati Change will work with these type agencies in support of Uptown Security and it's client the 100 Male March Ministry of the Ammons United Methodist Church Mens Conference to provide solutions to these problems of justice in the City of Cincinnati -

1. Create a program to have on 1,000 people under court juristriction on a patented wireless location network so as to free up at least 800 jail positions.
2. Uptown Security will create for the city of Cincinnati a new jail for 1,800 local prisoners and 2,200 federal prisoners. The facility will be paid for based on a contract between Uptown Security and partners with the city, the county and other governmental agencies. It will be a building complex that is to house 1,000 men, women and selected youth as part of public private partnership overseen by a faith based leadership with the one year old Ammons United Methodist Church Mens Conference Ministry called the 100 Male March Ministry.
3. Create a faith based program for 1,000 violent ex-felons who are re-entering the community through a jobs and business creation program in partnership with the 100 Male March Ministry.
4. Create jobs for 3,000 ex felons over the next three years through the use of funds from the sale of city asset's used for citizens of the city.
5. Create a first responders school for three states with Operation Enduring Service that will create over 2,000 new jobs in its Ohio locations.

The Lloyd Daniels Daniels Development Group will create a trust for a Pew Pastor Ministry of Ammons United Methodist Church under the leadership of Wanda Lloyd Daniels. The pastor the Ammons, Vera Cole, has provided leadership to a group of Cincinnati churches that after one year are continuing to mobilize their men to bring about change not only in their neighborhoods, but also to the people who live there.

The 100 Male March Ministries was launched one year ago on a 5th Sunday with a walk in a troubled Walnut Hills neighborhood from Peoples Corner to Ammons United Methodist Church. They will gather this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 to celebrate one year of action at 934 E. McMillan St. and march to Ammons United Methodist Church. Each man is asked to bring a boy to mentor. Call 513.545.7905 for more information.

According to Melvin Williams, president of the Cincinnati District United Methodist Men and manager of the CVS Pharmacy on East McMillan Street at Pebbles Corner, "We're trying to put a human face on Christianity from the male point of view."

LDG created Cincinnati Change to encourages increased economic activity in Hamilton County with faith based partners like Ammons. LDG will create companies that support the ministry like Hughes Electronics did the Hughes Medical Institute through trusts setup by each company that supports our youth. Over the next 100 days we will impliment a program that effects 20,000 households, 50,000 people in the region and supports 1,000 businesses.

Through Cincinnati Change LDG is proposing to create with Ammons United Methodist Church a Cincinnati Company called Churches Can Change Cincinnati NOW, Inc. (C4N) that over the next 100 days would impliment a plan of action to impliment a continium of care for young men and boys.

This company will also provide consulting, homeland safety and security infrastructure management, design and construction from our headquarters in Cincinnati as a faith based enterprise that is owned in part by the ministries of the churches involved and the companies created as church affiliated companies who will pay their taxes on unrelated business income and use the rest to support the needs of young men and boys.

During 2007, more than $500 billion dollars is being allocated for and through the federal, state and local government units in the United States and our for profit businesses will take advantage of these contracts with it's faith based sponsors in the following areas -:

1. Peace in the Hood, Jobs in the Hood Initiative
2. Veterans Assistance program operation
3. Creative Class Workforce and Network Development Program
4. Third Frontier Workforce Development Program
5. Housing program to build a million homes for young men and their families
6. ReEntry of Young Men into society
7. Preparing for and responding to future catastrophes
8. Immigration & Secure Boarders
9. U.S. Gulf Coast Reconstruction
10. Regional National Energy Policy Partnership Demostration Program

Cincinnati Change has created a program that serve the nation through and it's partner The American Academy of Distance Learning and Training, Inc.(AADLT) who has joined with Beauchamp Tower Corporation, Inc. and it's partners to support their proposal called Operation Enduring Service (OES) which will the basis for the creation of a program to employ over 1,000 of countys young men in 2007 through the 100 male March Ministry of Ammons United Methodist Church.

Drawn from the bright and early blog and our own sources.

[Ward Brewer] The former emergency responder is the CEO of Beauchamp Tower Corporation, a non-profit organization with a bold and brilliant idea: convert obsolete, scrapyard-bound military vessels into a fleet of state-of-the-art disaster response ships that can be on-site after a major natural disaster like last yearÂ’s Hurricane Katrina in a matter of hours instead of days. Many of the challenges Beauchamp Tower Corporation have been document Operation Enduring Service on the OES Project Weblog.

Retired Navy veterans such as Mars-class combat stores ships and other obsolete but still-capable cargo ships will be refitted to provide complex emergency communications support that can replace cell phone and radio towers lost in a hurricane, so that on-shore first responders can answer rescue calls even if the local phone and radio systems are destroyed.

These same ships, crewed by the Coast Guard Auxiliary and supported by disaster-aid groups, can bring in hundreds of emergency-response personnel to a disaster zone and provide them housing so that lodging on-shore can be dedicated to the victims of the storm, while bringing thousands of tons of supplies. Each ship will also be capable of distilling, bottling, and shipping thousands of gallons of water and over 100 tons of ice to shore each day.

This humanitarian fleet, what a blog called this Salvation Navy will have far more disaster-response capability than anything currently in use by either FEMA or the military, and here's the kicker it actually saves taxpayers money.

Cincinnati Change added onto that the plan of action to create two fleets that would act as the first African American lead Professional Military Company who would be a contractor to the US government through Operation Enduring Service (OES) which would use these ships. As of the 30th of July 2006 Cincinnati Change has extended the right hand of fellowship to create through a faith based partnership a new company called Uptown Security which will do this action with OES. we have contacted the office of management and Budget and have received direction that we are following in the creation of a for profit company called Uptown Security as a Ohio company based in Cincinnati.

This new company Uptown Security would provide for the construction of over 10 million homes in Africa and the Middle East along with a million homes in the America's through through a AID contract. At the same time we will be creating a million homes (for first responders) in the United States under a federal contract. We will start with housing for 100,000 people within 150 days under a contract proposal as a modification to already establishedgovernment contractst and includes authority and budget granted to the United States Department of Homeland Security, starting 1 October 2006. Cincinnati Change has hired Hargrove Engineering to plan this out.
In part, we would create our FleetCargo Operations around the AFS-1 Mars Combat Stores Ship

The combat stores ship is a class of U.S. Navy ship. They provide supplies, including frozen, chilled and dry provisions, and propulsion and aviation fuel to U.S. Navy combatant ships that are at sea for extended periods of time. Under our plan of action these ships will be among the first full time public private sector faith based partnership supply chain that will stretch from the east and west coast of the United States to around the world.

We will carry relief supplies, general cargo, construction materials, building products, raw materials, students, volunteers, medical personal, and a wide variety of ship to ship stores as American flvesselsessals.

Mars was the first of a new class that was intended to replace three types of supply ships: the AF, AKS, and AVS. Two innovations were Boeing UH‑46 helicopters and an automatic highline shuttle transfer system to make a rapid transfer of supplies possible.

The mission of the combat stores ship is to conduct underway replenishment in support of operating forces by providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail and personnel by alongside or vertical replenishment means.

The AFS-1 Mars Combat Stores ships conduct underway replenishment in support of operating forces by simultaneously providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical (including aviation) spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail, personnel and other items from five station (two starboard and three port). Under our operations they will conduct UNREP for 64 hours per week. Crews will be flown to operational base operations in Liberia.

UNREP hours are considered to commence with "first line over" and terminate with "last line clear." They conduct vertical replenishment in support of operating forces by providing refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical (including aviation) spares, general stores, fleet freight, mail, personnel and other items from other units or temporarily assigned by periods normally not to exceed 32 hours per week. This includes the time from the setting of flight quarters to securing from flight quarters.

USNS Concord (T-AFS 5) became the first of five Navy Mars class ships to be transferred to Military Sealift Command on Oct. 15, 1992. Mars followed on Feb. 1, 1993, USNS San Diego on Aug. 11, 1993, USNS San Jose on Nov. 2, 1993 and USNS Niagara Falls on Sept. 23, 1994. San Diego was deactivated on Dec. 10, 1997, and Mars was deactivated on Feb. 12, 1998. Mars was decommissioned on 19 February 1998, and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Mars was struck from the Naval Register on 24 May 2004.

We will now ask the president of the United States to allow us to create a fleet operations that will support the reconstruction efforts of the United States around the world with 1,000 partners who will create a ten year plan of action and put 10 billion dollars into the effort. During that period we will build over 40 million sq. ft. of space with a million person workforce with 10,000 faith based partners and non governmental organizations.

MSC's combat stores ships provided logistical support to deployed carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups, in addition to resupplying several U.S. embassies. During 1999 USNS Niagara Falls and USNS San Jose coordinated fuel and stores replenishments for carrier battle groups USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS John C. Stennis, USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise while in the Persian Gulf.

In addition, Niagara Falls supported efforts that were key to the successful U.S. strikes against terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. She also provided maritime assistance to ocean tug Ruby II, which needed fresh water and medical services. San Jose rescued 18 crew members from a sinking Panamanian vessel near Okinawa. Finally, USNS Concord provided contingency support off the Florida coast for the Space Shuttle Discovery launch.


Displacement

Light Displacement: 9852 tons
Full Displacement: 17381 tons
Dead Weight: 7529 tons

Length

Overall Length: 581 ft
Waterline Length: 530 ft

Beam

Extreme Beam: 79 ft
Waterline Beam: 79 ft

Draft

Maximum Navigational Draft: 27 ft
Draft Limit: 28 ft

Speed

20 knots

Power Plant

Three boilers with steam turbines
one shaft
22,000 shaft horsepower

Aircraft

Two UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

Complement

Officers: 42
Enlisted: 445

Up to 2,000 houses to be built for crew who operates fleet year round in Empowerment Zone Cities. This operation will pump over 500 million dollars into the local economey over the next decade. Uptown Security will work with established governmental contractors in 20 states and their local governments to create reality of the plan of action being implimented by Operation Enduring Service. On August 2 2006 we will publically ask for the city of Cincinnati to hold hearings to determine if Cincinnati Change should be granted a contract based on their request to develop Uptown Security and provide jobs for over 1,200 seamen who will live in Cincinnati. We will have 800 students in our regional Maritime Academy in the 2007/8 school year.

Builder

Queen City Navy Partnership, LLC

SEATTLE - Officials stepped up security at both synagogues and mosques Saturday as authorities investigated a shooting at a Jewish organization that killed an employee and wounded five others, including a pregnant woman.

Police arrested Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, after the shooting Friday afternoon and he was booked for investigation of homicide and attempted homicide, police said. They were investigating the shooting as a hate crime.

Haq was expected to make an initial court appearance Saturday afternoon.

The gunman forced his way through the security door at the federation after an employee had punched in her security code, Marla Meislin-Dietrich, a database coordinator for the center who was not at the building at the time, told The Associated Press.

"He said `I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel,' before opening fire on everyone," Meislin-Dietrich said. "He was randomly shooting at everyone."

Police would not confirm the account.

Pam Waechter, 58, an assistant director at the federation, died at the scene, said Nancy Geiger, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle's interim chief executive.

"This is just an extraordinary shock. We lost a really wonderful colleague, a wonderful friend. It's hard," Geiger said.

As employees fled the center, a SWAT team raced to the scene and cordoned off several downtown blocks. The gunman surrendered moments later after speaking with a 911 dispatcher. That conversation led police to believe the shooting was a hate crime, authorities said.

Five other women were shot, including a 37-year-old who is five months pregnant and was hit in the forearm. She was in satisfactory condition, along with a woman who was shot in the knee. Three others were shot in the abdomen and were hospitalized in serious condition.

Mayor Greg Nickels and Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said officers were moving to protect synagogues and mosques around the city, but said there was no evidence of a broad conspiracy.

"This was a purposeful, hateful act, as far as we know by an individual acting on his own," Nickels said.

Authorities have been advising synagogues and Jewish groups to be watchful in the weeks since hostilities erupted between Israel and Lebanon. Assistant Police Chief Nick Metz said the warning was not in response to any specific threats.

Kerlikowske said police were protecting mosques "because there's always the concern of retaliatory crime."

When asked if the suspect was Muslim, Kerlikowske said at a news conference, "you could infer that that was his background." Laura Laughlin, special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office, said Haq was a U.S. citizen.

Haq's lawyer, Larry Stephenson, told The Seattle Times that he thought Haq was single and unemployed, and that Haq had a misdemeanor lewd conduct charge pending in Benton County. Haq had been accused of exposing himself in a public place, Stephenson told The Times.

Haq's parents were shaken by his arrest in the shootings, the lawyer said.

"I talked to his father, and his mother is crying, and they don't know what is going on," Stephenson said. "They are very, very shook up."

Yousef Shehadeb, 46, a member of the Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities, recalled Haq as quiet and something of a loner. Shehadeb said he and Haq's father, Mian Haq, both work at the Hanford nuclear reservation, as do many members of the area's Muslim community.

No one answered the door to an Associated Press reporter on Saturday at the Haq residence north of Pasco.

Shehadeb hadn't called the Haqs, he said, because "I didn't know what to say."

In a statement, the Islamic Center offered condolences to the shooting victims and said "we disassociate this act from our Islamic teachings and beliefs."

MOSCOW - Russia on Friday published a list of 17 groups it regards as terrorist organizations, but did not include the Palestinian militant movement Hamas or Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group, both regarded as terrorists in Washington.

Separately, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Hezbollah must have a say in any agreements in the Middle East crisis, Russian news agencies reported — another sign of differences between Russia and the United States about the region.

"Any agreements must be coordinated with all the basic forces in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, as an organization that is represented in the parliament and government of Lebanon," RIA-Novosti reported quoted Lavrov as saying on a plane returning from an Asian security meeting in Malaysia. Hezbollah has 11 members in Lebanon's 128-seat parliament, and two Cabinet ministers.

The terrorist list, published in the official daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, included al-Qaida and the Taliban as well as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a rebel group fighting for Kashmir'sindependence from India, and Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood. ( News News Photos Images Web )

The Russian Federal Security Service's top official in charge of fighting international terrorism, Yuri Sapunov, said Hamas and Hezbollah were not a major threat to Russia and were not regarded as terrorist groups worldwide.

But he said Russian security agencies took account of international lists of terrorist groups when exchanging intelligence with foreign counterparts. Sapunov told Rossiiskaya Gazeta the list of 17 "includes only those organizations which represent the greatest threat to the security of our country." Groups linked to separatist militants in Chechnya (News News Photos Images Web )and Islamic radicals in Central Asia made the list.

Russia has come under criticism for its refusal to list Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations.

Israel' name Israel is now fighting a ground and air war in Lebanon against Hezbollah guerrillas, who are firing rockets into northern Israel. Israeli forces have also attacked the Gaza Strip to target Hamas militants. Russia has criticized the scale of the Israeli offensive, while the United States has blamed Hezbollah for the violence.

President Vladimir Putin ( News News Photos Images Web ) earlier this year provoked U.S. and Israeli anger by inviting leaders of Hamas to Moscow shortly after their January election victory. The meeting made no progress in softening the group's refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist or foreswear violence.

Lavrov's reported comment about Hezbollah echoed the arguments Russian officials made for inviting Hamas leaders, when they said that they were dealing with Hamas as an entity that had just come to power in elections.

Lavrov said that Russia's support for a Hezbollah role in decision-making in the Mideast crisis was shared by European countries and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan ( News News Photos Images Web ) adding: "As for support from the Americans for this position, I have no such information," RIA-Novosti reported.

The European Union ( News News Photos Images Web ) considers Hamas a terrorist organization and along with the United States slapped financial sanctions on the new Hamas-led government. But it does not list Hezbollah as a terrorist group.

Cincinnati Change Mission: CINCINNATI CHANGE encourages increased economic stability in Hamilton County along with the development of a third frontier creative class information highway infrastructure. We support the creation of companies and or provide technical assistance to established businesses, which will provide jobs through the acquisitions and development of businesses expansion. This will be a statewide demonstration project.

Cincinnati Change has created a program that serves the nation through it’s partner The American Academy of Distance Learning and Training, Inc. (AADLT) which has joined with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) program called CommunityExpress. It is a national program-offering loan and technical assistance (TA) The program was created by NCRC’s Banker/Community Collaborative Council in collaboration with the U.S. Small Business Administration. Cincinnati Change is a member of NCRC and as such ask others to join 600 other organizations.

Under this program we will pair, as a deliverable subcontract to the initiative, SBA-guaranteed loans with business coaching for historically under-served entrepreneurs, in this case one recruited to this program.

Cincinnati Change will provide technical services to 300 companies for $30 million dollars in revenue bonds.

Uptown Security will be made up of over 20 companies who have the capabilty to provide worldwide services and products.

Cincinnati Change current mission is to encourages increased economic activity in Hamilton County. We will create a third frontier creative class information highway infrastructure that can support a variety of operations. First among the goals of this mission is provide jobs through the acquisition and development of businesses, intellectual property and real estate properties that support a new national program demonstrated in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Change is creating a Cincinnati Company called Uptown Security. The mission of the company is to provide consulting, homeland safety and security infrastructure management, design and construction from our headquarters in Cincinnati. During 2007, more than $350 billion dollars is being allocated for and through our for profit businesses we will take advantage of contracts in the following areas -:

1. Preventing another terrorist attack on the United States
2. Detecting threats against the United States
3. Preparing for and responding to future catastrophes
4. Immigration & Secure Boarders
5. U.S. Gulf Coast Reconstruction
6. Iraq
7. Afghanistan
8. Africa
9. North Africa and Middle East
10. National Energy Policy

Cincinnati Change has created a program that serve the nation through and it's partner The American Academy of Distance Learning and Training, Inc.(AADLT) who has joined with Beauchamp Tower Corporation, Inc. and it's partners to support their proposal called Operation Enduring Service (OES).

OES is a Cincinnati faith based leadership of a public-private sector joint operation that includes an Education Initiative, a Public Safety Collaboration, a Defense of the Homeland Alliance and a Disaster Response Program which incorporates Federally held Non-Retention Ships and Equipment with partners who have already invested millions of dollars in operations.

The 100 Male March Ministries was launched one year ago on a 5th Sunday with a walk in a troubled Walnut Hills neighborhood from Peoples Corner to Ammons United Methodist Church. They will gather this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 to celebrate one year of action at 934 E. McMillan St. and march to Ammons United Methodist Church. Each man is asked to bring a boy to mentor. Call 513.545.7905 for more information.

According to Melvin Williams, president of the Cincinnati District United Methodist Men and manager of the CVS Pharmacy on East McMillan Street at Peebles Corner, "We're trying to put a human face on Christianity from the male point of view."

Our goal is to meet at People Corner on Sunday at 0900 at Gilbert and McMillan at the CVS Store to bring OES's headquarters to Cincinnati, Ohio through the 100 Male Ministries of Ammons United Methodist Church through a proposed agenda that includes saving souls and doing the following -

 Create a agreement between Cincinnati Change & Ammons on as faith based organization partnership

 Creating 200 new companies with those attend the 100 Male Ministries Meetings every month

 Creation of an Operation Enduring Service headquarters in Cincinnati

 Hargrove Engineering, LLC will be the lead Architecture and Engineering firm for 1,000 homes

 Support the creation of the Ohio Small Business Accelerator Alliance for 100 Ohio businesses

 Create alliances with 100 established businesses in support of the mission of Cincinnati Change

 Spread the word that their is an solution and churches and non profits are moving on creating jobs

 Structure of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Cincinnati Change and whoever attends this Sundays service at Ammons United Methodist Church at 1301 E McMillan at 11:00.

Cincinnati Change has a business support goal of starting 50 new businesses during the coming week staring at 2 PM to 5:30 PM this coming Sunday at Red Lobster (You pay for your own meal). Call 513.545.7905 for more details and or email us at oes@cincinnatichange.com.

Cincinnati Change and partners will create a community business development program with the SBA, private sector, non-profit organizations, and government agencies to support the creation of over 1,000 small and medium businesses in Ohio which will employ students who go to and or graduate from our school partners.

9:34 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for being here on this special day. Please be seated. America began with a Declaration that all men are created equal. This Declaration marked a tremendous advance in the story of freedom, yet it also contained a contradiction: Some of the same men who signed their names to this self-evident truth owned other men as property. By reauthorizing this act, Congress has reaffirmed its belief that all men are created equal; its belief that the new founding started by the signing of the bill by President Johnson is worthy of our great nation to continue. (Applause.)

I'm proud to be here with our Attorney General and members of my Cabinet, the leaders of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. I thank the bill sponsors, I thank the members of the Judiciary Committee. I appreciate so very much representatives of the Hamer family who have joined us -- (applause) -- representatives of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute who have joined us -- (applause) -- and members of the King family, in particular Reverend Bernice King and Martin Luther King[III}, thank you all for coming. (Applause.)

I'm honored to be here with civil rights leaders like Dr. Dorothy Height -- (applause) -- Julian Bond, the Chairman of the NAACP -- (applause) -- Bruce Gordon, thank you Bruce -- (applause) -- Reverend Lowery, it's good to see you again, sir -- (applause) -- fortunately I got the mic this time. (Laughter.) I'm proud to be here with Marc Morial. Thanks for coming Marc. (Applause.) Juanita Abernathy is with us today. Jesse Jackson, good to see you, Jesse. (Applause.) Al Sharpton -- (applause) -- Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Frances are with us. (Applause.)

A lot of other folks who care deeply about this issue. We welcome you here. It's good to welcome the mayor. Mr. Mayor, good to see you. Thanks for coming. Tony Williams. (Applause.) Everything is fine in the neighborhood, I appreciate it. (Laughter.) And the Mayor of Selma, Alabama, James Perkins, is with us. Mr. Mayor, proud you're here. (Applause.) Welcome, sir.

The right of ordinary men and women to determine their own political future lies at the heart of the American experiment, and it is a right that has been won by the sacrifice of patriots. The Declaration of Independence was born on the stand for liberty taken at Lexington and Concord. The amendments to our Constitution that outlawed slavery and guaranteed the right to vote came at the price of a terrible civil war.

The Voting Rights Act that broke the segregationist lock on the ballot box rose from the courage shown on a Selma bridge one Sunday afternoon in March of 1965. On that day, African Americans, including a member of the United States Congress, John Lewis -- (applause) -- marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a protest intended to highlight the unfair practices that kept them off the voter rolls.

The brutal response showed America why a march was necessary. When the marchers reached the far side of the bridge, they were met by state troopers and civilian posse bearing billy clubs and whips -- weapons they did not hesitate to use. The images of policemen using night sticks on peaceful protestors were carried on television screens across the country, and they stung the conscience of a slumbering America.

One week after Selma, President Lyndon Johnson took to the airwaves to announce that he planned to submit legislation that would bring African Americans into the civic life of our nation. Five months after Selma, he signed the Voting Rights Act into law in the Rotunda of our nation's capitol. (Applause.) In a little more than a year after Selma, a newly enfranchised black community used their power at the ballot box to help defeat the sheriff who had sent men with whips and clubs to the Edmund Pettus Bridge on that bloody Sunday.

For some parts of our country, the Voting Rights Act marked the first appearance of African Americans on the voting rolls since Reconstruction. And in the primaries and elections that followed the signing of this act, many African Americans pulled the voting lever for the first time in their lives.

Eighty-one year old Willie Bolden was the grandson of slaves, and in the spring of 1966, he cast his first ballot in Alabama's Democratic primary. He told a reporter, "It felt good to me. It made me think I was sort of somebody." In the America promised by our founders, every citizen is a somebody, and every generation has a responsibility to add its own chapter to the unfolding story of freedom. (Applause.)

In four decades since the Voting Rights Act was first passed, we've made progress toward equality, yet the work for a more perfect union is never ending. We'll continue to build on the legal equality won by the civil rights movement to help ensure that every person enjoys the opportunity that this great land of liberty offers. And that means a decent education and a good school for every child, a chance to own their own home or business, and the hope that comes from knowing that you can rise in our society by hard work and God-given talents. (Applause.)

Today, we renew a bill that helped bring a community on the margins into the life of American democracy. My administration will vigorously enforce the provisions of this law, and we will defend it in court. (Applause.) This legislation is named in honor of three heroes of American history who devoted their lives to the struggle of civil rights: Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King. (Applause.) And in honor of their memory and their contributions to the cause of freedom, I am proud to sign the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. (Applause.)

Cincinnati Change Media Statement

From Chairman of Cincinnati Change Fred Hargrove, Sr., PE, MBA

For Immediate Release: April 15, 2006

Contact: Nubian Oracle nubianoracle@cincinnatichange.com

From the Cincinnati Change headquarters Fred Hargrove, Sr., Cincinnati Changes Chairman and Chief Engineer issues the following statement on the passing of Michael Bailey [ General Kabaka Oba]."I hereby express my deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of Michael Bailey as Chairman of Cincinnati Change. Michael Bailey, 47, who was also known as General Kabaka Oba is dead.

I did not know Michael Bailey for many years and was introduced to him through Cincinnati Change's support for some of the ideals of the Millions More Movement.

Even though he was controversial in some circles, some of the ideals that he talked about like economic inclusion and justice cannot be disputed and should be embraced by us all.

We hereby pick up the challenge before us in this my hometown."