Black People : What Can African/Black Folks Do To Make A Difference

[Queenie]

Did I or anyone else mention here that another thing Black people can do is to learn how to protect ourselves so that we can live to do other things that can make a difference?

This is real; danger is all around us and I wonder if I should be more concerned than I am.

I just received the following message in an email at work. This is what it has come down to in our every day lives. No longer can we afford to put our brains on auto-pilot and cruise. Will we start dressing in bullet proof vests? What's happening to the American dream?

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A mass shooting in your workplace means you and your employees are in a combat situation—that will very likely be over in a few minutes. Orlando, San Bernadino, Sandy Hook, the Maryland Malls are examples of these chaotic and kinetic conditions.

The stats reveal: Active Shooter, workplace incidents—with one or more dead—have quadrupled in the last three and a half years. And the fact that the killing may be over before the police can respond makes it even more terrifying. How you respond in the first few seconds will dictate the consequences. You and your employees have to be quick and respond correctly.

In this session, expert speaker Bo Mitchell will give you advice on how to prepare yourself and respond in a mass shooting scenario in your workplace or in any other public place.

Session Highlights:

• Can you prevent these mass shootings?
• How do you and your people respond in the first seconds and minutes?
• How will your police department respond in your workplace?
• Do you want to arm you employees?
• What does RUN/HIDE/FÍGHT mean to you and your people regarding a mass shooting in your workplace?
• How do you prepare yourself and your people?
• And More!

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[IFE]

Don't think of it like a list of businesses to avoid, but information about how the PIC functions.

http://www.truth-out.org/index.php?...-abusive-conditions-at-a-key-walmart-supplier

This piece above reflects more about ones' question, but one should also note that it is a sensational article from a female angle to make people feel more angered by it.

For instance, would we look at a confessed murderer doing some of these jobs?
Not saying that they are used or how they select inmates... do they volunteer, like a form or work release?

The layers of it is sticky, and to pull them apart would probably reveal everybody may have some financial connection to the PIC, directly or indirectly.

Whole Foods is on the list because they supply Tilapia and Cheese from a certain company that reportedly uses prison (cheap) labor to produce it.

Whole Foods, Expensive Cheese, and the Dilemma of Cheap Prison Labor
July 21, 2015

https://news.vice.com/article/whole-foods-expensive-cheese-and-the-dilemma-of-cheap-prison-labor

https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/local-vendor/haystack-mountain-goat-dairy
http://www.haystackgoatcheese.com/find-a-store

Whole Foods Says It Will Stop Selling Foods Made With Prison Labor

• http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...-it-will-stop-selling-foods-made-by-prisoners

• http://www.inquisitr.com/2462275/he...-selling-products-produced-by-prison-inmates/

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Haystack Mountain and Quixotic Farming

Could just boycott the fish and cheese, and they wouldn't have a store that would want their products.



Interesting they used an old Walmart for their production farm/plant.

As for Walmart specifically, what I have found is that they use a company to strip down (demanufacture) returned or excess products for liquidation.


Jacob’s Trading Company


Demanufacturing Wal-Mart: Profiting From Prison Labor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/walmart-prison-labor_b_2224743.html

JTC seems to make the most profit from the prison labor, granted Walmart probably does get a decent kickback from the deal.

This is another indirect way companies can be linked to this, while not necessarily being involved or directly profiting from the sales as we would think.

Prison Labor Boosts Wal-Mart’s Profits Despite Pledge
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/new...abor-boosts-wal-marts-profits-despite-pledge/

Can I disagree just a little bit. I think it is a list of companies to avoid. From your list of 40 companies my spouses company is listed. No, he won't be quitting his job. He'll be retiring soon. That's his decision to make.

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[Senegal]

Did I or anyone else mention here that another thing Black people can do is to learn how to protect ourselves so that we can live to do other things that can make a difference?

This is real; danger is all around us and I wonder if I should be more concerned than I am.

I just received the following message in an email at work. This is what it has come down to in our every day lives. No longer can we afford to put our brains on auto-pilot and cruise. Will we start dressing in bullet proof vests? What's happening to the American dream?

Webinar Invitation

How to Survive a Mass Shooting in Your Workplace

Live Webinar on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 | Time: 1:00 pm ET | 12:00 pm CT | Duration: 60 Minutes | By: Bo Mitchell

Register for Webinar

Learn How to Prepare Yourself to Respond in a Mass Shooting Scenario at Your Workplace

A mass shooting in your workplace means you and your employees are in a combat situation—that will very likely be over in a few minutes. Orlando, San Bernadino, Sandy Hook, the Maryland Malls are examples of these chaotic and kinetic conditions.

The stats reveal: Active Shooter, workplace incidents—with one or more dead—have quadrupled in the last three and a half years. And the fact that the killing may be over before the police can respond makes it even more terrifying. How you respond in the first few seconds will dictate the consequences. You and your employees have to be quick and respond correctly.

In this session, expert speaker Bo Mitchell will give you advice on how to prepare yourself and respond in a mass shooting scenario in your workplace or in any other public place.

Session Highlights:

• Can you prevent these mass shootings?
• How do you and your people respond in the first seconds and minutes?
• How will your police department respond in your workplace?
• Do you want to arm you employees?
• What does RUN/HIDE/FÍGHT mean to you and your people regarding a mass shooting in your workplace?
• How do you prepare yourself and your people?
• And More!

Ask questions at the Q&A session following the live event and get advice unique to your situation, directly from our expert speaker.

Click Here To Register Use "MD20" at check-out to get $20 off.

Looking forward to your participation here.

Thanks,
AudioSolutionz LLC
2222 Sedwick Rd
Durham NC, 27713
800-223-8720

You may also like

Safety and Security Package - "Take Your Safety Performance and Culture to a New Level" and savé $297 !!!

Thats great and I am not discouraging you from getting the information but I am going to be honest. Unless you are trained and drill on what you are supposed to do repeatedly, one class is not going to do much for you. You have to have muscle memory because your mind is going to freeze up and depending on what your mental make up is that can last for 5 seconds or 5 hours. The scary thing is you really cannot know for sure how you are going to react until you are in it.

 

[Kemetstry]

Black-owned banks get rush of new depositors
Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY 12:57 p.m. EDT July 17, 2016
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A black-owned Atlanta bank is experiencing a sudden surge of deposits, powered by a campaign aimed at bolstering black-owned financial institutions after multiple high-profile police killings raised awareness of institutional inequality.

Citizens Trust Bank — anchored in metro Atlanta, Columbus, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., and Eutaw, Ala. — said it has received about 8,000 new applications for depositors in recent days.
One of the catalysts: Rapper Killer Mike called in to a town hall meeting on MTV and BET on July 8 to implore the black community to deploy "a portion" of its financial resources to make a difference.
He wants 1 million people to deposit $100 apiece in small black-owned banks or credit unions, believing that those financial institutions will be more likely than other banks to make loans to black citizens and businesses — and more likely to treat them fairly in general.

"We cannot go out in the street and start bombing, shooting and killing," the rapper said during the town hall. "I encourage none of us to engage in acts of violence that will cause more peril to our community and others that look like us. I encourage us to take our warfare to financial institutions."

Other supporters have posted similar remarks on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, urging people to consider shifting their money to black-owned institutions.
The biggest beneficiary so far is 95-year-old Citizens Trust Bank, which Killer Mike has specifically promoted on social media, using the hashtag #BankBlackBankSmallBankLocal.
Michael Grant, president of the Washington, D.C.-based National Bankers Association, which promotes minority-owned financial institutions, said that CEOs of black-owned banks have been calling him saying they're "getting volume that you would not believe" in recent days.
"It's not just happening in one location — it's happening to banks around the country," he said.
Frederick Daniels Jr., executive vice president and chief credit officer of Citizens Trust Bank, told USA TODAY in an interview that the bank is at the center of a "true movement."

"If we can bring together our economics collectively, we can help businesses grow, we can help people obtain home loans. That brings them closer to the American dream," he said. "We’re providing a tangible solution for those who want action."

The U.S. had 23 black-owned banks, credit unions or savings and loan associations as of March 31, according to the Federal Reserve. The nation's 156 minority-owned banks collectively hold $131 billion in assets.
Citizens Trust Bank had $328.8 million in deposits as of Dec. 31, down 3.5% from a year earlier, according to its annual report.
There are scattered reports of other black-owned banks receiving a surge of deposits in recent days. For example, Unity National bank in Texas has gotten more than 350 new accounts in the last week, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Moving assets to a black-owned bank is a concrete way that people can help reverse the tide of economic injustice, Grant said. Black-owned banks were hit particularly hard by the Great Recession as their customers suffered job losses and loan repayment rates fell, he noted.

"What happens in any community that feels insulted is it turns inward and tries to do what it can to protect itself," Grant said. "I think the community is trying to figure out ways it can strengthen itself — and what better way to address issues facing black America than to start harnessing our dollars and building some wealth and creating jobs in our communities?"
Among the people embracing the cause is singer Solange Knowles, who said Saturday on Instagram that it was "time to literally put my money where my mouth is" by shifting her money to a black-owned bank.
There appears to be a budding grass-roots push, too. Daniels said Citizens Trust Bank had a committee of young professionals who have helped build buzz about the movement on social media.

"They have been instrumental in creating additional momentum to help get the word out: You have an alternative," he said.




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[Queenie]

I agree, one lesson in survival skills won't work and I certainly didn't mean it to read that way in my last message. But do you agree we might benefit from learning tactics that could help us to not become victims of violence? My purpose for showing the email that I personally received was to point out that violence in places that we don't think much about is becoming more common. In the streets, in the home, lying in bed while asleep, in churches, while driving, there's no escaping it. Some violence you may not be to avoid, but some you might not be able to but, you're right, it does require a certain state of mind and some you could avoid. If you're trained, like people in the military, when you find yourself in a threatening situation, don't survival skills kick in?

Check it out, there's a growing number of hate groups thriving in America and we may now have to add the fraternal order of police to the list. We can do all the self-help work we want to but that alone may not guarantee our survival as we live in a society growing day by day with hate groups and violence directed toward us. Just as these groups are training for the day when the race war in America finally breaks out, is it hopeless to think we should be training as well? Are we fish in a barrel? Maybe some of us are training and I'm just not aware of it. If so, no need to disclose details here but a simple yes will suffice. Our youth might be better prepared than old folks mentally because they play all of these zombie and war video games. Even virtual reality is better than nothing, imo.

Turn the other cheek when slapped, being spit on, bitten by dogs, and hosed is a thing of the past.