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on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 01:59 PM EST | Posted by : Denise | 815 Reads

http://www.wdetfm.org/detroittoday/
Moving Forward, PT 1
Friday, July 27, 2007
FRIDAY
Today for our fifth and final day of riot coverage, the Director of Research for the United Way , Kurt Metzger will share with us some fascinating statistics about the similarities, and differences between Detroit today, and 40-years ago.
We've delved deeply into the legacy of the Riot this week, but we still haven't thoroughly addressed the ways in which it

affects Detroiters today. WDET's John Notarianni spent some time in the Brightmoor neighborhood to see how it's residents our doing 40-years later.
Toni Moceri is one of MANY Warren residents running for city council. She is young, intelligent, and passionate. She and artist Sterling Toles will be on the program this morning talking about how we can learn from history and build new movements from them, how to create space for critical dialogue, and how learning about the civil-rights movement from Baby-Boomers informed their world/community view.
In the second-hour of today's show, we'll broadcast yesterday's WSU panel discussion on moving forward from the riot. The panel was made up of young Detroiters, including Ethriam Brammer, assistant director at WSU's Center for Chicano-Boricua studies; PJ Cherrin, of the Jewish Community Relations Council; Hannan Deep, director of communications, Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS); Jaime Pfeffer, freelance writer, author of Girl in the D Blog; Dalton Roberson Jr, of New Detroit; and Bankole Thompson, senior editor of the Michigan Chronicle, none of whom were born before 1967.

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TONI MOCERI, Candidate for Warren City Council
313-608-2353

www.myspace.com/committee2electtonimoceri

Committee to Elect Toni Moceri
elect.tonimoceri@gmail.com

32407 Shawn Drive, Warren MI 48088-1445

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Re: Toni Moceri by car7858

(Score: 1) on July 28, 2007 - 07:44 PM

I believe as many others do that drumming up the Detroit riots of 1967 only stirs the pot of racism. Just as Fox2 news station does, this type of circus media regenerates the hatred of that era. A person would think that after trying for 40 years to associate anything with rioting or an issue that wasn't no where near the Brightmoor community among others to insist that all areas affected need to move forward. The Detroit metro area is making great progress until this type of "media manipulation" is allowed to air or be published. We all need to give this "repair the damage from the past" issue a rest and concetrate on today's issues without pulling out "race cards" from either side of the fence. With such groups as the NAACP and people like Rev.(?) Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, John Conyers, and others fighting for freedoms which are there for the taking if people want to study and work hard to achieve them. These groups basically place the African-American community in a "sterotypical double standard", making them look always deprived and denied only to enhance their own political and personal needs. As far as New Detroit is concerned, their so-called "empowerment zones" along the Woodward Avenue New Center areas were supposed to employ Detroiters first as per Executive Order 22, which provides federal funding if those and other guidelines are met-Which they were not. The contractors of the New Amsterdam, Burroughs, Garfield, and other developements used mostly suburban sub-contractors and labor, I know because I worked for the General Contractor hired by New Detroit on most of those jobs. I was told to "Either work there for what I usually make per hour ($12) or just stay home." I believe that New Detroit is not aware of most activities concerning federal funding along the guidelines of Executive Order 22-Obsolete Properties slated for Federal Funding. I later find that according to US Dept. Of Labor guidelines, I was supposed to have been paid between $26 and $31 per hour. Hopefully, the new generation of New Detroit will make sure that these types of activities do not happen in the future and cost the people and the City Of Detroit lost tax revenue due to inner city workforce being "sidestepped" in the name of progress.

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