[WardFive] Re: FW: Brookland Branding Flyer

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THERE IS A MUCH BETTER WAY TO DO IT THAT IS MUCH LESS OFFENSIVE AND WOULD NOT BE SEEN OR CLASSIFIED AS ETHNIC CLENSING.  IF FOLKS REALLY WANT TO LIVE IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY, LET'S ALLOW FOR LIVING IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY --- NOT JUST TALK ABOUT IT TO MAKE THE "BLANKETS WITH SMALLPOX" LOOK SO GOOD!!!!

 

LET'S IMMUNIZE AGAINST THE ATTACK ON OUR LESS PREVILEGED/LESS FORTUNATE COMMUNITIES!!  -- OR SOON CAPITAL HILL WILL EXTEND INTO WOODRIDGE AND SO WILL BROOKLAND AND WE WILL ALL BE LIVING ON "CAPITOL HILL"!!

 

I AM ALL FOR BRANDING BUT LET'S BRAND TO BE INCLUSIVE!!

 

Rob Ramson

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Rob <indianrob@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Everyone, 

 

Please take a read on this below and see if we are branding for the attraction of a particular Ethnic Group / Income Bracket as well as lessening of low income residents in their native land.  A while ago, I mentioned to the designers of this "Branding" that it was not inclusive / representative of the community but more of what the influx from Gentrification.  I don't know what the end result is but if you read (and you don't even have to "read between the lines") the following, any fair person would wonder if this is really fair -- or folks just don't care.  Remember, I always reference "affordable" to who?  I would be much more proud to "envision a future Washington" if we did actually have the focus of a "rising tide" rises everyone -- not just better places to shop at for the "middle class" but ensuring a few extra steps at facilitating the ability for the "lower class" to shop at better shops as well.

 

Remember that facilitating services and goods for the "underserved" by City Planners is really about focusing on providing for the Middle Class and allowing attrition to push the less fortunate out.  Closing of that many schools in 2008, firing of 500 teachers, closing of 15 more schools this year, getting rid of so many teachers, custodial workers, etc. and bringing in Charter Schools with their own teachers and with DCPS bringing in new teachers from other places and lots of fresh out of college "teachers" from Teach America (mostly White Teachers) is ETHNIC CLENSING. 

 

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2001/6/cities%20ocleireacain/dcfuture.pdf - Envisioning a Future Washington (Brookings Institute, 2001)

 

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2012/08/facts-and-fictions-gentrification-dc/2914/ - gentrification; "swagger-jacking" & U Street

 

http://www.narpac.org/REXDCPLAN.HTM - this contains a majority of the city's background policy research documents (links) used by the city to substantiate the gentrification processes

 

 

We don't want the entire CITY to get SWAGGER JACKED!!!  Car-Jacking is against the law and so should Swagger-Jacking!!  There is enough room for everyone if we take the right approach.  Let's call a spade a spade.  Like I told Office of Planning, they should hire me to guide the congruent growth department and to coordinate the various (currently separated) "developing" projects and their real impacts to our community!!! 

 

I would like to be the one who works for them who is not scared to tell them that their COMP plan is too vague and leaves everything open to "zoning commission" / office of deputy mayor/developers of "economic" (for who) development and that they shouldn't take 4 times to justify why a development is "within" the guidelines of a Comp Plan/SAP. 

 

Rob Ramson

 

 

 

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Wilson, Fatimah (Council) <FWilson@dccouncil.us> wrote:

Hello All,

 

Today is the Day!

 

 

--
R. Ramson
3744 12th Street, N.E.,
Washington D.C., 20017
202-438-5988

"We must become the change we want to see" - Mohandas Gandhi-
(Together, for a Brighter Tomorrow)




 

--
R. Ramson
3744 12th Street, N.E.,
Washington D.C., 20017
202-438-5988

"We must become the change we want to see" - Mohandas Gandhi-
(Together, for a Brighter Tomorrow)




 

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