Fwd: We Have Victorious Allies in Phoenix!
Jerome Peloquin
Thu, Sep 12, 11:14 PM
to me
Samuel Jordan in action ...!
see attached
Jerome Peloquin
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The Family Fish Farms Network, Inc.
717 Lawrence Street, NE
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From: Samuel Jordan
Date: Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:02 PM
Subject: We Have Victorious Allies in Phoenix!
To: Samuel Jordan , samuel.jordan@moretransitequity.com
Friends! The Baltimore-Phoenix Victory March has begun!
In a visit to Phoenix to personally bring congratulations for the nationally significant victory for light rail and the people's right to decide their own future from the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition (BTEC) and transit advocates who support our mission to complete the Red Line light rail project, I have found few words that can express my appreciation for the expressions of solidarity I (in third seat on the left) have received for us from key organizers depicted among the conferees! You will soon know them well! They applaud our mission!
The accompanying photograph is of the conferees addressing the victory for the light rail extension, racial justice, affordable housing, gentrification, equitable transit-oriented-development (eTOD), and the resolute pursuit of community goals. We and the nation have much to learn from their experience, unity of purpose, and mastery of the elements great and minor that contributed to their decisive victory (68% - 32%) at the polls on August 27, 2019! - against formidable opposition that included the Koch brothers' Americans for Progress!
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Join Us! for a report, 'Victory in Phoenix!' on the agenda in BTEC's 'Community Call to Action' Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 6 PM - 8PM at 1199 SEIU Maryland/DC Conference Room 611 Eutaw St. Baltimore, 21201 (This may be a new location for some.) 'Build the Future - Build the Red Line!'
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Samuel Jordan
President
Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition
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Peter Burgess
Fri, Sep 13, 12:18 PM
to Samuel, Jerome
Dear Samuel
Thank you to Jerry for introducing me to your transit initiative in the Baltimore area. I wish you well with this effort.
I realized a very long time ago that accountancy was a very powerful management tool, but only worked effectively for the management of profit maximization and little else. When I worked in the corporate world this was not much of a problem, but when I started doing consulting work on international development and humanitarian assistance conventional accountancy simply did not cut it. Over the years I used a hybrid methodology to incorporate social and environmental impacts in developing plans and doing supervision missions ... and now post career I am working to formalize a system of enhanced accountancy so that there is a rigorous framework for accounting for both the 'triple bottom line' and 'all the capitals'. I call this TrueValueMetrics.org.
I was a student in the UK in late 50s early 60s. I spent the summer of 1960 and 1961 in North America. After doing some summer work in Canada I traveled extensively around Canada and the USA, including visiting most of the industrial (steel industry) centers. One of these was the Sparrows Point Bethlehem Steel plant in Baltimore. Times change ... but not enough the way in which investment gets prioritized and the way productivity gains are shared among all the members of society. I know a bit about modern Baltimore ... and a bit about its history. So your transit project in the region is something that is both interesting and important.
The father of one of my college friends was the contract manager for the Victoria Line construction in London. This was the first major construction on the London Underground for many decades, and I got to visit the works. Fast forward I also got to see the New York transit system in the 1980s when it was in deep decline and have followed (not as completely as I would have liked) its rebuilding into one of the best systems in the world. (Yes ... people grumble about it, but it is really an amazing system. It can and should be better, but it is nevertheless an impressive system!).
One of the issues that is serious in Baltimore and indeed in most every community on planet earth is the disconnect between public needs and the financing needed to pay for them. Governments around the world are essential bankrupt while the economies of the world possess more money than at any time in history. The private sector is wealthy. The public sector is broke. Yet it is the public sector that more than anything else provides the basic infrastructure that enables everything.
I can go on ... but let me simply say at this time, that to the extent that I can be helpful, I would very much like to help and to the extent that TrueValueMetrics can help, I would like to assist.
With best regards
PeterB
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Jerome Peloquin
Fri, Sep 13, 2:26 PM
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Excellent!
jj
Jerome Peloquin
President
The Family Fish Farms Network, Inc.
717 Lawrence Street, NE
Washington, DC, 20017
cell: (410) 227-0498
(Skype) fishfarms1
LinkedIn Profile
email: aquaponikus@gmail.com
website: www.thefamilyfishfarmsnetwork.com
Motto: benefacientes benefactis
We grow healthy local food ... save fresh clean water ... create decent paying jobs.
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Thank you!Indeed!Not for me.
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