tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19127699.post1936091266785565323..comments2008-12-07T20:12:41.109-08:00Akindele F. Akinyemihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615301401612913192noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19127699.post-1811159393191573712008-12-07T20:12:00.000-08:002008-12-07T20:12:00.000-08:00If we don't forge a Black/Brown alliance, we wil never have any influence on the issues that effect us most profoundly: poverty and illiteracy.<BR/>Now that the community is undergoing intensive gentrification, we fight each other while rich people control the political agenda here.<BR/>Southwest Detroit could be a united front for Latinos and African Americans forging a new path. We need jobs here, we need a real plan for literacy here. In massive numbers we are being rounded up and deported. Good people are being locked up while thugs run amok in the neighborhood. If we were to get district voting for city council today, what would it matter if we can't elect someone of our own choice to the House or the school board?<BR/>We need to be talking to each other about the substantial issues, the quality of life issues that will allow us to thrive, not just survive in Detroit.<BR/>What about the Green Jobs initiatives? We must work together to build a better life for us and for our future generations. I don't want my children to leave Detroit for work. We love this place; it has been good to us for the generations past and we should stay, not leave, when going gets tough. Where we going anyway? This is HOME, not just to you, not just to me, to US. I would support someone for State Rep that makes sense to me and is African American or Latino/a. Same for city council. If we understand each other and stand together, we could have the decent representation we deserve. We cannot stand by while others come and take away our seats. <BR/><BR/>Elena Herrada<BR/>elenaherrada@comcast.netElenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12929733128304221048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19127699.post-161692402694179502008-07-17T08:04:00.000-07:002008-07-17T08:04:00.000-07:00Part of the problem for voters is not being informed of meetings to meet the candidates for office. How can I be an informed voter when I don't how the candidates respond to the concerns I have about my community.<BR/><BR/>How do voters find out when meetings will be held?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com