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lyst successfully has encouraged and
enabled AOIP--an all-volunteer coalition
of over 90 of the most influential, national
leadership groups in Black America (with
a membership and family reach of more
than 16 million deeply concerned
consumer citizens) for the first time ever--
to 1) begin working together in a
coordinated way to eradicate the "root
causes' ofabroadrange of illiteracy-related
"ills," and 2) start rewarding those
corporations, with vastly increased and
guaranteed sales action, which utilize
AOIP's supporting newspapers and the
National BLACK MONITOR on a regular
and consistent basis--since these are the
direct fiscal means by which AOIP exists.
Growing priority support for our Black
owned businesses and African American
institutions, first, is the focus of AOIP's
community-uplifting thrust, as well as the
Credo For Justice and Equity (which runs
several times a year).
Second, we are concerned with demon
strating our long-term support to those
entities outside our African-American com
munities, which are helping us rebuild our
communities into our own "oases of hope"
for the good of all in America.
Finally, because of the unusual support
of the advertisers in all issues of the Na
tional BLACK MONITOR, The AD
VANCER--AOIP's family and community
reading newspaper, produced and dis
tributed at cost by the AOIP-cooperating
newspapers--now serves many thousands
which we want to turn into millions of
potential learners of all ages. Thus, your
extraordinary support of these concerned
advertisers is requested.
AOIP'S INDIRECT BENEFACTORS
Important for all to know is that by con
tinuing to advertise their products and
services in these community-building
media (please see listing on Page 2), these
national advertisers are helping the AOIP
media and the AOIP organizations not
only in their efforts to eradicate illiteracy,
but also all of its resultant ills that plague
America as a whole.
In order to be more helpful to our deeply
concerned consumer-readers and to
AOIP's "indirect benefactors," we have
listed, in categories, some of these com
panies and some of their products which
1. (c) is correct. Although a 50/50 mixture will
protect to -34° F, the 70% mixture will protect to -85°
F. Do not use a stronger solution than that.
2. (b) is correct. Transmission shops report an
increase in burned transmission components after
a snowstorm due to drivers trying to “rock" out of
snow drifts by rapidly shifting from Drive to Reverse.
This can causetrouble by overheating the transmis
sion.
3. (c)is correct. Even astrong battery produces only
40% of its power at 0° F, at which time the starter
appear, regularly, in this publication and
the AOIP-cooperating newspapers, to help
serve as constant reminders whenever
you shop for goods and services.
Automotive Parts and Accessories: A.C.
Delco (General Motors); GM Parts; Ford
(Motor Company) Parts & Service
Automobiles and Trucks: Buick (Gen
eral Motors); Cadillac (General Motors);
Chevrolet (General Motors Chrysler Cor
poration; Ford Escort (Ford Motor Com
pany); GM Truck; Pontiac (General Mo
tors)
Department Stores and Mail Order: K
mart Corporation; Levitz Furniture Corpo
ration; J.C. Penney Company; Sears, Roe
buck and Co.
Entertainment. CBS Entertainment; Co
lumbia Pictures; MCA Universal; MGM
Pathe; NBC Entertainment; Orion Home
Videos; Paramount Pictures; 20th Century
Fox; Walt Disney Pictures; Warner Bros.
Gasoline and Lubricants: Amoco Oil
Company; Mobil Oil Corporation; Shell Oil
Company
Office and Data Processing Supplies:
Apple Computer, Inc.; IBM
Public Utilities: AT&T
Travel and Transportation: Greyhound;
United Airlines
Miscellaneous: The National Guard; U.S.
Army; U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development; U.S. Postal Service
We encourage you to remember and be
particularly supportive (inyour buying hab
its) of the advertisers you see not only in
the National BLACK MONITOR, but also
in your local AOIP-cooperating newspa
pers wheneveryouare shopping forgoods
and services.
All of our Black community-building orga
nizations and institutions are important to
our culture and economic growth. We are
particularly mindful of tithing to our Black
churches, as well as supporting regularly
the NAACP, NCNW, SCLC, Operation
PUSH, ourlocal Urban Leagues, the United
Black Fund of America and Dr. Leon
Sullivan's International Foundation for
Education and Self-Help (IFESH).
Answers to Cold Weather Test
may need twice as much electrical power to start
a cold engine.
4. (c) is correct. And the risk increases as driving
conditions deteriorate. Driving after dark places
extra demands on vehicles and their drivers.
5.(a) is correct. Higher viscosity oil is thicker,
which makes the engine harder to turn over in
cold weather.
Did you and your car pass?
Are you aware that your local AOIP-cooperating newspaper is also a Black business?
When You Spend Your Dollars For
All Kinds of Goods And Services...
1. Do you buy in priority ways from those
companies that do the most to provide
jobs and other economic benefits to Black
Americans?
2. Areyou aware if those companies make
returns to the Black community in some
reasonable proportiontowhichthey benefit
from our communities. Making returns to
the community would include (but is not
limited to) the following:
a) employing equitably our people and
otherwise equitably contributing to Black
‘economic development;
b) doing an equitable share of business
with Black suppliers that are accountable
to the Black community;
c) advertising equitably in Black
newspapers, magazines and other media
that are serving the Black community;
d) contributing equitably to scholarship
and other community-service programs
or project needs of Black organizations.
3. Doyou encourage the members of your
organization, constituency, entity, etc. to
engage in priority support of those
companies significantly supporting our
communities in ways described above
and otherwise?
4. Does your organization or entity work in
acoordinated way with other organizations,
etc. to encourage companies, where we
significantly spend our dollars but which
AOIP's Goals for The Year 2000 and Beyond
1. Completely eradicate all "functionalilliteracy”
within Black America.
2. Have 80% of our Black community popula
tion give priority support (including tithing) to
Black-run religious institutions and have 100%
accountability from these institutions.
3. Have at least 80% of our college-bound
Black students attend a historically Black col
lege and/or, only secondarily as a choice, a
college wherein Blacks have a high measure of
control andis focused onthe equitable building
of ourcommunities. (The other2o% may choose,
forvarious reasons, to integrate other colleges.)
4. Have at least 80% of our Black community
businesses owned by Blacks or other persons
who live in or immediately adjacent to--and
identify completely withthe needs of--our people
and doing the same for Black professionals.
(The other 20% can be seen as an equitable
exchange for areasonable percentage of Black
ownership of businesses outside our communi
ties.
5. Eliminate the need for unemployment en
tirely from within Black America by having skill
training and equitable opportunities for all.
6. Eliminate the high incidence of teen and
adult pregnancies both among persons not
able to properly rear and support children and
otherwise and eliminate substance abuse, child
abuse and crime completely from our neigh
borhoods and create safe aesthetically valu
able communities.
National BLACK MONITOR---October 1995
are not doing as much as they surely
possibly could, to invest in our com
munities, to be more supportive of us as,
described in #2, as examples.** -
5. To achieve the kind of community
development impact our buying habits
could have on our communities, will you:
a) be more conscious of the preceding?
b) take steps individually and collectively
to be more supportive of those companies
which support us?
C) take steps individually and collectively
to encourage non-or-little-supportive
companies, with whom you do business,
to deal equitably with our communities?
d) share what you are doing with the
National BLACK MONITOR, so we can
both publicize your efforts which impact
on Black community development and
enable others in local AOIP Divisions to
replicate these vital activities.
By working together, we help build the
Black community
**For initial guidance and some further
information in this regard, please contact
AOIP's economic development leadership
organizations, i.e. your local IBFO Elks,
SCLC, or contact this publication for
addresses and telephone numbers of the
national headquarters of these o
ganizations.
7. Own and support fully in a primary way all of
the means of communications which are work
ing totally on our community-building behalf
such as those cooperating fully with AOIP by
providing guaranteed regular publicity at the
national or local level at all times,a s well as
carrying all of AOIP's "affective-oriented" learn
ing materials.
8. Have all corporations and other entities taat
directly or indirectly benefit from the Black
community to deal equitably with the Black
community as set forth in our Credo For Justice
and Equity.
9. Have our people in proportionate bargain
ing positions in all major political parties so as
to assure that an equitable number of Blacks
working forus are elected and we can obtainan
equitable share of all benefits from the political
system.
10. Have Black Americans assuming full fiscal
obligations for the basic needs of our
interorganizational, independency-producing
efforts like AOIP in a manner such that necessi
ties will never have to abe begged for whgn
"others" feel threatened by Blacks' becoming
independent...and our "retiring" national offic
ers never have to be dropped completely from
leadership roles with dignity even after they
leave office within their organizations.
11. Have at least 80% of our Black families
investing inownership/savings plans that byild
for their fiscal independence and the same
percentages strengtheningtheirfamilyties both
spiritually and economically.
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