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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. Are you aware if those companies
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have suffered huge losses of car sales
among Black Americans to "Import-label’
makers who proportionately have done
little either to provide jobs and other
economic benefits to the communities of
Black America or committed themselves
(through “Fair-Share-type" agreements)
to deal equitably at present with the car
buying communities of Black America.
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An unprecedented media-based cata
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 con
sumer citizens) for the first time ever--to 1)
begin working together in a coordinated
way to eradicate the "root causes' of a
broad range of iliiteracy-related "ills," and
2) start rewarding those corporations, with
vastly increased and guaranteed salies ac
tion, which utilize AOIP's supporting news
papers and the National BLACK MONI
TOR on a regular and consistent basis--
since these are the direct fiscal means by
which AOIP exists. Growing priority sup
port 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 Eg
uity (which appears on Page 2 ).
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 ADVANCE
-AOIP's family and community reading
newspaper, produced and distributed at
cost by the AOIP-cooperating newspa
pers--now serves many thousands which
we want to turn into millions of potential
learners of all ages. Thus, your extraordi
nary support of these concerned advertis
ers 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 seelisting onPage 3), these
make returns to the Black community in
some reasonable proportion to which
they benefit from our communities.
Making returns to the community would
include (but is not limited to) the following:
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. Among these are:
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, butalsoin
your local AOIP-cooperating newspapers
whenever you are shopping for goods
and services.
All of our Black community-building or
ganizations 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, Op
eration PUSH, our local Urban Leagues,
the United Black Fund of America and Dr.
Leon Sullivan's International Foundation
for Education and Self-Help (IFESH).
Are You Actively Behind AOIP's Black-leadership-initiated U.S. Auto Industry Support Campaign?
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
acoordinatedway with other organizations,
etc. to encourage companies, where we
significantly spend our dollars but which
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 IBPO Elks,
SCLC, or contact this publication for
addresses and telephone numbers of the
national headquarters of these or
ganizations.
WHAT IS HAPPENING...
ing. To datethere are houses inthe South
east, Northeastand Central Regions. The
Information contact: 312-873-9000.
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
SCLC's "Stop the Killing Campaign" pro
gram services include training for nonvio
lent conflict resolution, matching neigh
borhood youth with mentors, securing
National BLACK MONITOR--January 1996
AOIP February 1996
BLACK HERITAGE EVENTS
in
Historic Tuskegee and
Montgomery, Alabama
Friday, February 23, 1996
Workshop/Seminar
“Why It Is Essential For Black
Americans To Prioritize
Support For Those Entities
That Provide Us Jobs And
Other Economic
Opportunities"
and
15TH ANNUAL
HALL OF FAME
COMMUNITY-BUILDING
AWARD CEREMONIES
[Honoring Dr. Dorothy Height,
President of the National Council
of Negro Women, and Other
Notables]
Saturday, February 24, 1996
Annual Board Meeting
and
Historic Tour of Tuskegee
University,
Dr. George Washington
Carver's Laboratory and Other
Celebration Events
Sunday, February 25, 1996
BLACK HISTORY
AWARDS DINNER
Montgomery Civic Center
[Sponsored by the Montgomery/
Tuskegee Times Newspaper]
For further information, please
contact the AOIP national office at
(212) 967-4000 and ask for Ms.
Emille Smith, AOIP's National
Coordinator
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funds to buy guns back from city residents
and youth, establishing SCLC "Wings of
Hope" coalitions in drug infested areas,
organizing and training church members
and clergy on how to identify, adopt and
provide support services for city residents
who have become victims of violent crimes.
Information contact: 404-522-1420 or 758-
1517.
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