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2) how best our Black leadership groups
could be far more supportive of the three
U.S. car makers (despitethe fact thatthey
have provided many more jobs and other
economic benefits to Black Americans
than any other corporations in America,
and have invested heavily and con
tinuously in various marketing and
advertising strategies embracing Black
owned media vehicles) who continuously
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.
An unprecedented media-based
catalyst 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
AOIP PUBLISHER/ORGANIZATIONAL
RESPONSIBILITY CHART
A mer e e
Services Which The AOIP-Cooperating
Newspapers Provide To
The AOIP-Affiliated Organizations
And The Community
1. Thenewspapers providefree publicity weekly
to each organization, starting with the *What Is
Happening Locally* Calendar, which lists all
organizations that have assumed proper AOIP
Division operating responsibility. And, there
will be an increase in publicity pages, in pro
portion to the advertising pages the newspaper
received as a result of its cooperation with
AQIP.
[This free weekly publicity helps to increase
membership and othersupportforeach organi
zation and serves as an ongoing written refer
ence of programs, events, etc. with which we
need to network to achieve AOIP's Goals for
The Year 2000 and Beyond.]
2. As Black businesses, the newspapers have
the potential to serve the community in other
ways by providing various kinds of jobs, utiliz
ing other Black businesses, sponsoring other
community-building or Black image-enhanc
ing events, etc.
3.The newspapersinsert AOIP's ego-enhance
ment umbrella-learning tool, The ADVANCER
(on a cost effective basis) for schools, etc. and
AOIP's official, interorganizational ma)gazine na
tionally, The National BLACK MONITOR (atno
cost)
The National BLACK MONITOR provides
similar communications support (as the Jocal
AOIP newspapers), on the national level
monthly. It also funds AOIP's administrative
expenses at the national level.
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causes' ofa broadrange of iliteracy-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.
We encourage you to remember and be
particularty 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 for goods
and services.
Support Which The AOIP-Affiliated
Organizations Provide To
The Cooperating Newspapers
To enable the newspapers to continue and
expand their support, the organizations help to
undergird the newspaper so it can provide and
expand this publicity and other services by:
1. Having each member of every local
AOIP organization subscribe to the paper;
2. Helping the newspaper obtain advertis
ing from major local businesses;*
3. Volunteering to assist with the make-up
of the paper.
[Black newspapers at present are generally
small business operations with very limited
staff. Thus, volunteersfrom AOIP organizations
can help with the research, writing, editing, etc.
s 0 as to best represent the accomplishments
and needs of each organization.]
Since Black newspapers traditionally have been
one ofthe major means of bringing our commu
nities closer together and serving an overall
community-building function, our organizations
need to:
1. Continually support and challenge Black
newspapers to become better;
2.Seetoitthatthe newspapers are treated
equitably as supplementary classroom
learning materials.
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*functional illiteracy”
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 other 20% 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 with the needs of--our people
and doing the same for Black professionals.
(The other 20% can be seen as an equitable
exchange forareasonable 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 chiidren and
otherwise and eliminate substance abuse, child
abuse and crime completely from our neigh
borhoods and create safe aesthetically valu
able communities.
7. Own and support fully in a primary way all of
National BLACK MONITOR-—October 1996
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
tobe 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.
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. o
8. Have all corporations and other entities that
directly or indirectly benefit from the Black
community to deal equitably with the Black
community as setforth 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 for us 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
interor?anizational, independency-producing
efforts like AOIP in a manner such that necessi
ties will never have to abe begged for when
*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,
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11. Have at least 80% of our Black families
investing in ownership/savings plans that build
for their fiscal independence and the same
percentages strengthening theirfamilyties both
spiritually and economically.
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