Re: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District

[Glenn moyer]

Thanks Wilma!It's hard to know how many neighbors are beginning to understand these propaganda techniques and purposes. I went to the AVI "outreach session" and the people I talked to all seemed to understand that it was a worthless PR stunt, but they were mostly common people. (Iwas "educated" bya grad student, brought in from NY, and they were going to educate us that "AVI is tax fairness and that it was all very professional." She didn't know anything about the history, lies or the massive corporate giveaway for which AVI was designed.)It's a good time to look at this "wish list" PR technique. The Penn/Wall St. Planning Commission uses it to legitimize the theft of taxpayer dollars for distribution to corporate projects. Anything close to real engagement, or truthful information, would have met angry responses. That's one reason for the tightly controlled bizzare games they use. Butattendees end up feeling empty, as they sense it's meaningless, even without fully understanding the PR purposes.
It's really important for people to stop seeing these corporate slush funds of taxpayer money as "free money." The corporate ice skating rink at city hall was supposedly $50 million for public transit infrastructure. What we now know about the Clark Park gravel pit is that it was always designed as a food court for the new 43rd St mall being planned. And there is no such thing as a parklett. Parkletts are the theft of taxpayer money to create outdoor seating for corporate eateries and coffee shops (the real model is 42nd and Woodland outside the Starbucks. The Green line parklett was a ploy to make people think these would primarily go to local eateries)
Later, they will magically turn these costly PR stunts like PHL2035 into "the demands of the people." They will claim the wish list sessions were open, democratic, community engagement sessions, to justify the transfer of funds for corporate projects. They have no interest in any input from the people of Philadelphia, only the propaganda value of these sessions, when the individual corporate schemes emerge. The "funny money" gameonly includedvarious corporate infrastructure "visions", so that it was win-win for Penn and partners, and the input of residents was completely meaningless. The demands of the finalcorporate projects will fine tune the spending.The attendees were used. I hope the empty feelings they had after the funny money game turn into rage and courage, as they connect their increasing tax bills, school closures, etc.; with the parkletts, fenced off rental parks, and food courts. (The enclosed Penn Park, paid for by the US Postal Service, is hosting a John Legend concert only open to those with a Penn Card)I highly encourage people to study the various propaganda techniques used in our inverted totalitarian society (Inverted totalitarianism, Wolin and Hedges). MIT Professor Noam Chomsky and Wharton professor Edward Herman developed a propaganda model in their book Manufacturing Consent, The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which should be required reading in all American high schools.
S. Wolin, The Nation, Inverted Totalitarianism

http://www.thenation.com/article/inverted-totalitarianism

Thanks again,
Glenn

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Re: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District

[Wilma de Soto]

Dear Neighbors:

I think what really gets to me is the plan to build three-story housing on 
Warren St. on the site of University City High School.

These school closings were announced not two weeks ago ostensibly to close a 
deficit.  It is glaringly apparent that this sale to a developer had already 
taken place and was in the works for quite some time.  

All the SRC has to do is endure the angry community response, (as outlined in 
the Broad Foundation's School Closure Guide),  and they shall reap their rich 
rewards.  The new 3 Rs are: Rhetoric, Race and Real Estate.

Most of the schools slated to be closed are predominately African-American and 
in areas slated for development.

I am starting to feel as if we are in the final stages of societal coup d'etat 
LONG in the making.

People can email me off-list if they want the pdf link to the Broad School 
Closure Guide.  The Broad Foundation pulled it from its site at the end of 
January 2013.  As one reads it it will sound strikingly familiar to the 
scripted scenarios of school closures in cities across the America.

Parents of school-aged children in the city should be especially interested.


On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:

 
 
 Thanks Wilma!
 
 It's hard to know how many neighbors are beginning to understand these 
 propaganda techniques and purposes. I went to the AVI outreach session and 
 the people I talked to all seemed to understand that it was a worthless PR 
 stunt, but they were mostly common people. (I was educated by a grad 
 student, brought in from NY, and they were going to educate us that AVI is 
 tax fairness and that it was all very professional.  She didn't know 
 anything about the history, lies or the massive corporate giveaway for which 
 AVI was designed.)
 
 It's a good time to look at this wish list PR technique. The Penn/Wall St. 
 Planning Commission uses it to legitimize the theft of taxpayer dollars for 
 distribution to corporate projects. Anything close to real engagement, or 
 truthful information, would have met angry responses. That's one reason for 
 the tightly controlled bizzare games they use. But attendees end up feeling 
 empty, as they sense it's meaningless, even without fully understanding the 
 PR purposes.
 
 
 It's really important for people to stop seeing these corporate slush funds 
 of taxpayer money as free money. The corporate ice skating rink at city 
 hall was supposedly $50 million for public transit infrastructure. What we 
 now know about the Clark Park gravel pit is that it was always designed as a 
 food court for the new 43rd St mall being planned. And there is no such thing 
 as a parklett. Parkletts are the theft of taxpayer money to create outdoor 
 seating for corporate eateries and coffee shops (the real model is 42nd and 
 Woodland outside the Starbucks. The Green line parklett was a ploy to make 
 people think these would primarily go to local eateries)
 
 
 Later, they will magically turn these costly PR stunts like PHL2035 into the 
 demands of the people. They will claim the wish list sessions were open, 
 democratic, community engagement sessions, to justify the transfer of funds 
 for corporate projects. They have no interest in any input from the people of 
 Philadelphia, only the propaganda value of these sessions, when the 
 individual corporate schemes emerge. The funny money game only included 
 various corporate infrastructure visions, so that it was win-win for Penn 
 and partners, and the input of residents was completely meaningless. The 
 demands of the final corporate projects will fine tune the spending.
 
 The attendees were used. I hope the empty feelings they had after the funny 
 money game turn into rage and courage, as they connect their increasing tax 
 bills, school closures, etc.; with the parkletts, fenced off rental parks, 
 and food courts.  (The enclosed Penn Park, paid for by the US Postal Service, 
 is hosting a John Legend concert only open to those with a Penn Card) 
 
 I highly encourage people to study the various propaganda techniques used in 
 our inverted totalitarian society (Inverted totalitarianism, Wolin and 
 Hedges). MIT Professor Noam Chomsky and Wharton professor Edward Herman 
 developed a propaganda model in their book Manufacturing Consent, The 
 Political Economy of the Mass Media, which should be required reading in all 
 American high schools.
 S. Wolin, The Nation, Inverted Totalitarianism
  
 http://www.thenation.com/article/inverted-totalitarianism
  
 Thanks again,
 Glenn
  
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Wilma de Soto 
 Sent: Mar 29, 2013 5:47 PM
 To: UnivCity listserv 
 Subject: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District
 
 Interesting site about the PHIL2035 plan for our area and the Community 
 Meeting Summary.
 
 http://phila2035.org
 
 
 
 Community Meeting Summary (1/13):
 
 http://phila2035.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2nd-Public-Meeting-Summary.pdf
 
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Re: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District

[Glenn moyer]

Wilma said:






"I think what really gets to me is the plan to build three-story housing on Warren St. on the site of University City High School. 

These school closings were announced not two weeks ago ostensibly to close a deficit. It is glaringly apparent that this "sale" to a developer had already taken place and was in the works for quite some time. 

All the SRC has to do is endure the angry community response, (as outlined in the Broad Foundation's School Closure Guide), and they shall reap their rich rewards. The new "3 Rs" are: Rhetoric, Race and Real Estate.

Most of the schools slated to be closed are predominately African-American and in areas slated for development.

I am starting to feel as if we are in the final stages of societal coup d'etat LONG in the making.

People can email me off-list if they want the pdf link to the Broad School Closure Guide."



Wilma, you are absolutely right! I'm glad you pointed out the relevance, and caught the timing, of the Warren St. real estate/school closureplan! We need more such sagacious insightsin public discourse, instead of the idiocy and sloganism which is often demanded!!! 

You probably identified one of the biggest single targets to be cloaked through PHL 2035 for Southwest. (The urban schoolclosures across the country are overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods. I'm sure that if we overlay maps about white middle class flight in past decades,and the inner city neighborhoods; we would see an amazing overlap. And 100% of school closures are targeted at poor communities of allethnicities)

If you can provide the link for the closure guide, peopleneed to seethe revelations in it. Sending the full pdf might crash or not work, but I'm sure that people would find it revealing! (I think you sentthe pdfto me before, but my email crashed and i couldn't open it). Folks can also get the specific closure plan for Philadelphia schools online. (I read it and it's completely detailed in corporate business terms, with clearly no interest in students or communities. I'll look for the link later.)


The extreme theft of the Post Office and lands, by Penn and its real estate partners, was alsoorganized over many years, with all important meetings and informationcompletely behind closed doors. I think we should soon publicly discuss the true facts about the PO theft,and the Orwellian awards for Penn Park, now that it's all in front of our eyes.

This coup d'etat is exactly what the Occupy movement is all about, and I think, whythe movement correctly refused to be pidgeon-holed about "specific" "concise" demands! Such pidgeon-holing is itself, a standardtechnique of power abuse.

Glenn

PS:It's very important that people compare and contrast Stop and Frisk with the targeted destruction of African American communities and schools. This is another important piece of that picture on Truthout:


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15418-nypd-on-trial-police-say-they-are-forced-to-harass-kids-in-order-to-meet-quotas









-Original Message- From: Wilma de Soto <wil.p...@comcast.net>Sent: Mar 31, 2013 10:23 AM To: Glenn moyer <glen...@earthlink.net>Cc: UnivCity listserv <UNIVCITY@LIST.PURPLE.COM>, rdcon...@verizon.net Subject: Re: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District 
Dear Neighbors:
I think what really gets to me is the plan to build three-story housing on Warren St. on the site of University City High School. 

These school closings were announced not two weeks ago ostensibly to close a deficit. It is glaringly apparent that this "sale" to a developer had already taken place and was in the works for quite some time. 

All the SRC has to do is endure the angry community response, (as outlined in the Broad Foundation's School Closure Guide), and they shall reap their rich rewards. The new "3 Rs" are: Rhetoric, Race and Real Estate.

Most of the schools slated to be closed are predominately African-American and in areas slated for development.

I am starting to feel as if we are in the final stages of societal coup d'etat LONG in the making.

People can email me off-list if they want the pdf link to the Broad School Closure Guide. The Broad Foundation pulled it from its site at the end of January 2013. As one reads it it will sound strikingly familiar to the scripted scenarios of school closures in cities across the America.

Parents of school-aged children in the city should be especially interested.



On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:


Thanks Wilma!It's hard to know how many neighbors are beginning to understand these propaganda techniques and purposes. I went to the AVI "outreach session" and the people I talked to all seemed to understand that it was a worthless PR stunt, but they were mostly common people. (Iwas "educated" bya grad student, brought in from NY, and they were going to educate us that &

Re: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District

[Richard Conrad]

Meanwhile a dangerous exposure over railroad tracks is unprotected, lights are 
dangerously deficient at an intersection, we have broken sidewalks, few public 
benches, almost no guaranteed public spaces, free public resources for 
repairing etc. and the banks did not even have to ask for almost interest free 
loans while we have little we can do for gaining security at all.  
On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:

 
 
 Thanks Wilma!
 
 It's hard to know how many neighbors are beginning to understand these 
 propaganda techniques and purposes. I went to the AVI outreach session and 
 the people I talked to all seemed to understand that it was a worthless PR 
 stunt, but they were mostly common people. (I was educated by a grad 
 student, brought in from NY, and they were going to educate us that AVI is 
 tax fairness and that it was all very professional.  She didn't know 
 anything about the history, lies or the massive corporate giveaway for which 
 AVI was designed.)
 
 It's a good time to look at this wish list PR technique. The Penn/Wall St. 
 Planning Commission uses it to legitimize the theft of taxpayer dollars for 
 distribution to corporate projects. Anything close to real engagement, or 
 truthful information, would have met angry responses. That's one reason for 
 the tightly controlled bizzare games they use. But attendees end up feeling 
 empty, as they sense it's meaningless, even without fully understanding the 
 PR purposes.
 
 
 It's really important for people to stop seeing these corporate slush funds 
 of taxpayer money as free money. The corporate ice skating rink at city 
 hall was supposedly $50 million for public transit infrastructure. What we 
 now know about the Clark Park gravel pit is that it was always designed as a 
 food court for the new 43rd St mall being planned. And there is no such thing 
 as a parklett. Parkletts are the theft of taxpayer money to create outdoor 
 seating for corporate eateries and coffee shops (the real model is 42nd and 
 Woodland outside the Starbucks. The Green line parklett was a ploy to make 
 people think these would primarily go to local eateries)
 
 
 Later, they will magically turn these costly PR stunts like PHL2035 into the 
 demands of the people. They will claim the wish list sessions were open, 
 democratic, community engagement sessions, to justify the transfer of funds 
 for corporate projects. They have no interest in any input from the people of 
 Philadelphia, only the propaganda value of these sessions, when the 
 individual corporate schemes emerge. The funny money game only included 
 various corporate infrastructure visions, so that it was win-win for Penn 
 and partners, and the input of residents was completely meaningless. The 
 demands of the final corporate projects will fine tune the spending.
 
 The attendees were used. I hope the empty feelings they had after the funny 
 money game turn into rage and courage, as they connect their increasing tax 
 bills, school closures, etc.; with the parkletts, fenced off rental parks, 
 and food courts.  (The enclosed Penn Park, paid for by the US Postal Service, 
 is hosting a John Legend concert only open to those with a Penn Card) 
 
 I highly encourage people to study the various propaganda techniques used in 
 our inverted totalitarian society (Inverted totalitarianism, Wolin and 
 Hedges). MIT Professor Noam Chomsky and Wharton professor Edward Herman 
 developed a propaganda model in their book Manufacturing Consent, The 
 Political Economy of the Mass Media, which should be required reading in all 
 American high schools.
 S. Wolin, The Nation, Inverted Totalitarianism
  
 http://www.thenation.com/article/inverted-totalitarianism
  
 Thanks again,
 Glenn
  
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Wilma de Soto 
 Sent: Mar 29, 2013 5:47 PM
 To: UnivCity listserv 
 Subject: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District
 
 Interesting site about the PHIL2035 plan for our area and the Community 
 Meeting Summary.
 
 http://phila2035.org
 
 
 
 Community Meeting Summary (1/13):
 
 http://phila2035.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2nd-Public-Meeting-Summary.pdf
 
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Re: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District

[Richard Conrad]

That building is new and beautiful!!!   God bless you Wilma for bringing all 
this to public attention!!

On Mar 31, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Wilma de Soto wrote:

 Dear Neighbors:
 
 I think what really gets to me is the plan to build three-story housing on 
 Warren St. on the site of University City High School.
 
 These school closings were announced not two weeks ago ostensibly to close a 
 deficit.  It is glaringly apparent that this sale to a developer had 
 already taken place and was in the works for quite some time.  
 
 All the SRC has to do is endure the angry community response, (as outlined in 
 the Broad Foundation's School Closure Guide),  and they shall reap their rich 
 rewards.  The new 3 Rs are: Rhetoric, Race and Real Estate.
 
 Most of the schools slated to be closed are predominately African-American 
 and in areas slated for development.
 
 I am starting to feel as if we are in the final stages of societal coup 
 d'etat LONG in the making.
 
 People can email me off-list if they want the pdf link to the Broad School 
 Closure Guide.  The Broad Foundation pulled it from its site at the end of 
 January 2013.  As one reads it it will sound strikingly familiar to the 
 scripted scenarios of school closures in cities across the America.
 
 Parents of school-aged children in the city should be especially interested.
 
 
 On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:
 
 
 
 Thanks Wilma!
 
 It's hard to know how many neighbors are beginning to understand these 
 propaganda techniques and purposes. I went to the AVI outreach session and 
 the people I talked to all seemed to understand that it was a worthless PR 
 stunt, but they were mostly common people. (I was educated by a grad 
 student, brought in from NY, and they were going to educate us that AVI is 
 tax fairness and that it was all very professional.  She didn't know 
 anything about the history, lies or the massive corporate giveaway for which 
 AVI was designed.)
 
 It's a good time to look at this wish list PR technique. The Penn/Wall St. 
 Planning Commission uses it to legitimize the theft of taxpayer dollars for 
 distribution to corporate projects. Anything close to real engagement, or 
 truthful information, would have met angry responses. That's one reason for 
 the tightly controlled bizzare games they use. But attendees end up feeling 
 empty, as they sense it's meaningless, even without fully understanding the 
 PR purposes.
 
 
 It's really important for people to stop seeing these corporate slush funds 
 of taxpayer money as free money. The corporate ice skating rink at city 
 hall was supposedly $50 million for public transit infrastructure. What we 
 now know about the Clark Park gravel pit is that it was always designed as a 
 food court for the new 43rd St mall being planned. And there is no such 
 thing as a parklett. Parkletts are the theft of taxpayer money to create 
 outdoor seating for corporate eateries and coffee shops (the real model is 
 42nd and Woodland outside the Starbucks. The Green line parklett was a ploy 
 to make people think these would primarily go to local eateries)
 
 
 Later, they will magically turn these costly PR stunts like PHL2035 into 
 the demands of the people. They will claim the wish list sessions were 
 open, democratic, community engagement sessions, to justify the transfer of 
 funds for corporate projects. They have no interest in any input from the 
 people of Philadelphia, only the propaganda value of these sessions, when 
 the individual corporate schemes emerge. The funny money game only 
 included various corporate infrastructure visions, so that it was win-win 
 for Penn and partners, and the input of residents was completely 
 meaningless. The demands of the final corporate projects will fine tune the 
 spending.
 
 The attendees were used. I hope the empty feelings they had after the funny 
 money game turn into rage and courage, as they connect their increasing tax 
 bills, school closures, etc.; with the parkletts, fenced off rental parks, 
 and food courts.  (The enclosed Penn Park, paid for by the US Postal 
 Service, is hosting a John Legend concert only open to those with a Penn 
 Card) 
 
 I highly encourage people to study the various propaganda techniques used in 
 our inverted totalitarian society (Inverted totalitarianism, Wolin and 
 Hedges). MIT Professor Noam Chomsky and Wharton professor Edward Herman 
 developed a propaganda model in their book Manufacturing Consent, The 
 Political Economy of the Mass Media, which should be required reading in all 
 American high schools.
 S. Wolin, The Nation, Inverted Totalitarianism
  
 http://www.thenation.com/article/inverted-totalitarianism
  
 Thanks again,
 Glenn
  
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Wilma de Soto 
 Sent: Mar 29, 2013 5:47 PM
 To: UnivCity listserv 
 Subject: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District
 
 Interesting site about the PHIL2035 plan for our area and the Community

[UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District

[Wilma de Soto]

Interesting site about the PHIL2035 plan for our area and the Community Meeting 
Summary.

http://phila2035.org



Community Meeting Summary (1/13):

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Re: [UC] PHL2035 Plan for University City/Southwest District

[Richard Conrad]

woof.

On Mar 29, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote:

 Interesting site about the PHIL2035 plan for our area and the Community 
 Meeting Summary.
 
 http://phila2035.org
 
 
 
 Community Meeting Summary (1/13):
 
 http://phila2035.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2nd-Public-Meeting-Summary.pdf
 
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