[RTC List] Bringing Delta Airlines to the Eureka/Arcata Airport

[Gordon Soderberg]

Been doing something

Since helping to start Redwood Tech Consortium, I've graduated to  
helping restore the Eureka theater, building websites for non-profits  
and teaching kids to shoot and edit video using Imovie. In 2001 my  
funding from the NEA was cut by the President. So I had to find  
something else to occupy my time. Then 911 hit and all hell broke  
lose. Needless to say, as a veteran I was not impressed with Bush and  
after his venture into Iraq I felt I have to do something.

In the spring and summer of 2005 I built a Bio Diesel powered bus  
called the "Veterans For Peace Impeachment Tour" painted it red,  
white, and blue (like a upside down flag) and stuck a Motosat Internet  
dish on the roof drove it to the www.veteransforpeace.org national  
convention in Dallas. While there, Cindy Sheehan as me and my bus crew  
to take her to Crawford, President Bush's ranch so that she could ask  
him a simple question. After spending 26 days in the ditch waiting for  
him to answer her question shooting and editing videos and blogging  
about it, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Needless to say we gathered what donations and supplies we could,  
generators, chain saws, water, diapers, cooking supplies and drove all  
night to get into New Orleans. When we arrived we started working at a  
Red Cross Shelter on the North Shore we noticed that there was no cell  
service working, the shelter had no communications at all. We set up a  
computer station in the parking lot of the shelter and began helping  
evacuees fill out online forms for the Red Cross and FEMA. I also  
created website with the help of our friends at www.michaelmoore.com  
and began organizing a peace relief effort. Check out http://neworleansvfp.ning.com

Well, it's been over two years and the bus is back on tour and much of  
the volunteer efforts have changed from feeding, communications and  
resupply to rebuilding. Over that time I shot videos and posted them  
to youtube and other vblogs and I set up sat internet access systems  
and used the donations to help start several non profits including www.unitedpeacerelief.org 
, www.commongroundrelief.org, with the help of my friends at www.plenty.org 
, We did pretty good considering the issues we faced.

Now I'm building a home in Slidell, LA at the site of one of the  
relief camps as well as a biodiesel plant to run our construction  
company www.bioliberty.net We are training veterans for produce bio  
diesel and clearing lots in the Lower Ninth Ward, first for the  
residents that began to move back, for Paul Chan's  out door version  
of "Waiting For Godot" and then Brad Pitt's Make it Right.

By the way the NTEN conference is in New Orleans this March. David  
Pogue is the Keynote, Some of you may remember I brought David to the  
first Redwood Tech Conference!

You guys keep talking, I'll keep doing.


On Dec 20, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Arkley, Rob wrote:

> Dear Jean,
>    Great idea.  I like your style.  Let's stop talking and do
> something.  That is my model.  This area is mired in talk and  
> inaction.
>
>
>
>                               Vty,
>
>
>                               Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Belef-Hoggard [mailto:jusramblin at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:25 AM
> To: Gordon Soderberg
> Cc: Arkley, Rob; list at redwoodtech.org
> Subject: Re: [RTC List] Bringing Delta Airlines to the Eureka/Arcata
> Airport
>
> You guys sound like a bunch of squabbling ten-year-olds. Let's all  
> just
> do everything we can to come up with as many different solutions to  
> the
> problem as possible and then, everyone, in his own way, implement  
> those
> solutions that are feasible for each individual and group. In other
> words, do what you can, whenever you can, wherever you can. And  
> continue
> to come up with ideas because ideas are the seeds of innovation.
> Jean
>
>
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