[RTC List] Nice to have the support of the richest man in Humboldt. Not!

Gordon Soderberg gordonsoderberg at mac.com
Thu Dec 20 07:29:54 PST 2007


I think redwood tech needs to know that Rob Arkley dose not support  
veterans or volunteer efforts on the Gulf Coast.

> From: "Arkley, Rob" <RArkley at snsc.com>
> Date: December 20, 2007 9:16:36 AM CST
> To: Gordon Soderberg <gordonsoderberg at mac.com>
> Subject: RE: [RTC List] Bringing Delta Airlines to the Eureka/Arcata  
> Airport
>
> Dear Gordon,
>       I think that you should go to your local VA hospital for  
> mental help.  Stay away.
>
>
>
>                                                 vty,
>
>
>
>                                                 Rob
>
> From: Gordon Soderberg [mailto:gordonsoderberg at mac.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:13 AM
> To: Arkley, Rob
> Subject: Re: [RTC List] Bringing Delta Airlines to the Eureka/Arcata  
> Airport
>
> Way More than you have done Rob. and I'm poor.
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Arkley, Rob wrote:
>
>> Dear Gordon,
>>      You are a little defensive.  It looks like small ball with  
>> much noise and little accomplished.
>>
>>
>>
>>                                                 vty,
>>
>>
>>
>>                                                 Rob
>>
>> From: Gordon Soderberg [mailto:gordonsoderberg at mac.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 6:56 AM
>> To: Arkley, Rob
>> Cc: Jean Belef-Hoggard; list at redwoodtech.org
>> Subject: Re: [RTC List] Bringing Delta Airlines to the Eureka/ 
>> Arcata Airport
>>
>> 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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