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

Thu Dec 20 07:44:58 PST 2007

Amen

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From: list-bounces at redwoodtech.org [mailto:list-bounces at redwoodtech.org]
On Behalf Of Pat Bitton
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:41 AM
To: 'Gordon Soderberg'; list at redwoodtech.org
Subject: Re: [RTC List] Nice to have the support of the richest man
inHumboldt.Not!

Please keep these personal squabbles offline. We all have better and
more productive things to do.

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From: list-bounces at redwoodtech.org [mailto:list-bounces at redwoodtech.org]
On Behalf Of Gordon Soderberg
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:30 AM
To: list at redwoodtech.org
Subject: [RTC List] Nice to have the support of the richest man in
Humboldt.Not!

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

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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

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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
<http://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 <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 <http://www.unitedpeacerelief.org/> ,
www.commongroundrelief.org <http://www.commongroundrelief.org/> , with
the help of my friends at www.plenty.org <http://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 <http://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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