YOU ARE AMAZING IN YOUR ZEAL FOR REVOLUTION….

” EVERY BODY TO THGE BARRICADES!” HE IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU…. ( ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF AT THE CLOSEST!)

HAYWARD — As many as nine shots were fired near Tennyson High School around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, and while it appears no one was struck by bullets, afterschool activities were halted as the campus was locked down as a precaution, police said.

Witnesses said a group of young males ran away from the Whitman Street area after the shooting, and that a silver Cadillac may also have been involved.

“We’re not sure if anyone in that group was hit,” said police Sgt. Steve Brown. “But no victims have surfaced.”

Brown said a parked Honda was struck by one of the bullets.

Three males were seen running into a nearby pedestrian tunnel. One was described as white or Hispanic, 16 to 18 years old, wearing a burgundy sweatshirt, white T shirt, black gym shorts and white tennis shoes. The second was black, about 6 feet tall with medium build, shaved head, a white scarf around his neck, with a black jacket, blue jeans and black tennis shoes. The third was said to be Hispanic, 16 to 18, with short black hair, wearing a white T shirt, bluejeans with white lettering on one of the legs and black tennis shoes.
Police ask anyone with information contact them at 510-293-7000.

Does anyone know the answer to the question raised?

If there is a real upswell in America it will come from the working classes and common people united with the students in overthrowing evil doers. I believed that this would happen more than a quarter century ago and it failed. All of the press in all its majesty will fall all over themselves to cover that revolution.

I will be proud to join with my comrades at the gates and on the barricades when it starts. In the immortal words of Johnny in Rebel Without A Cause, when questioned by the media, “Whatcha got.”

I abandoned that idea when the Chairman of the Board of C of C advised through his recently hired operations manager, that the FITAG group was sufficiently well endowed with talent and purpose to solve all the problems confronting HUSD. Of course he was apparently unaware that FITAG concept was first tried, using the same format and much of the same initial leadership, about 15 years ago! It was a bust then and will not successfully solve HUSD’s problems by the end of June!

At properly organized ‘Town Hall’ meetings, (not the tea party type nor that which was displayed by the candidates in the most recent Presidential election,) there is a pattern to be followed!

Convene for a few minutes of explanation on how to provide full opportunity for each attendee to be heard, have their remarks recorded electronically as well as on easel mounted paper and have attendees critique the ideas presented.

Recognizing that perhaps as many as 200 or 250 would attend, the time requirement allowing each to speak would be prohibitive unless ‘break out sessions’ were employed.

A break out session involving 250 folks would need 13 or 14 tables at which attendees would be directed to seat themselves as separate discussion groups. Teachers would be invited, not as a means of getting HEA issues presented but as a ‘discussion leader’ for the purpose of assuring that all attendees are comfortable with the purposeful guidance that teachers are assumed able to provide, just as they would in a classroom. Common sense would enable them to avoid discussion of HEA goals; what is required of them is acceptance of the idea that Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Public have need to be heard and having accepted that idea, the teachers would elicit cooperation of each person seated at a break out table.

Having imparted the need for co-operation, there would follow, as an ice breaker, a 30 second allotment of time to each prtson, ‘once around the table’ of self introductions. That would be followed by another ‘once around the table, which solicits basic ideas for helpful overall improvement of HUSD’s condition.

Not a Pandora’s box approach but a simple request for a single idea expressed by each individual, follow that by another ‘around’ and another if a real flow of ideas develops. Emphasis must be given this thought; ‘we pretty much know the general nature of the many problems…. but,…. “How would we best be able to solve them?”

Having planted that thought, watch and be amazed as the potential leadership qualities of participants begins to unfold. Of course ythe ideas are being recorded on the easel’s supply of paaper and the marker pen recording of such by one of the seated participants….chosen by the group.

Here is where the meeting becomes very interesting…
if an idea proposed by a participant catches the imagination of other participants and they begin building on that idea with attachment of suggestions intended as furtherance of the basic intent of the initial thought on a particular suggestion….. then those matters ought be recorded on the easel and identified as such by an asterisk matching that of the original.

What happens next is that ‘pride of ownership’ at having advanced the original thought produces ‘volunteers’ willing to participate in whatever it takes to initiate actions which are successful.

Of course, here in Hayward we have an abundance of critics who, fearful of being lost without a voice, will be scornful and decry the thought of a Town Hall meeting.
It is my thought that perhaps that type of person, is fearful of being capable of participation… perhaps by lack of personal education or appearance which tends to defeat themselves…

Well, at least I can personally hold my head up and say…. “I TRIED” at the moment of my personal interrogation at the gates guarded by St. Pete.

I am reminded of the remark made by Richard Tregaskis, author of the WWII story ‘Guadalcanal Diary‘, who at the conclusion of the story. wrote about a Marine KIA at Guadalcanal, saying to St. Pete… “ another Marine reporting sir… I’ve served my time in hell!”

It makes one wonder about the fate of some of our drop outs…. And those HUSD critics who do nothing but ‘carp’!