Blog Post – West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement Inc

ELDER, ED HOWARD POSITIVE SPEAKING INTERVIEW

ED HOWARD LIFE STORY PART 6B

WHY DID OAKLAND NOT BURN BACK IN THE 1960’S SINCE THE MEDIA PLAYED US UP TO BE THE MOST MILITANT CITY IN AMERICA.

Friends, I hope you enjoyed the first six posts our series detailing the life of Oakland original pioneer, film maker, engineer, TV producer, and night club owner–just to name a few titles–Mr. Ed Howard.

In the second half of our sixth segment, a two-part story especially timely given the current civil rights movement in our streets, Mr. Howard in his own words memories from his role in Oakland’s political movements of the 1960’s.

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ED HOWARD’S LIFE STORY:

I know now why I made such a vital impact with the Kaiser Industries Advisory Board members because at the time they had no real connection to the Black community.

Kaisers Engineers promoted me from the Configuration Engineering Designer and gave me a title of Assistant to the Vice President of Kaiser Engineers and et on the Kaiser Industries Board of Directors; and an office next to his; and my own secretary – I was still in my 20’s.

I was the brainchild of the things I made happen At Kaiser (listed below) through my position listed above working with the Kaiser Volunteers who donated their time and skills to local Black business projects.

In the listings below, every time you see the word DIGNITY and NAIROBI CONSULTANT AND ASSOCIATES it’s the same as saying the Afro American Association.

• I Designed the Configuration Engineering Drafting Training program, interviewed each trainee and was their teacher for two years (two different classes); and placed them in Kaiser Engineers and Kaiser Industries Engineering design departments after they completed the program.

• Summer Hiring Program: Placed high school students in Corporation Business office training positions each summer.

• Dignity Inc.: The economic arm of the Afro-American Association and that arm were Attorney Don Warden and myself.

• I was the Producer of the Black Dignity TV Show on KGO-TV in San Francisco California.

Nairobi Consultant and Associates

• Dignity Enterprises

• Dignity Sewing Company

• Dignity Mobile Car Wash

• Nairobi Consultant and Associates (Black professionals and business supporters)

• Dignity Press (I personally signed for a loan of $50, 000 from Bank of America for the printing facility, equipment and production stock for this business start-up).

• Dignity Wooden containers pallets and other related products. (I redesigned the first pallet).

The activities above were widely known in Black Oakland.

READ THE KAISER HOME OFFICE NEWSLETTER FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THESE PROGRAMS

Many people in the media at that time speculated that Oakland would burn – not one match was ever scratched. Black Oakland was too busy taking advantage of the opportunities being opened up to us.

West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement Inc – “No Negative Speak” with each other…

STAY TUNED: Ed Howard resigns from Kaiser and goes into business for himself in the coming 7th segment.

Pic 1: Ed Howard Producer of Black Dignity TV show

Pic 2: Kaiser Newsletter Description of projects Ed Howard masterminded under the name of Dignity Inc and Nairobi Consultants and Associates.

Pic 3: Ed Howard present day

HONORED BLACK OAKLAND POSITIVE HISTORY

DO YOU WANT THINGS TO GET BETTER IN YOUR COMMUNITY?

Don’t wait on your leaders, you start in your own house. Follow the directions we give you and give us feedback after you have viewed this West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement (WOSPFM) film.

All of you who want things to get better in your communities, view this film Tuesday, February 22, 2022. (Mark your calendar)

WE ARE SHOWING THE WORLD WHO WE REALLY ARE BECAUSE WE ARE TELLING THE WORLD WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT OUR BLACK OAKLAND HISTORY IS RESPECTED, and the theme of viewing the film is “NO NEGATIVE SPEAK” (NNS) with each other.

HONORED BLACK OAKLAND POSITIVE HISTORY

You will be starting a tradition of viewing the West Oakland Stories film in Black History Month every last Tuesday of February from now on. This year’s Virtual viewing will take place on Tuesday, February 22, 2022. (Use the link below!)

Help spread the word about this year’s viewing by SHARING this post to your family, friends and contacts. SHARE THIS POST NOW! Now is the time to do your part to help bring our Black communities together. Help us with our mission to spread positivity with each other.

WE MUST DO FOR OURSELVES AND NOT WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BLESS US

All we need is you and your computer.

Everyone is the real thing in this film. The people you’ll see in this film are the real living people who lived this history in Oakland, California. No more letting people tell our story, we tell it. (WOSPFM FILM LINK)

HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS:

POST on Facebook once every week up to the viewing day to your friends these instructions and ask them to SHARE, and LIKE the message below.

VIEW ON LAST TUESDAY OF EVERY BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH YOUR FAMILY and FRIENDS.

We invite you, wherever you may be in the world, to join in with us. Please make your positive comments and connect with your fellow community members in the Comments Section.

And, as always, please remember to practice “NO NEGATIVE SPEAK” with each other.

SAVE THIS POST AND READ IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER!

Ed Howard

Chief Executive Director

West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement Org.

https://westoaklandstories.org/2022/01/honored-black-oakland-positive-history/

HONORED BLACK OAKLAND CA. POSITIVE HISTORY

By starting the traditions of viewing The West Oakland Stores film in Black History Month every last Tuesday of February. This year’s viewing will take place on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022.

This year, we’d like your help spreading the word about this year’s viewing:

CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS

WE MUST DO FOR OURSELVES AND NOT WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BLESS US

Now is the time to do your part to help bring our Black communities together. To help us with our mission to spread positivity with each other, all you need to do is sign up to help amplify our voices this upcoming year.

Once you’ve signed up, we will give you quick, easy instructions that will help us expand our reach and provide you with the positive feeling that you are participating in making a better place for the future of our people.

All we need is you and your computer.

If you’re interested in helping us grow, please click on this link to VOLUNTEER and leave your name so that we can give you your instructions. https://youtu.be/ZMYVdIlYUhs (WOSPFM FILM LINK)

INSTRUCTIONS

Join us to view The West Oakland Stores film in Black History Month February 22, 2022 in recognition of our Oakland Black history by viewing this Authentic Film featuring Oakland’s own pioneering elders who were living, creating, and developing the building blocks of the city of Oakland during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

Everyone is the real thing in this film. The people you’ll see are people who lived this history of Oakland. No more letting people tell our story. https://youtu.be/ZMYVdIlYUhs (WOSPFM FILM LINK)

Here are your instructions:

POST on Facebook once every week up to the viewing day to your friends these instructions and ask them to SHARE, LIKE this message below.

VIEW ON LAST TUESDAY OF EVERY BLACK HISTORY Month WITH YOUR FAMILY and FRIENDS.

We invite you, wherever you may be in the world, to join in with us. Please make your positive comments and connect with your fellow community members in the Comments Section.

And, as always, please remember to practice “NO NEGATIVE SPEAK” with each other.

Keep track of the people that respond to your request so that you can remind them again to view the film on the last Tuesday of Black History Month.

Ed Howard

Chief Executive Director

West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement Org.https://westoaklandstories.org/2022/01/honored-black-oakland-positive-history/

HUEY NEWTON ALWAYS SHOWED ME, (Ed Howard) THAT HE HAD A LOT OF RESPECT FOR ME!

DR. HUEY P. NEWTON OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY HONORED IN WEST OAKLAND UNVEILING A BRONZE BUST CREATED IN HIS HONOR

Huey Newton and Gene McKinney, Huey’s street running buddy when they were in high school, would be at Gene’s family house where Gene’s father would run his daily poker gambling games and I was one of the gamblers coming by on a regular basics. I was only a few years out of High school at that time. I was the youngest gambler involved in those games. Huey and Gene knew me from the neighborhood and would seek my advice about the West Oakland streetwise guys and girls.

Huey grew up in North Oakland and Gene grow up in Richmond or El Cerrito area before he moved to West Oakland and attended McClymonds High school. They both wanted to be like us West Oakland guys.

Huey told me when he observed that I (Ed Howard) was involved in the African American Association (about 1961) Black Conscious Movement, he began to pay attention to Black consciousness ideas and it changed the way he had been thinking.

Click on the link below and you will see the West Oakland Stories Positive Feeling Movement film that have the actual people who were the supporters of the Black Panther Party (BPP) back in the day when the BPP was just beginning. When you look at the film completely you will be surprised to see how normal we are. You will be seeing the real Black Oakland and they will look nothing like the negative images that the Slave System has placed in your eyes and head.

(WOS FILM LINK)

“NO NEGATIVE SPEAK” BREAKS THE HABIT OF NEGATIVE TALKING“

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

Watch your words, they become your actions.

Watch your actions they become habits.

Watch your habits, they become your character.

Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

Lao Tzu

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WEST OAKLAND STORIES POSITIVE FEELING MOVEMENT BLACK ELDERS HAVE PLAYED A BIG PART IN MAKING IT ACCEPTABLE TO CLAIM BLACK OAKLAND IN A POSITIVE WAY.

We started back in 2013 asking people to say “Oakland is not bad”. From that point we grew into producing the West Oakland Stories Positive film and after that we grew into “No Negative Speak” with each other and from that point we grew into the Non-Profit WOSPFM Organization and now we are beginning to work from the Positive Cosmic Consciousness level.

ATTACHED is the WOS FILM LINK SPOTLIGHTING WEST OAKLAND PEOPLE TESTFYING “OAKLAND IS NOT BAD”.https://youtu.be/ZMYVdIlYUhs

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What is Cosmic Consciousness?

We want you to understand Cosmic Consciousness (CC) to be a state of mind where you actively filter your thoughts through positive emotional currents (NNS) before you engage with other people. This is a technique to provide a greater context for who you are.

How Do I Practice Cosmic Consciousness?

Instead of giving a person or situation the power to make you react from a place of uncertainty, fear, anger, we want you to use your Cosmic Consciousness. NNS and CC are interchangeable. Don’t try to explain NNS, using the words are simply the path to your CC.

1. You carry a lifetime of positivity in you – youare just not aware of it.

2. Remember the big picture – we’re all tasked withbeing better versions of ourselves over time. Be patient with yourself andothers.

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