The Network #185

Inside this issue ~

- Joe Pelayo radio interview now available at www.Josephmichaels.com!
- Nominate your company as one of the best places to work in the Bay Area!
- The Bay Area Job Market according to the San Francisco Business Times
- A blessing from Joel Osteen - Sundays at 8:00AM Pacific
- Martin Luther Kings Speech - The full text!


Good Morning!

I wanted to let you know the radio interview I did recently on the Kathy Fettke
show - "The Bridge," KYCY 1550AM, is now available on our website. It may be
busy immediately following the release of this newsletter but bookmark it and
you can tune in at your convenience. It runs about ten minutes. 

This Friday is the deadline to nominate your company as one of the Best Places to
Work in the Bay Area. The Bay Area's 100 Best Places to Work will be ranked in a
special edition, April 8th in the San Francisco Business Times, East Bay Business
Times and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
 
Submit your company information online at:
http://102517.clk.mail-times.com/go/1zQzeHck4Nil2t8BPw519GPGLzrfdGqLqIg7RwOyL

Each nominated company will be given instructions how to complete the employee
survey online. The survey is confidential and ensures employee anonymity. Companies
who make the 100 Best Places to Work list will be notified by the San Francisco
Business Times, and invited to the April 7th awards reception.
 
Nomination Deadline is January 14, 2005. Have questions about the survey? Please
send them via email to mailto:bestplaces@bizjournals.com

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Speaking of the Business Times, a huge front page article entitled "Sign of the
Times: Help Wanted" discusses how big name Bay Area companies are struggling to
find people again. According to the article Job postings on online-employment-site
Monster are up 78 percent in the Bay Area in the past 11 months, compared with the
same period last year. November job postings on Craigslist in the region jumped
80 percent over the same period. 

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Sometimes people send me emails and open with "I hope you won't be offended, but..."
Invariably I reply, "You'll find me difficult to offend." If you are prone to being
offended by religion very rarely appearing in a business publication, please skip
the next section. The last time I shared religion I caught a raft of stuff. I write
this knowing that it is heading towards the fan again. Nonetheless the below was
heartfelt when received by me so I will share it with you. Here's a blessing sent
to me from Joel Osteen. He does a super job every Sunday morning on Fox at 8am Pacific.
Tune in sometime, you won't regret it.

Declaring God's Blessing in My Life:
 
A blessing is not a blessing until it is spoken, because I believe that with God all
things are possible (Matthew19:26) and that He will supply all my needs according to
His riches in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19), today I declare that:
 
I am blessed with God's supernatural wisdom and I have clear direction in my life.
I am blessed with creativity, courage, ability and abundance. 
I am blessed with a strong will, self-control and self discipline.
I am blessed with a great family, good friends and good health.
I am blessed with faith, favor and fulfillment.
I am blessed with success, supernatural strength, promotion and divine protection.
I am blessed in the city and in the country, when I go in and when I come out. 
Any curse that has come against me is broken right now.
Everything that I put into my hands is going to prosper and succeed. I am blessed!
 
In Jesus name, Amen.

~~~

Here is the full text of Martin Luther Kings, "I have a Dream" speech. I especially
like the last paragraph speaking of religion...
 
"I Have A Dream" 
by Martin Luther King, Jr,
________________________________________

Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968 

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the
Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope
to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years
later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of
segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives
on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One
hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society
and finds himself an exile in his own land.

So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come
to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the
magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were
signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on
this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring
this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back
marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity
of this nation. 

So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of
freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America
of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to
take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate
valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors
of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. 

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate
the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen
sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow
off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business
as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his
citizenship rights. 

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright
day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the
warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful
place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for
freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. 

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not
allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise
to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. 

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust
of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today,
have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is
inextricably bound to our freedom. 

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We
cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you
be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of
travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We
cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a
larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and
a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied,
and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like
a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.
Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your
quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds
of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work
with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. 

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go
back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation
can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today,
my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still
have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that
one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners
will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even
the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children
will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of their character. I have a dream today. 

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping
with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where
little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white
girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one
day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places
will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which
I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a
stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to
pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,
knowing that we will be free one day. 

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning,
"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is
to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops
of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring
from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies
of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let
freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside,
let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every
state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black
men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God
Almighty, we are free at last!" 



Warm Regards,

Joe Pelayo, C.E.O. 
Joseph Michaels, Inc. 
582 Market Street, Suite 910 
San Francisco, CA 94104 
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