Coastal Villages Region Fund evidently feels its quest for larger community development quotas is on a par with the civil rights movement.
Coastal posted this on its Facebook page on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day:
Let us honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. who peacefully lead the nation for the equal treatment of all American Citizens who want the American Dream. His famous "I Have A Dream" speech was given at the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."
The residents of Coastal Villages are seeking equality in the CDQ program for more jobs and more benefits. While the region we serve has the highest economic impoverished rates, our residents receive among the lowest CDQ allocations per person. Our voices, our votes, and our lives do matter and the US Congress must recognize our efforts for the benefit of many Western Alaskans.
#JustFixCDQ
Perhaps a fair distribution of wealth is in order. Is equality for the CEO to pay himself $895k a year in salary and bonuses? Get real CVRF! It is real hard to feel sorry for you from where I stand!
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, and for many years, I worked for a CDQ group. As the years have passed and I gained a little altitude to get a better view, I see that overall the program has done little real good. Yes, some have benefited (none more than the self-reinforcing bureaucracies) but by and large, the average schmo gets crumbs. Someday, I hope the whole fiasco gets reformatted. Unfortunately, the powers that could make the change (congress)will never do so because it is so 'successful'.
ReplyDeleteExactly. $895,000 for the CEO. My, my. At least the board showed some restraint and didn't exceed $900,000!
ReplyDelete"We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
ReplyDeleteHow 800 people win with more than $16 million a year while 18,000 people lose out on more than $20 million a year can be justified is a joke. APICDA's guy makes more money on a per person basis than what CVRF pays. By the way, CVRF owns and controls it's own fleet and doesn't have to rely on outsiders fishing for them. I'd say give CVRF its fair share and that means more for Alaska. Enough with the corrupt practices of Cotter and on with Alaska's benefit.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of bull. How does APICDA's guy who makes a couple of hundred thousand dollars while answering to less than 400 people get justified? There is no justice when he toys with money and only answers to way less people. Public records also state Cotter's double dipping in the negotiation of CDQ allocations. Corrupt bastard can't let go of the reigns he doesn't deserve. Them St. Paulers can't get along with St. George and they think they deserve more than their fair share.
ReplyDeleteBy the way Wesley, are you filtering comments now?
Pardon me, but Larry makes more 'than a couple hundred thousand dollars' as the CEO of APICDA. He's not at Crow's level but perhaps when the population falls enough, in region, he might. There seems to be an inverse ratio between his compensation and one of the key metrics of the CDQ program: keeping people in the community. The Population of the six communities that APICDA represents has fallen by over 50% since the institution of CDQ's. With the exception of keeping the likes of Justine Gunderson, et al, afloat little has been done for the common wo/man. If it was not for the harvesting partners like Star Bound and Trident, APICDA would be selling pencils. But, that is the case with ALL the CDQ"s with, perhaps, the exception of CBS.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how the CDQ groups squabble amongst themselves about the inequity of allocations while folks a hair inland over the imaginary line go totally without.
ReplyDeleteMLK would be proud.
Pollock fishing is destroying APICDA communities natural resources. This is why their community of Saint George is working with NGOs to promote conservation around the Priblof islands and Bering Sea Canyons.
ReplyDelete"The Native community, led by St. George mayor (Apicda Board member) Pat Pletnikoff is now proposing a cultural heritage marine protected area around the island. It would allow local marine life a chance to replenish and rebuild, and improve the livelihoods and wellbeing of the Native community. "
http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/pdf/helpful-resources/connections/connections_jul13.pdf
http://www.beringvoices.org
You can't defend the outrageous salary paid to Morgen Crow by throwing rocks at other CDQ groups. As long as CVRF keeps paying one guy that kind of money, they have no right to complain that they need a bigger share of the CDQ pot. Clearly they have more than enough to waste already.
ReplyDelete@5:21pm. Your logic is flawed. These are two mutually exclusive issues.
ReplyDeleteCVRFs relative success and executive compensation has nothing to do with them getting jobbed by the other groups. However, it is probably safe to say that they would do more (both for benefits to western Alaska and taking over more of the Pollock industry) if they had their fair share of CDQ Allocation of Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Groudfish and Crab Quota...
Salary paid to execs of this very successful company has nothing to do with justifying the oppression of the Yupik people of the CVRF region.
I dont think they are complaining about needing more quota, but rather are demanding reparations for what was stolen.
Power to the People...
-YK Delta freedom rider
Nope, 5:21 has it exactly right...but, you have every right to keep spouting what you're being paid to spout.
ReplyDeleteHow is it larger when the two smallest groups have the largest share of the whole CDQ program?!?! 4 percent of the people get 19 percent of the pollock pie. 4 percent of the people get 51 percent of the halibut pie. Ouch
ReplyDeletewell, well! lets work together people! shucks its ANCSA for the fish!!
ReplyDelete@February 6, 2014 at 10:09 PM
ReplyDeleteYou are fixated on the wrong thing. Do you really think that just changing the mix of who gets what is going to mean anything to you? My personal opinion is that with the exception of CBSFA, the program is a laughable joke. How many fish plants, ice houses, storage facilities, to nowhere does it take to make people wake to the obscene waste of capital that the CDQ's have flushed, never to return, down the toilet? It is MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars. How's that fish plant in Platinum doing? How 'bout that plant in False Pass, St. George or Atka? Raging successes?
That is one personal opinion vs thousands.
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