For Immediate Release!

Media Contact:

Name: Theodore Fikre

Title: President and Managing Director

Phone: 703.585.6357

Email address: teodrose.fikre@kinetixalliance.com

RELEASE PURPOSE

Public announcement of the Declaration of Independence missive, release of a market-risk white paper, and invitation to the October 22 community rally.

MEDIA CONTACT

Teodrose Fikre

President and Managing Director

703-585-6357

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:

I Rise in Defense of #WeTheWorkers26

After corporate layoffs and nearly two years of homelessness, Kinetix Alliance founder Teodrose Fikre declares independence from multinational corporations, releases a market-risk white paper, and calls for workers to reclaim their economic future.

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. - October 21, 2026 - Teodrose Fikre, President and Managing Director of Kinetix Alliance, today issued "Declaration of Independence: I Rise in Defense of #WeTheWorkers26," an urgent public missive challenging corporate layoffs, the displacement of workers by artificial intelligence, and the concentration of wealth at the expense of the people who sustain the economy.

Alongside the declaration, Fikre is releasing a Kinetix Alliance white paper on market risk and capital preservation, urging workers, retirement savers, journalists, and financial professionals to examine its arguments immediately and share it widely.

His declaration begins with his own experience: after more than six years working as an IT project manager at Lumen Technologies, Fikre says he was laid off alongside thousands of others during a companywide reduction in force.

In the missive, he rightly points corporations encouraging employees to use and train artificial intelligence tools before eliminating the workers whose knowledge helped make those tools useful.

"This level of greed and myopia that multinational corporations are undertaking is not only immoral, it is ultimately self-defeating," Fikre writes. "The more of us they fire, the fewer of us there are to consume their products."

A DECLARATION BORN FROM DISPLACEMENT

For Fikre, corporate displacement carries consequences far beyond a severance package or an unemployment statistic. Eleven years ago, following the loss of his job at Booz Allen Hamilton, he endured nearly two years of homelessness.

His missive recounts sleeping in missions, occasionally in cemeteries, under trucks to escape the rain, and behind bushes. It also describes the faith that sustained him and the fatherhood that later brought him his greatest joy: his son, Yohannes.

Following his more recent layoff, Fikre struggled to find another job before deciding to establish Kinetix Alliance, redirecting his experience toward small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs.

"I post this today to celebrate my INDEPENDENCE from multinational corporations like Lumen Technologies and Booz Allen Hamilton, both of which laid me off in the past," he writes.

Through Kinetix Alliance, he now helps businesses improve their websites, optimize business processes, uncover inefficiencies, and strengthen their revenue and profitability. His declaration calls on displaced workers to recognize their own talents and pursue a future beyond dependence on employers that treat their livelihoods as expendable.

AN URGENT CALL TO EXAMINE FINANCIAL RISK

Fikre, who holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins and describes more than 20 years of investing experience, is making his white paper freely available as a public service.

In the missive, and in a just released YouTube video titled Declaration of Independence, Teodrose reports selling all shares in his personal investment portfolio approximately two weeks earlier and redirected his 401K from mostly aggressive big-cap and mid-cap stocks to 100% money market funds to weather any upcoming economic selloff. He warns that a severe economic downturn, what he calls a Brown Shewan Event, could devastate workers already confronting layoffs and financial insecurity.

He invites financial professionals and journalists to scrutinize the paper's reasoning and the public to read it carefully, exercise discernment, and make their own decisions.

"Read the document with full discernment," Fikre writes. "doing so might save you from a repeat of the Great Fleecing of 2008."

His request to readers is direct: if the argument is compelling enough to act upon, pass it along so others have the opportunity to examine it too.

READ AND SHARE THE WHITE PAPER

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qnYBj3UCK41NEJTX6VRQ-MGbLSYVEpVn/view

FROM THE DECLARATION TO THE PUBLIC SQUARE

Fikre will bring the declaration's message of economic dignity and solidarity to #BeXRiseUP26, a free social rally and community celebration tomorrow, Thursday, October 22, at 4 PM CDT at the Old Courthouse in Crossville, Tennessee.

The gathering was inspired by his Fikre Circle video, "Revelation We Have Been Waiting For," which reveals the blatant lies that the North fought on behalf of freedom and the South fought for slavery.

Lies like this lays waste to the idea that education in America is meant to edify, rather it is meant to divide and conquer by pitting people who struggle against one another while the wealthy few lead lives of opulence and maximum privilege.

Fikre describes the gathering as bringing together "the children of Dixie and the children stolen from Africa." His historical message includes the fact that the continent was once called Ethiopia and renamed to honor Scipio Africanus, whom he rightly describes as responsible for the greatest holocaust committed against a people in recorded history, up to 3 times the death wrought by Hitler and his killing machine during WWII in concentration camps throughout Eastern Europe. He compares accepting the moniker “African” or “African-American akin to Jewish people identifying as "Hitlerian" or "Hitlerian-American."

The rally will include music, conversation, and fellowship. His announced plans include playing "Living in America" alongside "Dixie Look Away." He also intends to attempt a live broadcast for those unable to attend.

Fikre's missive expressly rejects violence and calls for people to respond through faith, community, and peaceful action.