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Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment _______________________________
On January 26, 2010 Senator Gloria Butler introduced Senate Bill 325 On January 28, 2010 (click to view the bills) Representative Pedro Marin introduced House Bill 1009 Anti-Racial Profiling Legislation
**ACTION** Ask your congregation, organization, and union members to contact their legislators and tell them they want them to support this important legislation. Click to contact legislators
Here are some photos from the press conference.
______________ Prayer Vigil for Immigration Reform
Office of Georgia Congressman David Scott Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:30pm
Smyrna District Office 888 Concord Road, Suite 100 Smyrna, GA 30080 Tel: 770-432-5405
32 members of the Congressional Black Caucus and over 50 diverse members of Congress are co-sponsoring the CIR ASAP. Rep. Scott has not joined them. Ask Rep. Scott to co-sponsor the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP) introduced by Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez on December 15, 2009. Tell him we need his support! _________
ABLE & ACLU of Georgia Focus on Anti-Racial Profiling Legislation SB 325 & HB 1009 Sponsored By The People Lobby Days Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9am-12pm 307 CLOB (Coverdell Legislative Office Building) Across from Georgia Capitol Downtown Atlanta _________ Larry Soublet ABLE’s 1st " I AM ABLE " Award Recipient
Honored at ABLE's 1st Annual Fundraising Banquet "A Vision of Hope For Our Time" Saturday, May 30, 2009 _____________________
ABLE is a multi-racial, interfaith regional coalition of congregations, unions and grassroots organizations that develops and empowers ordinary people to become leaders who effect change in their communities for the common good of all.
ABLE works to bring people together across the lines that divide the region: race, class, language, political boundaries and ideologies.
ABLE is a vehicle where people find common ground to express common values and work for the common good of all.
together their voices can be heard.
ABLE. _________________
The Gamaliel Foundation is an international organizing institute working with over sixty communities throughout the United States, South Africa, and Great Britain.
It is a network of organizers, clergy, and lay leaders with years of experience in the ever more difficult task of creating powerful grassroots organizations to work for justice.
The mission of The Gamaliel Foundation is to assist local community leaders to create, maintain and expand independent, grassroots, and powerful faith-based community organizations so that ordinary people can impact the political, social, economic, and environmental decisions that affect their lives; to provide these organizations with leadership training programs, consultation, research and analysis on social justice issues; to be a network for mutual learning environments and working coalitions.
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Upcoming Events
ABLE
Council of Leaders Meeting 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
******** ABLE Tuesday, February 9, 2010 7pm-8:30pm Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta Atlanta, GA 30329
Healthcare Taskforce Meeting Monday, February 15, 2010 7pm-8:30pm Atlanta's Best Home Nursing Care Office 5300 Memorial Drive, Suite 219 Stone Mountain, GA 30083
Council of Leaders Meeting February 23, 2010 7pm-8:30pm Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church 25 Boulevard, NE Atlanta, GA 30312
ABLE & ACLU of Georgia By The People Lobby Days February 24, 2010 9am-Noon 307 CLOB (Coverdell Legislative Office Building) Across from Georgia Capitol Downtown Atlanta
ABLE Annual Banquet Thursday, June 17, 2010 Atlanta, GA _____
Gamaliel Civil Rights for Immigrants Retreat March 5-7, 2010 The Cenacle Retreat and Conference Center 513 Fullerton Parkway Chicago, IL 60614
(with Spanish Track) March 7-13, 2010 Crowne Plaza Hotel 200 N 4th Street St. Louis, MO 63102
Advanced Leadership Training May 19-22, 2010 (location to be determined)
******** For more information about the above meetings, or to register for training contact:
678-271-7443 or Willa Rose Johnson
wrjohnson@gamaliel.org
To learn how your congregation or organization can become part of ABLE click here.
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ISSUES million people in the United States have no health insurance and millions more are inadequately insured. Atlanta stands to bear a particular burden with the Grady Hospital crisis, which will disproportionately affect the poor.
Read more... schools’ loss of
accreditation, public education
in Georgia is in need
of serious attention. Irresponsible leadership and widespread inequities threaten to jeopardize our children’s futures and squander
their potential. Immigration Reform
immigration law that makes sense, Georgia recently passed a great deal of anti-immigrant legislation. These
laws have ignored
the dignity we recognize in every
human being, betrayed the Gospel acclamation of abundance and love of
neighbor, and created a daily life of fear and hopelessness for immigrants.
Affordable Housing
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Faith and Democracy Public Meeting: A Conversation on Community Values October 23, 2008
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