A B L E

 ablega.org

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Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment

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                                             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.

                                    Rev. Gregory Williams talks about his experience being handcuffed and searched by police after a traffic stop during a rally in support of ant-iracial profiling legislation.

                 

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                    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!

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                  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

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                                     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

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           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.


            ABLE  exists to identify leaders, then nurture, train and develop those leaders so that

            together their voices can be heard.


            Member organizations contribute their time, talent, and resources to support the work of 

            ABLE          

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                                                             The Gamaliel Foundation

            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.

 

Click to go to The Gamaliel Foundation website

    Support the work of

 

    ABLE with your tax-

 

    deductible donation.

           

ABLE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

 

Upcoming Events

 

ABLE Council of Leaders Meeting
Every 4th Tuesday

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

 

 

 

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ABLE

Immigration Taskforce Meeting

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

7pm-8:30pm

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

1911 Cliff Valley Way

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

 

Lobby Day at the Capitol

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

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Gamaliel

Civil Rights for Immigrants Retreat

March 5-7, 2010

The Cenacle Retreat and Conference Center

513 Fullerton Parkway

Chicago, IL 60614

 

Weeklong Leadership Training

(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)

 

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For more information about the

above meetings, or to register

for training contact:

 

Sherita M. Edwards

sherita@gamaliel.org

678-271-7443

or 

Willa Rose Johnson

 wrjohnson@gamaliel.org
 404-218-7548

 

To learn  how your congregation

or organization can become

part of ABLE click here.

 

 ISSUES

 Health Care Reform
More than 46    

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...
 

Quality Public Education
 As indicated by Clayton County 

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.
 
Read more...

Comprehensive

Immigration Reform

 In the absence of a national

 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.
 Read more...

 

Affordable Housing

 

 

 

 

 

Read more...

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Faith and Democracy

Public Meeting:

A Conversation on Community Values

October 23, 2008

Click to view clip

 

 

 

 

   Support the work of 

 

   ABLE with your tax-

 

   deductible donation.

ABLE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

                                                   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.