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Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment _______________________________
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 _____________________
A B L E Elects New President & Executive Board
Rev. Gregory Williams, President Holsey Temple CME Church
Father John Adamski, VP Atlanta Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
Pastor Michael Wright, VP DeKalb County New Life Christian Church International
Everett Howe, VP Fulton County St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church
Dr. Debra Greenwood, VP Gwinnett County Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett
Charlie Flemming, VP Union Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council
Rev. Tracy Blagec, VP Communications Oakhurst Baptist Church
Sandra Samuels, VP Fundraising First Afrikan Presbyterian Church
Lisa Morgan, VP Leadership Development Organization of DeKalb Educators
Rev. Clarence Hampton, Clergy Caucus First Baptist Church of Stewardship
Barbara Burnham, Secretary Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta
Susana Olivera, Treasurer Sacred Heart Catholic Church _________________
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 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 Leadership Board Meetings
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
******** ABLE Immigration Task Force Meeting Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7pm-8:30pm First Afrikan Presbyterian Church 5197 Salem Road Lithonia, GA 30038
Racial Profiling Forum Saturday, August 1, 2009 10am-Noon Gwinnett County (Location to be determined)
Leadership Board Meeting Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7pm-8:30pm
First Iconium Baptist Church
Gamaliel July 12-18, 2009
Fordham University Bronx, NY
National Leadership Training August 9-15, 2009 Techny, IL __________________
For more information about the above meetings, or to register for training contact:
678-271-7443 or Willa Rose Johnson
wrjohnson@gamaliel.org
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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.
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