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Gamaliel Network to Call for Decarceration at Facebook Live Event
We encourage you to join us for a Facebook Live event on Thursday, March 19, 2020, at 12:00 p.m. CT. At the event, leaders from across our Network will call for immediate decarceration of vulnerable populations in our jails, prisons, and detention centers. It is clear that with the rapid spread of COVID-19, no individual,…
ACTION puts an end to predatory lending in Youngstown, Ohio!
On Wednesday, February 6, to the largest crowd gathered for a city council in recent memory, the Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods (ACTION)—the Gamaliel affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio—won a major battle in their ongoing campaign to secure quality, affordable housing for residents in Youngstown. When the city council voted, 7-0, to end predatory…
Mass Supervision Is Not the Solution to Mass Incarceration
Chicago, IL – January 22, 2019 – Five decades ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., warned, “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable on being conquered.” On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, Gamaliel affiliates across the country will be…
2019: Time for Humane Immigration Policy
I am an immigrant. When I was a toddler, my parents made the decision to emigrate from the Dominican Republic to the United States. They wanted a life of opportunity and freedom for their children—not the overwhelming poverty and violent oppression of the Trujillo regime that had characterized most of their lives. In order to…
National Day of Action
On January 17, the Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity (MORE2)—Gamaliel’s affiliate in the Kansas City metro area—held a press conference to announce that an ordinance to expand Kansas City, Missouri’s current “ban the box” policy was imminent. MORE2’s action was part of a series of actions taken by other Gamaliel affiliates across the…
Rights for Immigrants Campaign, on Executive Order to End the Separation of Immigrant Families
Statement from Rev. Dr. John Welch, Chair, Gamaliel Board of Directors, and Pablo Tapia, Chair, Gamaliel Civil Rights for Immigrants Campaign, on Executive Order to End the Separation of Immigrant Families For Immediate Release Contact: Rev. Cynthia Owen Jarrold, (913) 219-3198 Chicago, IL (June 20, 2018) – This afternoon President Donald J. Trump issued an…
N’tosake-25 years old and still training powerful women leaders!
More than 80 women leaders and organizers across the Gamaliel Network kicked off the 25th Anniversary Year of N’tosake—Gamaliel’s signature leadership development program for women—at our annual N’tosake training held this year at Colombiere Retreat and Conference Center in Clarkston, Michigan, September 20-22. As Rev. DeNeice Welch challenged us in her opening remarks: Today, Ntosake,…
Banned for Life—Two Parents Led a Fight to Fix a Broken System
Below is a story published earlier in the month by Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) Senior Writer and Community Relations Staff Member, Paul Nyhan, about Gamaliel’s Kansas City affiliate MORE2 and their successful campaign to remove Missouri’s ban on food stamps for those with felony drug convictions. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Johnny Waller was turned down…
Gamaliel’s organizing model drives change
Below is a story—A Movement of Families Challenges Power and Myths: Gamaliel’s Organizing Model Drives Change—published yesterday by Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) Senior Writer and Community Relations Staff Member, Paul Nyhan, about the organizing work of Gamaliel. It includes a snapshot of an action on the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, led by MORE2…
A successful rally-now it’s time to take action to decarcerate our vulnerable sisters and brothers!
Gamaliel Decarceration Virtual Rally Yesterday’s Decarceration Virtual Rally was a huge success thanks to an all-star line-up of speakers. Rev. Dr. John Welch, chair of the Gamaliel Board of Directors, and Rev. Marian Boyle-Rohloff, chair of the Gamaliel Religious Leaders’ Caucus, co-moderated the event which included moving testimonies from Gamaliel leaders impacted by the criminal justice system;…