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"Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos" MLK/SCLC Panel/Forum

“Where Do We Go From Here:
Creating the Beloved Community in Cobb County”

The
Cobb SCLC Chapter, with the support of the Cobb Immigrant Alliance, Cobb United
for Change Coalition, and other organizations, is hosting as part of its REV.
DWIGHT GRAVES SOCIAL JUSTICE SEMINARS Series, a panel discussion and community
forum on Dr. King’s last book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or
Community”,
to be held, Thursday, April 17th, 7 pm, at the South Cobb
Community Center, 620 Lions Club Dr SW, Mableton, GA 30126.


The
panelists will be Cobb County Commissioner Lisa Cupid; Dr.Lawrence M. Schall,
J.D., Ed.D, President of Oglethorpe University; Rev. Sam Mosteller, SCLC State
President; America Gruner, Exec.Director, CLILA-Coalition of Latino Leaders.

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Dr.
Ben Williams, Cobb SCLC Chapter President, stated :  “Our distinguished
panelists will present  perspectives on the topic “Where Do We Go From Here:
Creating the Beloved Community in Cobb County”
based on Dr. King’s astute
observations and recommendations in his last book , most of which are as
applicable now as when the book was penned in the 60’s.  The REV. DWIGHT GRAVES
SOCIAL JUSTICE SEMINARS, sponsored by the Cobb SCLC Chapter, engage community
partners in action-oriented dialogue, responding to human needs in seven key
areas of service: Healing, Feeding, Housing, Earning, Learning, Living,
Giving.”

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Rich
Pellegrino, Cobb Immigrant Alliance Director and Cobb United for Change
Coalition member, stated: “This panel discussion and forum will provide
community members the opportunity to dialogue on this theme of community
building, and we hope to kick off a series of home-based study circles and
ongoing panel discussions and community forums on the topic, encouraging a
diversity of perspectives and support for concrete community building and
development actions, some of which are already under way. Through its diversity
and recent history of people working together across all racial, cultural, and
political barriers, Cobb County has the foundation already built for the
“beloved community” for which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. provided the vision and
blueprint. We simply need more workers, from all backgrounds, to join in and
help us build upon this foundation.”


The
public is invited to attend and participate in this event.


 



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