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V Ms Geraldine Thompson .. YEP executive director Ms. lhompson Is J.C. Smith Keynote Speaker A workshop to focus at tention on the importance of the Voting Rights Act will be held on the Johnson C. Smith University cam pus on Saturday, May 8 from 12-3 p.m in the —student union: The workshop, entitled. “Survival of the 80’s’\ is being sponsored by the Stu dent Government Associa tion of Johnson C. Smith, the Vote Task Force and the Carolina Coalition for the Retention of the Voting Rights Act. The Act is being de scribed by many partici pants as “the most im portant civil rights legisla tidtrln the United States' history.” It will serve to enhance awareness and ap preciation of voter regis tration and voter partici-^ pation. Keynote speaker Tor the' occasion will be Geraldine Thompson, executive director. Voter Education Project, Atlanta. Many local community and political leaders will conduct various sessions of the workshop. Workshop topics and leaders are as follows: “Political Gains Within Parties,” Robert L. Davis, chairman, Mecklen burg County Democratic Party; “Services Avail able on the City Level,” City Councilmen Ron Lee per and Charles Dan nelly; “Voter Registra tion: Guidelines and Re strictions on the Board of Elections,” Phyllis Lynch, chairperson, Mecklenburg County Board of Elections. Others include: “Voter Registration and the Im portance of the Role of the NAACP,” Kelly Alexander Jr., NAACP; “HowPolitics Effect Human Services on the County Level,” County Commissioner Robert Walton; “Utilizing the Vote in the Black Community,” City Councilman Harvey Gantt; “Redistricting on a State Basis,” civil rights attorney Julius Cham bers; “Student and Com munity Relations in Poli tics,” Terry Bellamy, act ing director, JCSU Urban Studies and Community Affairs; and "Voter Par ticipation in the Education al System,” Rev. George E. Battle Jr. The public is invited to attend free of charge. Steele Bible Class Plans Qoang Session The A. O. Steele Com munity Bible Class will hold its annual closing ses sion at Johnson C. Smith University on Tuesday, May 11 at 8 p.m. in con ferences rooms B&C of the student union. The guest speaker will be the Rev L. D. Parker, pastor of the St. Luke Baptist Church, Charlotte. Music for the occasion will be provided by the O'Conner AME Zion Church Young Adult Choir and the SL Luke Church Choir. Certificates of merit will be given to participants in the class This class has met each Tuesday night since September An in formal reception will be held immediately following the ceremony Officers for this session’s classes were the Rev R C. Jones, president; Mrs. Bessie S. Cowan, secre tary; and Ms Pearl Fer guson, treasurer The class was taught by Rev. Reginald Dalton, pastor of the New Canaan Tabernacle Baptist Church of Gastonia. The public is invited to attend There are no fees Subscribe i To The Post Religious Leaders Launch Campaign For Economic Justice Special To The Post WASHINGTON - More than 50 U S. religious lead ers have launched a cam paign for economic justice, hoping to "prevent the in fliction of additional hard ship on the most vulnerable group w- the nation -the poor Declaring "the poor have suffered enough." persons from Catholic. Jewish and Protestant faith groups urged others to join in the Interreligious Emergency Campaign for Economic" Justice. The campaign arose out of the current public and congressional debates over last year's "severe cuts... in the programs that help poor Americans secure the necessities of life." follow ed by further major cuts proposed for the 1983 federal budget. _ Those reductions and proposals-as they affect necessities of food, decent housing, medical care, and lobs are specified in a de tailed analysis prepared for the campaign by Robert (Jreemstein, former administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service in the U S Department of Agri culture The campaign call de clares “our vigorous oppo sition to all public policy proposals that would inflict additional hardship on America's needy people.” The goal is to persuade Congress to “preserve the integrity of federal pro grams such as food stamps. Aid to Families with Dependent Children, housing subsidies for low income families, and Medicaid. That integrity, it declares, “requires both adequate funding and the retention of federal re sponsibility" In its efforts to influence lawmakerms, the cam paign is urging citizens to write their members of Congress once each week during the current session, to recruit co-workers with in their congregations, to form groups to stidy the Gceenstein analysis and other data, antTto ehCOur age other civic groups to take responsibility in advo cating the cause of "the most vulnerable in >our community.” The goal is both moral and political, according to the call, with a commit ment which “our religious faith compels." The call asserts that the principal reason for seeking econo mic justice for the poor is “our love for and loyalty to God and our deep convic tion that God...loves justice, does justice, de mands justice and is glori fied in justice." -It recognizes that "per sons of good will can and do differ in their judgments about what justice re quires." but “we cannot remain silent, when the moral stakes before the nation are so high that silence and timidity repre sent a betrayal." The leaders express their commitment to the cam paign “because of our reading of what is at stake m the current political and economic situation.” That includes whether the poor “will be unjustly compelled to bear intolerable burdens for us all or receive their -dues as human beings,11 whether Congress will “remember the poor and secure the rights or ignore their plight," and whether the non-poor American people "will demand jus tice for the needy or re main passive while their rights and well-being are being jeopardized " lawmakers, the campaign is urging citizens to write their members of Congress current session, to recruit co-workers within their congregations, to form groups to study the Green stein analysis and other data, arid to encourage other civic groups to take responsibility in advo The campaign's steering committee is chaired by Rev Paul Kittlaus, Wash ington, director of the Washington Office of the United Church of Christ Office for * Church in Society --m-*-_a SMOOTH LOW TAR 100s Jj - 1' 9 mg. 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