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Jul 9, 2008
62nd Anniversary Commemoration and 4th Reenactment of the Lynchings at the Moore’s Ford Bridge, Friday, July 25, 2008

May 28, 2008
GABEO Annual Summer Convention, June 19-22, 2008, Savannah State University

Mar 14, 2008
ANNUAL MARCH ON THE MOORE’S FORD BRIDGE, Friday, April 4, 2008


 

“We must develop a spirit of activism to address our needs and to confront and find solutions to the problems affecting our constituents and communities.” Rep. Tyrone Brooks, President

  • Establishment of GABEO Foundation (501 C3)
  • Full-time office – executive director and secretary in Atlanta State Headquarters
  • Satellite headquarters – Boggs Rural Life Center, Keysville, Georgia
  • Support affordable and universal health care reform; work to eliminate infant mortality in Georgia
  • Buy Black Campaign – spend our dollars with each other and support small and minority-owned businesses
  • Develop a full political empowerment campaign – voter registration and political education, eliminate impediments
  • Develop a strategy and find resources to address Illiteracy in our state
  • Focus on teen pregnancy and solutions to this problem
  • We must save our black farms and we must lobby Congress for help
  • Increase African-American business opportunities with the state of Georgia
  • Attack racism at all levels of government
  • Address discrimination at Georgia Department of Public Safety (State Patrol) and other state agencies
  • Address crime and the proliferation of drugs and weapons in our communities
  • Develop leadership training institute at Boggs Rural Life Center - Boggs Academy in Keysville, Georgia
  • Tackle racism in collegiate and professional sports – address disparity on all levels
  • Develop youth violence reduction campaigns across the state
  • Work to achieve more diversity in all aspects of print and broadcast media
  • Support minority-owned media
  • Fight for EEOA and minority programs on the federal, state, county and municipal levels
  • Fight environmental racism
  • Fight redlining by insurance companies and banking institutions
  • Stop attacks on the poor under the guise of welfare reform