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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 3
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Savannah Links Attend 40th
Southern Area Conference
ACLU Makes Call For Paycheck
Fairness Act
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TAVIS
Meeting
The NAACP, National,
State and Local offices,
along with Rev. Matthew
Southhall Brown, Sr., all
area Churches, other local
and National organizations,
and concerned citizens are
asked to come out and sup
port this very important
Community Wide Mass
Meeting.
A week of Prayer,
Witnessing and Action will
begin on Friday, June 19th
to mobilize churches and
citizens in Savannah and
throughout the county.
The MASS MEETING
will begin at 6;00 p.m. on
Sunday, June 21, 2009 at
Historic Bolton Street
Baptist Church, 821 Martin
Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.
Please join us and oth
ers in the faith community
to pray for justice.
The eyes of the world
are on the hostess city of
Savannah, Georgia, more
importantly, the eyes of God
are upon us.
For more information
on this mass meeting or the
NAACP, call the Savannah
Branch at 233-4161, Helen
Johnson at 663-5305, or
Demitrius Fisher, Georgia
State Conference NAACP
(404) 227-1659.
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Members of the Savannah Chapter of The Links, Inc. are pictured with Rosalind Hollis
(seated, left) who received her 25-year certificate during the Southern Area Conference.
The 40th Southern Area
Conference of The Links,
Incorporated was held May
13-17, 2009.
The four day event took
place at the Hyatt Regency
Jacksonville Riverfront, in
Jacksonville, Florida.
Members of The Bold City
(FL) Chapter were perfect
hostesses delivering southern
hospitality with flair and
finesse.
The Savannah Chapter
was well represented with
twenty members in atten
dance. The conference start
ed with the membership
attending both programmatic
and operational workshops.
Programmatic work
shops served to enhance the
knowledge base of planning
and executing effective chap
ter programs in the areas of
the arts, health (childhood
obesity), and literacy.
Operational workshops
allowed the membership to
fine tune individual skills
that collectively will contin
ue the advancement of our
chapters.
One of the conference
highlights for the Savannah
Chapter was Link Denise
Cooper continuing her quest
as a Scott Hawkins
Leadership Institute Fellow.
Another conference
highlight was The Friendship
Breakfast where Links
Deanna Cross, Rosalind
Hollis and Dorothy Law
were honored for reaching
the milestone of twenty-five
years in Linkdom.
Link Rosalind Hollis
was in attendance to receive
her award.
The conference closed
with Links, Connecting
Links and Heir-o-Links cele
brating a successful confer
ence at The White Rose
Banquet.
Link Marie Currie was
installed for her second term
as Southern Area Director.
The Links, Inc. next
gathering of its membership
will be in June of 2010 at the
National Assembly in
Detroit, Michigan. Virginia
A. Edwards serves as chapter
president, Laura N. Wiggins
serves as Chair of
Communications & Public
Relations.
The American Civil
Liberties Union marks the
46th anniversary of the
Equal Pay Act with a call for
the Senate to pass S. 182, the
Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill
that gives employees the
legal tools needed to fight
wage discrimination.
Forty-six years ago -
on June 10, 1963, President
John F. Kennedy signed the
Equal Pay Act, a law that
prohibits wage discrimina
tion.
Unfortunately, over the
last few decades, loopholes
and weak remedies have
watered down the Act’s
effectiveness.
Back in January 2009,
the House of Representatives
recognized the need to
update the Equal Pay Act
and overwhelmingly passed
the Paycheck Fairness Act
with bipartisan support.
The bill is still pending
before the Senate.
“The 46th anniversary
of the Equal Pay Act is a
good reminder that the
Senate needs to join the
House in working to finally
secure equal pay for equal
work for all Americans
workers. Congress needs to
close the loopholes in this
46-year-old law by passing
the Paycheck Fairness
Act.“In this economic
slump, passage of the
Paycheck Fairness Act is
essential not only for
women, but for all working
families. Under any circum
stances, single-mother
households and families
dependent on two wage
earners should not have to
struggle to live on less than
they rightfully deserve. The
impact of these pay dispari
ties is felt even more during
these times of economic
hardship. We urge the Senate
to act quickly”, said Deborah
J. Vagins, ACLU Legislative
Counsel.