REV. AL SHARPTON TABS CHICAGOANS FOR HIS NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK
By Marksallen,
April 10, 2010 at 8:01 pm
37 years in public service
Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "One of Chicago's legendary political activists," and Mark was recently honored as one of "Who's Who In Black Chicago!"
MARK S. ALLEN
Associate Editor
The South Street Journal Newspaper
Board Member
The Chicago Black Wall Street Project
Founder/Director
The Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDI
449 East 35th Street, 1st Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60616
312-624-8351 or cell 773-392-0165
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SATURDAY, APRIL 10th, 2010
REV. AL SHARPTON TABS CHICAGOANS FOR HIS NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK
Rev. Al Sharpton has tabbed two Chicagoans for leadership roles with his organization The National Action Network and his "12 Month National Action Plan," that will follow his "Measuring The Movement" National Conference in New York April 14th-17th.
Maureen "Moe" Forte, a radio talk show host on WBGX-AM 1570, and a fomer South Surburban Director for The NAACP and The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition has been appointed by Rev. Sharpton as The Interim Executive Director for The Chicago Chapter of The National Action Network. Rev. Sharpton has also selected Veteran Political Activist/Journalist Mark Allen to serve as one of the National Community Organizers for his "12 Month National Action Plan." Sharpton calls Allen "one of Chicago's legendary poltical activists." Allen was recently included in the 2010 edition of Who's Who In Black Chicago, recognized in media as Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper, and Allen was one of the first that Barack Obama reached out to work with as a Chicago Community Organizer when he came to Chicago.
Forte, Allen, and a Chicago Delegation will in New York to participate in the 2010 National Action Network Convention with Rev. Sharpton and other national leaders and organizers including White House officials on a new Urban Agenda designed to direct more government resources to left out urban communities.
Part of the follow-up to the National Conference includes a grassroots organizers conference in Chicago in May. A lot of ordinary citizens around the country have been talking about the promise they see in this urban agenda process for Rev. Sharpton and other national civil rights leaders that met with President Obama have taken a grassroots agenda with the commitment to developing a "measurable" agenda that people in poor and urban can actually "see" if the new results have actually touched them where they are.
I hope Rev. Sharpton and other organizers and leaders in Chicago will use the maps and other free information the Tutor/Mentor Connection makes available on its web sites. If they use this information, they can provide reinforcements to people and organizations already working to help inner city kids. They can build from ideas and research that has already been created by people in many organizations, locally and throughout the country.
You can find the Tutor/Mentor Connection resources if you search Google, or Bing, for the words "tutor mentor".
Tutor -- thanks for your comments and the best way I suggest to not being out-of-site-out-of-mind is to remain actively and systematically involved in the ongoing agenda setting and implemntation meetings.