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THE CONDUCTOR ORR PULL-OUT Fourth Quarter 2009 Official Publication of the Overground RR!!® BUSINESS DIRECTORYwww.overgroundrr.com Pages 15-18 THEThe Official CONDUCTORNewspaper of The Overground RR!!® VOLUME 6 No. 4 Fourth Quarter 2009 ABOVE ALL tHINGS MINIStRY WORSHIP TheORR CENtERS and the “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper The Call and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” - III John:2 Anointed Word Evangelistic Tabernacle Ariel Bowen UMC Response The Ark of Salvation Believers’ Bible Christian Church Ben Hill UMC Beulah Missionary Baptist Church 3/5ths Human, Are You? Big Miller Grove Missionary Baptist Church Butler Street Christian Methodist Episcopal If Not, Demand H.R. 40 Now. Calvary United Methodist Church Cascade United Methodist Church e, as a people, must now start the final Reparations for Jews did not end there. trek on the road to freedom. Kitchen “Yad Vashem noted that “in the 1990s, Jews Christian Fellowship Baptist Church W Table Affirmative Action is founded upon began making claims for property stolen in Columbia Drive United Methodist Church valuing ourselves as individuals and a com- Eastern Europe. Various groups also began in- Covenant Ministries munity. This same self-esteem causes us to vestigating what happened to money deposited Dodd-Sterling UMC become aware and knowledgeable of our past, in Swiss banks by Jews outside of Switzerland Elizabeth Baptist Church both recent and ancient, and responsible for who were later murdered in the Holocaust, and our actions with regard to OUR past. “Those what happened to money deposited by various Emmaus Road Missionary Baptist Church who cannot remember the past are condemned Nazis in Swiss banks...” Id. Emmanuel Tabernacle to repeat it”. George Santayana, Reason in Enon Church Common Sense, The Life of Reason, Vol.1. Then... “In addition, individual companies First AME Church (many of them based in Germany) began to First Iconium Baptist Church This demands that, as we build the economic be pressured by survivor groups to compen- infrastructure of the Black community, we sate former forced laborers. Among them are Friendship Baptist Church must also address the undeniable oppression Deutsche Bank AG, Siemens AG, Bayerische Friendship Community Church afflicted on our people for 400 years. Motoren Werke AG (BMW), Volkswagen AG, Grace Community Fellowship Church and Adam Opel GmbH. In response, early in Greater Heights Christian Church We are just beginning to recover from the slav- 1999, the German government proclaimed Greater Mount Carmel AME ery (chained and Jim Crow phases) imposed the establishment of a fund with monies from upon us by terroristic national, state and local these companies to help needy Holocaust sur- Greater New Life Baptist Church governments, along with their corporate and vivors. A similar fund was set up by the Swiss, Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church individual citizens. We must reject lies de- as was a Hungarian fund for compensation of The Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church signed to keep us financially, socially, mentally Holocaust victims and their heirs.” George, an ancestor with scars inflicted by whipping Greenforest Community Baptist Church and emotionally enslaved. We must reject lies Headland Heights UMC designed to deprive us, our mothers, fathers, And agreements were reached as recently as was willing to discuss the possibility of mak- grands, greats and earlier ancestors from the 1999... “At the close of the 1990s, discussions ing extra pension payments to Holocaust Hillside International Truth Center, Inc. Justice that we are morally bound to demand. of compensation by insurance companies that survivors if the Israeli government makes International Christian Fellowship had insured Jews before the war and who were an official request.” (Emphasis supplied). Id. Jackson Memorial Baptist Church Reparations for Jews later murdered by the Nazis were held. These Life Changing Ministries “In response to calls from Jewish organiza- companies include Allianz, AXA, Assicurazio- Black U.S. Taxpayers in the fiscal year 2004 Light of the World Christian Tabernacle tions and the State of Israel, in September 1951 ni Generali, Zürich Financial Services Group, assisted in giving $2.62 billion to the State Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germa- Winterhur, and Baloise Insurance Group. With of Israel, and similar amounts for years be- Lindsay Street Baptist Church ny addressed his Parliament: the help of information about Holocaust vic- fore and after 2004. Wikipedia, United States Love Life Christian Fellowship Church `… unspeakable crimes have been commit- tims made available by Yad Vashem, an in- Agency for International Development citing Midway Missionary Church ted in the name of the German people, call- ternational commission under former US Foreign Aid: An Introductory Overview of Miracles, Miracles and More Miracles ing for moral and material indemnity … The Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. Programs and Policy, http://fpc.state.gov/ Mission On The Move Federal Government are prepared, jointly has been trying to uncover the names of those documents/organization/31987.pdf, Figure 4, with representatives of Jewry and the State who had been insured and died in the Holo- Page CRS-1. Mt. Calvary Baptist Church of Israel … to bring about a solution of the caust. The World Jewish Restitution Organiza- Mt. Carmel Baptist Church material indemnity problem, thus easing the tion was created to organize these efforts. On Reparations for Japanese Muhammed’s Mosque No. 15 way to the spiritual settlement of infinite suf- behalf of US citizens, the US Foreign Claims “Beginning in the 1960s, a younger genera- New Beginnings Ministries fering.’ Settlement Commission reached agree- tion of Japanese Americans who were inspired New Jerusalem Baptist Church Wikipedia, Reparations Agreement between ments with the German government in 1998 by the Civil Rights movement began what is Israel and West Germany citing the website and 1999 to compensate Holocaust victims known as the “Redress Movement,” an effort Omega Holiness Church of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims who immigrated to the US after the war.” to obtain an official apology and reparations Poplar Springs Baptist Church Against Germany, or Claims Conference. (Emphasis supplied). Id. from the federal government for interning their Powerhouse of Deliverance Cathedral parents and grandparents during the war, fo- Providence Missionary Baptist Church “Despite the protests, the agreement was It is interesting that Black taxpayers (born into cusing not on documented property losses but Ray Of Hope Christian Church signed in September of that year, and West Jim Crow slavery) helped fund United States on the broader injustice of the internment...” Germany paid Israel a sum of 3 billion marks efforts to obtain reparations for Jews. Wikipedia, Japanese American internment; Redemptive Life Christian Fellowship Church over the next fourteen years; 450 million Reparations and redress. Salem Bible Church marks were paid to the World Jewish Con- And that is not all... “In 2007, Israeli MK Rafi St James Missionary Baptist Church gress. The payments were made to the State Eitan made suggestions that were interpreted “In 1980, Congress established the Commis- St. John Missionary Baptist Church of Israel as the heir to those victims who had as a claim to reopen the agreement, although sion on Wartime Relocation and Internment St. Mark AME Church no surviving family. The money was invested he insisted that he merely intended to “estab- of Civilians (CWRIC) to study the matter. On in the country’s infrastructure and played an lish a German-Israeli work team that would February 24, 1983, the commission issued a St. Mark Lutheran Church important role in establishing the economy of examine how Germany could help the finan- report entitled Personal Justice Denied, con- St. Philip AME Church the new state. The reparations would become cially struggling survivors”. German Finance demning the internment as “unjust and moti- The True Light Baptist Church a decisive part of Israel’s income, comprising Minister Peer Steinbrück originally argued vated by racism rather than real military ne- Wheat Street Baptist Church as high as 87.5% of the state income in 1956.” Germany would not consider expanding the cessity”. The Commission recommended that Woods Memorial Baptist Church Id. agreement, but later German government ...reparations be paid to those Japanese Ameri- spokesman Thomas Steg said that Germany World Covenant Christian Center HR40 continued on page 2 Zion Hill Baptist Church ORR A • L • L • I • A • N • C • E • S 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc. - 100 Black Women of Atlanta - A Guiding Hand - All Empowered Inc. - Association of Black Cardiologists - Atlanta Be Someone Atlanta Business League - Atlanta Quest - Atlanta Urban League - Black Women Film Network - Career Choice International - City of Atlanta, Minority Business Opportunities - Cleveland Ave - Roy L. Yancy, Sr. Public Library - Community Teen Coalition, Inc. - Concerned Black Clergy - FACAA - Fulton County Workforce Development - Georgia Black Chamber of Commerce - GABEO - Ga. 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