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Published Sunday, September 13, 2009 in Local

ADL leader to speak to Come To The Table

By Winston Skinner

The Newnan Times-Herald

Hollande "Holly" Levinson, director of the Anti-Defamation League -- Southeast Region, will be speaking to the Newnan Come To The Table organization on Monday.

Levinson will be talking about No Place for Hate, an educational program developed by the ADL. Coweta County School Superintendent Blake Bass, all members of the Coweta County Board of Education and area principals have been invited to the meeting.

Come To The Table seeks to bring together Cowetans of differing racial and ethnic backgrounds. The meetings always begin with a covered dish meal to encourage discussion that leads to friendship among the members.

Monday's meeting will start at 6 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Roscoe Road.

Rubye Dobyne, CTTT vice president, referred to Levinson's talk as a "very exciting program" that "gives an important and powerful message that will benefit the community."

No Place For Hate was designed to help schools enhance or create a culture of respect. No Place For Hate celebrates diversity and empowers members of the school community to challenge all forms of bigotry.

By participating in No Place For Hate, a school or school system has the opportunity to reduce bullying, name-calling, and other expressions of bias, according to ADL. The program also emphasizes creation of a safe learning environment, promotion of unity and pride and living by the core value of respect for others.

More than 160 schools in the Southeast region participate in the program, which is offered free to schools.

Levinson is responsible for running anti-bias, diversity education programs in schools and the community for the ADL. She has more than 15 years of experience working in community organizing and community service organizations in Atlanta.

A graduate of Emory University, Levinson founded and directed an organization to involve college students and young people in community activism to address issues of poverty in Atlanta. She also created a group to monitor police harassment of homeless people and organized an association to improve working conditions for day laborers.

Levinson was an organizer for Atlanta's Building Leadership for Empowerment and -- before joining the ADL -- was program director for adult Jewish education at Marcus Jewish Community Center.

The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 by The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, a Jewish service organization. The group's mission statement is: "The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens."

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