Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — A second Whistleblower from Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA), Christopher Anderson, has now come forward, telling Atlanta Progressive News (APN) that he was in charge of recommending voucher recipients for termination of their benefits when utilities were unpaid. Anderson expressed concern to AHA at the time because he was finding time and time again the amount of the […]

By Barbara Joye, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Not many poets get a chance to change the world, but Alice Lovelace has always aimed high. Widely known as a savvy organizer and administrator, as well as a “people’s poet,” she is the national lead organizer for the first US Social Forum (USSF), which will bring an […]

(APN) ATLANTA — After over a year of intensive organizing, Atlanta will host the first ever US Social Forum (USSF), from June 27, 2007, to July 1, 2007. At least 10,000 delegates have registered and over 10,000 more from all over the country and world are expected for the five-day event titled “Another World is Possible.” “The USSF will provide […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) Whistleblower Anthony Bostic believes he was fired this Monday in retaliation for his documented investigation into millions of dollars total in apparent AHA underpayments to thousands of relocated families in public housing–and planned underpayments to possible future relocated families–Atlanta Progressive News (APN) has learned from Anthony’s sister Joy Bostic and documents obtained from […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A progressive think tank, The Center for American Progress (CAP), released a report on April 25, 2007, outlining a strategy to cut poverty in half in the United States in 10 years, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The Task Force on Poverty (TFP), a project of CAP, composed “From Poverty to Prosperity,” a report detailing 12 key […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Former US Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), a 2008 Presidential Candidate, spoke at this year’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, an annual function of the Democratic Party of Georgia. “I look at what America is confronted with… the open sore that is Iraq. America needs to be leaving Iraq,” Edwards said in his remarks. “Democrats have met their responsibility… sent a […]

(APN) ATLANTA — APN News Editor released the following statement today: Dear APN Friends and Readers, I am writing to share with you a tragic incident which occurred this Tuesday. I was stabbed in an attempted robbery only two blocks from my house in Midtown, Atlanta, as I was walking to the Exxon gas station on the corner of Monroe […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Housing Authority has agreed to a more thorough review process of each family in public housing who is noncompliant with work requirements before forcing them onto the streets, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Resident advocates are celebrating what they see as their first substantive victory, particularly for the families who were worrying about homelessness if […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Housing Authority’s (AHA) Board of Commissioners consists mostly of Members with ties to the real estate, construction, and banking industries, Atlanta Progressive News has learned in its investigation into what Board Members may have to gain by demolishing public housing in Atlanta. One might expect a Board in charge of public housing to include a high […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. Albert Russell Wynn (D-MD) has become the fourth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the other two Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 333 are US Rep. Janice Schakowsky […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Renowned antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan is considering a run for US Congress in 2008, Atlanta Progressive News has learned in the process of interviewing Sheehan about her upcoming rally in Washington, DC, this Mothers’ Day weekend. Sheehan became an activist in 2004 after her son, Casey, was killed during the US Invasion of Iraq. “I’m on the […]

(APN) SAVANNAH — Six of nine non-police witnesses have recanted or changed their testimony over time since 1996 in a Georgia Death Row case, where Troy Anthony Davis of Savannah currently faces execution, but restrictive laws may prevent altered testimony to be considered in court, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. A law firm representing Mr. Davis, who may have been […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Progressive News has sent the following letter to the Atlanta Housing Authority’s director Renee Glover, and has copied the Georgia Attorney General’s Office: Dear Ms. Renee Glover, I am writing inform you the Board of Directors of The Atlanta Progressive News has some serious concerns about the recent Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners […]