Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — In our first in a series of interviews with this year’s Atlanta Mayoral candidates, Atlanta Progressive News sat down with candidate, Ceasar Mitchell. APN met with Mitchell at his law office in Buckhead; Mitchell doubles as a Council Member at Large and a real estate attorney. Mitchell voted to support Council Member Felicia Moore’s 2008 legislation calling […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A month-old online news service in Atlanta called GONSO, founded by veteran corporate journalists, is tied to a controversial public relations firm, Alisias, which, among other things, has put a positive spin on the mass displacement of public housing residents and mass demolition of public housing in Atlanta. The Chair of GONSO is Alisias President Rick White. […]

(APN) ATLANTA – The following is a reprint of the press release distributed today by Matthew Cardinale, a former lecturer at Georgia State University and the News Editor of Atlanta Progressive News: #### ATLANTA – Former Georgia State University Lecturer, and current PhD student, Matthew Cardinale, today, February 23, 2009, filed an eight page complaint GSU Sociology Department Chair Donald […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The following is a full text copy of the complaint that will be filed tomorrow, February 23, 2009, by the present author with Georgia State University. A full statement will be issued tomorrow as well. FORMAL COMPLAINT BY MATTHEW CARDINALE, PhD STUDENT AND FORMER GRADUATE LECTURER AGAINST DONALD REITZES, CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND MINDY STOMBLER, LECTURER […]

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service at: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45808 MIAMI, Florida, Feb 18 (IPS) – With foreclosures skyrocketing and U.S. families sinking deeper into poverty, a number of organisations are turning to a new strategy to end homelessness: moving families into vacant, foreclosed houses that are currently owned by banks or the government. About 15 percent of the housing […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) was on a relief boat headed to assist Palestinians hurt in the Gaza Strip, yesterday, December 30, 2008, when it was rammed by the Israeli military. McKinney and the other passengers, including humanitarian leaders from around the world and medical doctors with supplies, took safe harbor at a port in Lebanon, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Controversial pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, who at least once has compared homosexuality to incest, has been booked to be the keynote speaker at Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemorative Service, according to a copy of the program obtained by Atlanta Progressive News. The service is scheduled for January 19, 2009, […]

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45123 ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec 15 (IPS) – As Democratic President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office in a few weeks, he faces a hungry nuclear industry that wants to be included in his energy plan. At least 31 new plants have been proposed throughout the United States, according to the […]

With additional reporting by Alice Gordon. (APN) ATLANTA — About 100 people gathered on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at the Auburn Avenue Library. The evening included speeches, musical performances, and a keynote address by Rev. C. T. Vivian. The Atlanta celebration was the culmination of dozens of events […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Numerous advocates are scrambling to prevent President-Elect Barack Obama’s Transition Team from nominating either Renee Glover, Director of Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA), or Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, as the next Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Both are part of a short list including a total of five names, according to the […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia State University Assistant Professors in Sociology, Erin Ruel and Deirdre Oakley, have released a preliminary report recommending, among other things, that some public housing units in Atlanta be kept open for residents who do not want to move or have issues preventing them from being successful in a private market housing situation. THE REPORT’S FINDINGS “Do […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Creative Loafing magazine in Atlanta is in distress as its parent company is making its way through bankruptcy proceedings; Editor Ken Edelstein was fired yesterday, November 24, 2008; and now Senior Writer Andisheh Nouraee has also quit. EDELSTEIN FIRED, NOURAEE QUITS Nouraee put in his two weeks notice and his last day will be December 05, 2008, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Lingering questions regarding former US Sen. Max Cleland’s (D-GA) loss in 2002 to US Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) are resurfacing in the last days of Democrat Jim Martin’s Run-off Election with Chambliss. Whistleblower Chris Hood, former Diebold employee, spoke with Atlanta Progressive News in detail about an illegal patch, which may or may not be the same […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Funding cuts by the State of Georgia and the redirection of funds have left Planned Parenthood of Georgia (PPGA) scrambling to make up for a lost family planning contract worth $420,000 with Fulton County, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. PPGA operates five family planning clinics throughout Georgia, including one in downtown Atlanta, which serves about 7,000 women […]