(APN) ATLANTA — Earlier this month, candidates for Mayor and City Council of Atlanta turned in their final campaign disclosure reports before the November 3 election. Three of the top four candidates for mayor have raised over $1 million each but the money is not there like it was four years ago when Mayor Shirley Franklin had already raised well […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — A group of nearly 70 students, community activists, and victims of police brutality rallied at downtown’s Woodruff Park and marched to the Atlanta Detention Center on Thursday, October 22, 2009, as part of the annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. Similar events took place in Chicago, San […]
Read moreA group of health reform advocates on Tuesday brought attention to Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-Ga.) opposition to the public option and his wealth of health industry campaign contributions. Records reveal Johnny Isakson has taken over $946,000 from individuals and PACs associated with the health industry over the course of his political career. “We question his objectivity, we wonder about his […]
Read moreGeorgians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) is holding nine rallies across Georgia on Tuesday to protest the scheduled execution of Mark McClain. McClain is on death row for the 1994 murder of a manager of an Augusta Domino’s Pizza, Kevin Brown, during a robbery that yielded under $100. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied McClain clemency […]
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Justice issued a three-page memo Monday containing formal guidelines for federal prosecutors in states that have enacted laws authorizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The memo argues federal prosecutors would be wasting their time arresting Americans who use or supply medical marijuana in accordance with state laws. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. (Photo by Lonnie […]
Read more(APN) MARIETTA — The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia released a human rights report Monday, October 12, 2009, that details the impact of the 287 (g) program–which allows local enforcement of federal immigration laws–on Cobb County. The report, “Terror and Isolation in Cobb: How Unchecked Police Power under 287(g) Has Torn Families Apart and Threatened Public Safety,” is based […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Retired Colonel Ann Wright, who resigned from the US State Department over the US Invasion of Iraq, was in Atlanta last week to promote her new book and argue for a phased US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Wright’s visit was sponsored by the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition, Atlanta, and included several events around Atlanta. Wright […]
Read moreU.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Wednesday the release of $30 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds that will help 36 communities facilities projects. Rural areas like Dooly County in South Georgia ($50,000 grant) will use these funds to construct public use facilities like hospitals, health care and assisted-living facilities, child care centers, fire and rescue stations, […]
Read morePresident Obama announced his support for a $250 economic recovery payment to seniors, veterans, and disabled Americans who are struggling to make ends meet in the first year of the recession. Here’s how it would work: 57 million people would benefit. These include 49 million Social Security beneficiaries, 5 million Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries, 2 million veterans benefit recipients, 500,000 […]
Read moreUtne Magazine named three Atlantans as part of their 50 US visionaries. Learn more about them here: http://www.utne.com/Visionaries #### ATLANTA (Oct. 14, 2009) — Utne Reader, the best of the alternative press, names Lance Ledbetter, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Robert Bullard as visionaries who are making their individual marks on the world. They are among 50 people the magazine has chosen […]
Read moreRepresentatives from Mayor Shirley Franklin’s office, along with the city’s finance department, presented its Five Year Financial Plan for the City of Atlanta to the council’s Finance/Executive Committee on Wednesday. The report estimates General Fund revenues will rise 1.4 percent annually from Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014 while expenses are expected to grow 2.5 percent annually over the […]
Read moreA federal judge in Miami on Tuesday handed down a new sentence for one of the so-called Cuban Five, a group of Cuban intelligence agents accused of spying in the United States. U.S. Federal District Court Judge Joan Lenard imposed a 21 year, 10 month sentence on Antonio Guerrero, who had been serving a life sentence. According to the National […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia STAND-UP Alliance hosted its second Atlanta election forum Tuesday night, October 06, 2009, at the IBEW Auditorium. Nine total candidates running for Mayor of Atlanta, City Council President, and the soon-to-be vacated District 11 seat attended the event. Each of the candidates endorsed a community issues platform compiled by Georgia STAND-UP and released in […]
Read moreA local council of MoveOn.org is staging an event tomorrow, weather permitting, designed to call attention to the hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health insurance and HMO lobbies that have gone to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA). MoveOnGwinnett.org will release the exact figures and stage a live mini-drama depicting Isakson as a life-size puppet at noon tomorrow at Indian […]
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