Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA  – US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have lied about the President’s approval of illegal domestic wiretapping, a letter from US Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) to Mr. Gonzales suggests. In Gonzales’s confirmation hearings several months ago, Gonzales advised Feingold, “It is not the policy or the agenda of this President to authorize actions that would be in […]

(APN) EAST COBB COUNTY  – Atlanta Progressive News interviewed ten (10) of the fifteen candidates present about their positions on three (3) major issues as well as a self-rating of progressiveness, to locate each of the candidates on “a map.”  To be sure, not all candidates are running for offices where they could have an impact on each of the […]

(APN) ATLANTA–The Atlanta Stonewall Democrats (ASD) held a launch celebration this evening for its new Atlanta chapter, which is meant to replace [and absorb] a former Georgia-wide group. About 70 people packed the Red Chair Club at Amsterdam Walk in Midtown Atlanta for the gala from 6-9pm.  Appetizers such as really good spinach artichoke dip were served and mingling commenced. […]

(APN) ATLANTA–The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia released new documents on Pentagon spying on peaceful protesters, in a downtown press conference today at the Martin Luther King Federal Building. The documents are respondent to their Freedom of Information Act requests to several federal, state, and local agencies, regarding the Pentagon spying which occurred against local peace activists here […]

(APN) ATLANTA  – The investigative units of several federal agencies are denying their responsibility for probing Bush’s approval of–and the US Attorney General’s justifications for–wiretapping Americans without the consent of Congress, Atlanta Progressive News (APN) has learned. The flowchart of non-accountability–tracing letters to and from members of US Congress, the US Department of Justice, and the US Department of Defense–has […]

(APN) ATLANTA–The Republican Party “came and invaded the Black Church and tricked people into supporting Bush,” Reverend Al Sharpton told a National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) Summit here. “They couldn’t come to the Black Church and talk about war, health care, education, so they take the cheap way out [by focusing on the so-called threat to marriage]. We need to […]

(APN) ATLANTA–Morehouse College has come under fire for the alleged brutality against civil rights veteran Willie Ricks, and activists are planning a protest next week on the campus, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Willie Ricks, 62, who also goes by Mukasa Dada, told Atlanta Progressive News in a series of interviews that he has suffered serious medical trauma for neck, […]

(APN) ATLANTA–“There is a conspiracy among mayors since they hear the Mayor of Atlanta has outlawed panhandling,” Michael Stoops, Executive Director of the National Coalition of the Homeless (NCH), said in a press conference, January 11, 2006. “The Atlanta ordinance says this is how Atlanta is solving Atlanta’s homeless problem. You’re not aloud to say anything. You’re not allowed to […]

(APN) ATLANTA–All Black members of the Georgia General Assembly, the leadership of the House Minority Caucus, US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), and some members of the King family have boycotted a statewide MLK event in protest of the Georgia House’s passage of a controversial photo ID bill, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The bill was reintroduced the first day of […]

(APN) ATLANTA–“Don’t they have anything to do? I am just a mom of a teenage son. I just don’t want my son or anyone else go to a stupid war,” Susan Keith told Atlanta Progressive News. Last week, Keith learned the Pentagon has been spying on her protests against public schools participating in military recruitment. “I think it is a […]

(APN) ATLANTA  – US Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Russ Feingold (D-WI), and US Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), did not preclude the possibility of Bush’s impeachment, when asked about the topic in interviews this weekend. Senator Kennedy declined to rule out Bush’s impeachment when asked about the subject on ABC’s program, “This Week,” according to NewsMax.com, a conservative publication. Sen. […]

(APN) ATLANTA  – 200 progressive activists from Georgia gathered here today for the first Georgia Progressive Summit (GPS). The historic summit was held at the Georgia State University Student Center and is lasting from Friday, January 6, 2006, through Sunday, January 8, 2006. Georgia For Democracy, a progressive coalition which formed around the Howard Dean Presidential Campaign in 2004, organized […]

(APN) ATLANTA  – A total of eight US House members have co-sponsored Resolution 635 to create a select committee to investigate the grounds for impeaching President Bush, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The co-sponsors are Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. […]