Atlanta Progressive News

Photographs by Jonathan Springston, Staff Writer (APN) DECATUR — US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) is keeping her options open, and is reviewing public records concerning her 2006 Primary and Run-off Elections with Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting and others while deciding whether to legally challenge the election, The Atlanta Progressive News has learned in an exclusive interview with the Congresswoman. Harris […]

By Robert Soloway, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) DECATUR – The US Department of Peace campaign continues to build momentum as over 100 participants gathered the weekend of September 15 through 17, 2006, for the first Conference of The Southeast Regional Alliance for Peace. This group is dedicated to a campaign to establish a United States Department of […]

(APN) ATLANTA – Top Diebold corporation officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia’s electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, at least two whistleblowers are now asserting, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Former Diebold official Chris Hood told his story concerning the secret “patch” to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Kennedy’s second article on electronic voting in […]

By Scott Crutcher, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA – “The media has been part and parcel of the propaganda machine that was cranked up five years ago on 9/11 and is still churning and well-oiled today,” David Goodman told an audience of 400 at an WRFG fundraiser at the First Iconium Baptist Church, on Monday, September 18, […]

(APN) ATLANTA – “People need somebody running who can keep Blackwell from stealing an election. Democrats can’t say ‘Quit stealing,’” Bob Fitrakis, 50, told Atlanta Progressive News. Fitrakis has won the Green Party Nomination for Governor of Ohio and this November he will be facing Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell and Democrat Ted Strickland. “There’s a socialization process in […]

(APN) ATLANTA – US Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ) became the 38th Member of the US Congress officially listed as a supporter of H. Res. 635, a bill which could lead to recommendations to impeach President Bush. The bill, sponsored by US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for impeaching President Bush over […]

By Scott Crutcher, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA – President Bush was greeted by protesters this morning as he was in Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria Centre to flog his proposed legislation regarding military tribunals for terrorism suspects. Top Pentagon lawyers and even prominent Republican hawks in the US Senate such as US Sens. John McCain, Lindsay […]

(APN) ATLANTA – A possible new nuclear reactor at the plant in Vogtle, Georgia, being plotted by big business and the Republican-controlled State Senate, is posing serious dangerous threats to the people, animals, and environment of Georgia and the region, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The Georgia plant is seen as just a test drive for several new nuclear plants […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Peace activists and others opposed to Bush’s Invasion and Occupation of Iraq held a rally to mark their fourth year of continuous Friday noon protests at Colony Square, a downtown office park at Peachtree and 14th Streets. The rally was preceded by an 18 hour veterans’ vigil, which began at 6pm on Thursday, ending at noon with […]

(APN) DECATUR — 20-30 activists rallied for the impeachment of US President George W. Bush, at a busy intersection in Decatur, a somewhat liberal suburb of Greater Atlanta. Most of the activists were students from Decatur High School, and said they were with an informal student organization called SPAC, The Student Political Activism Club. Other participants included members of the […]