Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA–The Georgia Working Families Caucus (WFC) is the Georgia General Assembly’s newest legislative caucus, having officially formed this session “in order to develop and promote legislation and policies that invest in workers, families, and communities,” Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The Caucus is composed of over 20 members from around the state and meets every Thursday at noon during […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US. Rep David Scott (D-GA), a centrist Democrat who, for instance, supported the Military Commissions Act which repealed habeus corpus, will face progressive challenger Donzella James again in the 2008 Democratic Primary, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. James previously served in the Georgia State Senate, ran unsuccessfully against US Rep. Scott in 2006 [although her election was […]

(APN) ATLANTA — “STOP in the NAME of choice, before you take my rights away-ay-ay,” was one of this year’s cheers at the 5th Annual March for Women’s Lives at the Georgia State Capitol. About 500 Atlanta activists met to rally and march around the Capitol area, under a particularly blazing sun, for a woman’s right to be able to […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Reps. John Lewis (D-GA) and Hank Johnson (D-GA)–Georgia’s two most leftist Congresspersons–split sharply today on the US Occupation in Iraq, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Lewis joined 7 other Democratic US Representatives and one Republican in what has been called a courageous stand against the Occupation funding bill. Johnson, on the other hand, supported the funding […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Major 2008 Democratic candidates for President of the United States–including Clinton, Edwards, Kucinich, and Obama–have already begun addressing health care in their campaigns. However, US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is the only major declared candidate who advocates for a single-payer health care system so far in this race. Only Kucinich and former US Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) […]

(APN) ATLANTA — At least four Members of US Congress and four US Senators today raised concerns about a breaking report in the National Journal that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have known he was going to be negatively implicated in a review at the US Department of Justice’s (USDOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) when he advised […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) has just become the 44th total cosponsor of S. 2, the bill to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in 10 years. Johnson, who is still recovering from a December 2006 brain hemorrhage at a private rehabilitation facility, co-sponsored the bill and five others affecting South Dakota families, in […]