Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — WonderRoot Community Arts Center is a fairly new resource for artists and activists in Atlanta, located on Memorial Drive near Moreland Avenue, between East Atlanta and Little Five Points. The organization’s stated mission is to bridge the gap between art and social change. Opened to the public in May 2008, it currently has about 200 members. Founded […]

(APN) ATLANTA — About two-dozen metro Atlanta college students gathered Thursday, February 19, 2009, at the Georgia State Capitol to ask lawmakers to support legislation that would curb mountaintop coal mining and encourage green technology. The group of student leaders, known as Metro Atlanta Students for Sustainability (MASS), believes this legislation will provide the incentive for private investment into clean […]

(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 […]

  (APN) ATLANTA — “The system we have for taking care of our veterans is more hostile than the IRS,” journalist and author Aaron Glantz said to describe the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs during a talk at The Carter Center Tuesday night, February 17, 2009. His new book, “The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans,” documents the […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A coalition of Georgia religious and human rights activists led by Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) spent Tuesday, February 17, 2009, asking state lawmakers to put the death penalty on hold in Georgia, improve indigent defense, and to oppose an effort to allow non-unanimous jury decisions in death penalty cases. State Sen. Vincent Fort […]

(APN) ATLANTA–Campus Progress held their first Southern Regional Conference at Morehouse College from February 06 to 08, 2009. The conference included a journalism track and an activism track. Activist workshops included such topics as using the media, getting elected, retaining members, and forming alliances. The separate section on journalism centered on progressive journalism. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, a syndicated […]

  (APN) ATLANTA – About 75 local and state activists descended on the Georgia State Capitol Thursday, February 12, 2009, via a boisterous caravan to unveil The People’s Bailout, a plan for ordinary Georgians. Several progressive constituencies hold lobby days while the Georgia legislature in session. Similar to last year, this year’s 29th Annual Poor People’s Day involved a caravan, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Republican-dominated State Senate today, February 11, 2009, approved a payment method for Georgia consumers comparable to layaway, for the building of nuclear power plants in Georgia, despite opposition by the all-Republican Public Service Commission. The vote on SB 31, the Georgia Nuclear Energy Financing Act, was 38-16. State Senators spent nearly an hour and half today […]

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 — About 20 activists representing numerous local and state organizations gathered at the Capitol Tuesday morning, February 03, 2009, to urge Georgia lawmakers to fully fund the state’s trauma care network and school nursing program. The group criticized Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposal to cut $30 million the state spends on school nurses as part of a larger effort […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted January 21, 2009, to give Grady Health System $50 million for 2009, down from $80 million last year and $100 million in 2007. While Fulton’s Budget Committee recommended cutting the allocation down to $76.5 million for 2009, Commissioners decided to only give $50 million and place the remaining $26.5 million […]