Atlanta Progressive News

Just received this press release from the Kasim Reed for Mayor campaign: WHAT: Meet Me on the Steps at Midnight! As the 2009 Georgia Legislative Session comes to a close, State Senator Kasim Reed has invited supporters and friends to join him on the steps of the Georgia State Capitol. WHEN: Friday, April 3, 2009 11:45 pm – 1:30 am WHERE: Georgia State […]

JOIN: Vincent Fort, Georgia State Senator  Rev. Timothy McDonald, III, Senior Pastor, First Iconium Baptist Church  William J. Brennan, Program Director, Atlanta Legal Aid Society Home Defense Program   11 a.m. Saturday, April 4 First Iconium Baptist Church 542 Moreland Avenue SE Atlanta 30316   For more info: call 770-313-4628 email brooksgrus@gmail.com

Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the important House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee, on Tuesday unveiled The American Clean Energy and Security Act.  The bill is designed to hasten the United States’ move away from coal and foreign oil as well as capture heat-producing gasses. The New York […]

As the Georgia General Assembly entered the final week of the 2009 session on Monday, a broad coalition of business leaders, government leaders, transit advocates, road builders, and environmentalists called on lawmakers to reach a compromise on transportation funding. “We’re on the 1 yard line,” Doug Hertz, co-chair of the Get Georgia Moving Coalition, said. “We’ve got to cross the […]

Worried About Healthcare?  What Can You Do? We are patients, not profits!    A Special LIVE Screening of SICK AROUND AMERICA Honoring Our Supportive National and Local Representatives!     Representative Stephanie Stuckey Benfield and Senator Nan Orrock will speak about US HR 676, the National Health Insurance Act!    Where: Atlanta Friends Meeting 701 West Howard Street Decatur, GA […]

On Saturday, March 28, the Nipponzan Myohoji-Atlanta Dojo held a Flower Festival Ceremony, celebrating the birth of Lord Buddha and the arrival of spring. The ceremony concluded with the 6th annual presentation of the Lil & Bill Corrigan Peacemakers Award to the 6-year Stand for Peace vigil at Colony Square and to Georgia WAND. For six years, committed peacemakers have […]

So, Lisa Borders apparently back in the race, according to the ATL Business Chronicle. Jonathan Springston at APN told me she seemed to be acting very candidate-like at the recent FIBC crime forum. This is not good. Why: Borders worked for Cousins Properties, is synonymous with the developers, was thick as thieves with Shirley. No, no, no! But there’s so […]

APN: cm is true no more mayoral run? runng 4 counc prez? matt apn CM:That’s the speculation, eh? Let’s talk first of next week?

  Israeli war crimes during the Gaza massacre, widely reported at the time, are now being investigated and confirmed by many independent sources, including the testimony of Israeli soldiers themselves.  Here is a sampling of the many new disclosures (links and/or more info about the numbered items appear below):   1.  UN human rights official Richard Falk not only accuses […]

A new report from Campaign for America’s Future reveals 8,722 more Georgia students would receive Pell Grants if excessive lender subsidies are cut. Such a change would provide an average Pell Grant of $3,010 to 181,580 students across Georgia. The bad news is that the average cost of tuition in a public college in Georgia increased 19 percent from 2000 […]

President Obama announced Friday that the United States will send 20,000 additional troops into Afghanistan to fight Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces.  In February, Peace Action, the nation’s largest peace and disarmament organization, bound together 19 other national groups to petition Congress to sign a letter to the president urging him to reconsider escalating forces in Afghanistan.  “The 2001 authorization to […]

Environmental Georgia, Georgia Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), Georgia Rural Urban Summit, and Health Care for America joined together Friday with a national campaign that urges Congress to support and pass President Obama’s 2010 budget. “The investments in our nation’s future that President Obama is calling for will help make America more energy efficient, make health care better and more […]