I agree with Glenn Greenwald on all counts: 1. Obama deserves considerable credit for releasing the torture memos. He courageously stood up against ferocious CIA-neocon-national security pressure to suppress them, in a marked departure from the usual practice of secrecy about these things. 2. It is appalling that Obama offered immunity to war criminals who were “just following […]
Read more“Know the World” by Brian Sherman is now Radio Free Activist Collective. There are still 4 15-minute interviews; however, they are now done by a collective including Brian Sherman, Darci Rodenhi, Michael Vosburg-Casey, and Paris Hatcher, a bunch of radical hippies. APN has written previously about Rodenhi and Vosburg-Casey, who have previously been arrested in anti-nuclear power and anti-SOA actions, […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — With the US Court of Appeals panel’s split ruling putting Troy Davis again, for the fourth time, on track to be executed by the State of Georgia, the role of 1996 federal death penalty legislation championed by Vice President Joe Biden–then a US Senator from Delaware–comes to light. Davis, whose case has drawn international attention, is on […]
Read moreMomentum for the Picket and Rally on Tuesday, April 21, from 10am to 11am at Wachovia Bank, 999 Peachtree Street (corner of 10th) continues to build. Three more labor organizations have joined the Coalition and will be bringing union members to Tuesday’s Demonstration. The Coalition makes the following demands to Wachovia. 1. No more predatory lending 2. No more foreclosures […]
Read moreFirst, Georgia Politics Unfiltered, now Atlanta Public Affairs. Wow. Another Atlanta political commentator closes shop. Reprinted in full for informational purposes: #### My very first post on this blog was on January 7, 2005. It was a post about the lawsuit over the Druid Hills Golf Club and the Atlanta Human Relations Commission ordinance. It’s hard to believe that 4 […]
Read moreWith additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — Once again, this year’s General Assembly was a tremendous disappointment across a wide range of issues concerning working families. As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, the Assembly failed to pass a transportation funding bill, all the while giving Gov. Sonny Perdue the transportation governance overhaul he wanted and leaving MARTA […]
Read moreThis breathtaking article appears in the Independent (UK): Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing […]
Read moreThe Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today denying more appeals for Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. In 1991, a Savannah jury convicted Davis of the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Since the original trial, seven of nine witnesses the prosecution used have either changed their testimony or recanted in sworn affidavits. […]
Read moreIPS Tax Day Report: Reversing the Great Tax Shift Institute for Policy Studieshttp://www.ips-dc.org/ Download the report: http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/#1207 REPORT DOCUMENTS SHIFT FROM THE RICH TO REST OF US: IDENTIFIES $450 BILLION IN HIKES TO FUND RECOVERY Washington, D.C. – America’s highest-income taxpayers, analysts at the Institute for Policy Studies detail in a new Tax Day report, pay a staggeringly smaller share […]
Read more(APN) DECATUR — DeKalb citizens spoke out Monday, April 13, 2009, during the public comment session at the DeKalb County Board of Education meeting against the DeKalb Marine Corps Institute, a new magnet school scheduled to open in August. The military-style public high school would be the first of its kind in Georgia. They attacked the proposal on both substantive […]
Read moreA source familiar with the matter tells Atlanta Progressive News that State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) is unlikely to run for Atlanta City Council President. There are many reasons, the source said, adding that Fort had not made a final decision as of yet while he is weighing other factors. One factor includes Fort’s not wanting to give up his […]
Read more(From Voters for Peace) President Obama has put forward a military budget that is $21 billion larger than the Bush military budget. His Defense Secretary, Bush holdover Robert Gates, has called for cutting some no-longer-needed and very expensive weapons systems, but he is also seeking more money for drones and a bigger DoD budget. Obama’s DoD budget is $534 billion, […]
Read more1. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein. 2. “The best way to rob a bank is to own one.” Bill Moyers interviews William K. Black, a regulator during the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s, on the massive, fraudulent, secretive transfer of hundreds of […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Several dozen Atlantans gathered at the First Iconium Baptist Church in East Atlanta Saturday, April 04, 2009, to hear expert testimony on and ask questions about home foreclosures and predatory lending. Organizers, which included the Georgia Rural Urban Summit (GRUS), the Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council, and 28 other organizations, […]
Read moreGood ol’ US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has gone ahead and introduced S. 703 in the US Senate, which, like HR 676, calls for single-payer universal health care. Sanders had previously been a co-sponsor in the Congressional bills for the last 2 Sessions at least. At this time, HR 676 has 74 cosponsors in addition to sponsor, US Rep. John […]
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