(APN) ATLANTA — Retired Colonel Ann Wright, who resigned from the US State Department over the US Invasion of Iraq, was in Atlanta last week to promote her new book and argue for a phased US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Wright’s visit was sponsored by the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition, Atlanta, and included several events around Atlanta. Wright […]
Read moreU.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Wednesday the release of $30 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds that will help 36 communities facilities projects. Rural areas like Dooly County in South Georgia ($50,000 grant) will use these funds to construct public use facilities like hospitals, health care and assisted-living facilities, child care centers, fire and rescue stations, […]
Read morePresident Obama announced his support for a $250 economic recovery payment to seniors, veterans, and disabled Americans who are struggling to make ends meet in the first year of the recession. Here’s how it would work: 57 million people would benefit. These include 49 million Social Security beneficiaries, 5 million Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries, 2 million veterans benefit recipients, 500,000 […]
Read moreUtne Magazine named three Atlantans as part of their 50 US visionaries. Learn more about them here: http://www.utne.com/Visionaries #### ATLANTA (Oct. 14, 2009) — Utne Reader, the best of the alternative press, names Lance Ledbetter, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Robert Bullard as visionaries who are making their individual marks on the world. They are among 50 people the magazine has chosen […]
Read moreRepresentatives from Mayor Shirley Franklin’s office, along with the city’s finance department, presented its Five Year Financial Plan for the City of Atlanta to the council’s Finance/Executive Committee on Wednesday. The report estimates General Fund revenues will rise 1.4 percent annually from Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014 while expenses are expected to grow 2.5 percent annually over the […]
Read moreA federal judge in Miami on Tuesday handed down a new sentence for one of the so-called Cuban Five, a group of Cuban intelligence agents accused of spying in the United States. U.S. Federal District Court Judge Joan Lenard imposed a 21 year, 10 month sentence on Antonio Guerrero, who had been serving a life sentence. According to the National […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia STAND-UP Alliance hosted its second Atlanta election forum Tuesday night, October 06, 2009, at the IBEW Auditorium. Nine total candidates running for Mayor of Atlanta, City Council President, and the soon-to-be vacated District 11 seat attended the event. Each of the candidates endorsed a community issues platform compiled by Georgia STAND-UP and released in […]
Read moreA local council of MoveOn.org is staging an event tomorrow, weather permitting, designed to call attention to the hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health insurance and HMO lobbies that have gone to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA). MoveOnGwinnett.org will release the exact figures and stage a live mini-drama depicting Isakson as a life-size puppet at noon tomorrow at Indian […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — After a lengthy process of interviews, questionnaires, and research, the Atlanta Progressive News Board of Directors has selected our Endorsement List for Candidates for City Council of Atlanta for 2009. We have decided to endorse: Ceasar Mitchell for Council President, Michael Julian Bond for Post 1 at large, Amir Farokhi for Post 2 at large, Shelitha Robertson […]
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Read more(APN) ATLANTA — As we begin to wrap up our yearlong pre-election coverage of Atlanta’s citywide and Council district elections for 2009, we sent a questionnaire to the nine candidates vying to replace retiring Councilman Jim Maddox in District 11. Out of the nine candidates, eight responded; the only person who did not respond was Keisha Bottoms. Those who did […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — On Thursday, September 24, 2009, a federal jury in Atlanta ruled that the Dekalb County Department of Homeland Security and the Dekalb Police Department violated the constitutional rights of two vegan protesters when they arrested the protesters in conjunction with an action the protesters held at a Honey Baked Ham in 2003. Six years ago on December […]
Read moreThe Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday that President Obama has been awaded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” President Obama watches Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (right) shake hands in New York last month. (Photo by Pete Souza) See a video of the […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Key members of the Atlanta Police Department and leaders of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community gathered in the Virginia Highlands on Monday, October 05, 2009, to discuss police tactics in the wake of last month’s controversial raid on the Atlanta Eagle. Department officials declined to comment on the September 10 incident–the news of which […]
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