Atlanta Progressive News

The City of Atlanta announced Wednesday that it is receiving $1.1 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to address foreclosures in the hardest hit areas. The Atlanta Development Authority (ADA) will administer the downpayment assistance program for the city as part of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which will launch later this month. Using the program, homebuyers will […]

Atlanta mayoral candidate Kasim Reed announced Wednesday that his campaign brought in $446,087.09 in cash donations for the three month period ending Sept. 30, better than Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders’ $402,502.50. See the full reports for Reed, Norwood, Borders, and Spikes. The Reed campaign reports it has now raised more overall campaign cash, $1,411,613.59, than any of his competitors. Borders reports […]

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced Wednesday Georgia has received all of the State Energy Program funding allocated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Georgia received an additional $41 million from the Department of Energy for a total of $82 million through the State Energy Program to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects while reducing pollution and […]

Two members of the Kasim Reed for Mayor campaign were carjacked at gunpoint Monday night outside the Reed campaign headquarters on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard in the West End. According to a campaign press release, Deputy Field Director Tyler Pryor and Monique Hennagan, a canvasser and Olympic Gold Medalist, were walking to her black Infiniti G35 around 8:15 p.m. when […]

A group of 23 peace activists calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan allege they were violently pushed and dragged away from a White House gate on Monday by Secret Service agents. The activists, part of a larger group of 300 organized by the National Campaign for Non-Violent Resistance, sent a letter to President Obama last month requesting […]

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF) launched a series of public service announcements on Atlanta buses Monday to raise awareness of the upcoming 2010 census. “The census shapes our lives in ways most people never think about,” Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), a local LCCREF census partner, said in […]

The national planning committee will meet from Oct. 21 to Oct. 29 in Atlanta to continue making arrangements for next year’s U.S. Social Forum (USSF), to be held June 22-26 in Detroit. The national planning committee is comprised of over 40 social movement organizations in the United States and is responsible for the fiscal and political responsibilities of the USSF. […]

The Georgia STAND UP Alliance will host a forum tonight for Atlanta mayoral, city council president, and District 11 candidates at the IBEW Auditorium (501 Pulliam Street SW). This forum is a followup to a Sept. 1 event that brought together 23 candidates vying for eight different city council seats. Like that event, candidates who appear at tonight’s forum will […]

HIV activist Kendall Richardson has dropped out of the District 3 race against incumbent Councilman Ivory Young. Richardson told Atlanta Progressive News it was due to health reasons and the timing not being right. He says he is preparing to run again in the future. It is surprising for him to drop out now, given all the money spent on […]

If you live in the City of Atlanta, are not registered to vote, and want to participate in the city elections on Nov. 3, then you need to register by Monday Oct. 5. Absentee and early voting begins Oct. 13 and runs through Oct. 23, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily. Advanced voting begins Oct. 26 through Oct. 30, 8:30 […]