Atlanta Progressive News

This article originally appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50171. ATLANTA, Jan 31, 2010 (IPS) – A historic ruling earlier this month on behalf of felons who lost the right to vote could call into question the disenfranchisement of felons and ex-felons in the State of Washington and indeed across the United States. Federal Ninth District Circuit Court Judges […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Free Press, a start-up publication covering news of concern to the GLBT community in Atlanta, has apparently ceased publication after a few weeks. Per APN’s count, AFP printed five issues, with a wide distribution of its first issue, and then a tapering distribution of print issues since then. Fewer and fewer locations had copies of AFP […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Gov. Sonny Perdue kicked off his final budget push by preparing State lawmakers to make painful cutbacks. The $18.6 billion Fiscal Year 2010 budget contained billions of dollars in cuts, but a 13.7 percent decline in tax revenues mean even more sacrifices. “We’ve got to maintain core services for our citizens, but this recession and this economy […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A group of Democratic State lawmakers and advocates banded together Tuesday, January 26, 2010, to announce the introduction of legislation to prevent law enforcement officers from engaging in racial profiling. “We know that if your skin color is different or you’re a religion other than Christian, you will be singled out,” the Rev. Tracy Blagec, Vice President […]

(APN) ATLANTA — On January 19, 2010, thirteen Atlanta activists from Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition (GPJC), and Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace stood in silence and turned their backs on US General David Petraeus before being removed from the 1,100-person Ferst Theater on the Georgia Tech campus. The activists wore t-shirts with […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Public Safety/Legal Administration Committee of the City Council of Atlanta voted unanimously to hold the resolution introduced by Councilman Michael Julian Bond (Post 1-at-large) regarding the Atlanta Eagle during its meeting on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Meanwhile, the trial against the Eagle 8 has been indefinitely postponed. As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, Bond’s resolution […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce (MACOC) hosted business leaders and State lawmakers at a forum Thursday, January 14, 2010, to discuss the region’s water woes and recent recommendations made by a State task force. Georgia has been engaged in a two-decades long struggle with Florida and Alabama over water rights. A court ruling last year put […]

(APN) ATLANTA – Gov. Sonny Perdue delivered his annual State of the State address before a joint Session of the Georgia General Assembly on Wednesday, January 13, 2009, his last before leaving office next January. Perdue spent much of the nearly 40 minute address sermonizing and recounting moments in history when US citizens overcame adversity rather than outlining solutions to […]

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service at http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49997. ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 15, 2010 (IPS) – With civil society gearing up for the 2010 World Social Forum, and later this summer, the 2010 U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan, activists here say new alliances created at the first USSF in 2007 are going strong. Two of the most notable […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Grady Health System decided last week to continue providing free dialysis care through a private provider for another month, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Grady closed its outpatient dialysis clinic in October 2009 and agreed to provide free treatment through Fresenius Medical Care for about 50 undocumented, uninsured patients until January 03, 2010. During that time, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Former Democratic State Sen. Kasim Reed was sworn in as the 59th Mayor of Atlanta during a ceremony Monday, January 04, 2010, at The Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. During his inaugural address, Reed thanked supporters and said his election as Atlanta’s mayor is “the single most important moment of my life.” “I will use the office […]