Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — From 12pm-1pm, 100 public housing residents and advocates from Atlanta and Chicago gathered at City Hall to plead for the preservation of poor people’s homes in Atlanta and across the United States. From before 12pm, to 1pm, thousands of US Social Forum marchers began to arrive early for the USSF March, which was to begin at 1pm. […]

  (APN) ATLANTA — Residents of, and advocates for, Chicago public housing joined Atlanta residents and advocates today for a rally at Atlanta City Hall. About 100 in total protested Atlanta’s plans to demolish public housing. The rally coincided with the first day of the US Social Forum. Organizations represented included the Task Force for the Homeless, ACORN, Women in […]

(APN) ATLANTA — An amendment to close the controversial School of the Americas or WHINSEC (Western Hemisphere Institute for National Security Cooperation) at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, failed in the US House late last night in a vote of 203 to 214, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The vote was an improvement over last year’s vote on the same […]

(APN) ATLANTA — “More and more Members of Congress are becoming aware of the concerns of the American people to make sure the Constitution is protected,” US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) told Atlanta Progressive News in a phone interview. Yesterday, US Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus, became the eighth total cosponsor of Kucinich’s bill, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A City Attorney will recommend to the Community Development/Human Resources Committee of the Atlanta City Council they postpone for two weeks the consideration of the controversial Free Speech Zone (FSZ) ordinance, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. “At the CDHR meeting this Tuesday, June 12th, I, on behalf of the Law Department, will request the Committee hold the […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) became the sixth and seventh total cosponsors of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the additional four Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 333 are […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) has become the fifth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the additional three Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 333 are US Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Story, a local newspaper providing community news throughout Greater Atlanta for the last five years, has ended print publication, sold most of its newspaper boxes, and is going to an online only news service, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. “We know more people are getting news from the Internet,” particularly young people, Dominique Huff, 25, News […]

(APN) ATLANTA — A second Whistleblower from Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA), Christopher Anderson, has now come forward, telling Atlanta Progressive News (APN) that he was in charge of recommending voucher recipients for termination of their benefits when utilities were unpaid. Anderson expressed concern to AHA at the time because he was finding time and time again the amount of the […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) Whistleblower Anthony Bostic believes he was fired this Monday in retaliation for his documented investigation into millions of dollars total in apparent AHA underpayments to thousands of relocated families in public housing–and planned underpayments to possible future relocated families–Atlanta Progressive News (APN) has learned from Anthony’s sister Joy Bostic and documents obtained from […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Former US Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), a 2008 Presidential Candidate, spoke at this year’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, an annual function of the Democratic Party of Georgia. “I look at what America is confronted with… the open sore that is Iraq. America needs to be leaving Iraq,” Edwards said in his remarks. “Democrats have met their responsibility… sent a […]

(APN) ATLANTA — APN News Editor released the following statement today: Dear APN Friends and Readers, I am writing to share with you a tragic incident which occurred this Tuesday. I was stabbed in an attempted robbery only two blocks from my house in Midtown, Atlanta, as I was walking to the Exxon gas station on the corner of Monroe […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Housing Authority has agreed to a more thorough review process of each family in public housing who is noncompliant with work requirements before forcing them onto the streets, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Resident advocates are celebrating what they see as their first substantive victory, particularly for the families who were worrying about homelessness if […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. Albert Russell Wynn (D-MD) has become the fourth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the other two Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 333 are US Rep. Janice Schakowsky […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Renowned antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan is considering a run for US Congress in 2008, Atlanta Progressive News has learned in the process of interviewing Sheehan about her upcoming rally in Washington, DC, this Mothers’ Day weekend. Sheehan became an activist in 2004 after her son, Casey, was killed during the US Invasion of Iraq. “I’m on the […]