Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, has written a new best-selling book, US v. Bush, which includes a federal indictment against President George W. Bush and other top administration officials for conspiracy to defraud US Congress and the American people over the need to invade Iraq. It also includes a fictional grand jury proceeding based […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta’s CBS 46 News reporter Joanna Massee called the Gateway Center out for misleading her, and indeed, the public, in what was her second report on homeless women in Atlanta and the Gateway’s mass eviction policies, which aired last week. The Gateway Center closed the majority of its emergency mats for homeless women including women with children, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — “The rich are gettin richer on the backs of the poor, and we won’t take it anymore,” homeless advocate and folk singer, Lynn Griever, sang, at the Trinity United Methodist Church, as about 250 working class people and advocates met for the 27th Annual Poor People’s Day. Participants met for two days of workshops and presentations, Wednesday, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The US military has dropped the controversial subpoenas of two journalists, independent journalist Sarah Olson, who interviewed Lt. Ehren Watada for Truthout.org, and Gregg Kakesako of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, after Watada signed a stipulation agreement with the military. Olson still won’t say for sure whether she was going to refuse to testify, but it appears she would […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Gateway Center–Mayor Shirley Franklin’s answer to ending chronic homelessness in Atlanta–has now downsized its emergency Overflow for homeless women from about 150 mats, to 10 mats per night, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. After days of pressure from APN, WRFG radio, and CBS 46 television, Gateway apparently has decided to maintain the ten beds instead of […]

By Matthew Cardinale and Jonathan Springston (APN) ATLANTA — Over one hundred homeless single women and women with children are facing uncertain futures on this freezing cold night, as the Gateway Overflow shelter for women prepares to abruptly close, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. “They can’t put them out in this cold! That would just be unthinkable! Tomorrow is going […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The bill to increase the federal minimum wage today faces a colliding of obstacles as the US Senate appears poised to pass a version with one or even two amendments undesired by the Democratic leadership in the US House. The Senate began taking up the bill today. A clean version of HR 2, passed a week ago […]

(APN) ATLANTA — While a bill to pass the federal minimum wage passed the US House just last week, an identical bill in the US Senate is uncertain to pass at this time, particularly when 13 Senate Democrats have not cosponsored the bill. The bill, S. 2, was introduced by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and currently has 37 total […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Independent journalist Sarah Olson still has to decide whether to testify in a court martial against one of her sources, but now she will have another month in which to make that decision, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. “What did happen is I am no longer required to be at pretrial hearing tomorrow in Fort Lewis so […]

(APN) ATLANTA — “Nothing is off the table unless the American people allow it to be so,” US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) said in an exclusive interview with Atlanta Progressive News (APN) about her Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The bill, H Res. 1106, which is now available at thomas.loc.gov, […]

Photographs by Matthew Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Paul Wolfowitz was interrupted four times by a total of five protesters tonight during his invited Leo and Berry Eizenstat Memorial lecture on the World Bank at the Ahavath Achim Synagogue. The title of his speech was Why Africa Matters to Americans. One protester, Justin Carter, 20, who stood wearing an anti-Wolfowitz t-shirt, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) today became the first US Congresswoman to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, as well as Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Atlanta Progressive News has obtained the following remarks prepared by the Congresswoman, and has learned she was not allowed to read them on the US House […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. McKinney (D-GA) told a recent audience of the film American Blackout that she had written up Articles of Impeachment for President Bush five years ago in 2001. It was her mother, Leola McKinney, who pleaded with her and convinced her “not to drop” the Articles in the US House, at the time. The act of […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Donzella James, a former Georgia State Senator, US Congressional candidate, and elections integrity advocate, has decided to run for Chairperson of the Democratic Party of Georgia, Atlanta Progressive News has learned in an exclusive. In related news, Carlotta Harrell, who recently ran for School Superintendent and was considering the DPG Chairpersonship, has decided not to run, in […]

APN) ATLANTA — November 23, 2006, marks the one year anniversary of the founding of Atlanta Progressive News (APN). To commemorate this occasion, Matthew Cardinale, Founder of APN, has issued the following letter to our readers: Dear Readers, Hey everybody! It’s been one year of APN! Can you believe it? We really have come a long way. I want to […]