Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — Email records and depositions of officials at Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) show that the City of Atlanta and CAP engaged in a multi-faceted conspiracy to sabotage the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. The efforts to destroy the shelter and drive it from existence included cutting off public funding, various lobbying efforts which resulted in loss […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The Committee on Council of the City Council of Atlanta approved subpoenas on Monday, March 01, 2010, for 18 Atlanta Police Department officers to testify before the Atlanta Citizens’ Review Board regarding the September 2009 raid of the Atlanta Eagle. The officers had previously refused to testify. In addition, neither the APD nor Mayor Kasim Reed’s Administration […]

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50483. NEW ORLEANS, Feb 28, 2010 (IPS) – Many survivors of Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005, have been seeing their own reflection in media images of Haiti earthquake victims. And despite – or even because of – their own struggle, many […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta Progressive News’s News Editor, Matthew Cardinale, received a death threat by way of email from an anonymous sender after publishing a controversial Editorial, “Notes on Objectivity and News.” The article elaborated on APN’s Editorial Policy, specifically that there is no such thing as objectivity in news reporting or otherwise. The writer, with the email address mr1955@comcast.net, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The US Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Carmen Lomellin, is reviewing the plight of 31 undocumented immigrants in Atlanta who are in danger of being cut off from dialysis care by Grady Hospital, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Lomellin–President Obama’s nominee who was recently confirmed by the US Senate–is reviewing the situation in response to […]

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta activists are forming an emergency coalition to respond to recent restrictions on public comment time at the Community Development/Human Resources Committee of the City Council of Atlanta. As previously noted by Atlanta Progressive News, Councilwoman Joyce Sheperd (District 12), Chairwoman of CD/HR, announced the new restriction to five minutes per person, whereas prior to that there […]

(APN) ATLANTA — From time to time, Atlanta Progressive News has received questions from readers and other interested parties questioning the “objectivity” of our reporting. To be sure, we published several statements on our Frequently Asked Questions page over four years ago making it very clear that (1) we believe objectivity in news reporting does not exist, and that (2) […]

This article originally appeared on the Inter-Press Service at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50292. ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb 11, 2010 (IPS) – A U.S. delegation to Haiti led by civil rights veteran Joe Beasley is calling for a 30-billion-dollar restitution payment by France to help Haiti rebuild after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, and the end of what Beasley refers to as an unofficial blockade […]

(APN) ATLANTA–On January 28, 2010, state legislators, and advocates from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Southeast Region, and other groups held a press conference at the State Capitol to introduce a resolution to protect Georgia children from abusive military recruiting. The legislation, HR 1219, was authored by State Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — The below article is adapted from two press releases sent to Atlanta media outlets earlier today. The News Editor of Atlanta Progressive News, Matthew Cardinale, protested limitations on public comment at the Atlanta City Council meeting earlier today at 1pm. A Youtube video of today’s rap is available below. Fox 5 Atlanta also played a portion of […]

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 — 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 […]

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 […]