Atlanta Progressive News

A new poll by Insider Advantage conducted for WSB-TV shows Mary Norwood has gained to 42%. Lisa Borders is in second place at 34%.  Kasim Reed is trailing at 9%.  Jesse Spikes has 2%.  1% supported other candidates. It looks like the undecideds are deciding. Reed’s campaign dismissed the poll in a press release, pointing to a poll done by […]

According to press releases from the Green Party USA, the Free Gaza Movement, and other emails I’ve received through the day, McKinney and her fellow passengers have now been taken hostage by the Israeli military. #### GREEN PARTY USA PRESS RELEASE Green Party: President Obama and the US State Dept. must demand release of Cynthia McKinney and 20 other human […]

Today, the City Council of Atlanta narrowly approved a property tax increase proposed by Mayor Shirley Franklin. Mayoral candidate Mary Norwood voted against the increase, as she said she would do.  Others who voted no include Kwanza Hall, Clair Muller, Mary Norwood, Howard Shook, Cleta Winslow, and Lamar Willis. Ceasar Mitchell, who’s running for Council President, voted yes. “Council member Mary […]

Creative Loafing magazine Atlanta did their profile of the week this week on yours truly, the News Editor who makes progressive news possible. I am very happy with this profile and I think Candace Wheeler, an intern who is a college student at Spelman College, did a great job.  I thought Creative Loafing hated me since I’ve been so critical […]

IN an update on a previous post, former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s second boat voyage to Palestine has set sail, according to a press release sent from the Green Party USA to Atlanta Progressive News. “The Free Gaza boat the ‘Spirit of Humanity’ departed Cyprus at 7:30am on Monday, 29 July [Let’s assume they meant June].  Twenty-one human rights and […]

According to an email from SOA Watch, the leader of the Honduran military coup which just took place is a graduate of the former School of the Americas, now WHINSEC. I’m not sure how they would know he was a graduate, seeing as how they complain the SOA does not release information about who attends the school. #### “A military […]

US Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), one of the most progressive members of US Congress, visited Atlanta this weekend as part of a function hosted by Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions. “After the horrific September 11th attacks, Congresswoman Barbara Lee cast the sole vote against giving President Bush a blank check to wage war,” Georgia WAND noted in a press release. […]

So I saw Michael Julian Bond posted photos from the Task Force water rally on Facebook and Mayoral candidate Glenn Thomas was there. So I commented on the photo because Thomas had told APN that he would not support funding the Task Foce for the next FY.  Thomas came back with an explanation and a Facebook dialogue ensued: #### Matthew […]

ormer US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) made a second attempt to visit Gaza as part of the Free Gaza movement.  However, this time, she says the Israelis asked Cyprus not to let the ship depart.  Cyprus ultimately did not let the ship depart out of concern for their safety, she says.  McKinney and other international advocates were attempting to bring […]

Speaking of Glenn Thomas, I got this bizarre email at 155am on June 16, 2009 (my birthday no less) from Glenn Thomas saying he had put a lot of thought into it but had decided to give up on running for Mayor.  I thought it was a bit strange, in part because he had contracted for a multi-month advertising package […]

Early Saturday, July 25, morning, around midnight, Atlanta City Councilman Ceasar C. Mitchell (Post 1, At Large) was carjacked at gunpoint in front of his mother’s home in the Washington Park community of Northwest Atlanta. Councilman Mitchell was dropping his mother off after taking her to a Chastain Park concert when he was approached by three young men. After a […]

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced Friday Georgia will receive $50 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to expand weatherization assistance programs. The funds will be used to weatherize more than 13,600 homes over the next three years, lower energy costs for low-income families that need it, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create green jobs across the […]