Atlanta Progressive News

By Xanna Don’t, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News With additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale, News Editor (APN) ATLANTA — On June 10, 2010, Members of Atlanta’s Citizen Review Board (ACRB) assembled to discuss a complaint filed by David “Yuke” Shepherd for his False Arrest on September 10, 2009, as part of Atlanta Police Department’s (APD) controversial raid on The […]

By Melanie Turner, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News. (APN) ATLANTA — About 40 Metro Atlanta activists with Moveon.org rallied in favor of a public healthcare option at US Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-GA) office on Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Currently, bills are making their way though the US House and Senate committees which would create a mandate for every US […]

By Craig Washington, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — As the Atlanta Police Department’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Liaison, Officer Darlene Harris has served as a symbol assuring fair treatment and greater protection since 2005, when she was appointed to this post. When she disclosed she is intersex in July 2008, Harris garnered attention for her […]

By Bob Goodman, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Former staff members, sellers, readers, and supporters of The Great Speckled Bird newspaper, Atlanta’s radical, freaky, underground paper of the 1960’s and 70’s, will gather Saturday, May 24, 2008, for a 40th anniversary celebration. The “BirdBlast,” which is open to the public, will be from 2 to 10 […]

By Supraja Narasimhan, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (November 17, 2007) (APN) ATLANTA — Censored groups Veterans for Peace, Greater Atlanta Chapter 125 (VFP) and American Veterans for Equal Rights Georgia (AVER) both marched in the Georgia Veterans Day Parade held in downtown Atlanta on Sunday, November 11, 2007. The groups’ applications to march in the parade were initially […]

By Lanine Toote, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta City Councilman CT Martin (District 10) has sparked debate over whether to amend Section 106-129 of the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances to permit law enforcement officials to arrest or fine people for “the indecent exposure of his or her undergarments.” Currently the ordinance focuses only […]

By Joe Parko, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — A news report from CBS affiliate, KSLA-TV, of Shreveport, Louisiana, has confirmed the federal government is training so-called Clergy Response Teams (CRTs) to quell dissent should martial law ever be declared in the US. The report confirms the existence of a nationwide program of the Federal Emergency Management […]

By Paul Hays, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP), first proposed by Mexican President Vicente Fox and PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) leaders in September 2000, was designed to construct a grandiose development zone in nine Mexican states and seven nations of Central America. Water, minerals, timber, petroleum, sweatshops, bioprospecting, hydroelectric dams, and even a […]

By Nicholas Foster, Contributing Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News   (APN) OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE — Fifty two years ago today, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians. The uranium in that bomb — the first of its kind — was enriched at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons […]

By Sarah Olson, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) FORT STEWART — “Just because we volunteered, doesn’t mean we volunteered to throw our lives away for nothing. You can only push human beings so far,” Marc Train, 19, a soldier from America’s heartland, stationed most recently in Fort Stewart, Georgia, says. “Soldiers are going to Iraq multiple times. The […]

By Barbara Joye, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Not many poets get a chance to change the world, but Alice Lovelace has always aimed high. Widely known as a savvy organizer and administrator, as well as a “people’s poet,” she is the national lead organizer for the first US Social Forum (USSF), which will bring an […]

By Tyler Tarwater, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Last week US Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) introduced H.R. 508, the “Bring the Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2007,” the strongest of all current US Congressional bills which seek to de-escalate the US Invasion of Iraq. The bill would force the withdrawal of “all U.S. […]

By Joe Parko, Special to the Atlanta Progressive News (APN) JERUSALEM — Ever since Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear Technician, confirmed the existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons program with his photographs of the secret underground bomb facility published in the London Sunday Times in 1986, the world has known Israel has been making nuclear bombs but has pretended they do […]

By Douglas Hartley, Staff Writer (APN) ATLANTA — With Atlanta competing for longest commute times in the nation, planners, developers, and officials gathered at the Southface Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable to find solutions, on Friday, October 06, 2006. Panelists discussed how developers and governments can leverage existing MARTA rail stations to benefit nearby existing and future transit oriented developments (TOD’s). “The […]