Atlanta Progressive News

By Robert Soloway, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) DECATUR – The US Department of Peace campaign continues to build momentum as over 100 participants gathered the weekend of September 15 through 17, 2006, for the first Conference of The Southeast Regional Alliance for Peace. This group is dedicated to a campaign to establish a United States Department of […]

By Scott Crutcher, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA – “The media has been part and parcel of the propaganda machine that was cranked up five years ago on 9/11 and is still churning and well-oiled today,” David Goodman told an audience of 400 at an WRFG fundraiser at the First Iconium Baptist Church, on Monday, September 18, […]

By Scott Crutcher, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA – President Bush was greeted by protesters this morning as he was in Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria Centre to flog his proposed legislation regarding military tribunals for terrorism suspects. Top Pentagon lawyers and even prominent Republican hawks in the US Senate such as US Sens. John McCain, Lindsay […]

By Jennifer Sauer, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — On August 19, 2006, members of the Jobs with Justice, Sagrada Familia Lutheran Church, and Interfaith Outreach Housing joined together for a first of its kind discussion and fiesta on Black and Latino tensions in the Atlanta region. While getting off to a late start, more than 30 […]

By Scott Crutcher, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA – Activists demanded “Hands off Cuba ” at a press conference on the steps of Atlanta City Hall today. Members of Atlanta Cuba Solidarity, Every Church a Peace Church, and International Action Center demanded the immediate release of the Cuban Five. Activists also raised concerns about various statements made […]

By Kristina Cates, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News. (APN) ATLANTA – While Georgia voters were not limited to five forms of ID, instead of the current seventeen, in the recent Primary and Runoff Elections, the possibility is still there that poor, elderly, and disadvantaged voters may be effectively disenfranchised in the General Election or some future election. Voter advocates […]

By Kristina Cates, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA – Representatives from VoterGA filed suit this morning against Secretary of State Cathy Cox, the Georgia State Election Board, and Governor Sonny Purdue over the current electronic voting system as well as the audit trail pilot project. VoterGA held a press conference to discuss the lawsuit this morning at […]

By Douglas Hartley, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News, with additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Anti-homosexual religious protestors have targeted Outwrite Bookstore in Midtown Atlanta on three consecutive weekends since mid-June, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. “We’ve never had protestors in the 12 and a half years we’ve been here,” Philip Rafshoon, Outwrite Bookstore Owner said in […]

By Robert Soloway, Staff Writer, The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — The City Council of Atlanta has voted 12-2 to support a resolution calling for a US Department of Peace, The Georgia Alliance for a US Department of Peace announced at a press conference today on the steps of the Georgia State Capitol. The US Department of Peace, championed […]