Atlanta Progressive News

 New information obtained by Amnesty researchers this week confirmed a massive shipment of U.S. weapons was delivered to Israel on March 22nd. The administration allowed the delivery, despite clear evidence of Israeli human rights violations, some amounting to war crimes, including the controversial use of U.S. made white phosphorous munitions over densely populated areas. That’s the white phosphorous that sticks to flesh […]

JOIN: Vincent Fort, Georgia State Senator  Rev. Timothy McDonald, III, Senior Pastor, First Iconium Baptist Church  William J. Brennan, Program Director, Atlanta Legal Aid Society Home Defense Program   11 a.m. Saturday, April 4 First Iconium Baptist Church 542 Moreland Avenue SE Atlanta 30316   For more info: call 770-313-4628 email brooksgrus@gmail.com

Worried About Healthcare?  What Can You Do? We are patients, not profits!    A Special LIVE Screening of SICK AROUND AMERICA Honoring Our Supportive National and Local Representatives!     Representative Stephanie Stuckey Benfield and Senator Nan Orrock will speak about US HR 676, the National Health Insurance Act!    Where: Atlanta Friends Meeting 701 West Howard Street Decatur, GA […]

  Israeli war crimes during the Gaza massacre, widely reported at the time, are now being investigated and confirmed by many independent sources, including the testimony of Israeli soldiers themselves.  Here is a sampling of the many new disclosures (links and/or more info about the numbered items appear below):   1.  UN human rights official Richard Falk not only accuses […]

Progressive economists (Krugman, Reich, Baker, Stiglitz) warn that time is running out on the Paulson/Geithner approach of trying to bribe the Lords of Finance who destroyed the economy with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to fix it.  The standard approach in such situations is nationalization/rationalization/ reorganization — the government temporarily takes over insolvent banks, fires the management, wipes out […]

I have just emailed the White House to let the President know that I cannot accept his invitation to canvass for passage of his budget this weekend. While I support his budget items for universal healthcare, green energy and other forward-looking domestic programs, I am opposed to his escalation of the war in Afghanistan (and now Pakistan), the continued occupation […]

Atlantans will commemorate six years of death and destruction, and demand an end to occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, this Thursday, March 19. Activities will include an educational forum at 3 p.m. at Georgia State University; and a veterans-led march from Woodruff Park to CNN at 5, which will culminate with a symbolic shoe-throwing at an effigy of George […]