(APN) ATLANTA — Rev. William Barber, one of the leaders of North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement, brought his message of a Revival for a Moral Revolution of Values to Atlanta on Monday, May 23, 2016. Rev. Barber’s ability to speak the truth so clearly and forcefully as a moral leader is comparable to that of Dr. Martin Luther King, […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — An overwhelming majority of Metro Atlantans support more affordable housing, according to a recent survey of 501 Metro Atlanta residents conducted this year by Enterprise Community Partners and Make Room. The survey results show support for the adoption of mandatory inclusionary zoning (IZ) policies. On the issue of IZ, 71 percent favor requiring developers to […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — One-third of Southern Company shareholders voted for the Company to move more quickly from coal to renewable energy sources at a recent meeting of the Company’s shareholders. Shareholder resolutions filed at Southern Company by an advocacy group, As You Sow, and faith-based investor coalition, the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment (“Tri-State CRI”) sent Southern Company’s Board […]
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(APN) MACON –The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has two I-75 widening projects in Macon, Georgia. One project is still in the planning stage and will build “truck only lanes” starting somewhere around I-475 the Macon by-pass and goes 40 miles to McDonough. The other is a safety improvement project at the junction of I-75 and I-16 because of accidents and traffic jams […]
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(APN) FANNING COUNTY — In northwest Georgia’s Fannin County, Bill Fleming, Jacquelyn Howard and their daughter, Aliza, live in a large four thousand square foot home that is totally off the grid, with another 1,200 square feet in the basement. The house was designed by Randall and Rhoen Carlson. The roof is a Stand ‘n Seam metal roof, […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Environmental advocates in Georgia expressed their outrage to the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) over the course of two days on April 18 and 19, 2016, in opposition to Georgia Power’s 2016 Integrated Resource Plan. The Plan remains slow on renewable energy like solar and wind, and, shockingly, lays the procedural groundwork for yet another new […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — In Georgia, approximately six thousand Able-Bodied Adult Without Dependents (ABAWDs) in Cobb, Gwinnett, and Hall counties will lose SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food assistance this year. “We have done extensive outreach to those affected, starting in October 2015, and have many resources to offer to those who choose to participate,” Mary Beth Lukich, Office of […]
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Photograph courtesy of Jen Rafanan. (APN) ATLANTA — Over 1,400 people were arrested over several days of massive nonviolent sit-ins on the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C., between April 11 and 18, 2016. It was the most people ever arrested at the U.S. Capitol. Democracy Spring was organized by a coalition of over 120 organizations. It is determined […]
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(APN) STONE MOUNTAIN — A strange, diverse alliance gathered in opposition to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), which had promised that some two thousand members and supporters would rally at Stone Mountain, on Saturday, April 23, 2016. Fewer than thirty KKK members showed up, and they were met by hundreds of protesters, including some White protesters waving Confederate flags […]
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(APN) ATHENS — Nuclear Watch South (NWS) hosted a Fukushima Five Years Later presentation in Athens, Georgia, on March 12, 2016, at the Athens-Clarke County Library. The event roughly coincided with the five year anniversary of March 11, 2011, when a 9.0 earthquake struck off shore causing a powerful tsunami to hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal made criminal justice reform one of the priorities of his administration. While he has been problematic on medical cannabis issues, Gov. Deal has pushed forward of several criminal justice reform measures that came out of the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform. As reported by Atlanta Progressive News in 2012, this Council made […]
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(APN) CLARKSTON — City of Clarkston Councilman Dean Moore recently announced plans to introduce legislation to make possession of under one ounce of cannabis (“marijuana”) a traffic offense with a fine of five dollars. Last year, seventy people in Clarkston went to jail for marijuana possession. The estimated population of Clarkston in 2014 was 7,846. “Our strategy is […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — National outrage has turned to the City of Flint, Michigan, where murky, discolored water is coming out of residents’ faucets, with lead and iron to blame. This was caused by changing the water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, which was in order to save money. Here is Georgia, many communities are struggling with […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — On Thursday, March 24, 2016, Sine Die day, over one hundred Latinos and supporters gathered in Liberty Plaza to speak out against rampant anti-immigrant legislation, and what they describe as shameful and illegal raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There were numerous anti-immigration bills this Session, more than Atlanta Progressive News was able to cover […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia General Assembly wrapped up the 2016 legislative session on the early morning hours of Friday, March 25, 2016. In part one of our General Assembly Wrap-Up for 2016, we looked at legislation that failed: http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2016/03/27/apn-2016-legislative-session-wrap-up-part-one-things-that-failed/ This article provides an overview of the outcome of numerous bills that Atlanta Progressive News covered throughout […]
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