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SAFE Commission Seeks New E-voting Machines, Experts Warn against Model Selected

February 4, 2019 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On January 10, 2019, the Secure, Accessible & Fair Election (SAFE) Commission–created by then-Secretary of State (SOS), Brian Kemp–issued its recommendations, including a recommendation that Georgia move to a new E-voting system that includes a paper trail of persons’ votes that could be used in a recount. http://sos.ga.gov/admin/uploads/SAFE_Commission_Report_FINAL_(1-10-18).pdf The SAFE Commission is made up […]

Advocates Continue to Press Atlanta Council on Homeless Warming Centers

January 17, 2019 GLORIA TATUM 4 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, January 07, 2019, advocates continued to press the Atlanta City Council to force changes to the City’s policies related to the opening of warming centers; and to stop criminalizing homeless people through the enforcement of problematic city ordinances. Atlanta continues to have a crisis of homelessness, made worse by the lack of affordable housing […]

National Climate Assessment Report Warns of Grave Situation

January 3, 2019 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

Photograph courtesy of Willian Justen de Vasconcellos, unsplash.com . (APN) ATLANTA — The fourth National Climate Assessment Report, released on November 23, 2018, warns of worsening natural disasters, new food and waterborne diseases, crop production failure, and economic devastation by the end of the century. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/ This is the third in a series of Atlanta Progressive News […]

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Children, Youth Sue U.S. Government over Climate Change Inaction

December 23, 2018 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Juliana v. U.S. Government is no ordinary lawsuit; it is a historic lawsuit with children telling President Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry that they will see them in court to save the the environment for future generations. The Children’s Climate Change lawsuit was first filed in August 2015 in U.S. District Court in Eugene, […]

After Homeless Deaths, Activists Push City on Warming Centers

December 16, 2018 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — At least two homeless people have frozen to death in recent weeks after sleeping on the streets of Atlanta this very cold and wet winter. Now activists are asking the City of Atlanta to make changes to its warming center policies to prevent more deaths from occurring. One homeless man named Ricky died on November 27, […]

Gun Reform Advocates Propel McBath to Victory in U.S. House Race

December 2, 2018 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — U.S. Rep.-elect Lucy McBath (D-GA), a national advocate for gun reform whose son was tragically murdered in 2012, was elected to the U.S. House seat for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District on November 06, 2018. Her victory was made possible with the help of gun control advocates across the country and a changing Sixth District disgusted […]

Could Legal Personhood Save the Savannah River?

November 24, 2018 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Nations around the world are addressing our environmental challenges by taking a novel legal approach, that is, granting personhood status to Mother Earth or to the rivers and lands she comprises. The Savannah River, which runs through Georgia, is the third most toxic river in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. […]

Vogtle Reactors Move Forward, despite Co-owner Concerns

November 3, 2018 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — After a debate on a “go or no go” vote, the co-owners–Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG), Oglethorpe Power, and Dalton Utilities–decided to continue construction on the planned Plant Vogtle nuclear reactors Units 3 and 4, despite never-ending cost overruns. The vote was triggered by a recent 2.3 billion dollar jump in the budget announced by […]

Kemp Faces Voter Purge Lawsuits in Georgia

October 14, 2018 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp is currently facing at least two lawsuits related to his voter purging practices in the lead-up to the November 2018 General Election. In 2017, Kemp found a way to purge another half a million voters from the voter rolls, continuing his practice of purging eligible voters from the voter rolls […]

Activists Push Co-owner, MEAG, to End the Insanity of Vogtle Units 3, 4

September 22, 2018 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) SANDY SPRINGS — On Thursday, September 20, 2018, activists insisted that the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG), a minority co-owner of the pending two new nuclear reactors 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle, finally abandon the insanity that is their continued involvement in the project. Since the previous report by Atlanta Progressive News on the Vogtle co-owners, […]

Federal Judge Denies E-Vote Injunction in Georgia

September 20, 2018 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, September 17, 2018, U. S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have mandated paper ballots for Georgia’s November 06, 2018 General Election in the Curling v. Kemp lawsuit. Georgia voters will therefore continue to use touchscreen electronic voting machines for what election integrity advocates hope will be […]

A Crack in Co-Owner Support for Vogtle, as Costs Skyrocket

September 8, 2018 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — As the cost projections for the nuclear reactors 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle continue to skyrocket, co-owner support for Plant Vogtle is on increasingly shaky ground, especially as credit rating agencies are talking downgrades based upon the instability of cost projections around finishing the reactors. Georgia Power’s announcement last month of an unexpected increase of […]

Gwinnett Voters to Consider MARTA Referendum in March 2019

August 27, 2018 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On August 02, 2018, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to create a ballot referendum that will take place on March 19, 2019, for Gwinnett County citizens to consider whether to approve a one cent sales tax that would fund the expansion of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) into Gwinnett County. […]

Reality Winner of Augusta, Whistleblower, Sentenced under Espionage Act

August 25, 2018 GLORIA TATUM 2 comments

Photograph from Reality Winner’s personal Facebook page; used pursuant to fair use doctrine for educational purposes. (APN) ATLANTA — On Thursday, August 23, 2018, Reality Leigh Winner, 26, a brave whistleblower who warned the U.S. citizenry of Russian espionage related to state election systems, was sentenced to five years in prison under the Espionage Act. On June 26, 2018, […]

APN Special Report from U.S.-Mexican Border

August 16, 2018 GLORIA TATUM 2 comments

(APN) MCALLEN, Texas — The Grannies Respond Caravan, a group of grandmothers who are mad about the Trump Administration taking immigrant children away from their parents, converged in the border town of McAllen Texas, for a protest. Grannies Respond started out as twelve people, mostly self-described “Grannies,” in a van going from New York to Texas; and it turned […]

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