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Standing Rock Solidarity Events Held in Atlanta, Decatur

November 13, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 5 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Activists held two events, one in Atlanta and one in Decatur, in recent weeks in solidarity with the Native American-led protests at Standing Rock, in South Dakota, against the Dakota Pipeline, which have been ongoing for months. http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2016/08/28/natives-environmentalists-stand-with-sioux-opposing-dakota-pipeline/ Vigils and rallies for Standing Rock are popping up everywhere across the country, and even in other […]

Encampment at Atlanta City Hall Addresses Gentrification

November 11, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 5 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, November 07, 2016, ATLisReady, a coalition of dozens of organizations, distributed a position paper to the City Council of Atlanta and Mayor Kasim Reed on the problems of, and solutions to, Atlanta’s Equity Crisis. Then, they set up a Tent City outside of City Hall, and they stayed through Tuesday morning. The City too […]

Decatur Voters Consider Tax Relief for Seniors

November 4, 2016 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) DECATUR — Signs are up all over the City of Decatur, not for Clinton or Trump, but to support tax relief for seniors on the November 08, 2016 General Election ballot. State Sen. Elena Parent (D-Atlanta) and Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur) sponsored five local bills that passed the Georgia Legislature this session, which created the voter referendum […]

Black Lives Matter Shuts Down Atlanta Council, as Council Approves Eminent Domain Talks for Peachtree-Pine

October 5, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 4 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, October 03, 2016, Black Lives Matter Atlanta and a broad, youth-led coalition of progressive activists led a lengthy series of disruptions of the Full Council Meeting of the City Council of Atlanta. It was the rowdiest, most boisterous direct action to take place in Council Chambers since the 2005 panhandling ordinance. To his […]

Open Door Community, a Space for Homeless Advocacy, Closing in January 2017

October 1, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

With additional background by Matthew Charles Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — The Open Door Community at 910 Ponce de Leon Avenue, a home and community space that has served Atlanta’s homeless community and many others in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood for 35 years, will close its doors some time in January 2017. The Catholic Worker-led Open Door Community has provided […]

Atlantans March Against Police Killings of Crutcher, Scott, Rogers, Robinson

September 26, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 4 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — On Friday, September 23, 2016, approximately one thousand people gathered at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights at 100 Ivan Allen Boulevard for a rally, march, and sit-in to demand not one more Black body lost to the hands of the police in the United States. The rally was in response to the recent […]

Solarize Decatur-DeKalb Promotes Solar Panels Installations for Homes

September 21, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 2 comments

(APN) DECATUR — DeKalb County homeowners, business owners, and environmentalists showed up at the downtown Decatur Recreation Center for a town hall meeting on September 01, 2016 to learn how to solarize their homes and businesses with the Solarize Decatur-DeKalb campaign. www.solarcrowdsource.com/projects/solarize-decatur-dekalb/ One can sign up online for a free solar evaluation between September 01 and December 31, […]

Atlantans Rally in Support of Largest Prison Strike in U.S. History

September 17, 2016 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

With editing by Tom Coffin, Special to the Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — The largest coordinated work stoppage and hunger strikes in U.S. history began on Friday, September 09, 2016–the 45th anniversary of the infamous and brutally suppressed prison uprising at Attica State Prison in New York–and is currently still in progress. The prison strike encompasses at […]

Proposed Sabal Gas Pipeline Runs through Aquifer, Wetlands, Sinkhole Territory

September 12, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 4 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — The proposed Sabal Trail–a fracked gas pipeline through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida–would run through hundred of miles of sinkhole-prone land, will cross over one thousand wetlands, and will disturb an aquifer. Some environmental advocates refer to the project as the “Sinkhole Trail Pipeline.”. The project will include approximately 474 miles of a three foot wide, […]

Natives, Environmentalists Stand with Sioux, Opposing Dakota Pipeline

August 28, 2016 GLORIA TATUM One comment

Photograph courtesy of UnicornRiot.Ninja. (APN) ATLANTA — Native Americans, environmental activists, and landowners have formed a coalition to stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in opposing to the Dakota Access Pipeline (“Bakken pipeline”), the latest iteration of what would have been the Keystone XL Pipeline. After seven years of protests, sit-ins, lobbying, letter writing, and a review […]

Emory University Pursuing Atlanta Annexation

August 27, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Emory University has announced plans to pursue annexation of its campus into the City of Atlanta. Emory is currently part of unincorporated DeKalb County. “Emory already promotes its location as Atlanta, is known internationally as being located in Atlanta, and has an Atlanta address and zip code,” the university said in a press release. “The […]

Mims Park Statue, of Confederate Mayor Mims, Raises Concern

August 21, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 6 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Plans are underway to restore historic Mims Park, on Atlanta’s West side in the Vine City community, to its original design by world renowned landscape Architects Frederick Law Olmsted and John Charles Olmsted. The restored Mims Park will memorialize and honor legends of the Civil Rights Movement with statues, but another legacy that is interwoven in […]

Georgians Outraged by DEA Decision Not to Reschedule Cannabis

August 19, 2016 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On August 11, 2016, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rejected two petitions to reschedule cannabis (“marijuana”) under the Controlled Substances Act from Schedule 1–the classification for dangerous drugs with no medical value–to a lower classification. https://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2016/hq081116.shtml One petition was from Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, and medical cannabis […]

BLM Imposter, “Sir Maejor,” Impersonated FBI Agent, Police

August 8, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 15 comments

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Tyree Lavelle Conyers-Page, an Atlanta-based activist who calls himself “Sir Maejor,” has been at the center of controversy over the last couple weeks. As first reported by Atlanta Progressive News, he has placed himself at the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement in Atlanta, even though he […]

Decatur Wowed By Options at Tiny House Festival

August 6, 2016 GLORIA TATUM 3 comments

(APN) DECATUR — The first Tiny House Festival to be held in Decatur, Georgia, happened last weekend, on July 30 and 31, 2016, featuring a dozen tiny houses. A tiny house is anything under 500 square feet (sq ft). Most homes at the festival were from 95 sq. ft. to 350 sq. ft. Some tiny homes count the […]

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