Category Archives: Central Atlanta Progress

Atlanta Mayor Uses TB Outbreak as False Pretext To Attack Homeless Shelter

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(APN) ATLANTA — The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless is once again under attack by the City of Atlanta.   On Tuesday, August 11, 2015, Mayor Kasim Reed announced his intentions to take over the shelter, known colloquially at “Peachtree-Pine,” through eminent domain.  The Mayor said he would demolish the building and construct a new shelter to house […]

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Beaty: “Angels” Are Helping Homeless Task Force

(APN) ATLANTA — Anita Beaty, Executive Director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force of the Homeless, tells Atlanta Progressive News that “several angels” have been helping the shelter. The Task Force was able to pay approximately 580,000 dollars in past due water bills to the City of Atlanta last week, on Friday, September 26, 2014. Beaty said the angels have […]

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Special Master Sees Possible Torts in Homeless Task Force Lawsuit

  (APN) ATLANTA — Special Master Frank Strickland, who was appointed to make conclusions of fact and law, and recommendations, to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall in the lawsuits concerning the business community and City of Atlanta’s well-documented conspiracy to sabotage the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, has issued an order that is quite favorable to […]

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Task Force for the Homeless Wins Two Georgia Court of Appeals Rulings

(APN) ATLANTA — Within the last two weeks, the Georgia Court of Appeals has issued two separate orders benefitting the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, which is in a dispute with the City of Atlanta, Central Atlanta Progress, Manny Fialkow, Emory University, and others regarding what the Task Force asserts is the parties’ illegal scheme of racketeering and […]

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Schwall Reverses Own Eviction Order, after Task Force Appeals

  (APN) ATLANTA — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall reversed his own disspossesory order against the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless after the Task Force filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Georgia. “The Court hereby VACATES its Order of Dispossessory entered October 17, 2011,” Schwall wrote in his order dated October 21. “Attached please […]

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Judge Schwall Issues Dispossessory against Homeless Task Force

  (APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, October 17, 2011, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall issued a dispossessory against the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless and Anity Beaty, which allows Premium Funding Solutions– the building’s current owner–to evict them as early as October 27, 2011. The ruling, a copy of which was obtained by Atlanta Progressive News, […]

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Emory University Issues Response to Task Force Lawsuit

(APN) ATLANTA — Emory University and Emory Health Care have issued a statement in response to a request from Atlanta Progressive News concerning the lawsuit filed by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless regarding Emory’s alleged participation in the conspiracy to sabotage the shelter. “Emory University and Emory Healthcare were named as defendants in a Dekalb County lawsuit […]

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