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Ben Howard Back at NPU-R, Elected Secretary, Atlanta Tells NPUs: No More Banished Activists

November 26, 2015 ANNA SIMONTON 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — Earlier this year, two Atlanta activists, Ben Howard and Ron Shakir, were banned from participating in the public meetings of Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit R (NPU-R), a move that appears to have violated Georgia’s Open Meetings Act. http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/07/15/atlantas-npu-r-illegally-bans-members-from-open-meetings/ Ricardo Jacobs, the Chair of NPU-R, initiated the ban because, he claimed, Howard and Shakir repeatedly disrupted […]

Atlanta’s NPU-R Illegally Bans Members From Open Meetings

July 15, 2015 ANNA SIMONTON

(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia Attorney General’s office has opined that the officers of Atlanta Neighborhood Planning Unit R violated a city ordinance when they banned two outspoken members from participating in public meetings. In May 2015, Ben Howard, 82, a well-known senior advocate, and Ron Shakir, an activist who has run for City Council, were expelled from the […]

Atlanta Councilwoman Norwood Seeks New Restrictions on Public Comment

July 3, 2015 MATTHEW CHARLES

(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta City Councilwoman Mary Norwood (Post 2-at-large) has introduced controversial legislation to limit public comment at all of the Council’s seven bi-weekly Committee Meetings. Currently, each Committee gets to set its own time limits, if any; some committees have limits currently; some do not. The matter is under the purview of the respective seven Committee Chairpersons, […]

Atlanta Council Honors one of its Critics, Ben Howard, Senior Advocate

July 19, 2013 APN NEWS Leave a comment

By Patricia “Ma’ma Ajike” Williams, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — The City Council of Atlanta honored one of the strongest thorns in its side on Monday, July 15, 2013, when the Council declared the day to be “Ben Howard Appreciation Day” in the City of Atlanta. Elected officials, community leaders, and friends […]

Proclamation for Ben Howard, Senior Advocate, on His 80th Birthday

July 19, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

Proclamation for Ben Howard, Senior Advocate, on His 80th Birthday

May 19, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

Some Atlanta Councilmembers Seek Vote to Silence the Public, Again

January 31, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES

(APN) ATLANTA — Councilwoman Joyce Sheperd (District 12) and six other Councilmembers have set their sights on new public comment rules that would further limit the time allotted to citizens to speak at Council Committees, and would set other restrictions. Currently, each Committee Chair sets their own rules for public comment at each of the seven Committees of the Atlanta […]

Atlanta Councilwoman Winslow Draws Early Challenger

June 10, 2011 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

Atlanta Councilwoman Winslow Draws Early Challenger By Matthew Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Kwabena Nkromo has announced his intent to challenge Atlanta City Councilwoman Cleta Winslow (District 4) in the 2013 Municipal Election, according to an email he sent to Atlanta Progressive News. Nkromo writes that he wants to promote and develop a significant urban gardening program in the District which […]

APAB Votes to Request Atlanta Committee Briefing Records

May 25, 2011 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — At the Saturday, May 21, 2011, meeting of the Atlanta Planning and Advisory Board (APAB), the citizens’ advisory group to the City of Atlanta, APAB voted to request information related to one of the City Council of Atlanta’s seven regularly scheduled closed-door Committee Briefings, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. APAB President Cathy Richards and senior advocate Ben […]