Tag Archives: Black Lives Matter

Atlanta Council Delays Action on CRB Reforms

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(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta City Council’s Public Safety/Legal Administration Committee (PS/LA) was set to discuss and possibly vote on an ordinance granting new powers to the Atlanta Citizens Review Board at its meeting on Tuesday, February 23, 2016.   However, numerous citizens who planned to attend and speak learned that the PS/LA Committee Chairman Ivory Young (District 3) decided […]

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RCP, BLM: Can’t we all just get along?

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By Dougie “The Abolitionist” Hanson   I was really disappointed to read the Atlanta Progressive News article disrespecting my good friends with the Atlanta RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party).   http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/09/01/rcp-black-activists-feud-on-twitter-as-janelle-monae-performs-in-atlanta/   I’m a Democratic Socialist, but I know many of them personally.  I developed great respect for them because they were fighting back against Police Brutality & Mass Incarceration when […]

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Activists, Mother Demand Video in Alexia Christian Police Killing

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(APN) ATLANTA — “No justice, no peace!  No tape-hiding police!” came the chant outside a west Atlanta IHOP restaurant on the morning of Tuesday, September 1, 2015.   In April 2015, two Atlanta Police Department (APD) officers shot and killed Alexia Christian in highly questionable circumstances.   APN has previously reported on the police killing in depth:   http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/05/15/atlanta-citizens-review-board-gets-on-activists-last-nerve/   […]

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Transgender Activists Take Issue with MARTA, APD; Say Black Trans Lives Matter

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(APN) ATLANTA — Atlantans joined with activists in other U.S. cities for Trans Liberation Tuesday on August 25, 2015, with nearly one hundred supporters gathering at Underground Atlanta for the event.   Organizers of the event spoke with Atlanta Progressive News about problems with the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and the Atlanta Police Department (APD) the transgender community […]

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RCP, Black Activists Feud on Twitter as Janelle Monae Performs in Atlanta

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  (APN) ATLANTA — Singer Janelle Monae and other members of Wondaland performed in front of a large crowd on Monday, August 31, 2015 as part of a rally organized by Stop Mass Incarceration Network and the Revolution Club (Revolutionary Communist Party, also known as RCP or RevCom).   At each stop of Janelle Monae and Wondaland’s The Eephus Tour […]

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What We’re Reading – Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Click on full post to access links.   Southern Company to Acquire AGL Resources in 12 Billion Dollar Transaction, Creating Leading U.S. Electric and Gas Utility PRNewswire http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/southern-company-to-acquire-agl-resources-in-12-billion-transaction-creating-leading-us-electric-and-gas-utility-300132138.html   EXCLUSIVE: Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter The Intercept http://interc.pt/1CVebx8   The Myth of the New Orleans School Makeover New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of-the-new-orleans-school-makeover.html   Public Schools for Sale? BillMoyers.com http://billmoyers.com/episode/public-schools-for-sale/   […]

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It’s Bigger Than You holds One Year Anniversary March

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(APN) ATLANTA — On Tuesday, August 19, 2015, one year anniversary of the It’s Bigger Than You movement, the group marked the occasion with a commemorative march starting at the CNN Center.  Forty supporters marched through downtown Atlanta, despite heavy rain and thunder.   “Today was about celebrating the resistance work that has been happening on the ground for the […]

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Stone Mountain’s Neo-Confederates Target Anti-Racist Activists Online

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(APN) ATLANTA — Two groups involved in a recent pro-Confederate flag rally appear to have threateningly targeted counter-demonstrators online.   The counter protesters included Aurielle Marie Lucier, Tommy DiMassimo, Ariella Riapos, and Lucas Javier Valderranna.  Their activities were recorded by photographer Steve Eberhardt.   The groups had posted on their Facebook pages the names, background information, and contact information of […]

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Atlantans Protest Ferguson Grand Jury; 26 Arrested

(APN) ATLANTA — Last week, some twenty-six Metro Atlantans, including two journalists, were arrested, during Atlanta protests in the wake of a grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. The decision was announced late Monday, November 24, 2014.  On Tuesday, November 25, thousands […]

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Young Activists Blockade I-75/85 in Ferguson Solidarity Action

By Anna Simonton, Staff Writer (October 27, 2014) (APN) ATLANTA — On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, activists shut down four lanes of northbound traffic on I-75/85 for more than half an hour.  The action was part the 19th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. It was also part of a […]

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(IPS) Some Activists Regret Obama, USDOJ Inaction on Troy Davis

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service at: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105286. ATLANTA, Sep 28, 2011 (IPS) – During the last days of Troy Davis’s life, activists intensified what was already significant pressure on both U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ), a federal agency under Obama’s purview, to save Davis, but Obama declined to act. On Sep. […]

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