(APN) ATLANTA — On Saturday, December 05, 2015, the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow hosted a program at the Little 5 Points Community Center called, “Georgia Gulag: It’s Up to Us to Stop It.” In Georgia, there are eighty prisons, 22 youth detention facilities, five immigrant detention facilities, and 193 jails, plus probation centers. “Mass incarceration […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Cecilia Florence “Ceci” Mitchell, 63, passed away on April 26, 2015. Mitchell was known in Atlanta as a passionate advocate, working on such issues as equality, peace, and environmental justice. This is a belated obituary because Atlanta Progressive News only recently learned of her passing when a letter to her home from APN was returned from […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The issues surrounding the recent election for Members of the Board of Directors of grocery cooperative Sevananda remain unresolved, months after Sevananda sued three of its members: Felton Eaddy, Abdullah Muqtasid, and Brian Sherman; and Sherman countersued. The promise of cooperative enterprise, as an alternative to the top-down corporate model, is one of shared profits, shared responsibility, […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The Atlanta Chapter of Food Not Bombs is about to celebrate two years of feeding hungry people on Ponce de Leon Avenue each Sunday at 1:30pm, on the sidewalk near the Whole Foods and Home Depot shopping center. That means they have served about 100 times. They serve about fifteen people these days, although it used […]
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