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Battle Rages on Over Proposed Palmetto Pipeline through Georgia, South Carolina, Florida

January 17, 2016 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) ATLANTA — The legal fight rages on between Texas-based Kinder Morgan, and environmental groups and property owners in Georgia and South Carolina, over the company’s proposed one billion dollar Palmetto Pipeline. The controversial 360 mile Palmetto Pipeline would run off the existing Plantation Pipeline at Belton, South Carolina, then run through North Augusta and snake its way down […]

Victory as Mayor Reed Declares Mattie Jackson Can Stay in her Home

October 8, 2015 ANNA SIMONTON 3 comments

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. Photograph (screenshot) courtesy of Joyce Dorsey. (APN) ATLANTA — Community leader Mattie Jackson, 93, will not be forced out of her home. Mayor Kasim Reed made that promise to Jackson and her supporters in a meeting earlier today, on October 08, 2015. In September 2015, Atlanta Progressive News broke the story […]

Mattie Jackson, Neighbors Vow to Stay, as UDC Adopts Findings

September 16, 2015 APN NEWS Leave a comment

With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — On Wednesday, September 09, 2015 the Department of Watershed Management petitioned the Urban Design Commission for the demolition of homes, including seven they do not currently own or have under contract. Over thirty members of the public, including four current residents, showed up and voiced their opposition to […]

City of Atlanta Threatens Mattie Jackson, 93; Whole Peoplestown Block With Eminent Domain

September 5, 2015 ANNA SIMONTON

(APN) ATLANTA — One of Atlanta’s most revered community leaders–Mattie Jackson, 93–is in danger of losing her home to eminent domain as the City moves forward with plans to bulldoze two city blocks in Summerhill-Peoplestown in order to install stormwater detention ponds. The stretches of Ormond Street and Atlanta Ave. in question were part of the Summerhill neighborhood until […]

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

September 1, 2015 MATTHEW CHARLES 2 comments

(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 […]

Activists Protest UPS’s Shipping of Animal “Trophies” in Wake of Cecil Killing

August 28, 2015 APN NEWS 3 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is pressuring shipping company UPS to stop shipping exotic trophy animal parts, following the recent outcry over the death of Cecil the lion. Walter Palmer, a U.S. recreational big-game hunter killed Cecil, a Southwest African lion, on July 01, 2015, leading to international outcry and debate over recreational […]

Activists Target Coca Cola at Stone Mountain for Supporting Park

August 24, 2015 GLORIA TATUM One comment

(APN) STONE MOUNTAIN, Georgia — Opposing forces struggle for the mind and soul of the U.S. South, as the controversy over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag and Confederate monument plays out at Stone Mountain Park. On Saturday, August 22, 2015, activists from Rise Up Georgia flew a banner connecting Coca Cola’s funding of the park to the […]

Capitol Police Aim to Block Media Coverage of 24 Arrests on Moral Monday (UPDATE 1)

February 12, 2014 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Monday, February 10, 2014, twenty-four activists were arrested during the third “Moral Monday” protest at the Georgia State Capitol. Numerous news organizations attempted to cover the arrests, but were blocked by what, by all accounts, appears to have been an intentional collaboration between the Capitol Police and the Georgia State Patrol (GSP). It is the […]

Moral Monday Movement Coming to Georgia

December 15, 2013 KEVIN MORAN Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Since August 19, 2013, a “Moral Monday” movement has been building in Georgia to take back our State government from the interests of corporations and wealthy people. The Moral Monday Georgia Coalition, which includes people of faith and citizens of Georgia, has been meeting every two weeks to plan for progressive actions during the 2014 Legislative Session. […]

First Person: Occupying Our Homes, Fighting Foreclosures

March 28, 2012 APN NEWS Leave a comment

By Robert Derenthal, Occupy Atlanta With a staggering number of homes being foreclosed upon this year and the millions of families facing homelessness, one would hope a grassroots resistance against the epidemic of foreclosures would spring up. Well, the resistance is rising. Occupy Atlanta is about to enter into its fifth month of defending families from morally reprehensible and […]

Lt. Dan Choi delivers command tent rewarded to Occupy Atlanta

March 4, 2012 APN NEWS Leave a comment

By Scott Brown, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News; Photograph by Gloria Tatum, Senior Staff Writer (APN) ATLANTA — Last week, former US Army Lieutenant Dan Choi visited Occupy Atlanta on behalf of the progressive blogging site Firedoglake, after the blog selected Occupy Atlanta as one of five national occupations to be awarded with a military-grade command post tent for their […]

Video of Student Arrest at Emory Library Troubles Some Activists

December 7, 2011 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Some progressive activists are concerned about a video recently posted to Youtube that shows Emory University police arresting an Emory PhD student, Joe Diaz. The video, which Atlanta Progressive News reviewed earlier today, is titled Emory Student Arrested for Trying to Help Homeless Woman. The video first shows Diaz interacting with Emory police inside the library, […]

Two Arrested at Stewart Detention Center, One at Fort Benning

November 22, 2011 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) FORT BENNING, Georgia — On Friday, November 18, 2011, Chris Spicer from Chicago, Illinois, was arrested at Stewart Detention Center for crossing the police barricade in an act of civil disobedience. Spicer recently finished serving a six-month sentence for crossing the line, literally, at the 2010 Vigil to Close the School of the Americans. Wayne Ammons, Chief Magistrate Judge […]

APD Officers Run Motorcycle into Protesters, Charge Horse at Senior

November 7, 2011 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

With additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale. (APN) ATLANTA — Over one hundred Atlanta Police were out in full force again on the night of Saturday, November 05, 2011, after Occupy Atlanta reoccupied Woodruff Park [also known as Troy Davis park] to redress their grievances that the current system continues to fail the people, and to demand real change. During […]

(IPS) Numerous Protests, Arrests as Georgia Executes Troy Davis

September 22, 2011 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

An earlier version of this article first appeared on Inter-Press Service’s website at: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105207 ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 22, 2011 (IPS) – The U.S. state of Georgia executed Troy Davis at 11:08 p.m. on Wednesday, Sep. 21, despite serious doubts about his guilt that inspired mass protests in Georgia, across the United States, and indeed, around the world. Davis had been […]

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