Issues for 2013
1. Education
Georgia public schools have a high school graduation rate of
67.5%, the third worst in the nation. Yet the cost per public
school student, $10,587, is nearly $1,000 more than the national
average. Charter schools can...
By Scott Brown, Staff Writer
(APN) ATLANTA -- Over fourteen months after Occupy Atlanta protesters set up camp in downtown Woodruff Park, the fifty-two people who were arrested the night of October 25, 2011, for refusing to leave the park, finally...
By Courtney Hanson, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) DECATUR -- The Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition hosted Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange and author of the recent book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remo...
By Scott Brown, Special to the Atlanta Progressive News(APN) DEKALB COUNTY -- In the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 02, 2012, over twenty deputies from the Dekalb County Sheriff's Department, under orders from Sheriff Thomas Brown, drill...
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. W...
By Shane Patrick Cunningham, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News. (APN) ATLANTA -- State Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield (D-Decatur) announced on February 22, 2012, that she would not be running for reelection this year and that she would beg...
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,...
By Stephen Wing, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA -- Facing an uncertain future, people across the country seem to instinctively grasp two things: They want a greater sense of community in their lives and
they want to grow ...
By Arit Essien, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News, with additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale
(APN) ATLANTA -- In a noon press conference today, State Rep. Rashad Taylor, who has worked extensively with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, told re...
