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BREAKING: 4 US Reps for Cheney Impeachment
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:06 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – US Rep. Albert Russell Wynn (D-MD) has become the fourth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition ... More >>
Cindy Sheehan May Run for US Congress in 2008
Monday, 14 May 2007, 12:57 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – Renowned antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan is considering a run for US Congress in 2008, Atlanta Progressive News has learned in the process of interviewing Sheehan about her upcoming rally in Washington, DC, this Mothers’ Day weekend. ... More >>
Breaking: 3 US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 10:49 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – H Res 333, the bill introducing Articles of Impeachment against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, now has two co-sponsors, for a total of 3 current total supporters, including sponsor US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), ... More >>
Atlantans Spell IMPEACH In Candles at Intersection
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 9:55 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – About 20 Atlanta activists met at sundown at Freedom Park to spell out the word IMPEACH with an array of candles on a hill at a major intersection, Freedom Parkway and Moreland Avenue. More >>
Full Text: Articles of Impeachment of Dick Cheney
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 4:14 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA -- Today, US Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney. Kucinich did not limit the Articles to the issue of Iran; they also include defrauding the public and Congress ... More >>
US Rep. Kucinich's Shift toward Impeachment
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 4:14 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – US Rep. Kucinich (D-OH) is about to unveil Articles of Impeachment against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney at a press conference tomorrow, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Both Kucinich’s Campaign and Congressional Offices have ... More >>
Rep. Brooks Gets Racist Email over Slavery Apology
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:54 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks has requested an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) over a racist email he received a few weeks ago, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. More >>
Film Review: In Debt We Trust, by Danny Schechter
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:54 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – “The new economic conflict in our society is between creditors and debtors,” Michael Hudson, economic historian, says, in a new documentary film, In Debt We Trust, by Danny Schechter. More >>
Lewis Johnson Split on Iraq; McKinney Thinks Green
Monday, 26 March 2007, 3:24 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – US Reps. John Lewis (D-GA) and Hank Johnson (D-GA)–Georgia’s two most leftist Congresspersons–split sharply today on the US Occupation in Iraq, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. More >>
Kucinich Leads Candidates on Health Care for All
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 2:01 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
March 19, 2007) (APN) ATLANTA – Major 2008 Democratic candidates for President of the United States–including Clinton, Edwards, Kucinich, and Obama–have already begun addressing health care in their campaigns. However, US Rep. Dennis Kucinich ... More >>
Gonzales Nixed Inquiry into Own Conduct at DOJ
Monday, 19 March 2007, 10:59 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – At least four Members of US Congress and four US Senators today raised concerns about a breaking report in the National Journal that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have known he was going to be negatively implicated ... More >>
United Way Questioned on Nuke Bomb Support
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 1:39 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) NORTH AUGUSTA, SOUTH CAROLINA – The United Way of Aiken County, South Carolina, has come under recent criticism for its support of the Bush Administration’s proposed new weapons-grade plutonium plant at a recent hearing, Atlanta Progressive News recently ... More >>
Bush Indictment Drafted by Fmr. Federal Prosecutor
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 10:48 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, has written a new best-selling book, US v. Bush, which includes a federal indictment against President George W. Bush and other top administration officials for conspiracy to ... More >>
CBS Calls Out Gateway Shelter on Misleading Public
Friday, 23 February 2007, 9:41 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – Atlanta’s CBS 46 News reporter Joanna Massee called the Gateway Center out for misleading her, and indeed, the public, in what was her second report on homeless women in Atlanta and the Gateway’s mass eviction policies, which aired ... More >>
37th Annual Poor People's Day Held at GA Capitol
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 1:44 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – “The rich are gettin’ richer on the backs of the poor, and we won’t take it anymore,” homeless advocate and folk singer, Lynn Griever, sang, at the Trinity United Methodist Church, as about 250 working class people and advocates ... More >>
Atlanta SOA Protester Gets 100 Days in Fed Prison
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 1:41 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – An Atlanta activist received a sentence of 100 days in a federal prison on January 29, 2007, after being arrested and charged with a Class B misdemeanor November 19, 2006, at a protest at the School of the Americas (SOA). The notorious ... More >>
US Army Drops Reporter Subpoenas, Watada Mistrial
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:03 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – The US military has dropped the controversial subpoenas of two journalists, independent journalist Sarah Olson, who interviewed Lt. Ehren Watada for Truthout.org, and Gregg Kakesako of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, after Watada ... More >>
Woolsey Bill Would "Bring Troops Home" in 6 Mnths
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 2:19 pm | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – Last week US Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) introduced H.R. 508, the "Bring the Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2007," the strongest of all current US Congressional bills which seek to de-escalate the US Invasion of ... More >>
Federal Minimum Wage Bill Faces More Trouble
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 11:11 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – The bill to increase the federal minimum wage today faces a colliding of obstacles as the US Senate appears poised to pass a version with one or even two amendments undesired by the Democratic leadership in the US House. The Senate began ... More >>
15 Sen Dems Not Cosponsors on Min. Wage Increase
Friday, 19 January 2007, 10:11 am | Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – While a bill to pass the federal minimum wage passed the US House just last week, an identical bill in the US Senate is uncertain to pass at this time, particularly when 15 Senate Democrats have not cosponsored the bill. More >>
