Dianne Mathiowetz

Activists close down Atlanta Detention Center

The multistory Atlanta City Detention Center was built prior to the 1996 Olympics to house the hundreds of poor and…

June 4, 2019

Free Imam Jamil Al-Amin!

Supporters packed the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals courtroom on May 3 to witness the latest legal effort to win…

May 9, 2019

Say his name: Oscar Cain Jr.

Atlanta activist Oscar Cain Jr. was shot and killed by police in the early morning hours of March 31. The…

April 16, 2019

Georgia, #1 in maternal deaths, passes country’s most restrictive abortion law

The Georgia legislature succeeded in passing the most restrictive law governing access to abortion in the country on March 29,…

April 4, 2019

Walter Rodney: Immersed in class struggle

The 16th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium was held March 22-23 at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library where the renowned…

March 27, 2019

One year later, Gaza’s Great March of Return

March 21 -- Ahmed Abu Artema, from his home in Gaza, sent out a January 2018 Facebook post asking: What…

March 25, 2019

In Atlanta, fighting racism with the KaeperBowl

Feb. 10 -- When the capitalist colossus known as the Super Bowl takes over a city like it did Feb.…

February 12, 2019

Voting rights battle in Georgia

Atlanta — Major newspapers and national TV news programs have carried stories about the close Georgia governor’s race between Demo­crat…

October 25, 2018

Solidarity underway with prison strikers

Atlanta organizations responded to a call from the Workers World Party branch here to work cooperatively in support of the…

August 14, 2018

Transgender activist wins asylum

Estrella Sánchez, a Mexican transgender woman, emerged on May 22 from immigration court in the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin,…

June 4, 2018