Dianne Mathiowetz

Georgia school workers score victory

Atlanta — On the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn., low-wage workers…

April 8, 2013

Activistas de Atlanta detienen ejecución hipotecaria

Atlanta, 10 de diciembre - Activistas defensores de la vivienda han incrementado la lucha contra los embargos, los desahucios y…

December 19, 2012

Atlanta housing activists stop foreclosure

Atlanta, Dec. 10 — Housing justice activists ratcheted up the struggle against foreclosures, evictions and homelessness by reclaiming a boarded-up, bank-owned…

December 13, 2012

Pride Day march in Atlanta

Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to cheer and applaud the huge parade that filled Peachtree Street and…

October 26, 2012

Selma, Ala., community protests monument to KKK leader

The struggle to stop the construction of a monument to Nathan Bedford Forrest, first grand Dragon of the Ku Klux…

October 14, 2012

Atlanta remembers Troy Davis on Sept. 21

“We need to dismantle this unjust system …” Troy Davis had written shortly before his execution by the state of…

September 13, 2012

School workers fight denial of unemployment benefits

Atlanta — With each blow of the gavel, the words “Guilty, guilty, guilty!” brought the crowd to their feet, cheering…

August 27, 2012

All out! Protest RNC, DNC

Residents of Tampa Bay, Fla., are about to have their lives disrupted, not by a hurricane but by the heavily…

August 22, 2012

School workers fight unemployment cut-off

Atlanta — An estimated 65,000 school workers in Georgia — from unionized bus drivers to food service workers employed by…

July 18, 2012

Georgia prisoners on strike:
Starving for change

Family members say that 10 prisoners at Jackson Diagnostic and Classification Prison are on a month-long hunger strike to protest…

July 18, 2012