Dianne Mathiowetz

Atlantans vow to ‘Stop Cop City’

June 4 — In the days leading up to the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where a final…

June 6, 2023

Struggle to stop Cop City continues

Atlanta Hundreds of opponents of “Cop City” — the militarized police-training facility scheduled to be built on forested lands in…

May 22, 2023

Okefenokee Swamp threatened by proposed strip mine

Atlanta A years-long struggle by the Muskogee Creek Nation and environmentalists to preserve the Okefenokee Swamp, home of the Okefenokee…

May 10, 2023

Georgia protesters decry death of Salvador Vargas, immigrant detainee

More than 50 people, including family members and former detainees, rallied outside the gates of the Stewart Detention Center in…

May 8, 2023

Angela Davis backs struggle to ‘Stop Cop City’

Atlanta April 9 — The multiyear struggle against Cop City, the huge militarized police training facility projected to be built…

April 13, 2023

Man dies in Georgia detention center – protest planned

Salvador Vargas, a 61-year-old Mexican man and incarcerated migrant, died April 4 at a hospital in Columbus, Georgia. He had…

April 12, 2023

Atlanta: Protest over police murder of Forest Defender

More than 100 people sat cross-legged at Atlanta’s State Capitol March 25, with their hands raised and palms inward with…

March 27, 2023

Activists vow: ‘Cop City will never be built!’

Atlanta  Recently, the news cycle has been filled with the struggle against Cop City, the proposed urban warfare training facility…

March 13, 2023

Atlanta area police attack Music Festival, Stop Cop City battles on

Atlanta On March 7, Workers World writer Dianne Mathiowetz stated: “I was just at a press conference called by various…

March 7, 2023

Family of disabled man killed by police files historic ADA lawsuit

Matthew Zadok Williams, 35 years old, was experiencing a mental health breakdown April 12, 2021, at his home of five…

February 22, 2023