Georgia

Georgia: Big voter turnout ousts wealthy Republican senators

Atlanta Jan. 6 – Georgia voters made history on Jan. 5 by voting into the U.S. Senate Rev. Raphael Warnock,…

January 6, 2021

Redbaiting derails people’s needs in Georgia Senate runoff

Atlanta, Georgia So what's it like living in the political circus of the Jan. 5, 2021, run-off in Georgia for…

December 22, 2020

Atlanta ‘Dancing in the streets’

Nov. 8 --After spending days watching scenes of hundreds of election workers working long hours processing mail-in ballots in arenas…

November 11, 2020

Campus workers in Georgia defend Black and Brown lives

Atlanta This is a slightly edited version of a talk given at the Workers World Party Sept. 10 webinar, “Workers…

September 18, 2020

Racist, misogynist jail system: Deaths of women prisoners in Georgia

Atlanta, GA — Two people incarcerated in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center have died within the past two months…

August 26, 2020

Atlanta’s Black community demands: Justice for Rayshard Brooks!

June 13 — Amid existing protests in support of Black people murdered by police and white supremacists in Georgia and…

June 16, 2020

Georgia ‘reopens’ with questionable data

Atlanta Even as Georgia reopens certain businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s Department of Public Health continues to make…

May 27, 2020

Justice for Ahmaud!

On May 16, hundreds of people from Brunswick and Glynn Counties joined a car caravan filled with community members and…

May 19, 2020

A 21st century lynching: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!

May 11— In the early afternoon of Feb. 23, shots rang out on the tree-lined streets of Satilla Shores, a…

May 12, 2020

With some prisoners released, Atlanta activists protest to ‘Free Them All!’  

Georgia activist groups Women on the Rise and Southerners on New Ground (SONG) hosted a car caravan protest outside the…

April 16, 2020