Are the stars aligned to dramatically increase the number of low-income Georgia families who can qualify for affordable health insurance? Fourteen years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Georgia is one of only ten states that has not closed the…
Alan Mih
A Brief Break Down: Redistricting- Why your vote matters!
Redistricting, redistricting, redistricting. We’ve all heard about it. We’ve seen the topic thrown around in the media and the internet, but why is it important? What does it mean, and why should you care? Today we will break down redistricting so that you have an…
School Vouchers: A bad idea for Georgia schools
The premise of school vouchers is for the state to give tax money to students to use in private schools. The scheme has been around for many years, and like a bad penny, it just seems to keep turning up. The current iteration is SB 233. This bill would give a $6,000..
Able Mable Thomas, Founding Mother of the Reproductive Justice movement, tells her story
The first time Representative Mable “Able” Thomas boarded an airplane, she was 25 years old and heading from Atlanta to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. She would represent Jesse Jackson as a presidential delegate. As the five-star hotel rooms…
The Doctor is In (City Hall)
Despite Atlanta City Council’s failure to close the Atlanta City Detention Center, as they voted in 2019 to do, the opposition to the lingering jail, along with the systemic ills it encapsulates, continues to grow. As evidenced by the increasing number of white coats…
Police militarize against peaceful protestors, ignore local opposition to a police training facility, as “Stop Cop City” movement gains momentum
The growing momentum of the “Stop Cop City” movement was evident by Wednesday, May 14th, the third day in a week of action against the construction of a military-grade police training facility in the South River Forest, when sixty-plus people showed up mid-work-week…
Medicaid Expansion: Is this the Year?
Are the stars aligned to dramatically increase the number of low-income Georgia families who can qualify for affordable health insurance? Fourteen years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Georgia is one of only ten states that has not closed the…
A Brief Break Down: Redistricting- Why your vote matters!
Redistricting, redistricting, redistricting. We’ve all heard about it. We’ve seen the topic thrown around in the media and the internet, but why is it important? What does it mean, and why should you care? Today we will break down redistricting so that you have an…
School Vouchers: A bad idea for Georgia schools
The premise of school vouchers is for the state to give tax money to students to use in private schools. The scheme has been around for many years, and like a bad penny, it just seems to keep turning up. The current iteration is SB 233. This bill would give a $6,000..
Able Mable Thomas, Founding Mother of the Reproductive Justice movement, tells her story
The first time Representative Mable “Able” Thomas boarded an airplane, she was 25 years old and heading from Atlanta to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. She would represent Jesse Jackson as a presidential delegate. As the five-star hotel rooms…
The Doctor is In (City Hall)
Despite Atlanta City Council’s failure to close the Atlanta City Detention Center, as they voted in 2019 to do, the opposition to the lingering jail, along with the systemic ills it encapsulates, continues to grow. As evidenced by the increasing number of white coats…
Police militarize against peaceful protestors, ignore local opposition to a police training facility, as “Stop Cop City” movement gains momentum
The growing momentum of the “Stop Cop City” movement was evident by Wednesday, May 14th, the third day in a week of action against the construction of a military-grade police training facility in the South River Forest, when sixty-plus people showed up mid-work-week…
Medicaid Expansion: Is this the Year?
Are the stars aligned to dramatically increase the number of low-income Georgia families who can qualify for affordable health insurance? Fourteen years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Georgia is one of only ten states that has not closed the…
A Brief Break Down: Redistricting- Why your vote matters!
Redistricting, redistricting, redistricting. We’ve all heard about it. We’ve seen the topic thrown around in the media and the internet, but why is it important? What does it mean, and why should you care? Today we will break down redistricting so that you have an…
School Vouchers: A bad idea for Georgia schools
The premise of school vouchers is for the state to give tax money to students to use in private schools. The scheme has been around for many years, and like a bad penny, it just seems to keep turning up. The current iteration is SB 233. This bill would give a $6,000..
Able Mable Thomas, Founding Mother of the Reproductive Justice movement, tells her story
The first time Representative Mable “Able” Thomas boarded an airplane, she was 25 years old and heading from Atlanta to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. She would represent Jesse Jackson as a presidential delegate. As the five-star hotel rooms…
The Doctor is In (City Hall)
Despite Atlanta City Council’s failure to close the Atlanta City Detention Center, as they voted in 2019 to do, the opposition to the lingering jail, along with the systemic ills it encapsulates, continues to grow. As evidenced by the increasing number of white coats…
Police militarize against peaceful protestors, ignore local opposition to a police training facility, as “Stop Cop City” movement gains momentum
The growing momentum of the “Stop Cop City” movement was evident by Wednesday, May 14th, the third day in a week of action against the construction of a military-grade police training facility in the South River Forest, when sixty-plus people showed up mid-work-week…