by gapeachpitd | Aug 24, 2022 | Education, Metro Atlanta
Before her current role as organizer and board member of Forsyth Coalition for Education, an organization that has successfully reversed a book ban despite having existed for less than a year, the biggest book controversy Pat Wall contended with in Forsyth County...
by gapeachpitd | Aug 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Voting
The January 6th Capital Insurrection was and continues to be a defining moment in U.S. history and for democracy. Recently, the Defend Democracy Project and Public Policy Polling partnered together to conduct polling research to measure public sentiment on the January...
by gapeachpitd | Jul 15, 2022 | Metro Atlanta, Voting
Although the events of January 6th, 2021, were eventually subdued- after blood was shed and much of the country was horrified – Republican state legislators nationwide persisted in a concerted effort to subvert the will of voters in their own backyards. Georgia, the...
by gapeachpitd | Jul 7, 2022 | Metro Atlanta, Middle Georgia, Reproductive Justice, SW Georgia
In the years leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Megan Gordon-Kane says that she and other reproductive justice activists felt like Kassandra, the mythological priestess gifted with predicting the future, while at the same time cursed, never to be believed....
by gapeachpitd | Jun 24, 2022 | Economy, Environment, Metro Atlanta, NE Georgia, NW Georgia
Amidst a U.S. national crisis in which the highest court in the land is restricting the regulation of carbon emissions at the federal level, the public interest advocacy staff of Georgia’s own regulatory body, The Public Service Commission, has declined Georgia...
