The results of the upcoming election season may impact the legal restrictions placed upon the clinic and abortion funds like ARC. Rice-Henry works to ensure that in electoral politics, the conversation “is around reproductive justice and reproductive care … it’s so much bigger and broader than abortion.”
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Summer of Resistance: Paving a United Path Forward for Georgia
For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
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…
Medicaid Unwinding: A time for expansion?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income adults and children, is designed to keep citizens healthy and provide necessary medical care. It also provides critical funding for hospitals and other…
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…
One Thousand Georgians Rally for Abortion Rights in Downtown Atlanta
“I’m here today to tell you that it is okay to be angry,” one of the speakers, who declined to provide their name, told the crowd, who gathered in Atlanta Tuesday night to protest a draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the day after its unprecedented…
Georgia lawmakers continue to defund schools in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
The significant presence of children from private Christian schools at the signing of Kemp’s education bills Thursday, was notable for two reasons, according to progressive activists who showed up to sign the wave: firstly, because these religious institutions showed…
Universal Free Lunch Comes to a Screeching Halt
June 30th, 2022 is the last day that students across Georgia and the United States will receive free lunch. Free lunch waivers were distributed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and it was a big help to families struggling during the pandemic. These…
A Closer Look at “Divisive Concepts”: – A Term Coined by the Georgia GOP
Q&A with Senator Elena Parent on HB 1084 Interview took place on April 11, 2022 Around midnight on Sine Die, and just a few blocks away from where the Walking Dead zombies once dragged themselves around Georgia State University campus, a zombie bill was in the…
Bodies as the Battleground: Reproductive Justice in Georgia
The results of the upcoming election season may impact the legal restrictions placed upon the clinic and abortion funds like ARC. Rice-Henry works to ensure that in electoral politics, the conversation “is around reproductive justice and reproductive care … it’s so much bigger and broader than abortion.”
Summer of Resistance: Paving a United Path Forward for Georgia
For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
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…
Medicaid Unwinding: A time for expansion?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income adults and children, is designed to keep citizens healthy and provide necessary medical care. It also provides critical funding for hospitals and other…
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…
One Thousand Georgians Rally for Abortion Rights in Downtown Atlanta
“I’m here today to tell you that it is okay to be angry,” one of the speakers, who declined to provide their name, told the crowd, who gathered in Atlanta Tuesday night to protest a draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the day after its unprecedented…
Georgia lawmakers continue to defund schools in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
The significant presence of children from private Christian schools at the signing of Kemp’s education bills Thursday, was notable for two reasons, according to progressive activists who showed up to sign the wave: firstly, because these religious institutions showed…
Universal Free Lunch Comes to a Screeching Halt
June 30th, 2022 is the last day that students across Georgia and the United States will receive free lunch. Free lunch waivers were distributed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and it was a big help to families struggling during the pandemic. These…
A Closer Look at “Divisive Concepts”: – A Term Coined by the Georgia GOP
Q&A with Senator Elena Parent on HB 1084 Interview took place on April 11, 2022 Around midnight on Sine Die, and just a few blocks away from where the Walking Dead zombies once dragged themselves around Georgia State University campus, a zombie bill was in the…
Bodies as the Battleground: Reproductive Justice in Georgia
The results of the upcoming election season may impact the legal restrictions placed upon the clinic and abortion funds like ARC. Rice-Henry works to ensure that in electoral politics, the conversation “is around reproductive justice and reproductive care … it’s so much bigger and broader than abortion.”
Summer of Resistance: Paving a United Path Forward for Georgia
For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
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…
Medicaid Unwinding: A time for expansion?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income adults and children, is designed to keep citizens healthy and provide necessary medical care. It also provides critical funding for hospitals and other…
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…
One Thousand Georgians Rally for Abortion Rights in Downtown Atlanta
“I’m here today to tell you that it is okay to be angry,” one of the speakers, who declined to provide their name, told the crowd, who gathered in Atlanta Tuesday night to protest a draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the day after its unprecedented…
Georgia lawmakers continue to defund schools in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
The significant presence of children from private Christian schools at the signing of Kemp’s education bills Thursday, was notable for two reasons, according to progressive activists who showed up to sign the wave: firstly, because these religious institutions showed…
Universal Free Lunch Comes to a Screeching Halt
June 30th, 2022 is the last day that students across Georgia and the United States will receive free lunch. Free lunch waivers were distributed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and it was a big help to families struggling during the pandemic. These…
A Closer Look at “Divisive Concepts”: – A Term Coined by the Georgia GOP
Q&A with Senator Elena Parent on HB 1084 Interview took place on April 11, 2022 Around midnight on Sine Die, and just a few blocks away from where the Walking Dead zombies once dragged themselves around Georgia State University campus, a zombie bill was in the…