NY Times: “You are a child of the Jim Crow South who grew up on a farm at a time when Black sharecroppers were hardly more than slaves. But even raised in that world, you understood the injustice of it. “The time for racial discrimination is over,” you said at your gubernatorial inauguration in 1971. Your audience…
Month: October 2024
“Georgia’s repressive tactics unravel as money laundering charges dropped in ‘Stop Cop City’ case”
Fight Back! News: “In a surprising but significant turn of events, on September 24, Georgia prosecutors have dropped all 15 counts of money laundering against three prominent activists involved in the “Stop Cop City” movement. These activists – Marlon Kautz, Adele MacLean and Savannah Patterson – are leaders of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF), a…
“She’s running with all she’s got for a seat she can’t win. That’s the point.”
WaPo: “Kate Barr is a blur of activity on the campaign trail this fall. She’s a fixture at local Democratic events, delivering fiery stump speeches. In her neighborhood here in the North Carolina Piedmont, many lawns display her Barbie-pink yard signs. She has branded T-shirts and sweatshirts and glittery stickers. Wherever she appears, her opening…
“The Forgotten Lessons of the Hamlet Fire [in NC]”
the Assembly: “On the morning of Sept. 3, 1991, as workers returned from the Labor Day holiday, a huge grease fire tore through a chicken-processing plant in remote Hamlet, N.C., near the South Carolina line. Employees rushed through the chaos to escape but were blocked by locked exit doors. Twenty-five people died. That day, the…
“Judge Strikes Down Georgia’s 6-Week Abortion Ban”
HuffPo: “A judge in Georgia struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban on Monday afternoon. The Fulton county judge, Robert McBurney, ruled the abortion ban unconstitutional under Georgia’s state constitution and suggested that the six-week abortion ban treated women like “collectively owned community property.” “A review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that…
“Helene sets off a scramble to keep voting on track in North Carolina”
WaPo: “Hurricane Helene’s destructive path across western North Carolina threatens to upend the fall election in the key battleground, with halted mail service disrupting absentee voting, thousands of voters cut off from polling locations and election administrators scrambling to adjust. Even as emergency response teams continued their search for survivors of the devastating storm and…