Streets of Atlanta

written by Gloria Tatum........................ The Department of City Planning raided the Tree Trust Fund of $2.4 million for salaries and benefits that should have been paid out of the general fund.   The Department of Parks and Recreation impermissibly charged the Tree Trust Fund with more than $900,000 of salaries and benefits that should have been … Continue reading The City of Atlanta Robbed the Tree Trust Fund of Millions for Years

Written by Glenn Carroll, Coordinator of Nuclear Watch South........... Nuclear Watch South has docketed a Petition for Public Hearing with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in opposition to Southern Nuclear/Georgia Power's request for license to load nuclear fuel into Vogtle 3 reactor in November 2020. In the petition, which is supported by a civil … Continue reading Nuclear Watch South Opposes Vogtle 3 Fuel Load

written by Garland Favorito, co-founder, VoterGA............................................................................ House Bill HB316 is arguably the worst piece of legislation ever passed by the Georgia General Assembly. This 2019 bill wasted hundreds of millions of state and county taxpayer dollars on an insecure, unverifiable voting system. A true conservative would never vote for such a bill in the House or … Continue reading HB 316 Voting System Bill: Worst Georgia Legislation Ever

Coronavirus (COVID-19) poises a deadly threat to inmates and employees in jails, prisons, and detention centers in Georgia and across the country.   These facilities are death traps where COVID-19 will spread like wildfire due to close quarters, overcrowding, unsanitary conditions and high rates of elderly and individuals with health problems plus inadequate healthcare in prison.Inmates … Continue reading Coronavirus Starts A Death March Through the Prison System

During a worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the looming dangers from climate change have almost been forgotten.     But climate change is still the greatest threat to humanity, the planet and a contributing factor in developing diseases.  Mother Earth has been polluted, raped and disrespected for years, and she is sending a wake-up message to respect … Continue reading Climate Change an Age of Catastrophes and Pandemics

by Gloria Tatum ------- Millions will die in the United States and even more millions worldwide from the coronavirus according to a computer-generated analysis from the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, World Health Organization Centre for Infectious Disease Modeling, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics … Continue reading Coronavirus Outbreak in Every State

Newsweek by Chantal DaSilva 1/24/20  As an Air Force veteran who enlisted straight after high school and went on to serve her country for more than a decade, Pam Campos-Palma has seen a lot in her 32 years. Having been deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, where she specialized in counter-violence and extremism as an … Continue reading War Veteran Shaken by Visit to Migrant Camp in Mexico

Streets of Atlanta is currently not writing because of serious medical problems in the family. During this time, I will share importing stories like this one about Georgia's election machines published in Who, What, Why on 11/19/19 and written by Gabriella Novello. If you point out that Georgia’s elections are neither democratic nor secure, high-ranking … Continue reading How to “NOT” Safeguard Fair Elections

Published in New York Intelligencer and written by David Wallace-Wells Right now, on the outskirts of a hyper modern first world megapolis, at the end of a year in which the public seemed finally to wake up to the dramatic threat from global warming, a climate disaster of unimaginable horror has been unfolding for almost two … Continue reading Global Apathy Toward the Fires in Australia is a Scary Portent for the Future

Published by Refuse Fascism and written by Lillian Forman It’s time for Americans to realize that opposition to the Trump/Pence regime is not a matter of politics. It’s a matter of the survival of the human race — perhaps the survival of Earth and all it’s creatures. The most obvious reason for this is the … Continue reading Truths About Fascism That Must Be Faced