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2016 Cause + Effect finalist “Guilt” inspires viewers to take action

Beginning on August 15, 2017, Cause +Effect Progressive Film Festival will accept 2-15 minute films about poverty, homelessness, river pollution, gun violence and any other issue that affects Georgians. The festival is free to enter and the winning filmmaker will receive $1,000 cash and screen at the November festival in Athens. For more films from the only Georgia-focused film festival go to the 2017 Cause + Effect Progressive Film Festival website. The 2016 finalist “Guilt,”

Healthcare

“Pro life” hypocrisy in action

National Right to Life is one of the backers of the push to repeal Obamacare. Things shouldn’t shock me anymore, but this does. When National Right to Life and other anti-choice groups talk about their values — ones that many people find very appealing — they talk about “promoting respect for the worth and dignity of every individual human being.” The state affiliate of NRTL, the Georgia Life Alliance, even states in their mission statement,

Healthcare

Tell Ga. Senators to oppose new healthcare bill today!

The Senate health care bill just released Thursday does not bode well for many Georgians. Our rural communities will be some of the most impacted by the proposed cuts to Medicaid, higher premiums and reduced consumer protections. So many rural communities are already facing the devastating impacts of hospital closures or cuts to services. Pregnant people are particularly vulnerable, and pregnancy complications can become life threatening when the nearest labor-and-delivery ward is forty miles away

Equality, Rights & Justice Issues

Comfort Women memorial commemorates victims of sex trafficking

Georgia is the first state in the deep south to have a Comfort Women memorial statue, unveiled last month in Brookhaven’s Blackburn Park. Atlanta joins 54 other municipalities around the world that have comfort women memorials to commemorate the more than 200,000 victims of sex trafficking during WWII. There’s been opposition to the memorial — which was originally slated to be placed at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights — from a variety

Education

Shame and lies have no place in sex ed curriculums

Parents and former students of the Gwinnett County school system are fighting back against their district’s “abstinence-only” sex ed curriculum due to the material’s inappropriate content and lack of information about contraception. The curriculum, called “Choosing The Best,” is the same awful curriculum students from Monroe County’s sole public high school fought last year. In both Monroe and Gwinnett counties, “crisis pregnancy centers” are tasked with teaching the sex ed curriculum. Crisis pregnancy centers are

Healthcare

Ga. Supreme Court upholds abortion ban ruling

A 2012 law banning abortion after 20 weeks is about to go into effect after the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of the lawsuit on a technicality: you can’t sue the government without their permission, under sovereign immunity laws. This has really broad implications for lawmaking in Georgia. If the legislature passes an unconstitutional law, sovereign immunity limits the ability of stakeholders to sue and have the law overturned. Given just how frequently laws