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National School Walkout this Friday

This Friday, thousands of students will walk out of class in schools all over the United States to protest the lack of change in gun regulations as a result of mass school shootings. The National School Walkout was started by Lane Murdoch, a 16-year-old who grew up just 20 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School – where 20 students were killed in a mass shooting in 2012. The movement started as a Change.org petition following

Georgia 2018

Every statewide office up for grabs in 2018 (pt. 1 of 2)

2018 will be a huge year in Georgia politics. We can use our votes to elect elected officials who will stand up to Trump, protect the rights of Georgians and fix education. Governor There are only about seven short months before we elect our next governor. And the primary is right around the corner next month. We need to elect a governor who values human lives over gun sales, the Civil Rights of all over

Fighting Trump in Georgia on The Better Georgia Podcast
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79 Fighting Trump in Georgia

 Today on the Better Georgia Podcast, we’re discussing the latest turbulence in the world of President Trump: the raiding of the office of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen. We think it can have major effects even in our local government. Plus, listen as we discuss the importance of midterm elections, the upcoming primary elections and how you can get educated and register to vote. You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, and be

Brian Kemp

Georgia’s “exact match” name laws target minority voters

Georgia’s “exact match” name laws disproportionately affect minorities, who are refused their right to vote because of a backwards conservative “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist. With incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent, “voter fraud” is a debunked conservative myth. The “exact match” laws put registered voters on a “pending registration” list if the name on their registration doesn’t exactly match the name on their license, including hyphens, apostrophes and spaces. In

Education

Public schools still paying for Vogtle

Public schools shouldn’t be stuck with the bill for what’s now been dubbed the “Plant Vogtle Vortex,” named as such because money and time seem to disappear into the black hole of Georgia Power’s failed project. The nuclear power plant is years behind schedule and is billions of dollars over budget. A bill passed in 2009 has allowed Georgia Power to pass on those charges to consumers — meaning anyone who uses Georgia Power has footed

Stop paying for Plant Vogtle, replace corrupt Public Service Commissioners

Plant Vogtle continues to be a testament to corporate greed and government cronyism at the cost of $91 million per month for ratepayers. The project is five years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Georgia Power/Southern Company executives are giving themselves millions of dollars in annual bonuses (on top of their salaries), while passing their billions of dollars in failures onto working Georgians. The Public Service Commission exists to stop big energy corporations