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Occupy Atlanta, the Mayor, and the Clergy →
Occupy Atlanta, the Mayor, and the Clergy
Posted by Pastor Andy on October 26, 2011
Last Friday I was speaking at an event on hunger in Atlanta. Also at that event was the Director of Human Resources for the city of Atlanta. Her name is Mitzi and she is basically in charge of distributing federal funds to agencies that work with the homeless. We engaged in conversation about, what appeared...
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Lessons from Occupy Wall Street →
Now that the occupation has lasted more than a month, what have we learned?
1. We have learned that they are afraid. The top 1% knows that we know, and that we know that we know, that its stories of “trickle down” and “what’s good for wall street is good for main street” and “free markets” and “new economy” and all the rest is a...
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Occupy Atlanta | Rainbow PUSH leader calls for... →
Joe Beasley, the southern regional director of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, on Tuesday called on Atlantans to oust Mayor Kasim Reed from office because of what he calls the mayor’s overreaction in his standoff with protesters occupying Woodruff Park.
“I’m just really appalled to see this massive police presence, so we’re calling on the people of Atlanta to recall Mayor Reed for malfeasance in ...