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Thanks to Bill Shipp, the Dean of Georgia politics, and his most recent column [Read the Bill Shipp column "Failed gubernatorial campaign has lessons for today's Georgia" ] in the Athens Banner-Herald, I've got some recommended reading for y'all.  It's the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute's (GBPI) report on "The State of Working Georgia" . In this ad released by the Perdue campaign, they claim that "He [Sonny Perdue] set priorites, cut waste, focused on creating jobs..." , but according to the GBPI, "Almost 250,000 Georgians were actively searching for a job, but could not find one. Georgia’s unemployment rate of 5.4 percent was ... Read Full Story

P RESS RELEASE August 13th 2008 Handshaking Marathon for Peace! Stop the armed conflict in Georgia! The hereby signing NGOs organized on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, at 19.00hrs, a flash-mob – marathon for peace in Georgia. The participants at this event gathered in two groups – one at Av. Pavel Kiseleff in front of the Romanian Peasant’s Museum and the other at the Arch of Triumph – and they walked towards each other until they reached the Russian Embassy in Bucharest (Sos. Pavel Kiseleff, no. 6). There they shook hands and lighted candles in the memory of the victims of the war in Georgia, ... Read Full Story

Meet Pamela L. Lewis, a homeless 4.0 GPA student at Griffin Technical College that was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and is presently sleeping in a '95 Ford Explorer as a resident of Riverdale, Ga. without a source of income.   The student, a Katrina survivor, was recently denied food-stamps by Clayton County-DFAS in Jonesboro, Ga. because she is not working at least 20 hrs/wk while attending school. And to top things off, a FEMA representative informed the student that her case was closed because THEY did not meet their deadline on 28 Feb 07.  Not only that, but the Katrina survivor was also denied assistance with housing ... Read Full Story

Handshaking Marathon for Peace Romanian NGOs are launching a call for you to join a handshaking marathon for peace in the memory of the victims of the war in Georgia, on Wednesday, 13 August 2008, at 18.45 hrs. We will gather in two groups – one on Av. Pavel Kiseleff in front of the Romanian Peasant’s Museum and the other at the Arch of Triumph – and we will walk towards each other until we reach the Russian Embassy in Bucharest (Sos. Pavel Kiseleff, nr.6). There we will shake hands and light candles in the memory of the victims of the war in Georgia, ... Read Full Story