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Madison County deputies arrested two protesters this morning, members of an Occupy Wall Street group that has walked all the way from New York City to Athens, headed for Atlanta. ...

When the deputies asked the group members to produce identification, two refused, because they felt it was a violation of their civil rights as Americans, Annussek said. The Madison deputies took the pair into custody, charging them with obstruction of a police officer...

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One day after Reed evicted the Atlanta protesters, the U.S. Census Bureau reported new figures that show the city of Atlanta has the nation’s widest income gap between the rich and the poor: ...

Last night, nearly 200 protesters gathered in Centennial Olympic Park to plan Occupy Atlanta’s next steps. The group will be announcing a “reorganization” and may find a new place to encamp.

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State Republicans have introduced nearly 1,000 laws restricting women's reproductive health access. Here are 10 of the worst states to be a woman between puberty and menopause.

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As Georgia Governor Nathan Deal prepares to sign the state's Arizona copycat bill HB 87 into law, possibly this week, pressure to veto is mounting. Last week, the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, Turning the Tide campaign, and National Lesbian and Gay Task Force delivered a press release informing the governor that a national boycott of the state was being organized in anticipation of the extreme immigration bill being signed into law. ...

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ThinkProgress has been documenting conservative efforts to shift the burden of record budget shortfalls onto middle-class Americans, while simultaneously doling out tax cuts to corporations. While progressive governors have proposed raising revenue from t

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For more than three hours in midday on March 24, thousands of people packed the street in front of the Georgia State Capitol to protest Arizona copycat bills that would legalize racial profiling and institute a series of anti-immigrant measures.

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Deal said he will review the legislation, House Bill 87, to be sure, "but at least the broad parameters of what we know are there appear to be consistent with what we would be agreeable to."

The General Assembly approved the sweeping, Arizona-style bill

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Organizations opposing House Bill 87, Georgia's pending immigration reform bill, are planning a comprehensive boycott of tourism and in-state businesses if the bill is signed into law by Governor Deal...

HB 87, known as the "Illegal Immigration Reform an

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