AltWeeklies Wire
Liberal Media Myth: MLK Wasn't a Revolutionarynew
The real Martin Luther King has been all but erased from our history. What's left is so anemic -- and so distorted -- that even George Wallace or Lester Maddox or, heaven help us, Zell Miller could claim kinship.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
01-13-2005 |
Commentary
Student Rebels Against GOP Instructor's Conflictnew
A student accuses a high school teacher of using her school post to funnel students into gigs as Republican foot soldiers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
12-16-2004 |
Politics
When It Comes to Bogus Mortgages, Atlanta Leads the Nationnew
For more than a year, Georgia has raced past Florida, the usual state of first resort for real estate scumbags, in mortgage fraud. Our fraud rates are more than two-and-a-half times what they should be for our population.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
12-02-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: business
It's Time to Take Religion Backnew
George Bush hasn't earned the photographic halo that a gutless daily newspaper bestowed upon him on Nov. 5's front page. He's among the leaders that have broken one of the Commandments by bearing false witness in concocting lies out of whole cloth that led us into war.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
11-18-2004 |
Religion
Tags: religion
'We Shall See the Reign of Witches Pass Over'new
Hidden somewhere in the results of the Nov. 2 election, there is an ocean of hope. If, for example, only 18- to 29-year-olds had voted, many of George Bush's red states would have been swamped by blue ink, and John Kerry would have won the Electoral College 375-163.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
11-11-2004 |
Politics
Tags: election, postmortem
South Surrenders its Economy to Yankeesnew
That similarity is shoot-ourselves-in-the-foot backwardness. We face the rear and give the Rebel yell, "Charge!" Put another way, just as the Rebel flag wavers are still fighting a war we lost 140 years ago, so, too, is our economy rooted in decades-out-of-date thinking.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
11-04-2004 |
Politics
Voices of the South on Jobs, Politics, and Oh Yeah, Footballnew
Senior editor John Sugg and staff photographer Jim Stawniak took a 7,500-mile trip across the Southeast to find out what people are saying about jobs, unemployment, God, football and the election.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
10-28-2004 |
Children & Families
Columnist Hides From Storm Near Gracelandnew
Graceland. Elvis. Sounds good. This is a road trip about the South, after all. People, their thoughts, icons, passions. This is the first part of a series, culminating Oct. 28.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
09-23-2004 |
Commentary
Corporate Icon Fends Off Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuitsnew
Rollins Inc. and Orkin are under siege, and president Glen Rollins is the general standing on the ramparts. The outfit is being nibbled at by lawyers and disgruntled customers who are as ferocious in their attack as termites are when they sniff unprotected wood.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
09-15-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Why Are Georgia's Leaders Sending Good Jobs to Third World Nations?new
It shouldn't be a shock to discover that Georgia officials are allowing the outsourcing of taxpayer-paid-for jobs to India and Mexico. Outsourcing private sector jobs to Asia, Africa and Latin America is big business. It's also bad business.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
09-09-2004 |
Commentary
Man the Barricades: A Protester Remembers the Movementnew
Some things don't change. From the temporal podium of August 2004, I can view myself dimly, striding onto the University of Florida's Plaza of the Americas in 1970, leading a protest against the Vietnam War. This is the second of two parts
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
08-26-2004 |
Commentary
Protesters Stopped One War and Can Do It Againnew
As New York authorities and the Bush administration plot the crushing of dissent at the Republican National Convention later this month, John Sugg waxes nostalgic about the protest movement. This is the first of two parts.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
08-19-2004 |
Commentary
Writers Say It's Time to Ride GOP Scalawags Out on a Railnew
My fellow travelers also were writers, whatever their day jobs, and we had trekked over from the Carter Center where the group had celebrated the publishing of a book of their essays, Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent.
Even the title is pretty risky. After all, dissent is endangered in this nation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
08-05-2004 |
Commentary
The Day after the Vote Is Tough on Candidates and Punditsnew
In the aftermath of the election, John Sugg asks what the losers will do now.
If they so badly miscalculate their chances, why should we ever think they could make a sound judgment in their old jobs?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
07-29-2004 |
Commentary
Blasted Are the Meek, the Truthful, the Peacemakersnew
There is so much distasteful about the Republicans nowadays that true patriots have a hard time figuring out what to get mad about most. For me, it's religion. I'm infuriated that George Bush and his entourage of theocratic mullahs have kidnapped Christianity and God.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
07-22-2004 |
Commentary
