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Statement by New Georgia Project Following Supreme Court’s Decision to Harm Black Futures by Halting President Biden’s Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan
For Immediate Release June 30th, 2023 Statement by New Georgia Project Following Supreme Court’s Decision to Harm Black Futures by Halting President Biden’s Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan (Atlanta, GA) - New Georgia Project (NGP) released the following statement [...]
Augusta Chronicle: Public, professionals comment on AU Health and Wellstar merger at Attorney General hearing
“Kierra Stanford, an organizer with the New Georgia Project, came in from Atlanta to share how the hospital closure had impacted her community. ‘Augusta, my love letter to you would to please be cautious in trusting Wellstar," she said.
The Guardian: ‘Democracy is on life support’: the organizers fighting voter suppression in the US south
“’We’ve had to build out a whole sophisticated voter protection apparatus in response’, said Billy Honor, Organizing director at the New Georgia Project.”
The Hill: Black and Latino voters are being erased from databases: Here’s how to fix it
“One organization, the New Georgia Project, rejects the industry term ‘low propensity voter’ and embraces ‘high opportunity voters’ instead. In their experience, these voters will become civically active if people invest in them.”
New Georgia Project Applauds Democracy Defenders and Condemns Attempts by the State of Georgia and the City of Atlanta to Criminalize the Right to Protest and Civil Dissent
For Immediate Release June 7th, 2023 New Georgia Project Applauds Democracy Defenders and Condemns Attempts by the State of Georgia and the City of Atlanta to Criminalize the Right to Protest and Civil Dissent (Atlanta, GA) - New Georgia [...]
The Atlanta Voice: Why did Georgia lead the South in voter turnout during the 2022 Midterms?
“We’ve already helped close to 30,000 people fill out voter registration cards, and we have a goal of getting to 40,000 and we’re going to hit that again in 2024,” said Keron Blair, the Chief Organizing and Field Officer of [...]
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt: NGP's C.L.E.A.R. Campaign Fights for Student Debt Cancellation at U.S. Supreme Court
"Debt is difficult. It's depressing, it's stressful," says Maggie Bell, Lead Organizer for NGP's C.L.E.A.R. Campaign and the first in her family to graduate from college.
USA Today: ‘We just keep getting hit’: Borrowers rally over Supreme Court case on student loan debt relief
For Maggie Bell, a 24-year-old organizer from Georgia, student debt relief is a racial justice issue. “Not having student loan debt opens the gates for me to have more opportunities at living life, like capital letters LIVING LIFE,” she said.
USA Today: Supreme Court's conservative justices signal skepticism of Biden's loan forgiveness plan: Recap
C.L.E.A.R. stands for Cancel Loans for Education and Reparations and is a campaign by the New Georgia Project, the state's largest civic engagement group.
The Hill: Tensions rise as Supreme Court prepares for high-stakes student debt clash
“We are going to keep pushing and applying pressure after oral arguments are over and once we get a decision. One does not stop here,” said Maggie Bell, lead organizer for the New Georgia Project, one of the groups organizing [...]
