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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Georgia Newsletter for Thursday April 17, 2025 ( 4 items )  

BLACK VOTERS MATTER AND THE KING CENTER ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP TO ENGAGE A NEW GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 17 -- Black Voters Matter, a voting rights and community empowerment organization, issued the following news on April 16, 2025: * * * BLACK VOTERS MATTER AND THE KING CENTER ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP TO ENGAGE A NEW GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS GEORGIA - Today, on the 62nd anniversary of Dr. King's historic Letter from Birmingham Jail, Black Voters Matter (BVM) and The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change ("The King Center") are proud to announce a ne  more

CAIR-GA: GA Civil Rights Organizations, Kuck Baxter Immigration to Address International Students' Visa Revocations
WASHINGTON, April 16 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR-GA: GA Civil Rights Organizations, Kuck Baxter Immigration to Address International Students' Visa Revocations On Thursday, April 17, Georgia Civil Rights organizations, including CAIR-Georgia, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, American Civil Liberties Union-Georgia - and Kuck Baxter Immigration, a private immigration law firm, plan to hold a press   more

Emory University: Telemedicine in Ambulances Speeds Up Care for Patients in Rural Georgia
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 17 -- Emory University issued the following news release: * * * Telemedicine in ambulances speeds up care for patients in rural Georgia By Tony Van Witsen During the pandemic in 2020, Michael Carr had time to reflect on the medical landscape of rural Georgia and began thinking about a problem: Rural communities all over the country, including Georgia, had been losing hospitals for many years due to financial strain. Carr, who trained in emergency medicine, knew these  more

U.S. Government Illegally Detains Father of Two in Notorious Salvadoran Prison
COLUMBUS, Georgia, April 17 -- The American Immigration Council issued the following news release on April 16, 2025: * * * U.S. Government Illegally Detains Father of Two in Notorious Salvadoran Prison The American Immigration Council, National Immigration Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights today filed an amended habeas corpus petition on behalf of Mr. Edicson David Quintero Chacon. He is one of more than two hundred people the U.S. government has been paying to imprison, incom  more