ATLANTA – State Representative Park Cannon (D-Atlanta) will hold a press conference to honor the 62nd anniversary of the Atlanta Student Movement of 1960 TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at 2:45 p.m. at the South Wing Steps of the Georgia State Capitol.
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ATLANTA – House Minority Leader James Beverly (D-Macon), State Representatives Erica Thomas (D-Austell), Park Cannon (D-Atlanta), Shea Roberts (D-Atlanta), Rebecca Mitchell (D-Snellville), Renitta Shannon (D-Decatur), Erick Allen (D-Smyrna), Jasmine Clark (D-Lilburn), Dar’shun Kendrick (D-Lithonia), Kim Schofield (D-Atlanta), Matthew Wilson (D-Brookhaven), Sandra Scott (D-Rex), Teri Anulewicz (D-Smyrna), Donna McLeod (D-Lawrenceville), Rhonda Burnough (D-Conyers), Shelly Hutchinson (D-Snellville) and Derrick Jackson (D-Tyrone) will introduce a House resolution to recognize the recent 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade. These legislators will also hold a virtual press conference to discuss abortion access TOMORROW, Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 1 p.m. via Zoom. To register for Zoom access, members of the press may visit www.tinyurl.com/RoePresser.
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ATLANTA – State Representative Park Cannon (D-Atlanta), along with Atlanta Councilmember-elect Liliana Bakhtiari, Sarah Riggs Amico, executive chairperson of Jack Cooper, and Dan Rosenfelt, founder of Electric Owl Studios, recently held a press conference to urge the U.S. Congress to pass the Build Back Better Act (BBBA). The U.S. House of Representatives passed the measure in mid-November, and the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on the legislation by the end of the month.
Rep. Park Cannon Joins Good Trouble Network, First National Network of Black LGBTQ+ Elected Officials
ATLANTA – State Representative Park Cannon (D-Atlanta) today announced that she has joined the founding cohort of the National Black Justice Coalition’s (NBJC) Good Trouble Network, which is the first national network of Black LGBTQ+ elected officials. The Good Trouble Network seeks to coordinate and synthesize political priorities that benefit Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer+ and same-gender loving (SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS.
Rep. Mike Wilensky, Georgia House Democratic Caucus Leadership Issue Statement on Anti-Semitic Incidents in Cobb County
ATLANTA – State Representative Mike Wilensky (D-Dunwoody), along with House Democratic Caucus leadership, today issued the following statement regarding the recent anti-Semitic incidents in Cobb County: