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Lockheed-Georgia and the Plan for Progress

In 1961, Lockheed-Georgia was one of the first companies in the south to sign onto President Kennedy’s Plan for Progress, an effort to create equal employment opportunities to all Americans. Today, we’re continuing to build on this legacy of diversity and inclusion. Source

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The post-election deadlock in Georgia

On 28 October, two days after the parliamentary election (see ‘The fourth term of Georgian Dream: a questionable victory’), protestors took to the streets in Tbilisi, demanding accountability for alleged electoral fraud and supporting the continuation of the country’s pro-Western trajectory. The large-scale protests were organised by President Salome Zourabichvili, with opposition leaders in attendance.…

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Georgia sinks deeper into Russian-style authoritarianism amid stolen election allegations

Georgia’s Oct. 26 parliamentary election presented a clear geopolitical choice for the country’s voters, but criticism is mounting that the ruling regime stole the vote.After years of vacillating between the West and Russia and paying lip service to European integration, the country’s ruling Georgian Dream party began to mimic the Kremlin’s playbook, tarnishing the country’s…

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Breaking down the Georgia ballot hand counting ruling

With early in-person voting underway in Georgia, a judge there Tuesday night blocked a new rule requiring the hand counting of election ballots. The judge called the rule “too much, too late” and said he feared it would diminish the public’s confidence in the 2024 election results. CBS News election law expert and political contributor…

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Georgia authorities investigating a dock gangway collapse that killed 7 on a historic island

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating the “catastrophic failure” of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven people on an island off the state’s Atlantic seacoast, where crowds gathered for a celebration by the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants. “It is a structural failure. There should…

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