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Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist

Creative Loafing has been presenting Atlantaâ€™s Best People, Places and Events since 1972. These are some of the past winners for this category:

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Staci Fox

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

3-Way Tie: Bonnie Bambinelli, Heather McMahan, & Robyn Surloff

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

3-Way Tie: Christopher Hollis, Dawn O’Neal & Vanessa Toro

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2017
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Cityscapes » Readers Pick

Vanessa Toro

www.rabbleandrouse.com

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » CityScape » Readers Pick

Angel Luis Poventud

www.facebook.com/angel.poventud

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2015
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

John Lewis

johnlewis.house.gov

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2014
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

SaveWRAS movement

savewras.com

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2014
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

SaveWRAS

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

Common Cause Georgia

While progressive political group Better Georgia has emerged as a major GOP foe and a force to be reckoned with, Common Cause Georgia truly deserves applause for daring to question City Hall and the business elite. Amid the rushed process of the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium deal, the ethics watchdog group stood as one of the few steadfast opponents and continuously expressed concerns. The organization called out city officials, most notably Mayor Kasim Reed, for what it considered a failure to maintain transparency. Common Cause also raised hell over the use the hotel and motel tax, from which at least $200 million (and potentially hundreds of millions more) will go toward the stadium’s construction. In the end, Common Cause made a valiant, albeit unsuccessful, effort to collect 35,000 signatures to force the issue to a referendum. www.commoncause.org/ga. less...

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

The Sierra Club’s Georgia Director Colleen Kiernan and Debbie Dooley of the Atlanta Tea Party

No one was surprised when Tea Partiers opposed the regional transportation tax. More than a few people were taken aback when the Sierra Club’s Georgia chapter did the same, arguing the T-SPLOST would fuel sprawl and not build enough transit. But very few people expected the two disparate groups to join forces and work together to block the measure. The Sierra Club’s Georgia Director Colleen Kiernan and Debbie Dooley of the Atlanta Tea Party shared strategy, stood side by side at press conferences, and, with very little money compared to the business community’s multimillion-dollar campaign, outlined one of the more well-reasoned criticisms of the tax - one which even supporters had to acknowledge was, despite a few flaws, pretty solid. An upside, regardless of how you felt about the T-SPLOST: the two have promised to work together on the transportation funding issue when the General Assembly convenes in January - not to mention eliminating MARTA’s funding restrictions, something the Tea Party has signaled it would support. less...

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

Neal Boortz

boortz.com

Runner-up
Cynthia McKinney

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

Neal Boortz

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

John Woodham

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

W S B Radio (Permanently Closed)

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

Sgt. Michael Scott Kreher

It takes personal courage to challenge authority in the Atlanta Police Department. Former Deputy Chief Lou Arcangeli suffered retaliation when he went public with substantiated accusations that former Mayor Bill Campbell and Chief Beverly Harvard had manipulated crime statistics to make the city look safer before the &#146;96 Olympics. In the last year SGT. MICHAEL SCOTT KREHER, president of the Atlanta chapter of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers union, and some of his colleagues have exposed the APD&#146;s deepening morale problems, as well as revealed the city&#146;s touted war on crime as a quota-driven exercise in meaningless statistics. Without Kreher, the public wouldn&#146;t know much of what&#146;s gone wrong with the APD. Chief Richard Pennington has responded by transferring Kreher and other union officials to graveyard shifts and lower-status jobs.

www.ibpolocal623.com

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Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

All Or Nothing Tattoo And Body Piercing (Featured)

www.brandonbond.com

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

Alexis White

When an Atlanta police narcotics squad killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston last November after bursting into her home with a bogus search warrant, police tried to excuse the killing by telling reporters a confidential informant had recently purchased drugs from Johnston&#146;s home. That&#146;s when 24-year-old ALEXIS WHITE stepped up to prove himself a different sort of local hero. Police, he later said, were pressuring him to say he was the drug buyer. Fortunately, White stood his ground &#151; and snitched. White called 911 and told authorities he was being asked to lie. His truth-telling thwarted an attempted cover-up and helped send two dirty cops, Greg Junnier and J.R. Smith, to prison for manslaughter. less...

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

Brandon Bond

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

Joe Parko

Meet JOE PARKO, and you think &#147;ordinary guy.&#148; The retired Georgia State professor is anything but. Behind a gentle smile and shock of white hair is a firebrand. Parko, a Quaker, has been among Atlanta&#146;s most indefatigable critics of George Bush and his Iraq misadventure. In November 2002, before the war began, Parko began an all-American exercise. He tried to confront one of his U.S. senators &#151; unhinged hawk Zell Miller &#151; with questions about the war: Will we face more terrorism if we attack Iraq? How many people will be killed? Parko and four other activists refused to leave the senator&#146;s Colony Square office until Miller agreed to meet with them. Instead of setting up a meeting with his constituents, Miller&#146;s minions called the police. The activists, now dubbed the Atlanta Five, were busted for &#147;criminal trespass.&#148; Two years later, a judge threw the case out of court. Since then, Parko&#146;s exported his fight for peace from Midtown to such far-flung lands as Iraq and Palestine. He uses letters, speeches and demonstrations. He&#146;s a gentle but dogged hell-raiser. less...

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Cityscape » Readers Pick

Cynthia McKinney

Congresswoman for Georgia’s Fourth District www.house.gov/mckinney

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Cityscape » Critics Pick

Carl Roland

Forty-one-year-old CARL ROLAND performed a Flying Wallenda act last May, when he sat atop a 25-story crane in Buckhead for 57 hours to avoid an arrest on murder charges. The scene on the ground was almost as entertaining as Roland&#146;s derring-do in the sky. There was the bystander who played Van Halen&#146;s &#147;Jump&#148; from his boom box. Then, there was Roland&#146;s sister, Tawana, whom the AJC reported as screaming skyward: &#147;Sugarfoot, it&#146;s your baby sister, please come down!&#148; Of course, the entertainment had its limits. Business in Buckhead took a hit, and before officers finally Tasered him, police spent 5,000 man-hours trying to make sure Roland&#146;s stunt ended peacefully. less...