On March 23, 2003 Jamaal Addison became the first Georgia soldier to die in the Iraq war.

On December 14, 2005 meet Spc. Addison's mother, Patricia Roberts, and other guests in a special panel on the war in Iraq.

The War At Home

Guests: Patricia Roberts, mother of the first Georgia soldier to fall in Iraq

Andisheh Nouraee, Creative Loafing columnist and foreign policy columnist

Army Spc. "Smith" an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran who asks that we not print his name to protect his privacy

Host: Ken Edelstein, Creative Loafing Atlanta Editor

Show Info

Wednesday, December 14th

Dad's Garage

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.

As always, itÕs free (though the beer and wine will cost you), so show up early for seats.

Be informed

• Jamaal's Guestbook (Legacy.com)

• Jamaal Addison Motivational Foundation homepage

• Andisheh's blog

• WhatAreWeFor.com, CL's internal blog

Submit a question for the panelists

We're encouraging people to bring open minds to this show. We'd like to foster a respectful dialogue where everyone can express their point of view.

Use the comment forums below or send us an email at politicalpartyatl@cln.com.

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Political Party is a community forum hosted by Atlanta's Creative Loafing. The shows are held every 2nd Wednesday of the month at Dad's Garage.

The topics vary from the Beltline to the War in Iraq ... always timely, always political and always relevant.

The shows are panelist style: our special guests are asked questions by a moderator (usually our editor-in-chief, Ken Edelstein). We then take questions from audience members. The show ranges from an hour to an hour and a half.

Editorial coordinator Sonia Clark does the hard work of coordinating our guests and our shows.

It's at Dad's Garage, so you can enjoy beer and wine while gettin' a lil educated.

We're looking to improve the amount of audience interaction by soliticing questions via this blog, and by adding guest bloggers to this site.

Please email us at politicalpartyatl@cln.com if you have any questions!

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Creative Loafing Atlanta welcomed Mayor Shirley Franklin for an hour of questions and commentary during the November 2005 Political Party.

Listen to the show

Click here to listen to our podcast of the event. Flip through photos in our Flickr slideshow.

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Our next political party is scheduled for December 14th.

Photo credit goes as always to Jim Stawniak, our nightowl photographer.

Listen to the November 9, 2005 Political Party with Ken Edelstein and Mayor Shirley Franklin.

For more on this episode, read our wrapup.

Mayor Shirley Franklin will on hand for the Nov. 9th edition of Creative LoafingÕs Political Party at DadÕs Garage Theatre.

Hear the Mayor on the Beltline, the voter ID law and a look ahead to the next four years.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.

As always, itÕs free (though the beer and wine will cost you), so show up early for seats.

Your host: Ken Edelstein

Editor, Creative Loafing Atlanta

Be informed

• Read CL's coverage on the Beltline

• CL Editor Ken Edelstein's been bloggin' about the Beltline and other ways to make Atlanta great. Check out his blog at WhatAreWeFor.com

• Check out Shirley Franklin on her website

We have questions too!

Here's what CL staffers hope to ask Shirley

• Zoo Atlanta is smaller than zoos in cities of comparable size. Ticket prices at Zoo Atlanta are much higher than other zoos, b/c the zoo doesn't get any city or state funding. Does the city have any plans to help the zoo improve its product and lower ticket prices?

• The panhandling ordinance was passed but has yet to take effect. When will the city start enforcing the ordinance, how will the city enforce the ordinance, and what will the city do to reduce the number of homeless on Atlanta's streets?

• We saw you at the Hawks opening home game. We noticed that you left at halftime. We don't blame you. The Hawks are terrible. What can the city do for the Hawks?

• What will it take for you to support full separation on the water issue?

• Will the voter ID law, which is covertly racially discriminatory, be on the floor to be repealed?  If so, when and if not, why?

What do you want to know?

Use the comment forums below or send us an email at politicalpartyatl@cln.com

Creative Loafing Atlanta is a production of Creative Loafing, Inc. - a group of alternative newsweeklies in the Southeast. Creative Loafing Atlanta is the flagship newspaper - our first issue was printed in 1972. Today, our print version (circulation: 129,000) is the second-most broadly distributed newspaper in Georgia. We're nationally known for our coverage of news, culture, contemporary music and the arts.

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Credits

This blog: Lea Holland, web editor, and Alejandro Leal, online producer

Political Party recordings: Edward Adams, webmaster

Images: Jim Stawniak, photographer, and Sonia Clark, editorial coordinator

Air Loaf recordings are courtesy of WWAA, Air Atlanta, FM 1690

Thanks as always go to our friends at Dad's Garage, and Hands On Atlanta.