Georgia is among the US states that still allows the death penalty which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Oceanfront development, plastic pollution, and habitat loss are devastating to sea turtles in Georgia including the highly endangered Kemp’s Ridley.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Georgia.

Georgia has some of the weakest gun laws in the country and a Shoot First law that allows a person to kill another in a public area, even when they can safely walk away from the danger.

Georgia is the epicenter in attacks on voting rights and gerrymandering against equal voting.