GEORGIA
Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore is calling for an economic boycott of Georgia over this week’s execution of Troy Anthony Davis.
“I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, [and] to never do business in Georgia,” Moore said on his website this week.
The Academy-Award winning filmmaker and best-selling author also called on his publisher to pull his memoir, “Here Comes Trouble,” from every Georgia bookstore.
If Grand Central Publishing doesn’t pull the 427-page book, Moore said he will “donate every dime of every royalty my book makes in Georgia to help defeat the racists and killers who run that state.”
Brian Robinson, a spokesman for Gov. Nathan Deal, found the filmmaker’s rant amusing.
“We think it’s cute that he thinks anyone in Georgia would buy his book, but if any Georgian does, I’m happy to double the royalties and buy a pack of gum for a charity of Michael Moore’s choice,” Robinson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Davis, who maintained his innocence until the end, was executed late Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. He was put to death for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail, a father of two young children and a former Army Ranger.
CHRISTOPHER SEWARD
HEALTHCARE
Georgia will receive nearly $6.2 million through two U.S. Department of Health & Human Services grants to help at-risk families receive voluntary home visits from nurses and social workers.
The grants are aimed at improving maternal and child health, child development, school readiness, economic self-sufficiency and child abuse prevention throughout the state, according to the federal agency. MISTY WILLIAMS
ATLANTA
Living history interpreter Anthony Knight will perform another “museum theater” piece for the Atlanta Cyclorama audience today saturday, focusing on Robert Smalls, a slave who freed himself and his family by commandeering a Confederate transport ship. The performance starts at 1:30 p.m. at 800 Cherokee Ave. S.E. in Grant Park.
The “Living History Vignettes” are part of the museum’s four-year-long Civil War program series leading up to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta. Information: 404-658-7625. JOHNNY EDWARDS
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