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As a proposed funding ordinance for the initial construction plans of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, better known as Cop City, works its way through Atlanta City Council, new information suggests the ordinance could come with a total price tag of $51 million in public funds, instead of the $30 million that city officials… Read more
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by: Shannon Cofrin Gaggero May 17, Mayor Dickens wrote an op-ed published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution exploiting the tragic mass shooting in Midtown Atlanta, which injured four and claimed the life of my friend, Amy St. Pierre. Dickens used her death in an attempt to drum up support for the deeply unpopular police training… Read more
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In separate preliminary hearings on May 4, Magistrate Court judges in both Fulton and DeKalb Counties upheld charges of domestic terrorism against one individual arrested after a protest on Jan. 21 and three more individuals arrested at the South River Music Festival on March 5. Read more
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By: Miliaku Nwabueze, ScalawagArtwork by: Christopher Parker This time when the pigs raided the forest, they hadn’t expected to attack, arrest, and kill their kin. Their aunties, their mothers, and their friends willingly marched into the forest on July 4 in honor of its independence, accompanied by black people in the surrounding neighborhood. Despite desperate… Read more
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By: Ariana Brazier, ScalawagIllustrations by: Jay Jones This story was originally published by Scalawag as a part of A Week of Writing: Stop Cop City. Content warning: This letter mentions state-sanctioned murder. Remix, I’ve been mentally and emotionally exhausted these last few weeks for some familiar and new reasons that I can only explain by… Read more
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By: Zoey Laird, ScalawagPhotos and video by: Ethan Payne This story was originally published by Scalawag as a part of A Week of Writing: Stop Cop City. This essay discusses state-sanctioned murder and gun violence. “For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” — Luke 23:31… Read more
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The same rhetoric about safety surrounding Atlanta’s increased criminalization of homelessness and closure of the biggest shelter in the Southeast is being used to defend Cop City. Read more
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A Personal Account of Atlanta’s Carceral Nightmare. “The struggles I heard about and experienced convinced me that the state of Georgia does not run county jails—it runs concentration camps that it calls county jails.” Read more
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By: Julian Rose, Scalawag This story was originally published by Scalawag as a part of A Week of Writing: Stop Cop City. Click to listen to the recording of this interview, including extended audio. This essay mentions state-sanctioned murder In this interview, I speak with Bridgette Simpson, lead organizer with Barred Business, to probe her… Read more
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The struggle to Stop Cop City is not just a battle over the creation of a $90 million police urban warfare center. It’s not just a fight to protect the 381 acres of forest land, known as one of the “four lungs” of Atlanta, currently under threat of destruction. It’s not just a conflict over… Read more
