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Sy Moore, an organizer with the Working Families Party, shouts into a megaphone during a workers' march on International Workers Day in Downtown Atlanta.
Working Families Party of Georgia launches ‘Wolf Packs’ to build progressive power

The group’s welcome gathering drew progressives and leftists from as far as Rome, Georgia, for a primer on how the party builds political power from volunteer constituents.

Deputy DA Brian Hawkins talks with Jimmy Hill about developments following the May 5 hearing regarding the police killing of Hill's son, Jimmy Atchison, by former Atlanta Police Department Officer Sung Kim.
Ex-APD officer’s murder trial examines reasonableness of deadly force

U.S. District Court Judge Michael L. Brown emphasized on Monday that both prosecution and defense must sharpen their cases for briefings to be filed next week.

Protesters on Jackson Street Bridge hold a "No Cop Nation Banner" with Atlanta's skyline visible in the background.
On Cop City’s opening day, protesters drop banners in vow to keep fighting it

While city officials celebrated the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center’s grand opening, local Stop Cop City protesters held a block party protest on Jackson Street Bridge, from which they dropped banners expressing resolve to keep opposing the facility.

Immigrant rights activists protest ICE detentions in front of the agency's field office in Atlanta
Immigrants’ rights activists protest ICE detention and discrimination outside Atlanta field office

Protesters chanted and spoke out amid escalating government detainments and deportations, while also cheering and singing in favor of featured speakers’ vision of abolition.

Keynote panelists Savannah Paterson (left) and Umaymah Mohammad (center) discuss the repression of protests during the Imaginary Crimes Tour on April 4 in Atlanta. (John Arthur Brown)
Imaginary Crimes Tour: Stop Cop City movement seeks to build national solidarity against police militarization
Three organizers stand on stage at the People's Movement Assembly in Atlanta to redefine public safety.
People’s Movement Assembly in Atlanta draws hundreds to create collective vision of transformed public safety
Image of the front facade of the Georgia State Capitol, known as the Gold Dome. The camera is facing the facade from a lower angle with the capitol steps in the bottom of the frame. Behind the gold dome, a blue sky with very light clouds is visible.
Riley Gaines Act banning youth from sports and bathrooms faces broad opposition from local activists and advocates
Dawn O’Neal of the People’s Campaign to Stop Cop City speaks passionately into a Channel 2 microphone while a group of people who oppose Andre Dickens support her in the background.
Video While Dickens launched his reelection campaign, organizers envisioned a better future for Atlanta 

Atlanta activists hosted a noise demonstration at reelection campaign launch event for Mayor Andre Dickens, calling out broken promises and demanding a say in city governance.

On second anniversary of slain forest defender Tortuguita’s killing, hundreds march on for collective liberation 
FILE - Belkis Terán speaks at her Oct. 10, 2023 ordination at Park Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Lev Olmelchenko)
“Reimagining Safety” documentary and discussion highlight a different approach to community safety