Category: Media Advisories
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Atlanta Clergy Join Call to Defend the Atlanta Forest
“Come with your vestments, robes, and shawls. Come with your sacred texts and teachings. Come with your spiritual power to protect this sacred place,” says a letter by a coalition of clergy and faith leaders who are calling for fellow religious leaders to support forest defenders and join the upcoming Defend the Forest Week of Action…
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Over 1300 Climate Justice Groups Call for an Independent Investigation into Police Murder of Forest Defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez Terán and for Mayor Dickens to Resign
Submitted for publication to the Atlanta Community Press Collective FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Ikiyacollective@proton.me Over 1300 Climate Justice Groups Call for an Independent Investigation into Police Murder of Forest Defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez Terán and for Mayor Dickens to Resign (Atlanta, GA) Today, over 1,300 Climate Justice and racial justice groups from across the U.S. joined Atlanta…
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Press Release – Violent White Nationalist Leader Nathan Damigo Works on “Anti-Antifa” Info Project from New Base in Atlanta
Submitted for publication to the Atlanta Community Press Collective http://www.atlantaantifa.orgFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 25, 2023Violent White Nationalist Leader Nathan Damigo Works on “Anti-Antifa” Info Project from New Base in Atlanta ATLANTA, GA – Atlanta Antifascists can now confirm that Nathan Damigo, a white supremacist with a history of violence and former leader and co-founder of the…
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JUSTICE FOR TORT
submitted to Atlanta Community Press Collective for publication We are devastated by the loss of our friend who was killed by the police. Tortuguita was a kind, passionate, and loving person, cherished by their community They spent their time between Atlanta, defending the forest from destruction and coordinating mutual aid for the movement and, and…
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COMUNICADO DE PRENSA- POLICÍA ASESINA A MANIFESTANTE EN EL BOSQUE DE ATLANTA
Presentado al Atlanta Community Press Collective El día de hoy, la policía disparó y asesinó a une manifestante en el bosque Weelaunee. Docenas de agentes fuertemente armados de la policía del condado de Dekalb, la policía de Atlanta y la policía estatal de Georgia cerraron el Parque público llamado Weelaunee y las calles aledañas antes…
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PRESS RELEASE – Police murder protestor in Atlanta Forest
January 18, 2023 Submitted to the Atlanta Community Press Collective for publication. Today the police shot and killed a protester in Weelaunee Forest. Dozens of heavily armed DeKalb Police, Atlanta Police and Georgia State police shut down Weelaunee People’s Park and nearby streets before entering the tree line with guns drawn and heavy machinery poised…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Your Constituents (Residents, Educators, Organizers, Families) Demand Police Stop Violating Human Rights
Shared on behalf of the Weelaunee Coalition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 21st, 2022 Please direct all inquiries to weelauneecoalition@gmail.com Dear Mayor Dickens, City Council members, and City Council President, We write to you as a coalition of educators, community organizers, parents, and residents of the surrounding neighborhoods and communities of South River forest, or Weelaunee…
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PRESS RELEASE – “East Atlanta Community Rallies in Defense of Arrested Activists, Against Cop City”
December 20, 2022 – For Immediate Release Media inquiries can be directed to: atlpresscollective@protonmail.com. On December 17, 175 people gathered in Brownwood Park in East Atlanta to declare their support for the six activists recently charged with domestic terrorism, and to demonstrate their continued opposition to “Cop City,” a proposed 300 acre, $90 million police…
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Media Advisory: Town hall to Demand the End of Cop City Project
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Phone: 917-535-3041 Email: kamaufranklin@gmail.com Town hall to Demand the End of Cop City Project Atlanta citizens and Community groups demand an end to the attempted construction of Cop City, the militarized police training facility, and an end to the repression of community organizers Atlanta citizens and community groups are gathering…
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Tell Liliana Bakhtiari and Jason Dozier it’s time to Stop Cop City!
Atlanta City Council members Liliana Bakhtiari ran on platforms of police accountability. Councilmember Bakhtiari in particular had been a vocal opponent of the proposed police and fire “training” facility in unincorporated DeKalb County prior to their election to city council, and an ally to the movement to stop it. Our open records requests have since…
