Category: Op-eds/Open Letters
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Malaya Georgia condemns state repression of Stop Cop City activists during Filipino American History Month
The Georgia Attorney General is taking a page out of the Philippines’ playbook By: Malaya Georgia Luke “Lucky” Harper was arrested on March 5 and endured 90 days in Dekalb County Jail on accusations of domestic terrorism—the longest period of time the state may hold someone without indicting them. A Filipino-American born in the motherland,…
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Op-Ed: My friend Amy was killed in the Midtown Atlanta mass shooting, and she would call for gun control, not policing
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…
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We Got Us: A Case Study and Reflections on Supporting an Arrestee from the 2020 Uprisings
by the Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee The Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC) received the following submission on 3/3/2023 from a defense committee organizing on behalf of an Atlanta activist who was arrested during the uprisings in summer 2020. In the following statement, the defense committee describes its experience navigating the logistics of organizing a support…
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OPINION: Deny APF their LDP, Rescind the Land Swap
by Brad Beadles, unincorporated Dekalb Resident Dekalb Commissioners, Contrary to what police and media may have you believe, protestors against the police training facility and the land swap are not “outside agitators” as they also called anti-war and civil rights activists in decades past. The majority are in fact local residents, families and children that…
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From the Oka Crisis to the Atlanta Forest
Submitted Anonymously to the Atlanta Community Press Collective On the 16th of October, during a “Weekend of Action” to defend the Atlanta forest, we screened Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance at a local community space. Around 50 people attended the event, the last formal event in a series of actions, cultural events, and presentations about…
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Opinion: Cop City Must Be Stopped
Last week, the AJC published an article in which they tried to smear the movement to defend the largest intact forest in Atlanta, Weelaunee Forest, and to stop construction of the largest planned militarized police training facility in the country, known as “Cop City.” Once again failing to disclose their financial ties to the Atlanta…
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Intrenchment Creek Park Blocked Off By DeKalb Police At Behest of Private Property Owners
It is the opinion of ACPC that the unnamed property owner gave Dekalb County PD its marching orders and has not acted in good faith or in accordance with legal precedent. It is truly outrageous but utterly unsurprising that the police would act in the interests of wealthy, private landowners – that is, after all,…
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OPINION: Paradigm shift or a perpetuation of injustice: The Atlanta Prison Farm and the South River Forest
By Margaret Spalding “Prison Farming” is a product of the Jim Crow era that endures to this day. A formalized system of free labor and servitude, the Atlanta Prison Farm was defined by racist, inhumane practices, violence, overcrowded, wretched conditions, and grueling labor that often led to the death of inmates. Having provided great economic…
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Open letter to ATL city council & the APF
Hello, We are extremely concerned at the inaccuracies laid out in the Terracon Cultural Report for the PSTC. As per our report that we shared with city council last year, we state how the report “An Historical Analysis Of The Atlanta Prison Farm” written in 1999 by Jillian Wootten is written from the perspective of someone who thought the…