Category: Op-eds/Open Letters

  • We Got Us: A Case Study and Reflections on Supporting an Arrestee from the 2020 Uprisings

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…