Category: Op-eds/Open Letters
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Gov. Kemp: Increasing cash bail requirements only perpetuates systemic inequity
Roberta Meyers Douglas and Victoria Palacio Carr advocate against Georgia Senate Bill 63, highlighting its detrimental impact on marginalized communities and urging Governor Kemp to veto it.
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Cop City’s ‘Ivory Tower’: Georgia State University is Ground Zero for Militarized Policing
“WE NEED YOU HERE” reverberated through the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on Feb. 2, 2023, as Atlanta University Center (AUC) students took over Crown Forum, a mandatory weekly campus event that emphasizes social justice and students’ “dynamic humanity,” and proves to be a powerful space to challenge the institutional complicity over the Atlanta…
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Why the House must vote ‘No’ on SB 63: upholding people over profit
For people like Nikita and Catina, Senate Bill 63, which the Georgia State Senate passed on Feb. 1, 2024 and now goes to the House on Tuesday, isn’t at all abstract. It’s about whether they’ll be able to help their kids with homework; whether they’ll be able to have their baby in a community hospital…
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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,…