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Tucson Group Mourns Protester Killed by Police in the Atlanta Forest
January 23, 2023 Submitted to the Atlanta Community Press Collective TUCSON, Arizona — On Saturday, a group of about 20 people gathered at the Bank of America building on East Broadway Boulevard in Tucson to express their grief and rage at the death of Manuel Teran, also known as Tortuguita, in the fight to defend…
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PRESS RELEASE – Witnesses Say Atlanta Police Hit Protestor with Car Before Arresting Them, Endanger Public Safety at March
January 22, 2023 ATLANTA – Last night, during a community march in response to the murder of Tortuguita, a forest defender opposed to the $90 million Cop City development, witnesses state that the Atlanta Police Department (APD) hit a protestor with a car before arresting him. APD also arrested five more protesters, violently slamming several…
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Statement about the death of Tortuguita from Athens, Greece
Tonight, people in Athens, Greece gathered at a squatted social center for a film screening and discussion of the movement to defend the Atlanta forest. They shared information about the movement and discussed the recent murder of forest defender Tortuguita (AKA Tort, or Manuel Teran) by police. The following statement was read aloud at the…
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Under the Rubble, the Dance Floor: A report-back from last night’s Solstice Party at Weelaunee People’s Park
Yesterday, December 21, 2022, Ryan Millsap of Blackhall Studios and his contractors destroyed the Weelaunee People’s Park trailhead and bike path, leaving behind piles of rubble and attempting to communicate that the public park is closed to the public. The South River Forest Coalition (SRFC) noted on their Instagram yesterday that Millsap’s destruction is explicitly…
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Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Site Plans – Cultural Resource Assessments
With gratitute to the South River Watershed Alliance for helping to compile the open records requests that produced these site plans. These plans are current as of July 2022, dated to a re-submittial of the land development permit for the cop city project to DeKalb County. Due to the size and length of many of…