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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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Documents shared with the Atlanta Community Press Collective from an open records request show that 43% of trainees for the proposed Cop City police training facility would come from outside of Georgia. The documents is a community impact survey from Cop City lender Cadence Bank that Ryan Smith, the Program Manager at the Atlanta Police… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more