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This afternoon, DeKalb District Attorney (DA) Sherry Boston announced that after a formal review of the evidence, her office is withdrawing from the prosecution of 42 cases against individuals opposed to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City, a $90 million training center being built by the Atlanta Police Foundation… Read more
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Disclaimer: This article describes actions taken to create an un-authorized strike and neither endorses nor opposes these actions. ACPC supports the right to organize and labor in general in all the myriad ways the struggle for labor rights may express itself. On May 2, Broadway actor and screenwriter Kim Steele, stood in front of the Turner Broadcast… Read more
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A day after the City Council voted to approve a $67 million funding package for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, activists launched a referendum campaign to put the training center’s future on the ballot in November. Read more
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Marlon Kautz, Adele Maclean and Savannah Patterson were booked at DeKalb County Jail and charged with one count each of money laundering and charity fraud. A representative from the Solidarity Fund said Maclean was taken to Grady Hospital for a pre-existing spinal condition before being transported to DeKalb County Jail. Read more
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As a proposed funding ordinance for the initial construction plans of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, better known as Cop City, works its way through Atlanta City Council, new information suggests the ordinance could come with a total price tag of $51 million in public funds, instead of the $30 million that city officials… Read more
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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… Read more
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In separate preliminary hearings on May 4, Magistrate Court judges in both Fulton and DeKalb Counties upheld charges of domestic terrorism against one individual arrested after a protest on Jan. 21 and three more individuals arrested at the South River Music Festival on March 5. Read more
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By: Miliaku Nwabueze, ScalawagArtwork by: Christopher Parker This time when the pigs raided the forest, they hadn’t expected to attack, arrest, and kill their kin. Their aunties, their mothers, and their friends willingly marched into the forest on July 4 in honor of its independence, accompanied by black people in the surrounding neighborhood. Despite desperate… Read more
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By: Ariana Brazier, ScalawagIllustrations by: Jay Jones This story was originally published by Scalawag as a part of A Week of Writing: Stop Cop City. Content warning: This letter mentions state-sanctioned murder. Remix, I’ve been mentally and emotionally exhausted these last few weeks for some familiar and new reasons that I can only explain by… Read more
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By: Zoey Laird, ScalawagPhotos and video by: Ethan Payne This story was originally published by Scalawag as a part of A Week of Writing: Stop Cop City. This essay discusses state-sanctioned murder and gun violence. “For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” — Luke 23:31… Read more
