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Judge Thomas Cox of the Fulton County Superior Court ruled against a temporary restraining order, while ordering the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) “immediately coordinate daily inspections of the property and pay for the same.” On Thursday, each side was given 20-30 minutes to speak on a series of questions laid out by the judge. According… Read more
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Residents living near the site of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as “Cop City,” reported contractors engaging in construction work Monday morning, despite the appeal filed on behalf of Community Stakeholder Advisory Committee member and local resident Amy Taylor last week. According to Jon Schwartz, the lawyer for the appeal, filing… Read more
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In an email exchange provided to ACPC, Dave Wilkinson, President and CEO of the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) informs the foundation’s lawyer that APF plans to continue construction of Cop City in the Weelaunee Forest despite a recent appeal that stayed the use of the Land Disturbance Permit. Continuing construction while an appeal is under… Read more
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Second Cop City contractor has funding ties to project, leads destruction efforts in Weelaunee on Monday. Escorted by multiple armed law enforcement agencies (Atlanta Police Department, DeKalb County Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Bureau of Investigations, DeKalb County DA, Georgia DA, and Georgia Department of Natural Resources), sub-contractors for the Atlanta Police Foundation’s (APF)… Read more
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Submitted for publication to the Atlanta Community Press Collective As national attention and pressure builds, the City of Atlanta, Dekalb County and Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) now claim to have reached a “compromise” between themselves on Cop City. There is no such compromise: this project is failed. What trust can exist between Atlanta residents and… Read more
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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
