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  • With Removal of Member Lily Ponitz, CSAC Cements its Role as a Rubber Stamp and Stifles Dissent

    With Removal of Member Lily Ponitz, CSAC Cements its Role as a Rubber Stamp and Stifles Dissent
    June 23, 2022

    After nearly an hour of debate in which former committee member Lily Ponitz was allotted just over two minutes at the start to defend herself, the Community Stakeholders Advisory Committee (CSAC) voted to remove Ponitz via an unusual voting method with only Ponitz herself and Amy Taylor voting against removal. Members Amy Taylor, Shuan Billingslea,… Read more

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: As public opposition grows, Atlanta police attempt to begin work on Cop City, protestors occupy trees

    June 6, 2022

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 6, 2022 [click for PDF] Two tree sits have been built and occupied in the site of the proposed “Cop City,” in the Weelaunee/South River Forest in south Atlanta. Last week, Atlanta Police attempted to start work preparing the forest for mass clear-cutting of trees, even as popularity for the project has… Read more

  • OPINION: Paradigm shift or a perpetuation of injustice: The Atlanta Prison Farm and the South River Forest

    June 3, 2022

    By Margaret Spalding “Prison Farming” is a product of the Jim Crow era that endures to this day. A formalized system of free labor and servitude, the Atlanta Prison Farm was defined by racist, inhumane practices, violence, overcrowded, wretched conditions, and grueling labor that often led to the death of inmates. Having provided great economic… Read more

  • Hydrology study for cop city

    June 2, 2022

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  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Atlanta-area park carelessly destroyed: Bulldozer & cops escorted out of the Atlanta Forest

    May 9, 2022

    Neighbors of the Atlanta ForestFor immediate releaseMarch 9, 2022 Contact: atlforestneighbors@protonmail.com Atlanta-area park carelessly destroyed: Bulldozer & cops escorted out of the Atlanta Forest On Monday, May 9, around 9:15am, people inhabiting the Atlanta Forest witnessed a bulldozer accompanied by two Dekalb County cops bulldozing a path in Intrenchment Creek Park – a public Dekalb… Read more

  • City of ATL land purchase record

    April 26, 2022

    These documents are from the Dekalb county courthouse. City of ATL purchased the land known as the prison farm on Nov 10, 1911 for $15,000. Read more

  • Open letter to ATL city council & the APF

    April 5, 2022

    Hello, We are extremely concerned at the inaccuracies laid out in the Terracon Cultural Report for the PSTC.  As per our report that we shared with city council last year, we state how the report “An Historical Analysis Of The Atlanta Prison Farm” written in 1999 by Jillian Wootten is written from the perspective of someone who thought the… Read more

  • 1860 slave census record for George Key

    April 4, 2022

    This record shows that George Key enslave 19 people, who acquired the land we know as the prison farm through land lottery after it was stolen from the Muscogee people. We’ve noted that there is a middle initial “P” listed, we feel confident this is the same George Key as he was the only George… Read more

  • Brief Historical Timeline of the “Prison Farm” land P2

    March 8, 2022

    Time as a prison farm to present- By Atlanta Community Press Collective. For further context read our report “A brief history of the Atlanta City Prison Farm”. Note: This is a working document with information added to it as more history is uncovered. Introduction: Run as a city prison farm uninterrupted from 19221 to somewhere… Read more

  • Brief Historical Timeline of the “Prison Farm” land P1

    March 8, 2022

    Muscogee land- By Lily Ponitz. For further information watch her presentation “Deep Dive: Atlanta City Prison Farm From the Archaic to Now” 8,000 BC – 1,000 BC The property is on naturally resource-rich land in the South River watershed, a headwaters of the Ocmulgee/Altamaha river system, one of the three largest river basins on the… Read more

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