Tag: Atlanta City Council
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Backroom deals and elasticity clause increase public cost of Cop City
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…
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This is the Atlanta Way: a primer on Cop City
The struggle to Stop Cop City is not just a battle over the creation of a $90 million police urban warfare center. It’s not just a fight to protect the 381 acres of forest land, known as one of the “four lungs” of Atlanta, currently under threat of destruction. It’s not just a conflict over…
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Atlanta Clergy Join Call to Defend the Atlanta Forest
“Come with your vestments, robes, and shawls. Come with your sacred texts and teachings. Come with your spiritual power to protect this sacred place,” says a letter by a coalition of clergy and faith leaders who are calling for fellow religious leaders to support forest defenders and join the upcoming Defend the Forest Week of Action…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Your Constituents (Residents, Educators, Organizers, Families) Demand Police Stop Violating Human Rights
Shared on behalf of the Weelaunee Coalition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 21st, 2022 Please direct all inquiries to weelauneecoalition@gmail.com Dear Mayor Dickens, City Council members, and City Council President, We write to you as a coalition of educators, community organizers, parents, and residents of the surrounding neighborhoods and communities of South River forest, or Weelaunee…
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Tell Liliana Bakhtiari and Jason Dozier it’s time to Stop Cop City!
Atlanta City Council members Liliana Bakhtiari ran on platforms of police accountability. Councilmember Bakhtiari in particular had been a vocal opponent of the proposed police and fire “training” facility in unincorporated DeKalb County prior to their election to city council, and an ally to the movement to stop it. Our open records requests have since…