Tag: Atlanta City Council
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Block Cop City group issues call for mass action to stop construction
By: Matt Scott Update: Block Cop City organizers now say the nationwide tour will cover 70 cities. Just days after members of the clergy and other people of faith chained themselves to construction equipment at the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site, a new group, Block Cop City, announced plans for a mass action on Nov.…
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Referendum coalition requests election monitors oversee City’s process
On Tuesday, the Cop City Vote Coalition requested the Carter Center monitor how Atlanta undertakes the verification process to validate the referendum petition that would put the future of the training center opponents call “Cop City” on the ballot. The coalition made its request to the director of the Carter Center’s Democracy Program David Carroll…
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Not having a ball: inspector general investigates Dickens’ event expenses
By: Matt Scott A $124,566.90 invoice from the Hyatt Regency Atlanta with note instructing that the funds should be paid as a “professional courtesy” sparked an investigation into Mayor Andre Dickens’ 2022 Senior Citizen Ball that found violations in city policies regarding hotels, purchases, and the use of public funds for private benefit. The investigation…
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Not just Cop City, referendum team threatens the Atlanta Way
On Monday, the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition is set to turn in over 100,000 signatures on the petition to put add a November ballot question asking voters to decide whether to overturn the 2021 ordinance authorizing the lease of 381 acres in the South River Forest to the Atlanta Police Foundation for the construction…
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Stop Cop City activists launch referendum campaign to cancel lease
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.
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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…