Tag: Atlanta Public Safety Training Center
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[Video] ‘Cop City’ activist locks down at Brasfield & Gorrie site in Midtown
![[Video] ‘Cop City’ activist locks down at Brasfield & Gorrie site in Midtown](https://atlpresscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BG-LOCKDOWN.jpg)
Physicist, artist, and community organizer Michael Czajkowski protested at a construction site in Midtown Atlanta, demanding the company drop their contract for the construction of ‘Cop City’. The protest disrupted construction, leading to Czajkowski’s arrest and subsequent release after being charged with two misdemeanors. (49 words)
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Protestors in Austin, Texas shut down Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’s talk at SXSW panel
Monday morning, protestors disrupted Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ presentation on a panel in Austin, TX. Protestors interrupted Dickens as he was speaking and accused him of seamless political alignment with Georgia’s Republican Governor, Brian Kemp on police militarization, the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (Cop City), voter suppression, and political repression against…
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Protestors gather at Atlanta mayor’s home over ‘Cop City’ referendum
Approximately 20 Black women and femmes protested at the home of Mayor Andre Dickens, demanding that he drop the city’s court appeal against the ‘Cop City’ referendum. They highlighted the impact on Black communities and expressed solidarity with Palestine. The referendum is currently in limbo, pending a ruling from the appeals court. If successful, signature…
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Stop Cop City goes West: activists kick off Tucson summit
TUCSON, Ariz.—Approximately 150 organizers and activists opposed to the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City, kicked off a four-day summit in Tucson Friday afternoon.
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Cop City’s ‘Ivory Tower’: Georgia State University is Ground Zero for Militarized Policing
“WE NEED YOU HERE” reverberated through the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on Feb. 2, 2023, as Atlanta University Center (AUC) students took over Crown Forum, a mandatory weekly campus event that emphasizes social justice and students’ “dynamic humanity,” and proves to be a powerful space to challenge the institutional complicity over the Atlanta…
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The ATL 61 episode 2: Jamie Marsicano
I first met Jamie in North Carolina, outside the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in August. A member of her support crew reached out to me on Aug. 8, asking if ACPC could cover a press conference Jamie was holding Charlotte the next day. My only real knowledge of Jamie prior to meeting her was that she…
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Police execute search warrants, arrest one person for Cop City arsons
Thursday morning law enforcement officers from a joint task force that included the Atlanta Police Department, FBI, GBI and ATF executed one arrest warrant and three search warrants on two homes in the Lakewood Heights area and one in the Starlight Heights neighborhood that police say are associated with the Stop Cop City movement.
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Brasfield & Gorrie site shut down by activists with “sleeping dragons”
Monday, two activists using reinforced pipes locked themselves to construction equipment at the 12th and Juniper Brasfield & Gorrie work site in Midtown. Bike locks blocked vehicle entrances, interrupting construction for several hours.
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Remembering Tortuguita: A vigil for the slain abolitionist
ATLANTA— As the sun dipped below the Atlanta skyline on Thursday, more than 100 fervent supporters of the Stop Cop City movement rode through the streets of East Atlanta in a solemn procession of cars and bikes, honking loudly and passionately chanting “Viva Viva Tortuguita.”
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First ATL61 RICO trial delayed 2-4 weeks pending appeals decision
FULTON COUNTY—The speedy trial of Ayla King was scheduled to begin in earnest Wednesday but went into recess for an expected 2-4 weeks while the Georgia Court of Appeals decides on a motion to dismiss the case entirely.