Tag: Cop City
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Independent Autopsy Reveals Tortuguita Killed While Seated with Hands Raised
EDITORS NOTE: Due to the graphic nature of the autopsy we are issuing a content warning for this article. Please read with care.
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“If You Build It, We Will Burn It,” Defiant and Energized Defend the Forest Movement Retakes Ground
Earlier this year, multiple police agencies engaged in a mass raid of the Weelaunee Forest, destroying campsites that existed in the forest for over a year, and a GSP swat team killed forest defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Esteban Paez Terán. Forest Defender’s permanent occupation of Weelaunee ended after that raid, but the movement continued to fight. In…
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Land Swap or Cop City?: A Visual Guide
The land known as the Weelaunee Forest, or South River Forest, is today under threat on two fronts: a proposed police training facility, and a land swap between DeKalb County and movie industry executive Ryan Millsap. This map is intended to be a guide to the basic geography and jurisdictional boundaries of the area. We…
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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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Judge Denies Cop City Construction Injunction
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…
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Brent Scarbrough & Co, APF Contractor and Donor
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)…
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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
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…
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OPINION: Deny APF their LDP, Rescind the Land Swap
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…
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Statement about the death of Tortuguita from Athens, Greece
Tonight, people in Athens, Greece gathered at a squatted social center for a film screening and discussion of the movement to defend the Atlanta forest. They shared information about the movement and discussed the recent murder of forest defender Tortuguita (AKA Tort, or Manuel Teran) by police. The following statement was read aloud at the…
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COMUNICADO DE PRENSA- POLICÍA ASESINA A MANIFESTANTE EN EL BOSQUE DE ATLANTA
Presentado al Atlanta Community Press Collective El día de hoy, la policía disparó y asesinó a une manifestante en el bosque Weelaunee. Docenas de agentes fuertemente armados de la policía del condado de Dekalb, la policía de Atlanta y la policía estatal de Georgia cerraron el Parque público llamado Weelaunee y las calles aledañas antes…