Tag: Defend the Atlanta Forest
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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…
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September 14th Reportback
On the morning of September 14th at approximately 9:30am, ten to twenty Atlanta Police Department officers escorted a charter bus into the grounds of the old city of Atlanta landfill on the opposite side of Key Rd., across from the old prison farm gate. The charter bus appeared to have a number of individuals in…
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Intrenchment Creek Park Blocked Off By DeKalb Police At Behest of Private Property Owners
It is the opinion of ACPC that the unnamed property owner gave Dekalb County PD its marching orders and has not acted in good faith or in accordance with legal precedent. It is truly outrageous but utterly unsurprising that the police would act in the interests of wealthy, private landowners – that is, after all,…
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With Removal of Member Lily Ponitz, CSAC Cements its Role as a Rubber Stamp and Stifles Dissent
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,…
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Hydrology study for cop city