Tag: South River Forest
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Both sides argue irreparable harm in Cop City environmental lawsuit
“We are building in a war zone,” Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) Board Member, donor, and attorney Simon Bloom told U.S. District Court Judge Jean-Paul Boulee, during a two-hour hearing Wednesday morning over a civil environmental lawsuit that could halt construction at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. A court-ordered halt on construction, “even for one…
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No charges to be filed in the police killing of Manuel Paez Terán
By: Matt Scott Mountain District Attorney (DA) George R. Christian released a 31-page report on Friday and determined that no charges will be filed against the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) SWAT officers responsible for the January killing of environmental activist Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez Terán near the site of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center,…
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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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To save the soul of Weelaunee
By: Zoey Laird, ScalawagPhotos and video by: Ethan Payne This story was originally published by Scalawag as a part of A Week of Writing: Stop Cop City. This essay discusses state-sanctioned murder and gun violence. “For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” — Luke 23:31…
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31 Days in Dekalb County hell
A Personal Account of Atlanta’s Carceral Nightmare. “The struggles I heard about and experienced convinced me that the state of Georgia does not run county jails—it runs concentration camps that it calls county jails.”
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A night of police chaos causes weeks of suffering for festival attendees and families
The second day of the Defend the Atlanta Forest week of action, began much like the previous day ended: with a music festival on the RC Field. The lighthearted, joyful nature present the first night of the festival found itself represented by a more physical manifestation the second day in the form of a large…
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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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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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Stop the Swap lawsuit plaintiffs file emergency motion in response to destruction at Weelaunee People’s Park
Workers claiming to be in the employ of Ryan Millsap again returned to Weelaunee People’s Park (Intrenchment Creek Park) on the morning of December 22nd, 2022. Photographs submitted to ACPC show large numbers of trees being felled, and the machines being guarded by a solitary City of Lithonia Police Department officer. Said officer refused to…
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Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Site Plans Hub – July 2022 Plans
With gratitute to the South River Watershed Alliance for helping to compile the open records requests that produced these site plans. These plans are current as of July 2022, dated to a re-submittial of the land development permit for the cop city project to DeKalb County. Due to the size and length of many of…