Tag: Stop Cop City
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How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protester
By: Miliaku Nwabueze, ScalawagArtwork by: Christopher Parker This time when the pigs raided the forest, they hadn’t expected to attack, arrest, and kill their kin. Their aunties, their mothers, and their friends willingly marched into the forest on July 4 in honor of its independence, accompanied by black people in the surrounding neighborhood. Despite desperate…
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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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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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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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APF Believes Forest Defender Indictments are Coming, Construction Plans in Disarray and On Hold
True to concerns brought by The Atlanta Solidarity Fund late last month, emails obtained through open records requests show that the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) and its contractors are awaiting “indictments to the leaders” of the Stop Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest Movement. In an email to the members of APF’s Board of…
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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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Media Advisory: Town hall to Demand the End of Cop City Project
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Phone: 917-535-3041 Email: kamaufranklin@gmail.com Town hall to Demand the End of Cop City Project Atlanta citizens and Community groups demand an end to the attempted construction of Cop City, the militarized police training facility, and an end to the repression of community organizers Atlanta citizens and community groups are gathering…
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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…
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Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Site Plans – Enviornmental Site Assessment and Limited Site Investigation
Phase I Enviornmental Site Assessment 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…
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Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Erosion, Pollution and Sedimentaion Control (EPSC) Phase I-IV Plans and Details – July 2022
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…