Tag: Weeluane Forest
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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 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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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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Hydrology study for cop city