Call-in campaign to the Attorney General Chris Carr, Prosecutor John Fowler et. al to drop RICO charges again #StopCopCity protesters in #Atlanta.

#DefendTheAtlantaForest
#DropTheCharges
#VivaTortugita
#DefendWeelaunee

H/T @defendATLforest

This Wednesday, organizers from Block Cop City will be doing a local teach-in at our co-op! Their presentation will include information on the history of the land The Atlanta Police Foundation is attempting to build on, a history of the movement to #StopCopCity, an outline of the movement's next phase #BlockCopCity, and a short workshop to help interested folks form affinity groups and participate in the November weekend of action. We hope you'll join us!

"Aside from bringing people to Atlanta, we hope to spread skills and creativity related to mass direct action and participatory, democratic mass organizing, strengthening the prospects for other, local struggles."—Block Cop City organizers

#DefendTheAtlantaForest #WeelauneeForest #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

Looks like there's yet another bank trying to bail out the Atlanta Police Foundation's heinous #CopCity project. This is bad news - but it also shows that the APF is desperate for money, so the more we cut off their sources the closer we are to winning. Call these bank officials and put some pressure on them! Make it politically unviable for them to support Cop City! There are literally so many better ways to use that kind of money.

Today, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Michael Register announced that he is stepping down, being demoted to a job in Cobb County. Michael Register took over as the GBI Director last August. He has presided over controversial efforts to frame forest defenders and abolitionists as "domestic terrorists," doling out blanket terrorism charges for as little as sitting in a tree or posting on social media. Working with GBI in January, Georgia State Patrol killed forest defender Manuel Teran, known as Tortuguita, and GBI hastened to cover up the circumstances of the murder.

Yet this sadistic authoritarianism has not secured Michael Register the prestigious career he desired.

crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake

In addition, the Dekalb County District Attorney has withdrawn from 42 cases involving people accused of participating in the efforts to #StopCopCity. The Georgia state Attorney General is still pursuing the charges.

This shows that fractures are finally opening up in the halls of power between Republicans and Democrats over how aggressively to prosecute those who protest against channeling a vast proportion of public resources into police militarization.

Living in an Earthquake: The Fight against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression

https://crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake

Ahead of the sixth week of action against a proposed police training facility in Atlanta, this analysis explores the strategic challenges facing the movement to stop Cop City, chronicling the actions of the movement and the reactions of the authorities throughout 2023.

In setting out to stop the militarization of police, people in Atlanta are taking on an institution that has become increasingly central to governance, soaking up more and more resources of society as a whole. This is an important document of one of the fiercest struggles of the Biden era, exploring questions that will soon become pressing everywhere.

#StopCopCity
#defendtheAtlantaForest

The arrest of the Atlanta Solidarity fund organizers is one of the most important escalations in the country. If #Georgia gets away with this, it will set a precedent for activists across the country.

Such overt authoritarianism can only be met by increased resistance and organizing.

Solidarity and rage for those charged with felonies for flyers, all those charges for defending the forest, and for the murder of Tort. May this murderer find no peace, not even in his hometown of Miami.

Read @UnicornRiot article here: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/three-face-felonies-allegedly-flyering-near-georgia-trooper-tied-to-killing-forest-defender/

"Protect the forest by any means necessary"

#StopCopCity #DefendTheAtlantaForest #DefendWeelaunee #Justice4Tort

(Image by @redlittlethread on Instagram)

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wu6uVetRhzuA1l-f7e0A0718-8vfa5e-/view

https://crimethinc.com/zines/guilty-of-murder

We've prepared a zine version of "Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol Are Guilty of Murder," drawing on the autopsy of the Dekalb County Medical Examiner and other sources to debunk police lies about the murder of Tortuguita and exploring what the police stand to gain from spreading falsehoods.

Please print these out and distribute them!

#StopCopCity
#defendtheAtlantaForest

"The civil rights attorney said the case to date bore similarities to one in which she defended Phoenix-area Black Lives Matter protesters. In that case, all criminal charges against protesters were dropped – including more than 100 felony rioting charges and attempts to tie defendants to what she called a “fake criminal street gang … that does not and has never existed, except as a boogeyman in the state’s head.”

Fallout in the case includes multiple resignations, demotions and even criminal investigations against prosecutors and police, after falsified evidence and other law enforcement abuses were revealed. “I heard all of the same things” at the bond hearing, she said. What happened in Phoenix, she said, “should serve as a warning as to what might happen in Atlanta."

#StopCopCity #Atlanta #DefendtheAtlantaForest #Tortuguita #JusticeforTort

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/31/georgia-cop-city-activists-prosecutors?CMP=share_btn_tw

This aerial footage shows the beauty and majesty of the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia and the destruction that Brent Scarborough Company is inflicting upon it at the behest of the same politicians who sent the police to murder Tortuguita and charge the other activists defending the forest with "terrorism." Rather than addressing the ecological or economic crises that threaten our communities, they aim to suppress all protest by means of brute force.

Brent Scarborough Company is working for Brasfield and Gorrie, insured by Scottsdale Insurance Company. This butchery is funded by an array of corporate donors whose names can be found online.

To learn more:
https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/

#StopCopCity
#defendtheAtlantaForest

"What’s indisputable is that police repression has extended into all corners of this movement, amounting to a profoundly undemocratic exertion of state power. From the outset, the voices of the people have been marginalized and subsumed under deference to Atlanta’s police state.

As in the days of brutal repression of the civil rights movement, so too are the levers of state power aligned against the Stop Cop City movement. But there are also reasons for hope. Despite the best efforts of Atlanta authorities to contain the movement, to smear those standing in solidarity as outside agitators, this movement is both intersectional and multilocational.

Beyond the week of action, the battle to stop Cop City continues, in forms ranging from sabotage to legal battles over environmental permitting minutiae. Only time will tell how this movement resolves — whether it succumbs to police repression or whether Cop City will indeed never be built. But it’s been a hell of a fight so far, with the full force of state power brought against the protesters that dare to defy it."

#StopCopCity #Tortuguita #JusticeforTort #Atlanta #AtlantaForest #DefendtheAtlantaForest #Weelaunee #WeelauneeForest #BlackLivesMatter

https://truthout.org/articles/atlantas-stop-cop-city-movement-is-spreading-despite-rampant-state-repression/