Southeast Dekalb County, Georgia—Belkis Terán raised her arms wide to welcome the rain now pounding hard over the newly thatched pavilion in the parking lot of the “Weelaunee People’s Park,” a space once known to residents of Atlanta and Southeast DeKalb County as Intrenchment Creek Park. Long before settlers dubbed the South branch of the Ocmulgee River here as simply the “South River… Source Source / Read More: Atlanta Was a Constitution-Free Zone During “Stop Cop City” Week of Action
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Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Demonstrators Spur Further Protests
In the early evening of March 5, a noxious plume of black smoke wafted over the proposed site of the unpopular Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, known as “Cop City.” Construction equipment and vehicles were reportedly set on fire, igniting an incendiary response by police on the second day of the Week of Action called by the Defenders of the Atlanta Forest. It was the fifth such week-long… Source Source / Read More: Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Demonstrators Spur Further Protests
The Struggle Against “Cop City” Has Decades-Old Roots in Atlanta
This story was first published by Prism. On Jan. 18, 2023, a squad of local and state police officers marched into the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta, where they shot and killed a young, queer, Indigenous-Venezuelan protester named Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán. Tortuguita was one of many Atlanta forest defenders, a decentralized group of activists that has been living in the forest since 2021… Source Source / Read More: The Struggle Against “Cop City” Has Decades-Old Roots in Atlanta
Cori Bush Calls for Investigation Into Police Killing of Activist Tortuguita
Progressive lawmakers are calling for an independent investigation into the death of climate justice activist Manuel Terán, who also went by the name Tortuguita, who was killed by police last week as law enforcement officers were carrying out a violent raid of a protest camp in a wooded area in Atlanta, Georgia. Activists say that the police raid of the camp was only law enforcement’s most recent… Source Source / Read More: Cori Bush Calls for Investigation Into Police Killing of Activist Tortuguita
MLK’s Vision Lives On in Atlanta’s Fight Against New Police Training Facility
“Armies of officials are clothed in uniform, invested with authority, armed with the instruments of violence & death & conditioned to believe that they can intimidate, maim or kill Negroes with the same recklessness that once motivated the slaveowner.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Protest by non-locals [organizers against Cop City] are inherently terrorism.” — Second-in-command Atlanta Police… Source Source / Read More: MLK’s Vision Lives On in Atlanta’s Fight Against New Police Training Facility