Free to download: Stop Cop City and the Struggles to Come

The military has become the police, the police mimic the movies, the movies are all for children, and the children have no future

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/free-to-download-the-stop-cop-city-and-the-struggles-to-come-zine/

#StopCopCity

its fucking ridiculous that an Atlanta cop just killed an older black man and they expect us to just....let them make Cop City (i did not watch the video and bossip lets you know that the video is extremely disturbing)

Learn more here and here and here and here

#StopCopCity

Call Fulton County Jail and demand the speedy release of Our 61!

(404-613-2145)

source: (https://twitter.com/Madisonqueercom/status/1722052325290672488/photo/1)

#BlockCopCity #StopCopCity

Brief Timeline of the Movement to stop Cop City

https://blockcopcity.org/timeline

#BlockCopCity #StopCopCity

Block Cop City Schedule
November 10-13, 2023
Atlanta, Georgia

https://blockcopcity.org/schedule

#StopCopCity #BlockCopCity

Two years ago, the police murdered Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita.

They were an environmental activist who was protesting with Stop Cop City in Georgia. At the time, they were camping in a forest. Cops raided it, and their human experience ended there.

In honor of their life, folks in New York took over this billboard.

More on Tortuguita:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tortuguita

#Tortuguita #Environment #Climate #Protest #StopCopCity #AbolishThePolice

Design Company for Cop City Charlotte Smashed and Gutted – Lexington, SC

January 6, 2025

On Monday morning, the employees of Boomerang Design, Lexington, South Carolina arrived to a day off work. The night before, shadowy figures broke the glass door, let themselves inside, and smashed computers, printers, phones, office equipment, audio mixers, and every flo

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/13767/

#Communiques #CopCity #DirectAction #NorthAmerica #SouthCarolina #StopCopCity

Addendum 1

A Billionaire Conserving Montana Is Funding the Group Bulldozing the Atlanta Forest
Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank is helping fund the forces behind Cop City
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110471619577888008
https://inthesetimes.com/article/arthur-blank-cop-city

#HomeDepot #ArthurBlank #DefundBillionaires #MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights #PrivateEquity #corporations #DefundCorporations

cont'd 3/

Private equity Profits f. Destroying Atlanta Forest
Connections to Cop City & Blackhall Studios
https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PE-Profits-from-Destroying-the-Atlanta-Forest_March_2023.pdf

Previous thread

Cop City: Atlanta City Council OKs $67M for Facility Despite Mass Protests & Armed Raid on Bail Fund
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110498034813139445
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/6/cop_city_atlanta_vote_bail_fund
https://web.archive.org/web/20230609031916/https://newrepublic.com/post/173275/atlanta-council-approves-cop-city-funding-despite-opposition

#MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #corporations #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights

cont'd 2/

* private equity companies provide DeKalb County Jail, Fulton County Jail, & Atlanta City Detention Center w. commissary, communications, medical services
* profit f. detention of protesters
* other corporations profit f. increased police surveillance
* 2016+ Atlanta paid APF $3.6 million to acquire SWAT equipment, license plate readers, thousands of surveillance cameras for its biggest program, Operation Shield

#MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism

cont'd

* APF one of U.S.’ highest-revenue police foundations
* supports projects that supplement Atlanta Police Department’s $250 million budget
* watchdog organization Private Equity Stakeholder Project investigates ties betw. private equity & APF
* argue that private equity influence is at heart of planned forest conversion (Cop City)

#libertarianism #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceAccountability #DefundPolice #WealthTax #APF #PESP #CopCity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #PoliceState #neofascism

[thread] prison industrial complex

See also:
Poverty industrial complex
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111025108282701968

Prisons, conditions
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110653873757382969

Private Equity at Heart of Cop City
Profiting f. prison-industrial complex
https://truthout.org/articles/private-equity-influence-is-at-the-heart-of-cop-city-report-reveals

* 2021 Atlanta leased land to Atlanta Police Foundation $10/yr
* since then approved $67M to supplement 1/3 contribution APF promised
* current project total $90M

#PrivateEquity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #capitalism #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations

#Copcity #StopCopCity

Atlanta's Cop City "done" and expected to open Jan 2025 just in time for Trump

Years of heavy fighting prevented Cop City from opening in 2023 or 2024 but officials are now claiming to be "putting finishing touches on it" to open in the first quarter of 2024. APD is probably licking their lips about using it to train for assaulting protesters and storming people's homes with Trump taking power.

For years the chant was "if you build it we will burn it" and over and over again tough fighters did exactly that. Again and again equipment at the site went up in flames. The fires then spread nationwide to other construction sites involving the same contractors, the same equipment rental companies, or even the same investors. Even a Bank of America building and a movie studio were incinerated during this midlevel insurgency.

The enemy however committed themselves to finishing the project at any price. Their crackdowns on publicly visible protesters took place without any limitations imposed by any law whatsoever. For all this power they nearly lost ALL their concrete contractors, which would have forcibly terminated the project barring use of the US Army Corps of Engineers to pour the concrete. In the end however this courageous and inspiring insurgency appears to have been simply overpowered.

There is however one silver lining: it has taken so much police resources to defend the site that it has weakened APD everywhere else. They were forced to intensively fortify the site while it was quite literally built under fire.

This has taken a lot of cops off the street. Due to the "if you build it we will burn it" promise, this defense will probably have to continue for the entire duration of Cop City's existance. Thus, the project could end up tactically doing the same job as anarchists locking up an identical number of cops in the basements of squats! APD may have won a pyrric victory at Weelaunee Forest, and if so Tortuguita's spirit shall have the last laugh.

https://www.wabe.org/atlantas-massive-public-safety-training-facility-at-center-of-cop-city-protests-prepares-to-open/

Police officers won't face charges in fatal shooting of protester Manuel Teran at Atlanta's '#CopCity'

Six troopers fired shots that resulted in Teran's death in January.

ByMark Osborne and Kiara Alfonseca
October 6, 2023

"None of the #Georgia State Police troopers involved in the fatal shooting of Manuel '#Tortuguita' Teran will face charges, according to Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney George R. Christian.

"Teran, who used they/them pronouns, was shot and killed by police on Jan. 18 as officers raided campgrounds occupied by environmental demonstrators who had allegedly been camping out for months to protest the development of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, dubbed '#CopCity' by critics.

"According to an autopsy of Teran sent to ABC News, they did not have gunpowder residue on their hands. Officials claimed Teran fired the first shot at a state trooper. Officers then responded with gunfire.

"In Friday's announcement that no charges would be filed, Christian wrote that Teran responded to officers firing 'less lethal' pepperball rounds by 'shooting four (4) times his 9 mm pistol through the tent striking and seriously injuring a Georgia State Trooper. Six Troopers returned fire resulting in the death of Teran.'

"'The use of lethal (deadly) force by the Georgia State Patrol was objectively reasonable under the circumstances of this case,' Christian wrote. 'No criminal charges will be brought against the Georgia State Patrol Troopers involved in the shooting of Manuel Perez Teran.'

"Teran had at least 57 gunshot wounds in their body, according to the autopsy, including in the hands, torso, legs and head.

"An independent autopsy from the family found that Teran’s hands were raised during the fatal shooting, however, the DeKalb County autopsy stated, 'There are too many variables with respect to movement of the decedent and the shooters to draw definitive conclusions concerning Mr. Teran's body position.'

"The DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office had ruled the death a homicide.

"The Georgia Attorney General's Office is conducting its own investigation into the shooting."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officers-face-charges-fatal-shooting-protester-manuel/story?id=103782565

#StopCopCity #DefendTheForest #ACAB #DefendWeelauneeForest #Fascism #ClimateJustice #DirectAction #JusticeForTort #JusticeForTortugita #AtlantaGeorgia

Cop Campus General Contractor Overra has Website Shutdown

On the morning of November 22nd we successfully launched a Denial Of Service Attack on the Overra construction company website.

On the morning of November 22nd we successfully launched a Denial Of Service Attack on the Overra construction company website. We used a Low Orbit Ion Cannon to cause the site to crash. We targeted them for their service as General Contractors for the inter-county police training facility being built in the City of San Pablo in Californi,a also known as” Cop Campus”. This expansion of police authority locally is in lockstep with the increasing of policing capabilities nationally. The resistance to police expansion is best exemplified in the actions to stop construction of “Cop City” in Atlanta Georgia. This action is a small drop in the ocean of resistance that policing in the US will face, we hope we’ve made a meaningful contribution that can continue momentum into the New Year. Long Live Tortugita!

Rosebud Brigade

source: IndyBay

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=12743

#hacker #northAmerica #resistance #stopCopCity #us

https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/

#StopCopCity #DefendAtlantaForest #DefendTheForest

With the fight for the federal government lost, now it's more important than ever to get engaged locally.

Cop Cities are being built across the nation. Surveillance programs are being introduced. Cities are cooperating with border patrol.

Fight the tools of oppression at the local level, and a hostile federal government can't use those tools. Secure your local communities. We keep us safe.

#politics #UsPol #election #stopcopcity #antifa #fascism #acab