This seems like a no-brainer. More #GreenSpace helps to ground and calm folks!

Eastern #Kentucky residents debate #rewilding former #mine or turning it into a #prison

WBUR, February 12, 2025

"Residents of #RoxanaKentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam free.

"Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Grist's Katie Myers about the activists who want to keep the land from becoming another industrial hazard to the area."

Listen:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/12/kentucky-prison-rewilding-land
#SolarPunkSunday
More #GreenSpaces! #LessPrisons (and #CopCities)!
#StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DefendTheForest #DefendWeelauneeForest

The quiet rollout of #CopCities across the #US meets a growing resistance;
As Cop Cities spread to nearly every state, #grassroots #activists are pushing back by forming coalitions that press for investment in communities over #militarized #policing.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/09/the-quiet-rollout-of-cop-cities-across-the-us-meets-a-growing-resistance/

#CopCities Are Popping Up Across Entire U.S., Costing Hundreds of Millions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qktmlYrCqZo

Lee and Eleanor delve into the construction of these mega-#police-centered complexes costing #taxpayers hundreds of millions. Stay informed, stay engaged, share this video, and join the discussion!
#unitedstates #copcity #society #capitalism #politics #news

"The U.S. has long supported the repression of Latin American #LandDefenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the #Atlanta forest."

#CopCities in a Militarized World
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/cop-cities-in-a-militarized-world/

#StopCopCity #ForestProtectors #WeelauneeForest #police #RacializedPolicing #CopCity #StateRepression #LatinAmerica