SWAT Teams Attack Atlanta Forest Encampments, Activists Charged with ‘Terrorism’

"Atlanta, GA – On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, SWAT teams and other armed police officers from eight different federal, state, county, and city police agencies conducted a raid on those camping out in the Atlanta forest in hopes of preventing the construction of a 85-acre police training facility that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.”

https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/swat-teams-attack-atlanta-forest-encampments-activists-charged-with-terrorism/

#defendtheatlantaforest #stopcopcity

TREE SITTERS IN ATLANTA FOREST HAVE BEEN TROWN TO JAIL WITH CHARGES OF TERRORISM.

"‘On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th , SWAT teams and other armed police officers from eight different federal, state, county, and city police agencies conducted a raid on those camping out in the Atlanta forest in hopes of preventing the construction of a 85-acre police training facility that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.”
At a hearing Thursday, Magistrate Judge Claire Jason denied bond to five of the arrestees charged with felonies.

“Each of you have been charged with domestic terrorism,” Jason said, appearing to read from a document on her screen. “Generally the information that I have on the affidavit of warrant…You did participate in actions of DTAF, Defend the Atlanta Forest, a group that’s been classified by the United States Department of Homeland Security as a domestic violent extremist group.” ‘"

https://youtu.be/0KOTW8nD7q0

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2022/12/19/tree-sitters-in-atlanta-forest-have-been-trown-to-jail-with-charges-of-terrorism/

#defendtheatlantaforest #stopcopcity #abolishpolice #antireport

“We are All Forest Defenders”: Atlanta Takes to the Streets Against Repression

"Report from the streets of Atlanta, as community members mobilize against repression of forest defenders as the State moves to attack the movement against Cop City. For more background on the struggle, see our interview with Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders."

https://itsgoingdown.org/we-are-all-forest-defenders-atlanta-takes-to-the-streets-against-repression/

#defendtheatlantaforest #stopcopcity #Repression

#SolidarityMeansAttack

MANHATTAN: Atlas VP’s Apartment Building attacked in #solidarity with the ATL 6
Posted on December 21, 2022

"Atlas VP’s #Manhattan apartment building (330 3rd Ave) attacked in solidarity with arrested Weelaunee forest defenders.
6 comrades were arrested without bail on bullshit inflated charges. they were initially denied running water and essential medications.

We reject this world order of prisons and pigs and dead forests,

we reject their false peace,

we reject the state in its entirety!"

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/21/manhattan-atlas-vps-apartment-building-attacked-in-solidarity-with-the-atl-6/

https://scenes.noblogs.org/

#defendtheatlantaforest #stopcopcity

Bank of America set on fire in Portland

"Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish.

I attack for revenge against capital for the hell it creates, to break the illusion of police control that usually protects it, and just because I can.

Bank of America funds the Atlanta Police Foundation and a thousand other projects of control. Earlier that day, the six friends in Atlanta charged with “domestic terrorism” were released from jail. May this fire bring them some warmth in winter.

Long live anarchy!"

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/01/bank-of-america-set-on-fire-in-portland/

#stopcopcity #defendtheatlantaforest #antireport

Call for a weekend of solidarity with the Atlanta Forest to #StopCopCity.
January 13-16th.

"6 people are charged with domestic terrorism for tree-sitting, as police kill more people in 2022 than any year before, & the climate crisis rages.

We can all take action for our future."

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/06/usa-call-for-a-weekend-of-solidarity-with-the-atlanta-forest-to-stopcopcity-january-13-16th/

#SolidarityMeansAttack #defendtheatlantaforest #abolishpolice

Help Stop Atlanta's "Cop City"

"This is an interview with activist and social commentator Kamau Franklin who works with Community Movement Builders, Stop Cop City, and the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. We're talking about a major issue facing Atlanta and likely much of the nation going forward, the encroaching militarization and growth of the police state."

https://yt.artemislena.eu/zJfUF6nw5Xg?t=1

#KamauFranklin #defendtheatlantaforest
#AtlantaSolidarityFund #StopCopCity

Brasfield & Gorrie Offices Attacked by Forest Defenders in South Florida

"We attacked because we know that Cop City is not just a single training facility. The oligarchs are plotting; they saw the uprising of 2020, they believe in the climate catastrophe that they created, they know that their greed is killing us all and that the people will soon rise up!
Cop city is the answer for these megalomaniacs: obedience or death. Cop city is how white supremacy withstands the rage of BIPOC communities. Cop city is how corporations can continue to steal from the land and the peoples who have tended it for time immemorial. And when cop city is defeated, the death-cult of capitalism will fall soon after. We keep us safe.
Abolish the police! Abolish their jails and prisons! Abolish capitalism! Anarchy! Autonomy! Liberation!"

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/11/brasfield-gorrie-offices-attacked-in-south-florida/

#defendtheatlantaforest #StopCopCity #SolidarityMeansAttack

Logging Trucks Destroyed in Ozarks

"Happy New Year to the crew of the 4 tree-killing machines in Ozark. For days the noise was the only goddamn thing you could hear in the forest. We emerged from our nests and holes and severed the infernal racket with tooth and claw. We found all machines unlocked with keys still in their ignitions!

We chewed through wires and cables, filled fuel tanks with sand and soil, drained the machines dry, and restored the forest to perfect winter silence. It was a beautiful night, just right for stargazing (and sabotage :))

In solidarity with the Atlanta Forest (STOP COP CITY!!!) and forests under siege everywhere. You woke us up and there’s more to come!

– Pissed-off locals"

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/15/logging-trucks-destroyed-in-ozarks/

#defendtheatlantaforest #StopCopCity #sabotage #directaction

A Few Words Against Rats
"today, as fires spread and rocks flew, some rats scurried among the brave…"

“journalists”, or whatever those professional snitches call themselves, recorded photos and videos of forest defenders from positions within and around the crowd. with their fancy lenses and closeup angles, this footage reveals a much higher level of detail than APD’s own camera towers, and will inevitably become a tool of the coming police investigations.

we smash security cameras without a second thought. the ones that happen to have two legs should be treated no differently."

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/06/a-few-words-against-rats/

#defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #StopCopCity #policeviolence #videosurveillance #Surveillance #directaction #sabotage

Atlanta Cop City Protesters Charged With Domestic Terror for Having Mud on Their Shoes

"In an aggressive and indiscriminate arrest sweep on Sunday, police stormed a music festival held in the Atlanta forest by activists protesting Cop City, a vast police training facility under construction atop forestland. Twenty-three of the activists arrested in the raid now
face domestic terrorism charges for their participation in the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement."

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/

#StopCopCity #defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #policeviolence #antireport #DomesticTerrorism

Autopsy reveals anti-'Cop City' activist's hands were raised when shot and killed

"The family of activist Manuel Teran held a press conference Monday morning after an independent autopsy revealed that Teran’s hands were raised when shot and killed by police near the proposed site for the new Atlanta Public Safety Training Center."

https://www.wabe.org/defend-the-atlanta-forest-organizer-discusses-the-police-shooting-of-manuel-teran-and-the-movement-to-stop-cop-city/

#defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #policeviolence #abolishthepolice #antireport #StopCopCity

Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid shot pepperball gun into activist’s tent first

"Manuel Paez Terán’s family say incident reports reveal that Georgia officials ‘planned and led the operation’ that resulted in the activist’s death."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/25/cop-city-raid-georgia-officers-manuel-paez-teran

#StopCopCity #defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #PoliceBrutality #policeviolence #antireport #Atlanta

Atlanta’s “Stop Cop City” Movement Is Spreading Despite Rampant State #Repression

"Police and prosecutors have used every tool in their arsenal to crush the spreading movement against Atlanta’s Cop City."

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

#StopCopCity #defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #Atlanta #Resistance #antireport

No #CopCity Anywhere: Governor Unveils Cop City NJ Plans

"U.S. white power establishment wants to build cop city everywhere.
You are encouraged to heed the call and example from the Welaunee Forest: give them hell, everywhere.
Your courage, creativity, and connections will determine just how badly the U.S. empire will regret their choice to double down on policing the planet after 2020."

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/29/no-cop-city-anywhere-governor-unveils-cop-city-nj-plans/

#StopCopCity #defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #antireport #sabotage #directaction