SCENES FROM THE ATLANTA FOREST CLOSES DOWN

Posted on November 25, 2024 by unoffensiveadmin

"This project has come to a close.
The noblogs team Autistici/Inventati decided to shut down this blog shortly following the republication of the Heritage Foundation dox from againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org and after the dox of the Elbit Systems of America. This blog hosted a great deal of antagonistic content over the years, and we are thankful to the Autistici/Inventati team for allowing a majority of the content to remain up for so long. They undoubtedly tolerated a great deal of resistance – we trust that their decision to shut down the blog did not come lightly.

"This site served as a nexus for anonymous publication, a space for engaging in dialogue with other rebels, and a place to spread complicity and proliferate autonomous activitiy.

"Please keep those who are languishing in jails for accusations related to this movement in your hearts- better yet, send them letters.

"Continue fighting for the end of RICO charges.

"Never forget Tortuguita, a hero whose bravery cannot be understated.

"Continue fighting for a world without markets, hierarchy, and fascism.

"For a time, the struggle in the atlanta forest was one of the powerful torches that carried the flames of antagonstic anarchist destruction. We hold our actions in this struggle proudly, and hope you do as well.

"We will never forget the weelaunee forest, we will never forgive those that perpetrated its destruction.

!Viva Tortuguita!

Nothing is Finished
Everything Continues"

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2024/11/25/scenes-from-the-atlanta-forest-closes-down/

#JusticeForTortuguita #StopCopCity #HeritageFoundation #Doxing #CriminalizingDissent #Resistance #ScenesFromTheAtlantaForest #SaveTheForest #Weelaunee #CopCity #PoliceState #Fascism #ACAB #Atlanta #StopCopCity
#AtlantaForests #Suppressed #HostPressured #FascistGovernment
#PoliceMilitarization #Whistleblowers #VivaTortuguita

Anarchism Must Not Be Criminalized – Statement from 12 of the 61 People Indicted on RICO Charges in Atlanta

"This RICO indictment is an attempt by the state to not only criminalize dissent, but a specific set of ideas which leads to dissent and offers an alternative framework to the state and capitalism.

...

Mutual aid is what we do & solidarity is how we relate.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Solidarity is our shield, anarchy is our sword."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/09/anarchism-must-not-be-criminalized-statement-from-12-of-the-61-people-indicted-on-rico-charges-in-atlanta/

#Anarchism #StopCopCity #DefendTheForest #Weelaunee #FuckRICO #Solidarity #Repression

first they take our forests, then they say they need
nineteen million dollars of bitterness and greed.
woodlands with life in every breath
destroyed for cops to deal out death:
defend atlanta's forests
and let weelaunee grow!

4/4
#Weelaunee #StopCopCity #atlanta

remember all the victims: remember Rayshard Brooks,
murdered by policemen who didn't like his looks,
dragged from the drive-thru one fine day
they shot him as he walked away
defend atlanta's forests
and let weelaunee grow!

3/4

#Weelaunee #StopCopCity #atlanta

remember Tortuguita, innocent of crimes,
murdered in the morning, shot fifty-seven times,
shot with his hands up as he died,
they told their tale, of course they lied.
defend atlanta's forests
and let weelaunee grow!

2/4
#Weelaunee #StopCopCity #atlanta

So I wrote a song about the Cop City thing going on in Atlanta.

Weelaunee is a forest, filled with life and peace,
City Hall is planning a playground for police,
that's where they'll go to learn the way
to kill and maim, and so we say
defend atlanta's forests
and let weelaunee grow!

1/4

#Weelaunee #StopCopCity #atlanta
https://www.tumblr.com/thatsleepymermaid/733286988844875776/here-is-a-song-i-wrote-about-the-cop-city-thing

@subMedia

When will the #StopCopCity lawlessness by local Atlanta and state Georgia government officials end so #ATL can return to reality?

History will remember this *deep* stain - this moment and these despicable, murderous, corporate lackey, ideologues - all criminal heads of government.

Gov Kemp, AG Carr, Mayor Dickens, the corrupted majority of city council.

These fools are the true criminal conspiracy.

:solidarity:

#Justice #Corruption #Weelaunee #Atlanta #NoJusticeNoPeace

The Fight Against #CopCity

The protests in Atlanta build on a history of organizers challenging prison construction as a force for environmental destruction.

by Amna A. Akbar, May 10, 2023

"Locals often describe Atlanta as “a city in a forest,” with trees and a tree canopy covering almost half of the land. The ecosystem depends on this foliage, and activists say that the deforestation required to build the facility will harm air quality, hasten climate change, and contribute to flooding in predominantly poor and working-class Black and brown communities. The proposed development will further distance residents from accessible green space while bringing toxic waste closer. But the project will do more than fracture the largest green space in Atlanta. The activists fighting against Cop City argue that police violence itself constitutes an environmental hazard, and that toxic chemicals associated with explosives that could be used on the site will destroy the air, water, and land on which myriad forms of life depend."

#stopcopcity #defendwelauneeforest #defendatlforest #weelaunee #DefendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #FreeAllForestDefenders

Read more:
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-fight-against-cop-city

"I would rather be
among forest animals
and the sounds of nature,
than among city traffic
and the noise of man."
- Anthony Douglas Williams

#stopcopcity #defendwelauneeforest #defendatlforest #weelaunee #DefendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCitiesEverywhere

Folks in #Atlanta Won’t Accept ‘#CopCity’

#HBCU students, faculty, and community activists have joined forces to stop the environmentally destructive police training facility.

By Maya Richard-Craven, Word In Black, May 10, 2023

"#Environmental activists have long raised concerns about 'Cop City' due to its potential #ecological impact. The facility is slated to be built in the #WeelauneeForest (South River), a tract of undeveloped #forested land that serves as an essential #GreenSpace and #CarbonSink for the city. Activists say losing this green space would contribute to increased #AirPollution, decreased #biodiversity, and the exacerbation of #ClimateChange.

"Along with concern about the environmental impact, opposition to 'Cop City' from the #Black community also stems from fears of racial profiling, over-policing, and strained police-community relations. Critics argue that the allocated funds should be redirected to address systemic issues affecting Black residents, such as education and community development, rather than expanding policing resources."

#stopcopcity #defendwelauneeforest #defendatlforest #weelaunee #DropTheCharges #StopCopCity #DefendTheAtlantaForest #TheirNameWasTort #FreeAllForestDefenders

Read more: https://sacobserver.com/2023/05/folks-in-atlanta-wont-accept-cop-city/

Help the forest defenders who have worked to stop cop city:

https://linktr.ee/weelauneearresteefundraisers

#mutualaid #weelaunee #stopcopcity

Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, will represent the Atlanta Police Foundation in the Land Disturbance Permit Appeal, case A-23-1246318, going before the DeKalb County Zoning Board of Appeals Wednesday 4.12.23 at 2pm EST.
The public may watch the hearing via Zoom.

If you would like to watch, follow @southriverforest on Instagram and check out their link tree.

#stopcopcity #stoptheswap #weelaunee #southriver #southriverga #weelauneeriver 

Bulldozer in Weelaunee Destroyed during WOA
#Weelaunee #DirectAction
Via @scenes

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/11/bulldozer-in-weelaunee-destroyed-during-woa/

They have started clear cutting #Weelaunee #forest and the #police have grown increasingly aggressive to #Atlanta residents in the area. We need all the help we can get now to #stopcopcity. Call the Atlanta representatives or hell, come to Atlanta yourself and join in on the #protests.

Office numbers of Governor Brian #Kemp and Mayor #Dickens to Stop #CopCity

Kemp: +1-404-656-1776
Dickens: (404) 330-6054

"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/

After checking the news from Georgia Public Broadcasting and reading a copy of an executive order closing (sections of) so-called Intrenchment Creek Park from the Dekalb County CEO that was posted on Friday I made a startling observation:

Weelaunee People’s Park parking lot, where police and contractors have destroyed memorials for Tortugita and posted “no trespassing” signs today (Monday March 27th), is not within any of the closed properties listed in Dekalb County Executive Order 2023-001, the order that is being used to justify today’s horrific actions. Policing and clear-cutting forests pose threats to all life in the Weelaunee forest and beyond.

The executive order can be found on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s website: https://www.gpb.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/dekalb_county_executive_order_03-24-23.pdf

#NoCopCity #StopCopCity #DefendTheAtlantaForest #DefendTheForest #DefendTheForestATL #Weelaunee #WeelauneeForest #Atlanta

No dia 5 de março, um grupo de cerca de trezentas pessoas mascaradas, vestindo principalmente camuflagem e roupas pretas, invadiu o posto avançado principal de segurança da polícia na #Floresta #Weelaunee, no canteiro de obras proposto para o projeto #CopCity. Os manifestantes rasgaram as cercas e incendiaram uma torre de vigilância móvel. O grupo atirou pedras e fogos de artifício na #bófia em retirada, que lutava para fechar um portão

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/an-historic-direct-action-in-a-forest-outside-atlanta/

There are easy answers to the Constitutional crisis facing Atlanta-area government:
- Free every forest defender
- Drop every charge
- Cancel the #CopCity project
- Reverse the land swap
- Protect & restore the #Weelaunee Forest
#StopCopCity

"Les actions se multiplient contre le projet de construction du plus grand centre d’entraînement privé de la #police américaine à #Atlanta, dans l’État de la #Géorgie. Que ce soit des rassemblements, des manifestations ou encore l’occupation de la forêt de #Weelaunee pour éviter sa destruction lors de la mise en chantier, les moyens de résistance sont multiples. Toutefois, plus la résistance est féroce et plus la répression augmente jusqu’à culminer avec l’assassinat par la police de Manuel « Tortuguita » Teran en janvier dernier alors qu’il participait à l’occupation."

#StopCopCity #JusticeForTortuguita
#DefendTheForest
#ACAB

https://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2023/03/atlanta-stop-cop-city-attaque.html