Agency: **Press Release: Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants**
https://anarchistagency.com/press-release-fulton-county-judge-officially-dismisses-rico-charges-against-all-61-stopcopcity-defendants/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 31, 2025 Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Failed to Obtain Constitutional Authority from Governor Brian Kemp
#stopCopCity
Press Release: Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants
https://anarchistagency.com/press-release-fulton-county-judge-officially-dismisses-rico-charges-against-all-61-stopcopcity-defendants/
"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 31, 2025 Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Failed to Obtain Constitutional Authority from Governor Brian Kemp to File
Atlanta victory! 61 charges dismissed in the Cop City RICO case
Atlanta, GA â On Tuesday, December 30, after two years of local pressure and national support, a Georgia judge issued an order dismissing RICO charges against 61 activists who protested the construction of Cop City.
The ruling comes just months after the charges of three activists wrongfully charged with money laundering in connection to the administration of the Atlanta Solidarity bail funds in 2024 were also dropped due to a flimsy legal argument and increasing pressure from the community.
[...]
https://fightbacknews.org/articles/atlanta-victory-61-charges-dismissed-in-the-cop-city-rico-case
Racketeering (RICO) charges against 61 people indicted as co-conspirators in the #StopCopCity movement were dismissed last week, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution in the years after the movementâs peak.
Racketeering Charges Dismissed Against 61 People in Stop Cop City Movement
However, the state could re-file RICO charges with permission from the governor, and may appeal the judgeâs ruling.
Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants
https://lemmy.world/post/40966142
**Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants**| Atlanta Daily World
I started listening to It Could Happen here back in 2021 specifically because of @bishonentype.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gyâs reporting on the Atlanta Forest and #StopCopCity protests.
This new episode on how the repression in Georgia bridges the gap between 2020 and Trumpâs current attacks is worth listening to.
Requiem for Stop Cop City - It...
Proud owner of a number of #Anarchist books -- starting with #AbbieHoffman's #StealThisBook and #PrairieFire - The politics of revolutionary anti-imperialism (#WeatherUnderground, 1974). Also a proud subscriber to #InTheseTimes 'zine, and frequent #Antifa stickerer! I've never hid what I believe in -- I'm not about to start now! #Resist!
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an #Anarchist #Zine
#DanielSanchez is facing federal charges for what #FreeSpeech advocates say is a clear attack on the #FirstAmendment.
by Seth Stern, November 23 2025
Excerpt: "Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment in response to a July 4 noise demonstration outside the #PrairielandICE #DetentionFacility in #AlvaradoTX, during which a police officer was shot.
"There are numerous problems with the indictment, but perhaps the most glaring is its inclusion of charges against a Dallas #artist who wasnât even at the protest. Daniel 'Des' Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained '#Antifa materials' after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.
"But the boxed materials arenât Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever #MAGA officials claim 'Antifa' uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas â one was titled '#InsurrectionaryAnarchy' â but theyâre fully constitutionally protected free speech. The case demonstrates the administrationâs intensifying efforts to criminalize left-wing #activists after Donald Trump announced in September that he was designating 'Antifa' as a 'major terrorist organization' â a legal designation that doesnât exist for domestic groups â following the killing of Charlie Kirk.
"Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of 'corruptly concealing a document or record' as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutorsâ claims about the alleged shooting.
"Itâs an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed #ZineDistribution as part of the #conspiracy charges against 61 #StopCopCity protesters in a sprawling #RICO indictment that didnât bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasnât just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchezâs prosecution solely for possessing similar literature."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/KEoxE
#AntiFascism #Resistance #Antifa #Movements #USPol
#WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Disobey
#Resistance #CharacteristicsOfFascism
Hier soir c'Ă©tait redif sur Zoom Ă©cologie, on a rĂ©Ă©coutĂ© notre Ă©mission de 2023 sur #StopCopCity Ă Atlanta đ»âŹïž
https://zoom-ecologie.net/?Contre-le-projet-Copcity-a-Atlanta
Whites co-opting movements for their own gain, posting this so I can reference it later but people should read this too anyway https://emsenn.substack.com/p/citing-for-containment #StopCopCity #DefendTheForest
How the #US and #Israel exchange tactics in violence and control
Two decades of Israeli-US #police cooperation includes training in #RacialProfiling and #ViolentSuppression of #protests.
By Mersiha Gadzo
Published On 12 Jun 2020
"Following the killing of #GeorgeFloyd, as US riot police fired rubber-coated bullets, #TearGas canisters, #PepperSpray and #StunGrenades at #protesters, #Palestinians shared tips on social media on how to best deal with the assaults.
Many in the Palestinian territories are well experienced with such tactics by security forces while living under a decades-long occupation by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip.
According to the organisations #JewishVoiceForPeace (#JVP) and Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (#RAIA), one common theme shared between United States and Israel is the exchange of tactics and expertise in state violence, which has been ongoing for 18 years.
Months after the September 11 attacks, US law enforcement delegates attended their first official training expedition to Israel to exchange âbest practicesâ in âcounter-terrorismâ.
Since then, thousands more from across the US â including agents from the FBI, CIA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) â have been schooled at these meetings in both Israel and the US, sponsored by far-right Israeli lobby organisations.
But instead of promoting effective security for communities, the programme facilitates an exchange of tactics used in police violence and control including mass surveillance, racial profiling and the suppression of protests and dissent, according to the JVP and RAIAâs 2018 report (PDF) titled Deadly Exchange, which details the extent of the cooperation.
Among the thousands of US law enforcement officers who have reportedly participated in the exchange over the years was Anoka County (North Minneapolis) Sherrif James Stuart, who travelled to Israel in December. "
#IDF #ACAB #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DemilitarizeThePolice
Dangerous exchange: Israeli forces international training
January 31, 2024
"The Israeli regime has developed military and police international training and exchange programmes, exporting its killing skills worldwide and using its military occupation and repressive apartheid system as a selling point.
What countries are engaging in such programmes?
The Israeli military is selling its militarized and repressive model worldwide, promoting the illegal occupation as a standard.
Many countries have engaged in joint military and police forces training and exchanges.
The US military funding to Israel amounts to USD$3,8 billion per year.
In addition there are constant exchanges of practices in military technology and police tactics through training programmes that bring together US police, ICE, border patrol, and FBI with Israeli soldiers, police and border agents.
These programmes promote racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention, and attacks on human rights defenders.
In 2023, for the first time, Israeli soldiers took part in the âAfrican Lionâ, the biggest military exercise event of the continent which took place in Morocco.
The two regimes normalized relations after the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020. Morocco also bought different types of surveillance and attack drones from Israel, suspected to be used against occupied Western Sahara.
The Abraham Accordsâ main outcome was to increase military and police cooperation between the Israeli regime and Gulf countries.
Since the signing, diplomatic, military and intelligence contacts and contracts have expanded fast between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, bound together by âconcernâ over Iranâs activities.
In 2021, UAE and Bahrain navies held their first joint military exercise with Israeli warships, co-ordinated by the US Navy.
Indian police services officers have been trained in âcounter-terror warfareâ by the Israeli Police as part of a work agreement signed between the Israel Ministry of Public Security and the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs in 2014.
Indian police is infamous for its human rights violations especially in Kashmir, which include documented torture, rape, custodial killings and the detention extended periods without legal proceedings."
Read more:
https://www.thepipd.com/content/blog/dangerous-exchange-israeli-forces-international-training/
#IDF #ACAB #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DemilitarizeThePolice
About to read at this online event in a couple of hours:
Iâm going to be reading some new pieces, some old ones, and some selections from fear not the brave pain đ. I hope you can join us!
-AllÄna
A good example of powerful public speaking, and standing up for the least empowered in our society. https://youtube.com/watch?v=fScwIcYdNhg #atlanta #stopCopCity
i shall be welcoming this book to the world with @opensorceryy and some other friends <3 because the best book launches involve #fundraising for #stopcopcity defendants
âšExciting newsâBrenton Clutterbuck, author of the #Discordian historical text Chasing Eris, has joined the lineup for the #fundraiser I'm reading at later this week! Make sure to check it out and support the #StopCopCity movement (and apparently the Erisian movement as well, lol).
"Stop Cop City and the Insurrectionary Horizon". Jarrod Shanahan y Zhandarka Kurti, de su libro "Skyscraper Jails".
«What makes #StopCopCity the most important struggle of our moment, then, is not the possibility of stopping this monstrosity from being built. It is instead the tantalizing image of an abolitionist struggle oriented to an insurrectionary horizon. In particular, it is the movementâs illegal tactics that have drawn the most attention and have captured imaginations all over the world, leading to thousands of people taking heroic risks together in Atlanta. The Weelaunee Forest has been the scene of brave and decisive actors striking against the carceral state, taking it as an external foe rather than as a terrain of technical intervention.
(...)
It is (...) with great respect for the sacrifice of the Atlanta comrades, that we emphasize how heroic and necessary their work has been and highlight that the only possible victory for abolitionism will come through an illegal and highly unsafe confrontation with the capitalist state.
Abolitionism charting a revolutionary course will not necessarily mean extreme tactical militancy in situations that do not call for it, nor the addition of revolutionary rhetoric to the same old practices. Instead, a revolutionary abolitionism will mean evaluating present-day praxis based not simply on whether it abets the expansion of the carceral system but also on whether it prepares the ground for heightened struggles to come. We do not offer a magical bridge between isolated practices in the here and the realization of communism. But we believe that holding this goal aloft is the first step, from which future considerations will result.»
Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us into passivity, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order designating "antifa" a fabricated "terrorist organization" as an effort to intimidate. It is chiefly intended to convince us to let them consolidate power without a fight.
If we look at the stymied #StopCopCity RICO prosecution as a test case, the chief danger is that people will withdraw from movements, enabling the Trump administration to maintain the initiative long enough to escalate to other forms of repression, such as extrajudicial force.
This should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us. Only collective action can keep us safe and free.
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