Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City
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🌲🌳 Decentralized movement to #StopCopCity https://t.co/PGMF3IqT38 [email protected]
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not only do we need direct action, we need a real uprising.
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This is your permission slip for continuing to fight.
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🚨 Georgia State University, an institution with deep ties to Israel by way of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, as well as to Cop City, is having graduating students wearing keffiyehs dragged off campus and is threatening to rescind degrees.
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These kinds of tactics, which are both confrontational and participatory, remain necessary in all struggles for liberation.
NYC: "F*** The NYPD" - Protesters shout as they Jump Subway Turnstiles EN MASS at Union Square to protest police shooting on a subway in Brooklyn, that left a fare evader in critical condition. Video by @olgafe_images @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv to license
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why did georgia state patrol continuously taser a black protester on emory campus and what are you going to do about it?.
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Police killed a forest defender today, someone who loved the forest, someone who fought to protect the earth & its inhabitants. This is why we organize to stop Cop City. And we will. In honor of their life, and the lives of everyone killed and imprisoned by the police.
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“Am I scared of the state? Pretty silly not to be. I’m a brown person. I might be killed by the police for existing in certain spaces. [But] fear is the mind killer . you can’t let the fear stop you from doing things, from living, from existing, from resisting.” .- Tortuguita
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The most important story of the #BlockCopCity action is not the police aggression, which was expected. It is the methods and tactics used by protesters to keep one another safe, effectively preventing any arrests or injuries. Let's take a closer look. 🧵
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the people at the front are doing 100% the correct thing.
Protestors here at Emory are pushing in on officers near the theology school. Things are starting to escalate here.
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They killed someone so that they could have a place to teach grown adults how to drive cars.
CHECK THIS OUT: The City of Atlanta no longer has to rely on others for training! . We are excited about the new facilities at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to include a driving skills pad. @TEAMATL911 @ATLFireRescue @CityofAtlanta @ATLWatershed @ATLPublicWorks
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Manuel Teran, AKA Tort, was murdered by police yesterday. They were camping in a public park to defend the Weelaunee Forest. They are the first environmental protester we know to be killed by US police. This is a big thread of submissions to love and mourn Manuel.
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your enemy is not hiding in tunnels. he is tackling students on campus.
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They killed an activist while destroying an urban forest to replace it with a police training center. they are charging the survivors with terrorism. they are repressing the bail fund. they are throwing away signatures asking for a vote. people wonder why some resort to sabotage.
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the connection between cop city and palestine is not just like a discursive "pivot" that people are making. it's not rhetoric or like a vague "everything is connected" platitude. these are direct, material, links.
reminder for those who still don’t understand — cop city is modeled after an israel* militarization facility that is literally known as “little gaza”.
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Not a single human or animal was hurt in the liberation of the forest today, yet APD just gave permission for SWAT to deploy with automatic rifles.
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Police arrest 3, kneel on neck of person screaming "I CAN'T BREATHE" at #StopCopCity #JusticeForTort protest in Atlanta tonight.
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all eyes on atl.love ❤️ the movement.cop city will never be built
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BREAKING: Most of Atlanta has no access to water right now. The mayor + city council are sending over $110Mil to build Cop City and the areas surrounding it cannot even pour themselves a glass of water in the middle of a Georgia summer. This is the epitome of a police state.
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inside of the occupied siemens hall at cal poly humboldt, a message about tortuguita
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It is terrorism to be in a crowd, protest, run from police, have mud on your shoes, sleep in a hammock, sit in a treehouse, use twitter, listen to music, or be wet; it is a felony to pass out fliers; it is money laundering to buy yard signs, and it is fraud to bail our protesters.
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BREAKING:. City Hall is not allowing the public inside the building until 11:15, even though sign up for public comment begins at 11. They are reserving the front of the line for paid personnel who will speak in favor of Cop City.
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”.― Malcolm X.
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BREAKING: Students and community members have taken over the Candler School of Theology on Emory Campus!
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REPORT: Eight people have made it on to the heavily-militarized Cop City site and locked down to construction equipment. ✊✊✊.
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BREAKING: a source close to the situation has told us that the APF and Mayor's office are paying nearly 50 staffers and/or firemen to come to the City Hall tomorrow morning to speak in favor of Cop City. For this reason, we are advising community members to come earlier in the AM.
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Chlorine gas was one of the main chemical agents used in World War 1. All the money in the world for policing, for war, but not to keep our air clean and safe.
In Conyers, an Atlanta suburb, a BioLab chemical plant burns because of 40 years of de-regulation. In City of Atlanta, noxious chlorine fumes blanket the streets, irritating the throat, nose, eyes. West NC is underwater. Beirut under rubble. Nobody is coming to save us.
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Queens, NYC. As NY Mayor Eric Adams seeks to build a Cop City copycat in Queens, residents continue to organize against it.
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Meanwhile, in the real news. The same company responsible for one of the biggest environmental disasters in recent history which is devastating Palestine, OH, is also bankrolling Cop City in Atlanta, GA.
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A queer activist was killed on January 18th so that the Atlanta Police Foundation could build Cop City.
Reminder: You're valid regardless of whether.you're out or in. Happy Pride Month Atlanta!🏳️🌈.#pridemonth #lgbtqcommunity #lgbtqiaplus
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Emily Murphy has been imprisoned and denied bail since the Jan 21 protest in downtown ATL following the police murder of Tortuguita. Emily was charged with "domestic terrorism" despite there being no evidence of them doing anything besides attending a protest. THREAD #FreeEmily
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wow the "field guide to the emory occupation" is setting a new standard
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Forest defenders on the ground say they heard a round of ~12 shots fired all at once around 9:04 a.m. this morning. This contradicts the back-and-forth shooting story pushed by police. 1/2.
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The DA has ruled that it was "objectively reasonable" to kill Tortuguita. They had hands up + were seated on the ground. Justice doesnt come from the courts; it comes from our dedication to fight for liberation through hardships. We honor the dead by refusing to give up.
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BREAKING: protesters have taken over the undergraduate administration building at Emory University. They are denouncing the schools ties to US-Israeli violence in Gaza and Emory's ties to the Cop City project in Atlanta.
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If Cop City is built, the forest will die. And police from all over the world will come here to train to murder protests. But the movement to stop Cop City has become an international movement. (Thread on global protests for the forest, and for Tortuguita.)
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Moments before Atlanta City Council voted to fund Cop City, they brought these guys into the chambers. Because their rule comes from their strength and not their legitimacy. We have plenty of legitimacy where they do not. Now it is time for us to be strong.
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The police lied. GSP shot their own officer, and executed Tort — in revenge? Just because they could?. Their mother Belkis said: “Tortuguita is alive in our hearts. My prayer is that the blood of my son will speak in all our hearts. We are going to win.”. Viva, viva Tortuguita.
My god. The autopsy shows bullet exit wounds through both of Tort's hands, indicating that their hands were raised when they were murdered. "The autopsy further reveals that Manuel was most probably in a seated position, cross-legged when killed.".
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Remember Uvalde? The cops' cowardice, standing by doing nothing as children were massacred, then lying through their teeth to cover it up. Police are in schools to arrest children, not protect them. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to young people: abolition now.
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Ernst Concrete is no longer working on Cop City and they took their website down 😼
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They killed Tortuguita. They ignored public comment. They are illegally silencing the referendum. Now, 1000+ people are planning a mass action to stop work in November, and they are getting organized. The movement cannot be stopped. Cop City will never be built. #BlockCopCity.
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the gaza solidarity/stop cop city protest on emory campus is now at least 3 times as big as it was an hour ago, after police have repeatedly shot pepper balls at protesters, arrested faculty, and tasered students. now is the time.
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not only were these kids the first to boldly take over a building on campus, they were the first to explicitly tether their struggle to the fight against cop city and the killing of tortuguita.
inside of the occupied siemens hall at cal poly humboldt, a message about tortuguita
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Hundreds have now gathered in South Atlanta to #BlockCopCity. Follow this account and our thread below for live updates.
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SPREAD INFO, NOT PANIC. SALUTE. Size.Agency.Location.Uniform.Time.Equipment. SALUTE. Don't say "Oh no, arrests imminent".Do say "20ish APD at X st with helmets carrying zip ties at 13:05".
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At Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment
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NOW in downtown Atlanta: the march has taken the streets in both directions. "They wanna kill the movement, we won't let them". #JusticeForTort #StopCopCity.
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Please donate to the family of Tortugita, murdered by GSP for defending the Weelaunee Forest and fighting to #StopCopCity .
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We will be here until Cop City isn't.
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In Conyers, an Atlanta suburb, a BioLab chemical plant burns because of 40 years of de-regulation. In City of Atlanta, noxious chlorine fumes blanket the streets, irritating the throat, nose, eyes. West NC is underwater. Beirut under rubble. Nobody is coming to save us.
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BREAKING: Video reveals Atlanta Police began to cut trees in Weelaunee Forest to build #CopCity. Activists have called for a demonstration at Atlanta City Hall at 5pm today, Friday.
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We all deserve to live free from fear of police violence.
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So they want to ban TikTok, contain social media, and they want to ban conventional journalism as well. why is that? What would that make possible for them?.
Texas cops aren’t just arresting journalists, they’re viciously assaulting them.
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Report: After police rounded up 44 festival-goers, they separated those with local residencies with those with out-of-state, released the locals at Gresham Park, and charged the others with terrorism. It is not illegal to protest. It is not illegal to go to a music festival.
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During the march, native trees were planted to replace ones that have been destroyed for the construction of Cop City
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APD just arrested Lorraine Fontana. y'all look so stupid right now. #PoliceState #StopCopCity
This is how they’re treating an elderly woman who has been fighting for justice for decades. This is an outrage and Lorraine and the other arrestee must be released IMMEDIATELY
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As you read the news today, remember that US authorities are calling people "terrorists" for posting fliers, for sleeping in hammocks, for running a bail fund.
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Over 500 people at the Emory quad right now. "From Palestine to Mexico, border walls have got to go!"
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you don't have to use much imagination to see what 100 or so dedicated people can do to exert leverage on their campuses, workplaces, institutions. you can just watch videos coming from cal poly humboldt.
Here's a walk-through of Intifada Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt. Mainstream media + "movement" NGOs ignore Cal Poly because they want to contain this movement to liberal/reformist tactics & don't want other students to learn from & take up these militant tactics & occupy buildings.
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They refuse to release helicopter footage of the killing of Tort. They refuse to release documents related to the investigation. The GBI director and the GSP captain have stepped down. The prosecutor has recused herself from the case. This is state terrorism. Dirty War tactics.
The DA has ruled that it was "objectively reasonable" to kill Tortuguita. They had hands up + were seated on the ground. Justice doesnt come from the courts; it comes from our dedication to fight for liberation through hardships. We honor the dead by refusing to give up.
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they granted bail today.they will drop the charges later.and they will lose an incredible amount of money in the lawsuits.
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Free Palestine. Stop Cop City.
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🚨 BREAKING: Atlanta police are shooting pepper balls at Gaza solidarity/stop Cop City protesters on Emory Campus.
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In Atlanta: .Voter referendums? Illegal.Protesting? Illegal.Reporting on police? Illegal.Loving a forest? Illegal. Tear it all down.
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We have reason to believe the officer shot today was hit by "friendly fire" and not by the protester who was killed. Do not believe the police and their media. Demand an end to police militarization and hands off the forest. 2/2 .[PLEASE SHARE].
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BREAKING: Faith Leaders Lock Themselves to Construction Equipment, Stop Work on Atlanta's Cop City Project . [THREAD]
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7 years ago, Georgia Tech PD Officer Tyler Beck murdered GT student Scout Schultz, anarchist and head of campus LGBT Alliance. After, their loved ones sought a proportional response, + revolted on campus.
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It is illegal to buy covid tests or yard signs
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What happens when a whole generation feels like they have nothing left to lose?.
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Tortugita.Tyre Nichols.Keenan Anderson.Chiewelthap Mariar. this racist system must be destroyed. abolition now.
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while this is taking place inside, a crowd was assembling outside, on the other side of police. in the forest encampments in atlanta, defenders made recourse to lots of militancy to compensate for the lack of such crowds. the real lesson here: surround them.
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across the country, candles are lit and people sit vigil for the forest defender murdered by Georgia state police
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Atlanta Police staging protest inside of @atlcouncil finance meeting on Cop City. Roughly 10% of the police department has been deployed to coerce the vote of the representatives and to prevent civilians from speaking up against allocating tens of millions in public funds.
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atlanta police have fired pepper balls, arrested faculty, and tased a student at emory campus. walk out of class, stop what you are doing, and get down there to the quad near the carlos museum. no genocide in gaza, no cop city!.
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Happening now: ~250 children, parents, and friends marching through East Atlanta. Huge support from passing cars, people coming out from businesses and houses, some with kids, to cheer and wave, some joining the march. "Save Weelaunee for us little ones" reads the banner.
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love to all who defend the atlanta forest
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why are people protesting on emory campus
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Hundreds of Atlantans face off with police outside the Atlanta Police Foundation. Speakers denounce #CopCity, call out Mayor Andre Dickens, refute "outside agitator" narrative, and declare they will protect and free the land.
VIDEO: #StopCopCity / @defendATLforest protesters are holding a rally in front of the building that houses the Atlanta Police Foundation. @Atlanta_Police are lined up in front of the building. #ATL #NEWS #ATLANTA @FOX5Atlanta
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There are anarchists in the movement. The City of Atlanta and the Police Foundation do not like that nobody will denounce them. That is one of the strongest cases for continuing to give them space to do their thing, and to continue not denouncing them. #StopCopCity.
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Can't just fire the bad apples. We must abolish the police.
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In the coming years, liberation struggles will have to draw from experiences + intelligence of protest movements + uprisings around the world. In Atlanta, activists would do well to assume the illegal intent of the administration and to prepare accordingly. #StopCopCity ./thread
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the crowd adapts quickly and, in less than five minutes, locked arms in a large circle to protect the establishment of a new encampment on the Emory quad. everybody welcome, get there now!
Georgia State Patrol, on behalf of APD and Emory University president Fenves, are shooting pepper balls at protesters as theology students occupy the candler building inside.
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"The movement for the earth must be a movement against the police."
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Let us speak! Stop Cop City! #SOSAtlanta
ATL residents banging on the doors of City Hall, demanding to be allowed in to the building. #SOSAtlanta.
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frankly, divestment is a scam. they just start new shell companies and move the money around. we are going to have to completely dismantle these institutions, the arms manufacturers, their financial aid, and the system of laws that makes imperialist war possible.
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BREAKING: Community members in Atlanta launched a Gaza solidarity encampment at Emory University, explicitly rejecting separation from "non-student" community members, and asking everyone to join them.
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Unpredictability: by using creative messaging, methods, pacing, and routes, activists were able to spread police resources thin. Police were not prepared for the continuous momentum of the march and ended up teargassing themselves.
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Atlanta police train with apartheid forces in Israel using university tuition to pay for flights and accommodations. This program, the GILEE (GA-Int'l Law Enforcement Exchange) program is a part of the pipeline of infrastructures and systems turning our cities into a warzone. 1/2.
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The whole.World .Hates Cop City.
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Today, around 150 Emory Uni students + faculty marched on campus, into admin building to voice demands. Slogans and speeches connected Cop City to the apartheid system in Israel by way of the infamous GILEE program. "From Atlanta to Palestine, no cop cities anywhere."
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Confidence: the most important tool for crowds facing state repression is their ability to inspire and motivate themselves through joint action, clarity of purpose, respect for differences, and clear metrics for success/failure. "Don't panic, stay tight. We will be all right!"
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OK. This is a very helpful re-frame on an common topic discussed in protest movements in the US.
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As ATL police try to destroy the Weelaunee Forest, the state of Georgia prepares to devastate the massive, ecologically-critical Okefenokee Swamp by selling it to a mining project. Climate conflict is here, as the American South is exploited as an internal colony.
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The first RICO case against the movement to stop Cop City begins this month. The courts are going to decide the future of protesting and free speech in this country. Our rights are not up for debate. We must all rally to the defense of those who defend the free earth.
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