Atlanta City officials continue to put every possible petty obstacle possible in the way of putting the #CopCity project to voters in a referendum.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/11/atlanta-petition-police-cop-city-georgia

🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨
"Challenging State Power: From 'Cop City' to Prison Abolition" is LIVE!
🎧 Tune in to unpack the layers of state oppression & the call for #PrisonAbolition.
👉 https://www.radical-guide.com/a-radical-podcast-ep-19-challenging-state-power-from-cop-city-to-prison-abolition/
#ARadicalPodcast #StatePower #CopCity #Atlanta #RICO #SocialJustice

Vote for Biden if you want. But please don't fool yourself into thinking Biden will prevent #fascism. Because fascism is already here. #CopCity RICO indictment attempts to criminalize any form of dissent, even mutual aid. Voting is fine, but the your voice does not end at the ballot box. Get involved in the movement to #StopCopCity now!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cop-city-rico-charges-dangerous-precedent-1234819244/

On his Serious Trouble podcast former Federal prosecutor and current defense attorney Ken White, the @Popehat , discusses the racketeering charges that the Attorney General of Georgia has brought against 61 activists for their opposition to #CopCity. He also talks about how this case is similar to and differs from the racketeering charges that the Fulton County District Attorney has brought against Trump and 19 others. It's an informative 10 minutes, starting at 24:55 of the show. This podcast is usually behind a paywall, but this episode is free for all.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/severance-pays#details

Cop City Protesters Charged With Racketeering As Georgia Takes Hard Line

> Dozens of activists who oppose a controversial police and fire training facility in #Georgia known as #CopCity have been charged with racketeering, appearing to confirm fears from civil rights groups that prosecutors are stepping up an aggressive pursuit of environmental protesters.

> A total of 61 people – most not from Georgia – were indicted for violating the state’s #RICO Act last week https://portside.org/2023-09-06/cop-city-protesters-charged-racketeering-georgia-takes-hard-line

Discussion with activist Keyanna Jones and legal advisor Devin Franklin to 61 activists charged by Georgia attorney general Chris Carr. GOP is attempting to outlaw dissent. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/6/stop_cop_city_rico_charges
#CopCity #RICO #Georgia #prosecutingdissent #ChrisCarr

#Organizers Condemn '#AntiDemocratic' #RICO Charges Against #CopCity #Protesters
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop-city-rico-charges

61 #CopCity #Protesters in #Atlanta Are Being Hit With #RICO Charges
https://newrepublic.com/post/175382/cop-city-protesters-atlanta-rico-racketeering-charges
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/breaking-more-than-60-training-center-activists-named-in-rico-indictment/DQ6B6GHTAJAJRH4SLGIIBAMXR4/

@arrrg @Radical_EgoCom autopsy showed their hands, both hands, were up in the air with no gun powder residue to be found anywhere on them or their clothes.
cops lied that tort shot first.
to this day, not one cop even suspended for lying much less murdering.
but kids raising legal defense funds are being charged with financially aiding terrorism.
#acab #1312 #CopCity #copcitywillneverbebuilt

Cops being dishonest and potentially rigging things? That doesn't sound like them at all...

#CopCity Protesters Knock Atlanta PD for Trying to Solicit ‘Outside Agitators’ at NYC Recruiting Event

https://tinyurl.com/bddwehkz

Campaign of fear

‘Threatened and vulnerable’: #CopCity activists labeled as terrorists pay high price

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/copy-city-atlanta-protesters-lives-domestic-terrorist-label

> Protesters say classification as ‘domestic terrorists’ for opposing planned Georgia police facility has upended their lives

@PaulDitz well some of us are into her political platform. as for her spiritual rules, makes about as much sense to me as the old man's catholicism.
there's only one candidate running who I've heard mention #CopCity
the old man wants to further fund cops. lol

" I return to the issue of Atlanta’s Cop City somewhat frequently, as it’s an issue of huge importance not only for Atlanta but for American citizens everywhere. Atlanta has been trying to raze a forest to build the facility, which is a police militarization center containing a mock city where police would train in urban warfare. Advertised as a training and community facility to support law enforcement, it does not support the kind of law enforcement that should exist in a democracy. For it fosters a dangerous separation of law enforcement from identification with and relationship to the rest of the population. It is a template for something very undemocratic, some might say even the beginnings of a police state. For the power of the citizenry to control the police would become way too little compared to the power of the police to control the citizenry.

That is not the way we want to live.

The people of Atlanta have stood up to this, and faced unprecedented repression. A young forest defender, Tortuguita, was assassinated by Georgia police. He was shot 57 times while sitting cross-legged with his hands in the air. This is the first and only time that an environmental activist has been killed by U.S. police.

Other forest defenders have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism — a vague, authoritarian charge. One activist faces up to 20 years in prison for – literally – distributing flyers. While the city of Atlanta – including its Democratic mayor – refuses to listen to the forest defenders, activists have successfully gathered 100,000 signatures, more than enough, to get a referendum to Stop Cop City on the ballot.

Right after they announced their successful signature gathering, however, the city announced new rules for strict signature verification. Strict signature verification laws are a tactic used by Republicans to suppress the vote – especially poor voters and voters of color — and the laws have been condemned by Democrats, including the Georgia Democratic Party.

Yet now the Democrats are using the same tactic to suppress democracy in Atlanta. Voting rights experts have described the practice as “witchcraft” and “the phrenology of elections,” since it frequently results in real signatures getting thrown out over minute differences.

I am very impressed by, and supportive of, the brave Stop Cop City activists. Such projects as Cop City do not belong in the United States, and the suppression exhibited to stop those trying to protest it is unacceptable. "

#copcity #uspol #2024 #fecklessdems

my union is gonna release something against #CopCity and participate in a philly based event about it

Indigenous Australians have secured a stay to prevent the construction of a #copcity in Darwin https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/larrakia-win-pause-on-plans-to-clear-country/a8f9v3nuk

We don’t need #CopCity to train for more cops, more/bigger guns, more armor, more tactics & more vehicles. Far better, with no forest destruction & murder of forest protectors needed, to rehabilitate cops to resemble dignified human beings.
https://amp.star-telegram.com/news/local/dallas/article278347859.html

Brilliant. Instead of investigating right wing terror in #ColoradoSprings (leading to mass shooting at #ClubQ ) #FBI and CSPD spent a year infiltrating housing and social justice activists. Intercept’s Trevor Aaronson details lawsuit against law enforcement agencies who promote a #CopCity compound in CS. #DemocracyNow Part 1: FBI & Colorado Springs Police Sued for Targeting & Spying on Racial Justice Protesters https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/3/blm_protests_fbi_infiltration_entrapment

@xenophora @AnthonyJK

That's really what I'm here for is seeing these neolibs fall over themselves and exposing how full fo shit they are

Anything but address the things West is talking about, ya know about #Reparations or #LandBack or #Palestine or #CopCity since the entire media ecosystem is designed to prevent anyone from hearing about those things.

@universalhub actually trying to overturn a national election? One year of prison. Protesting #copcity? Domestic terrorism charges. The United States is a fascist hell hole.

#Atlas Technical Project #Manager:

“Atlas is no longer involved [in #CopCity]…because you guys are fucking nightmares and you broke all of our fucking windows”

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/04/you-guys-are-fucking-nightmares-atlas-employees-claim-to-have-dropped-cop-city-contract/

Ahahahah, I thought this was paraphrased but that is a direct #quote.

https://scenes.noblogs.org/files/2023/07/dhes4pu4.mp4

#Directaction works. :antifa_100:

https://www.tumblr.com/natalieironside/724427502225948672?source=share