First, police announced plans to build a $90 million "Cop City" police training megaplex on environmentally-sensitive grounds near Atlanta.|

Then, people understandably started protesting this bullshit.

Then, police responded to those protests in a draconian manner, assaulting protestors, charging 42 of them (including a legal observer from the National Lawyers' Guild) with "terrorism," and murdering one of the protestors.

Then, people running the Atlanta Solidarity Fund were bailing out the arrested protestors and hooking them up with lawyers.

Then, the police sent a SWAT team to arrest the admins of the Solidarity Fund, charging them with "charity fraud" and "money laundering!"

The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund, which operates in much the same way as the Atlanta Solidarty Fund, has kicked in to help defend the admins of that fund, who are presently out on bail and putting together their defense case. Helping them fight the charges they're facing for helping other activists fight their charges = helping the helpers!

Full story: https://intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/2023/06/18/too-close-to-home/

You can join us in defending the Atlanta Solidarity Fund admins here:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/atlantasolidarity

You can help us to defend anti-fascists around the world facing heavy-handed tactics like what we've just described by making a contribution to the Defence Fund here:
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-international-anti-fascist-defence-fund

#atlanta #StopCopCity, #atlantasolidarityfund, #antifa #solidarity

At #Atlanta City Hall, people (mostly opponents of “Cop City”) line up to get into the city council chamber. Vote coming at 1pm. #copcity #atl #atlantasolidarityfund

Dans une opération conjointe le Georgia Bureau of Investigation et la police d'Atlanta on effectué un raid avec SWAT, véhicules blindés et 20 policiers munis d'armes de guerre pour arrêter...3 membres de l'association #AtlantaSolidarityFund

#ASF est une cagnotte participative pour des projets activistes comme la défense des forêts, de la biodiversité...

Elle a aussi accepté d'héberger la cagnotte contre la projet #CopCity, un centre d'entraînement pour la #police qui prévoit de raser des dizaines d'hectares de forêt.

Sous le prétexte de "blanchiment d'argent" et de "charity fraud", pour l'immense montant de 7.000$, ces 3 dangereux bénévoles de ASF ont donc été arrêté dans un quartier résidentiel par 30 membres du SWAT armés jusqu'au dents.

Le message est envoyé : "Touchez pas à CopCity, les éco-terroristes"

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-atlanta-arrest-3-bail-fund-supporting-protests-99731798

https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-raises-serious-concerns-about-recent-arrest-of-atlanta-solidarity-fund-members-in-cop-city-advocacy-and-calls-for-doj-investigation/

https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-raises-serious-concerns-about-recent-arrest-of-atlanta-solidarity-fund-members-in-cop-city-advocacy-and-calls-for-doj-investigation/

The #NAACP #LDF condemned targeting of the #AtlantaSolidarityFund, called for a #DOJ #investigation into the #arrests, and said the Atlanta #police foundation, its #corporate #sponsors, and #lawenforcement should be subject to same level of #scrutiny. Yeah!

"We echo the demand reverberating across Georgia, and the nation, that #CopCity must not be constructed."

#defundthepolice
#bullshitjobs

What's happening in Atlanta is truly disgusting. They're trying to criminalize *helping people pay bail*.

And it turns out this tactic isn't new. They did it to Dashiell Hammett in the '50s.

It's sick, wrong, and it must be stopped.

#USpol #Atlanta #CopCity #Bail #AtlantaSolidarityFund #BailFunds https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/cop-city-tortuguita-atlanta-bail-fund-arrest-horror.html

Today police sent a SWAT team to arrest peaceful organizers of #AtlantaSolidarityFund, a bail fund. The group has been active for years; police are targeting them now for supporting #StopCopCity activists.

As ASF organizers are standing up to these charges, the National Bail Fund Network is temporarily managing the fund. Please support them at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/atlantasolidarity

https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/05/31/apd-gbi-raid-bail-fund-arrest-three-organizers/

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

Psychic War Against #CopCity: An Extreme Music Compilation
https://deliriumpsychosis.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-war-against-cop-city-an-extreme-music-compilation

"Here it is! the largest compilation album we have ever done. As the fascist police state continues to consolidate power in our urban centers, the people continue to fight back. Atlanta, the black Mecca of the south is undergoing a process in which the local population is being driven out. The black nation, having gone from slavery, to apartheid, to forced integration, is now faced with displacement at the hands of white gentrifiers. This is unmistakably a facet of modern day colonialism against the black nation. This process is being carried out at the hands of a brutal, militarized occupation force in the form of the police. They are a weapon of warfare against the poor and black population of our urban centers. This new "urban warfare" training facility is another step in a long running process of colonial class warfare against both this oppressed nation and the rest of the working class. We demand not just an end to Cop City, but an end to the hundreds of years of colonialism against Black America, and state warfare against the working masses. Self determination, decolonization, revolution. Fuck cop city. All proceeds go to Atlanta Solidarity Fund."

#ExtremeMusic #BenefitComp
#FuckCopCity #ACAB #FTP #AtlantaSolidarityFund

#stopcopcity
#defendweelauneeforest
#defendatlforest
#atlantasolidarityfund

Am Morgen des 15. Februar wurde ein* weiter* Waldbesetzer*in aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Hier betrug die Kaution, die der Atlanta Solidaritat Fond bezahlte, die ungewöhnlich hohe Summe von $391,820!

Jetzt sind es noch fünf Gefangene im Zusammenhang mit der Bewegung zur Verteidigung des "Welaunee Forest "und "Stop Cop" City.

Für diese Gefangenen wurde eine Kautionszahlung abgelehnt.

Spendenmöglichkeit:

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/contribute-to-the-atlanta-solidarity-fund

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

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

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

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

Statement on Recent "Domestic Terrorism" Arrests of Five Atlanta Forest Defenders:

While we do not speak for the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DtAF) movement, as Atlantans we condemn the state's brutalization and arrest of forest defenders, and the heinous and outlandish charges brought against them. The excessive charges against forest defenders are an attempt by authorities to create fear, and to menace those opposing the unpopular Cop City development.

We hope that our community will do everything possible to support the DtAF arrestees. The state's attempt to label activists as "terrorists" under flimsy pretexts will, if unchallenged, also threaten other social movements. If there is a verified Defense Committee for those arrested, we will publicize this and urge support. Just as importantly: keep supporting the DtAF campaign against the latest attacks. Continue building the movements we need against racism, repression, and environmental destruction.

Keep an eye out for more ways to help in the coming days. For now, please donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund for legal defense:

https://www.atlsolidarity.org/

#DefendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCity #AtlantaSolidarityFund #Atlanta #Georgia