@heidykhlaaf I guess the French and German authorities don't even bother to tell :birdsite: :twitter: to not support #racism because espechally the french ones seem to like the riots as excuse for more #SurveillanceState, #PoliceState, #DeprivationOfRights, #PoliceMilitarization and racist border policing...

not that #Germany isn't better in that regard than #France...

Vital forest lost
Training centre approved by law
Forests and police clash

#atlanta #forest #trainingcentre #policemilitarization #haiku #poetry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65772507

Zine: They Have Names and Addresses in Central Texas

Anonymous Transmission
This zine, "They Have Names and Addresses in Central Texas," lays out a brief summary of the stakes of the fight to Stop Cop City in Atlanta, and discusses local actors involved in the construction of the project (such as Atlas Technical Consultants).

https://austinautonomedia.noblogs.org/names-addresses-centex/

#Analysis #Zines #atlanta #Austin #movement #police #policemilitarization #protest #Texas #zine

The Evening Post: Roy Wood Jr. Explores Police Militarization & Atlanta’s “Cop City”
"There's a lot of different ways to protest. Why is your way, live in a tree house 80 feet up and drop s**t in a paper bag?" Roy Wood Jr. visits the "forest defenders" who are actively protes
https://geekalabama.com/2023/01/29/the-evening-post-roy-wood-jr-explores-police-militarization-atlantas-cop-city/
#TheEveningPostStuff #Atlanta'sCopCity #PoliceMilitarization #RoyWoodJr. #TheDailyShow #YouTube

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2y7b3L4FXq8RnshIMD6T40?si=Mi3IhtVmQr2Aky1Eitgwbw&utm_source=copy-link

Excellent Truthout podcast episode about the Atlanta "Cop City" project. Backstory, context and the police killing of a Forest Defender.
#CopCity
#ForestDefender
#police
#capitalism
#PoliceMilitarization

Defend The Atlanta Forest is circulating this statement of solidarity, and asking people to sign on. I’ve already done so, and I’d encourage you to read the statement, and do so yourself:

#StopCopCity #DefendTheAtlantaForest #DirectAction #PoliceMilitarization #Solidarity #ClimateCrisis

https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2023/01/21/solidarity-with-the-movement-to-stop-cop-city-and-defend-the-atlanta-forest/

We should not be increasing #PoliceMilitarization. We should not be clearing forests in general, let alone in communities already suffering from #EnvironmentalRacism and other #SystemicInjustice. This is another example of #police actively perpetrating injustice -using violence against people who stand in their way, even knowing that they don't have popular consent. Hell, they never even tried to GET it.

#DefendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCity #Solidarity #DirectAction

https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2023/01/18/police-kill-atlanta-forest-defender/

San Francisco approves police proposal to use potentially deadly robots: Decision comes after heated debate as police oversight groups warn over further militarization of law enforcement

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/29/san-francisco-police-robots-deadly-force

#policemilitarization #sanfrancisco #technology #uspolicing

Now that I've really committed to the #TwitterMigration, I figured this is a good opportunity to re-share some old posts to a relatively different audience.

First up, this #DataVisualization from 2020 showing #PoliceMilitarization in the US in terms of armored vehicles transferred to local police departments using #ggplot in #rstats. I set up a #cron job to periodically update the post when new data are released, and it did so successfully just the other day. https://jayrobwilliams.com/posts/2020/06/visualizing-militarization/