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Dispatches from Atlanta and the Movement to Stop Cop City

Kody Cava

Long Live Weelaunee.
NLG statement in solidarity with Atlanta Forest Defenders

Originally published: National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on January 25, 2023 (more by National Lawyers Guild (NLG)) |

On Wednesday, January 18, Georgia State Patrol murdered Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, who was camping in a public park to defend the Weelaunee Forest and stop the construction of Cop City.
Cop City kills before it opens

Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 25, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report) |

What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn’t want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta’s awful Cop City project has even been built.