If you’re in the US and not following what’s happening in Atlanta, Georgia, it is very chilling.
Basic organizing and mutual aid is being called terrorism and bail fundraisers are being charged with racketeering.
And this is after police killed an Indigenous activist on site.
This is the next level of criminalizing protest. All because people have been trying to save a patch of forest slated for a massive militarized training facility for police.
There is absolutely no excuse for the building of cop city. They are stealing land and money from the people for the sole purpose training domestic military control of the people. Money and power for the rich and coercive. Ripping up any bit of needed natural space in the process.
The #StopCopCity people are forest defenders. If you don’t think social and economic justice issues are intertwined with climate issues, it’s past time to expand your thinking.
From acute water, air, and soil pollution in poor neighborhoods, to economic exploitation causing climate disasters in resource-rich countries, to defending a small urban forest in Atlanta, it’s all linked. Police and military protect the interests of the oligarchs:
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