WEEK 31: Students at Cal Poly Humboldt have organised a tree-sit in honour of Tortuguita. This is a separate action. Other students are still barricaded inside a university building to protest the college's complicity in genocide, where they've been for a week.
WEEK 30: The Marriott Hotel in NYC is holding a recruitment event for the Atlanta PD today. Activists from the encampments and Stop Cop City had some thoughts about it 😂
The person being arrested was "trespassing" in the plaza. Apparently. #FreePalestine#StopCopCity
Tortuguita’s Killing taken to International Human Rights Commission
Several nonprofits "filed a petition this month asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to rule on the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known to Stop Cop City activists as “Tortuguita.”
"Activists hope the petition will debunk police narratives & join the international record of human rights violations."
Tortuguita’s Killing taken to International Human Rights Commission
Several nonprofits "filed a petition this month asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to rule on the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known to Stop Cop City activists as “Tortuguita.”
"Activists hope the petition will debunk police narratives & join the international record of human rights violations."
A proposed amendment that would formally enshrine access to #abortion in #Colorado's constitution is all but certain to appear on the November ballot after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates said they have collected the required number of signatures.
In fact, the groups collected 100,000 more signatures than necessary.
In 2008, the French government raided the small village of Tarnac, initiating a massive terrorism case that subjected ten defendants to a decade-long ordeal. The case ended in a total defeat for the prosecution.
Yet today, at the bond hearing for Jack Mazurek, who is accused of taking action to #StopCopCity, Atlanta prosecutors called attention to the presence in Jack's house of books associated with the exonerated Tarnac defendants.
For the prosecutors engaged in this witch hunt, facts are beside the point. All that matters is using the blunt force of the judicial process itself to try to crush dissent.
"Emory Stop Cop City dropped banners holding the university and administration accountable for their involvement in the cop city project.
We demand that Greg Fenves, president of Emory, step down from the Atlanta committee for progress and that Emory publicly boycott Brasfield and Gorrie, the main contractor for the cop city project."
Protesters just disrupted a #sxsw panel with Andre Dickens, mayor of #Atlanta, on behalf of the #StopCopCity movement. Dickens fled the panel, hounded by protesters, and it continued without him.
I was briefly detained by police and sxsw staff upon exiting the event. #Austin
“It was really funny watching Andre Dickens scramble outside, only to find more angry voices.”
For Deceleration (and my first byline there!), I covered yesterday's protest against #Atlanta's mayor on behalf of the #StopCopCity movement, which saw him fleeing his scheduled panel at #Austin's #SXSW festival. In addition to photos and video footage, I spoke to one of the activists who participated:
On the latest episode of #ThisIsAmerica, we roundup the news and direct action across the US, from #StopCopCity to rent strikes to blockades in solidarity with #Palestine.
We then speak to antifascist Jermey White, about the ongoing case of several antifascists in #SanDiego who face felonies for protesting a group of violent Proud Boys and American Guard members.
We also speak to two people in #Austin about the upcoming 'Smash By Smash West' counter-summit and @franklinlopez speaks on his brand new book for kids and the need for more space for parents and kids within autonomous movements.
A march last Sunday night that went through downtown Tucson in solidarity with the #StopCopCity movement ended with windows smashed at two downtown banks — a Wells Fargo and a PNC Bank.
“Life at camp is proof that we can live and experience collective joy outside of the rigid confinement of the capitalist system. The Summit camp is a beautiful experiment on the horizon of autonomy and mutual aid!”
Check out our roundup and report on the recent summit to #StopCopCity in #Tucson, #Arizona, which brought together over two dozen chapters of the Weelaunee Defense Society, as hundreds in #NYC also took to the streets against the project.