stopcopcity

stopcopcity, 1 month ago to random

This is the NYPD, marching in formation. This message was posted by a former NYPD officer who now is a representative. The police are the army of the rich. In order to heal the world's many woes, they will have to be toppled. Not just resisted, not just protested.

stopcopcity, 1 month ago to random

Through the grapevine, we have heard that Jack has been released and is now back home with loved ones. The importance of defending our movements cannot be overstated. It is on everyone to continue lending energy, creativity, care, and courage to movements, spaces, and struggles under attack.

stopcopcity, 1 month ago to random

They killed an activist while destroying an urban forest to replace it with a police training center. they are charging the survivors with terrorism. they are repressing the bail fund. they are throwing away signatures asking for a vote. people wonder why some resort to sabotage.

stopcopcity, 1 month ago to random

At Jacks arraignment, the State dedicated 15 mins to analysis, debate, and denunciations of the Zapatistas, a Mexico-based movement Jack is said to have visited in January. The prosecutor went so far to threaten war with the indigenous group. Who are they and why does GA care?

On Jan 1, 1994, thousands of Maya campesinos and students rose up in arms in Chiapas, MX against the famously corrupt Mexican government and the newly-signed NAFTA agreements which would impoverish and endanger their communities.

After 12 days, the Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion Nacional and the state of Mexico called a ceasefire and initiated peace talks, known as the San Andres, bringing peace, recognition, protection, and land to the indigenous peoples of all of Mexico.

For the past 30 years, thousands of Zapatistas have organized workshops, farms, schools, shops, festivals, and villages in the spirit of communalist, egalitarian, self-rule.

On Jan 1 of this year, thousands of people from around the world convened in Chiapas to celebrate the anniversary of the Zapatista uprising. Jack is alleged to be one of those thousands of students, artists, intellectuals, and empathetic people.

Currently, the Zapatistas face new challenges, as drug traffickers and paramilitaries threaten and kill Zapatista women and youth, who do not permit alcohol, drugs, or violence in their communities. The Mexican government also aims to build a train, the Tren Maya, in their lands.

This project will allow the gov't to place armed forces across the area, violating the San Andres accords, jeopardizing the safety of the region for the purposes of profits, and at the behest of the USA, who hope to push the system of border checkpoints south into the Yucatan.

ince 1994, the Zapatistas have inspired generations of dreamers and activists across the world, representing the new-era of post Cold-War resistance to exploitation, state terrorism, global capitalism, and violence.

The City of ATL and the State of GA are opposed to those movements, because they have dedicated considerable resources to training, arming, and funding counterrevolutionaries, terrorists, narcotraffickers, and paramilitaries in Central America at the School of the Americas.

And that pits them directly against freedom movements like the Zapatistas as well as our movement to stop Cop City, and to defend (as well as rebuild) the Weelaunee Forest. If this is the accusation, Jacks family should be proud of his alleged attendance at their ceremony.

For more info, we recommend "Rebellion in Chiapas" by John Womack Jr., "A Place Called Chiapas," a documentary film available online, and this article, from participants in our very own movement who attended the 2024 encuentro:

https://crimethinc.com/2024/01/18/the-2024-zapatista-encuentro-report-back-and-footage