Friend, if you give the cops an inch, they'll take a forest. Literally.
Atlanta city officials are working with the police foundation to destroy 400 acres of forest to construct a massive training facility for the police force. The military-style facility will include a mock village (complete with a nightclub), an emergency vehicle driving course, dozens of firing ranges, a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad, and an area for explosives training.
The neighborhoods surrounding Cop City are largely Black and brown and low-income–the very people most likely to be terrorized by police. The new facility will force them to hear gunshots, sirens, and explosions, while the police tear down one of the few areas of nature and calm available to these communities.
Sign the petition: Atlanta must stop plans for Cop City now!
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The proposed site is the Weelaunee Forest, a 400-acre area of green space stolen from the Muscogee-Creek people and turned into a "farm" site where incarcerated Black laborers were forced to work in the 1900s. The site carries a history of state-sanctioned violence and now it's slated for a police playground in the backyards of low-income Black and brown folks.
Cutting down the old growth forest would cause severe ecological damage to the surrounding communities. The trees of the forest absorb carbon dioxide before it gets released into the atmosphere, keep Atlanta cool during its long, hot summers, and prevent stormwater sediment from running into a nearby creek, where, without any kind of barricade, it could seep into the drinking water supply.
Sign the petition: Stop Cop City now!
SIGN THE PETITION
We don't have to merely imagine the escalated violations that could result from Cop City. Already protestors trying to stop its construction have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. You read that right : domestic terrorism charges for protestors. Another protestor was shot thirteen times by police who have claimed, sans evidence, that the protestor shot first.
To fund and build a mega facility for police to learn warfare tactics in a major U.S. city is a bold message that no amount of scrutiny, no calls for police accountability will ever stop police from facing us as enemy combatants. If Atlanta gets its Cop City, we can guarantee more to follow across the nation.
Sign the petition: Atlanta officials MUST stop Cop City!
SIGN THE PETITION
Keep fighting,
Atlanta city officials are working with the police foundation to destroy 400 acres of forest to construct a massive training facility for the police force. The military-style facility will include a mock village (complete with a nightclub), an emergency vehicle driving course, dozens of firing ranges, a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad, and an area for explosives training.
The neighborhoods surrounding Cop City are largely Black and brown and low-income–the very people most likely to be terrorized by police. The new facility will force them to hear gunshots, sirens, and explosions, while the police tear down one of the few areas of nature and calm available to these communities.
Sign the petition: Atlanta must stop plans for Cop City now!
The proposed site is the Weelaunee Forest, a 400-acre area of green space stolen from the Muscogee-Creek people and turned into a "farm" site where incarcerated Black laborers were forced to work in the 1900s. The site carries a history of state-sanctioned violence and now it's slated for a police playground in the backyards of low-income Black and brown folks.
Cutting down the old growth forest would cause severe ecological damage to the surrounding communities. The trees of the forest absorb carbon dioxide before it gets released into the atmosphere, keep Atlanta cool during its long, hot summers, and prevent stormwater sediment from running into a nearby creek, where, without any kind of barricade, it could seep into the drinking water supply.
Sign the petition: Stop Cop City now!
We don't have to merely imagine the escalated violations that could result from Cop City. Already protestors trying to stop its construction have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. You read that right : domestic terrorism charges for protestors. Another protestor was shot thirteen times by police who have claimed, sans evidence, that the protestor shot first.
To fund and build a mega facility for police to learn warfare tactics in a major U.S. city is a bold message that no amount of scrutiny, no calls for police accountability will ever stop police from facing us as enemy combatants. If Atlanta gets its Cop City, we can guarantee more to follow across the nation.
Sign the petition: Atlanta officials MUST stop Cop City!
Keep fighting,
Irna Landrum, Daily Kos.
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