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Excerpts from Robert L. Allen’s book, “Black Awakening in Capitalist America” in relation to the current #StopCopCity movement:
GENOCIDE and the infrastructure for mass imprisonment as a countermeasure against Black rebellion.
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GENOCIDE and the infrastructure for mass imprisonment as a countermeasure against Black rebellion.
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The fear of open violence against Black communities dates back generations— since the end of enslavement, the white supremacist State struggled to contend with what they saw as “surplus populations” who needed to be contained, commodified and/or eliminated altogether. 
Listen to the echoes of Hitler’s 1932 speech and how much it sounds like contemporary right-wing fascist officials like Kemp, Landry, DeSantis… even Biden.
In the context of geopolitical challenges to U.S. hegemonic imperialism, the “domestic front” must be controlled.
In the context of geopolitical challenges to U.S. hegemonic imperialism, the “domestic front” must be controlled.
Why we should read Robert L. Allen’s “Black Awakening in Capitalist America” to understand the context of the #StopCopCity movement coming on the heels of the 2020 #GeorgeFloyd uprisings…
A THREAD of excerpts that speak to the current situation re: policing in the U.S. 🧵🪡
A THREAD of excerpts that speak to the current situation re: policing in the U.S. 🧵🪡
The “City” is the past/present/future battlegrounds (materially, strategically, ideologically) for Black Liberation— and therefore all our collective liberation.
“To [white liberals] the cities present not a battleground but a crisis to be managed.”
“To [white liberals] the cities present not a battleground but a crisis to be managed.”
“On the one hand there was the orthodox liberal who prescribed more New Deal welfarism as an antidote to riots. More antidiscrimination legislation and expanded antipoverty programs would suffice nicely, he contended.”
Sound familiar? Reforming “the City” to maintain power.
Sound familiar? Reforming “the City” to maintain power.
Atlanta’s main newspaper (owned by Atlanta Police Foundation sponsor Cox Enterprises) finally confirms what’s been public knowledge since January: the DHS ‘violent extremist’ label Georgia Bureau of Investigation says is applied to “Defend the Atlanta Forest” doesn’t even exist.
We noted the falsehood of this claim by Georgia police in our February report about their controversial use of ‘domestic terrorism’ charges against tree-sitters and other #StopCopCity protesters:
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While Cox’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports this as breaking news today, it’s been over 4 months since DHS told @TimothyJPratt, @attackerman & the Washington Post it “does not classify or designate any groups as domestic violent extremists”:
A coalition of organizations and organizers are announcing a referendum on the Cop City lease. Nsé Ufot is opening the press conference.
“Stop Cop City: Let Atlanta Decide”
Thread here.
“Stop Cop City: Let Atlanta Decide”
Thread here.
“Today we are here to let the people decide.” Kamau Franklin saying the majority of Atlantans are against Cop City, and yet the City Council has ignored them. Announces they’re filing a referendum for a ballot initiative to let the people vote on ending the Cop City lease.
Filing referendum today; will have 60 days to get 70k signatures to get it on the ballot during the November election; will make sure that the people come out during this time to “SHUT DOWN COP CITY” #StopCopCity
Bernice King speaking now about Cop City, speaking about how communities have been excluded from decisionmaking that goes on between corporations and elected officials. #StopCopCity
"This was the second time in three weeks that people came before the City Council...they came with facts in hand...at the end of the day, it was as if 'we're just gonna do this so we can check it off the list and say we've had a listening session with the citizens."
Talking about the anti-democratic nature of how the City Council is treating its residents. "There was no dignity of the process."
I keep seeing people ask #StopCopCity activists the same question:
“bUt IsN’t MoRe TrAiNiNg A gOoD tHiNg?”
The short answer is, of course, NO! #AbolishThePolice
Let’s do a quick THREAD 🧵🪡 about the person who heads up training for Atlanta Police Department:
Fred Watson.
“bUt IsN’t MoRe TrAiNiNg A gOoD tHiNg?”
The short answer is, of course, NO! #AbolishThePolice
Let’s do a quick THREAD 🧵🪡 about the person who heads up training for Atlanta Police Department:
Fred Watson.
Major Fred Watson is the APD “Training Academy Director” in charge of all training for Atlanta Police. He is also on the GA POST advisory board.
Watson oversees the “Police Curriculum” sub-group for the South River Forest Cop City Task Force— he’s very involved in Cop City.
Watson oversees the “Police Curriculum” sub-group for the South River Forest Cop City Task Force— he’s very involved in Cop City.
Watson was an early member of the notoriously violent & corrupt RED DOG Unit, focused on narcotics.
Anyone who KNOWS about RED DOG knows this is a huge 🚩— it had to be disbanded in 2011.
RED DOG was similar to the SCORPION unit that killed #TyreNichols
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Anyone who KNOWS about RED DOG knows this is a huge 🚩— it had to be disbanded in 2011.
RED DOG was similar to the SCORPION unit that killed #TyreNichols
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I'm grateful to be a journalist dedicated to the south. I'm grateful to know that my job is to correct the record as the facist state rises. My love for black people is at the core of why I do this.
Legacy media failed the #StopCopCity movement and I will never forget that.
Legacy media failed the #StopCopCity movement and I will never forget that.
when protests happen and editors are begging black journalists for bylines and begging for someone to explain away white people guilt. I will remember how legacy media didn't see #StopCopCity as something worth covering as the 2024 election is around the corner.
I will remember how you ignored the Black folks from Atlanta speaking on #StopCopCity and how you will approve profiles on black women “saving democracy” yet again but never covered how the police state took over in the same year.
you are spineless and I won't forget this.
you are spineless and I won't forget this.
Well, the Atlanta City Council passed $67 million in funding for Cop City, by an 11-4 margin, after over 15 hours of essentially unanimous public comment against it.
Quick thoughts before I go to bed.
Quick thoughts before I go to bed.
This was a historic 24 hours. Absolutely shattered every record of public turnout. Made clear, unequivocally, that Atlanta residents are against Cop City. Over a thousand people turned out, repping many more. Incredibly diverse crew. Everyday Atlantans. Firmly against Cop City.
This vote drives home: there is no democracy in Atlanta. This project most directly impacts those who have no representation on council, and the hundreds/thousands who do have Council representatives were all ignored today.
Okay just making a thread for the city council hearing so I don't clog everyone's TL #StopCopCity
Why is this guy making sense rn
#DearAtlantaCityCouncil Speaker making the connection between #StopCopCity, and the disinvestment in Atlanta's housing. The money from Cop City should be used to actually improve the lives of Atlantans.
Today on June 5, #Atlanta City Council will vote on whether to authorize $33.5 million taxpayer dollars for the Atlanta Police Foundation to fund the construction of the Public Safety Training Center, aka ‘Cop City.’
You can tune into the council here: atlantaga.gov/government/cha…
You can tune into the council here: atlantaga.gov/government/cha…
On May 15, hundreds of Atlantans unanimously spoke out against the proposed authorization.
Learn more about the over seven hours of public comment in opposition to 'Cop City' on May 15 here: unicornriot.ninja/2023/we-do-not…
Learn more about the over seven hours of public comment in opposition to 'Cop City' on May 15 here: unicornriot.ninja/2023/we-do-not…
However according to research done by @atlanta_press, the amount of public funds allocated to 'Cop City' construction may actually be over $51 million. atlpresscollective.com/2023/05/24/bac…
So yes I will not be going to City Hall tomorrow. No matter what happens I am so incredibly proud of the city that I call home. Everyone has worked their ass off and done so much labor (most of it unseen). I have met so many smart and dedicated people through #StopCopCity
and will forever be proud of what we have accomplished. To everyone who may be discouraged if tomorrow doesn't work out how we want it to, some affirmation is that soon you'll have been organizing so long you won't even remember all of your wins and losses..
instead you'll just focus on the beautiful network of people you've met who you know took time out of their lives to do something to make this world a little more just. We don't work on the city's timeline, and we won't let them make our city a playground
THREAD 🧵🪡
Exposing corporate & political conflicts of interest in the “South River Forest and Public Safety Training Center Community Task Force”
— PART 4: “History & Civil Rights NGO’s”
How corporate money shapes the ways we connect our history to the present.
#StopCopCity
Exposing corporate & political conflicts of interest in the “South River Forest and Public Safety Training Center Community Task Force”
— PART 4: “History & Civil Rights NGO’s”
How corporate money shapes the ways we connect our history to the present.
#StopCopCity
#1 Jill Savitt, the National Center for Civil & Human Rights (@Ctr4CHR)
Jill Savitt seems to be a good person who genuinely cares abt working towards justice, but is caught up in a web of media, liberalism & big money that is actively attempting to neutralize her better angels.
Jill Savitt seems to be a good person who genuinely cares abt working towards justice, but is caught up in a web of media, liberalism & big money that is actively attempting to neutralize her better angels.
But regardless of her intent, as the face of a national center for Civil & Human Rights— someone with deep knowledge of conditions leading up to genocide, authoritarian regimes & other human rights atrocities— Savitt’s silence around the #StopCopCity movement has been noticeable.
for @MSNBC, I wrote about the arrest of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers, the bipartisan crackdown on protesters in Atlanta, and why everyone––regardless of where you are––should care about the struggle to #StopCopCity.
a couple main points:
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a couple main points:
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…
First, the arrest of long-time bail fund and mutual aid activists is just the latest in the Atlanta and Georgia police's extreme repression of the Stop Cop City movement––from the assassination of Tortuguita to the charging of 42 people with domestic terrorism.
While these arrests of bail fund organizers are a first, "if if history tells us anything, it certainly won’t be the last. Who will be targeted next?" Other bail funds? Abortion funds? Migrant travel funds? Other mutual aid groups?
AUDIO RELEASE: Atlanta Police Department discusses how the latest arrests of @ATLSolFund organizers are part of a deliberate campaign targeting the #StopCopCity movement. Audio is from Zone 4 FIT again, just after they got done mocking the vigil. Links/transcript follow.
Full Recording (1m21s): tp-cdn-dev.atlscanner.com/shared/05-31-2…
Full Transcript: tp-cdn-dev.atlscanner.com/shared/05-31-2…
#ATLScanner #StopCopCity
Full Transcript: tp-cdn-dev.atlscanner.com/shared/05-31-2…
#ATLScanner #StopCopCity
"Anybody else think that that warrant that they served today and the arrests are just guaranteed shenanigans next Monday and Tuesday?"
"Yep. Actually, maybe tomorrow. I think they're supposed to have their first appearance tomorrow." tt-cdn-prod.trunktrio.com/mp3/19739-1685… #StopCopCity
"Yep. Actually, maybe tomorrow. I think they're supposed to have their first appearance tomorrow." tt-cdn-prod.trunktrio.com/mp3/19739-1685… #StopCopCity
GOOD NEWS: Judge is granting bond for all three Atlanta Solidarity Fund defendants, and notes concerns about the flimsiness of the charges and lack of evidence thus far. Even the judge is expressing doubt about these charges––which tells you how spurious they are. #StopCopCity
Hasn't said the actual amount of bond, or conditions of bond, yet.
"I don't find it real impressive" –– the judge regarding the case so far. Says it may be there, but it's not for him to decide at first appearance.
"I don't find it real impressive" –– the judge regarding the case so far. Says it may be there, but it's not for him to decide at first appearance.
Says they will have to report to pretrial services, can't leave state without permission of pretrial services. Says stay off social media and make no comments about merits of case or people involved on social media.
On Weds morning three organizers of an Atlanta bail fund providing legal support to #StopCopCity protesters were raided and arrested.
They’re charged with money laundering and charity fraud, with routine expense reimbursements cited as evidence.
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They’re charged with money laundering and charity fraud, with routine expense reimbursements cited as evidence.
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Their first court appearance, a bond hearing, is getting underway now and can be watched here: youtube.com/live/PBpuaGb1Q…
The Atlanta Community Press Collective is live-tweeting:
AUDIO RELEASE: Atlanta Zone 4 FIT officers spent all evening mocking the vigil/balloon release for Bre'Asia Powell, a 16-year-old girl who was fatally shot at Mays HS. Full 5min audio here tp-cdn-dev.atlscanner.com/shared/05-31-2…. Transcript and excerpts below. #ATLScanner #StopCopCity
Transcript is available at tp-cdn-dev.atlscanner.com/shared/05-31-2… . It's been cleaned up to correct some transcription errors/readability. Highlights follow below. #ATLScanner #StopCopCity
APD: "The vigil will only last as long as the shooter wants it to." tp-cdn-dev.atlscanner.com/mp3/19739-1685…
DeKalb deputies are watching MARTA and calling out suspected protestors. #ATLScanner #StopCopCity
DKSO identifying suspected protestors and vehicles as they park in the area. #ATLScanner #StopCopCity
They're calling out people even just looking like they might be looking for a place to park. Insanity. #ATLScanner #StopCopCity
Can someone let me know whether any of the politicians who were crying & taking a knee & pushing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act are condemning what's happening in Atlanta? Where are the people who had Black Lives Matter banners at the Democratic National Convention?
No where are they? Where are the politicians who were marching? Who held the hands of Black mothers and said we gotta stop this? Where did they disappear to while Atlanta is building a facility that will guarantee the deaths of more Black children?
Where are all of the politicians who said, "protest peacefully" because right now the Atlanta Police Department is raiding the houses of activists who helped throw block parties, bailed protesters out, and pass out covid tests? Where is Barack? Kamala? James? Joe? #StopCopCity
Incredible overuse and abuse of authority being exercised in Georgia today against the Atlanta Solidarity Fund and its organizers. The arrests — even if the charges were legitimate — are a clear effort to attack the #StopCopCity activists and intimidate their supporters.
The video of the arrests this morning shows that this was a coercive effort that goes far beyond the charges ...
... as does Gov. Kemp's statement, which is rhetoric aimed at crushing an opponent through claims of legal authority, not a leader's careful comments about law enforcement activity.
This is really scary, y'all. The state is coming after everyone we know and love for having the courage to collectively resist further destruction of the planet and expansion of policing. We have to keep fighting back just as hard. #StopCopCity
Please mobilize every media contact you have. Join an organization or a collective. Make a solidarity statement. Look for coming Calls to Action. Donate to the Solidarity Fund. secure.actblue.com/donate/atlanta…
And if you are in Atlanta, plan to be at City Hall on June 5th at 12pm!!!
And if you are in Atlanta, plan to be at City Hall on June 5th at 12pm!!!
And let me tell you this: every effort at repression thus far has only grown the movement further. Our power only continues to build. Please join the movement in any way you can, from near or afar.
Breaking: Law enforcement in Atlanta have conducted a raid & arrested three suspects accused of illegally financing the #Antifa-linked #StopCopCity domestic terrorist movement. Three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund @ATLSolFund have been charged with money laundering &… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Members of the terror movement, #StopCopCity, have announced another “Week of Action” to carry out attacks in Atlanta and beyond. The last time they had their “week of action” in March, they carried out a terrorist attack on a construction site. An SPLC staffer was one of many… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Background: Since last year, far-left extremists from across the U.S. & abroad have carried out terrorist attacks in Atlanta to stop the construction of a police training facility. Dozens have been charged with domestic terrorism & they’ve been bailed out & supported by the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
When thousands of Atlantans took to the streets during the nationwide uprisings of 2020, they were responding decades of social disinvestment, displacement, and police violence, and calling for change.
What was the City's answer? Cop City.
#StopCopCity
What was the City's answer? Cop City.
#StopCopCity
@safeboulder @DenverAuroraCAC @LakewoodLeft @DSAdenver @BoulderDSA @littlereadbooks @DenJustPro @surjdenver @CPUSAColorado @Springs_DSA Cop City is backed by the Atlanta Police Foundation, and its corporate patrons like Coca-Cola, Delta, the Koch brothers, and Home Depot.
The CEO of Atlanta's biggest newspaper is spearheading the corporate fundraising for the project, which receives a only positive coverage.
The CEO of Atlanta's biggest newspaper is spearheading the corporate fundraising for the project, which receives a only positive coverage.
@safeboulder @DenverAuroraCAC @LakewoodLeft @DSAdenver @BoulderDSA @littlereadbooks @DenJustPro @surjdenver @CPUSAColorado @Springs_DSA @JVPColorado @bswc_lca @HRAC_Denver @SwingBySupply "Making sense of the drive to build Cop City requires understanding the shifting dynamics of class and racial domination in Atlanta... the retreat from social welfare & the interrelated build up of policing & imprisonment to manage inequality’s outcomes." mainlinezine.com/this-is-the-at…
Today, the ✨Colorado Solidarity Coalition to #StopCopCity✨ sent a letter to Atlanta organizers as part of the Month of National Solidarity.
This is a fight not just for the future of Atlanta, but for our nation and the world.
Read the letter here: bit.ly/CO_StopCopCity
This is a fight not just for the future of Atlanta, but for our nation and the world.
Read the letter here: bit.ly/CO_StopCopCity
@bswc_lca @CPUSAColorado @Springs_DSA @dashrorg @DenverAuroraCAC @DenJustPro @HRAC_Denver @LakewoodLeft @littlereadbooks @safeboulder Cop City represents a paradigm shift for police militarization in the U.S. Proponents of the wildly unpopular project call it “a beacon for 21st Century Policing”.
Cop City is their vision of our future, but it's a dark, violent vision of social abandonment. It's not our vision.
Cop City is their vision of our future, but it's a dark, violent vision of social abandonment. It's not our vision.
@bswc_lca @CPUSAColorado @Springs_DSA @dashrorg @DenverAuroraCAC @DenJustPro @HRAC_Denver @LakewoodLeft @littlereadbooks @safeboulder @JVPColorado @surjdenver @SwingBySupply @NLGnews This week, our coalition members will be talking about Cop City, why people in Colorado should be worried, and how we can take collective action.
There's also a calendar of events, including a film screening, some action hours, & an opportunity to write to imprisoned defenders.
There's also a calendar of events, including a film screening, some action hours, & an opportunity to write to imprisoned defenders.
