Executive Ryan Milsap claims to control the area near CopCity and destroyed this park pavement - it is in litigation - live now twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Around 1000 people are setting up in a clearing in the Atlanta Forest area around the #CopCity project
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#StopCopCity movement today reoccupied the forest area known as Welaunee People’s Park, near the proposed urban warfare site.
Buckhead-based ultra-wealthy movie CEO Ryan Milsap claims to own this land and has previously sent workers to demolish a gazebo and paved bike path here.
Infrastructure just set up by the protest community, which plans to stay here, includes food, water, medical supplies, and an alchemical-looking herbal tea station.
100s-deep #StopCopCity protest marching down powerline clearing towards police set up doing surveillance by the forested site of the proposed urban warfare campus. There is a police helicopter overhead.
“The biggest march in the forest thus far,” one activist says.
The current scene right by Intrenchment Creek and the Old Prison Farm/proposed “Cop City” site in DeKalb County just outside Atlanta - thousands flocked to the ongoing “Week of Action” after police shot & killed a forest defender here in January.
Forest defenders have taken over the police surveillance outpost on the power line clearing near Intrenchment Creek. Police retreated after crowd arrived at barbed wire fence and shot fireworks into the area.
'Tortuguita Vive': A No-Compromise Movement Responds to Police Killing a Forest Defender in #Atlanta:
From its beginning, the #StopCopCity movement has been one of no compromise, with protesters vowing that "Cop City will never be built."
The state seems to be responding in kind, pushing forwards with the broadly unpopular plan to build the USA's largest police training facility, resorting to tactics up to and including lethal force against those opposed to the project: unicornriot.ninja/2023/tortuguit…
Community organizations involved in the ongoing campaign to defend the 'Atlanta Forest' & #StopCopCity say state prosecutors are planning on releasing indictments in the coming weeks charging them as a “criminal organization” under RICO statutes. unicornriot.ninja/2023/atlanta-a…
NEW: On Feb. 22 Israeli forces killed nearly a dozen Palestinians, many of them posing no threat, & shot 100+ during a daytime raid on a safehouse in the Old City of Nablus in the Occupied West Bank. Three of the dead were elderly & one was a child. 🧵🎥 unicornriot.ninja/2023/israeli-f…
Last week's Israeli raid on Nablus was one of the largest & deadliest in decades.
“This is a war of aggression by the extreme right-wing racist government against Palestinian people to impose a new reality and a policy of killing Palestinian people.” Nasr Abu Jaish
Just last month, Israeli forces raided Jenin Refugee Camp and killed at least 9 Palestinians, including an elderly woman, while shooting at least 20 others. ↕️
NEW: A Minneapolis Public Schools teacher talked to Unicorn Riot about the Minneapolis Police Department’s newly created PEACE Recruitment Program and the teachers union’s recent decision to oppose it. 🧵 unicornriot.ninja/2023/minneapol…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
“The police are desperate now and they’re coming for our kids.” Minneapolis Public School Special Ed Teacher & Union Member Jessica Garraway brought a proposal to @MFT59 opposing the MPD’s PEACE Recruitment Plan targeting high school students & helped draft a resolution. ↕️
On Dec. 16, 2022, @MFT59 passed Garraway’s resolution opposing the MPD’s high school student recruitment program. This comes more than two years after the Minneapolis School Board voted to end its contract with MPD and take school resource officers (SROs) unicornriot.ninja/2023/minneapol…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Activists Fight Against Criminalization of Homelessness in New Haven unicornriot.ninja/2023/activists…
Amistad Catholic Worker is a place of refuge for New Haven’s homeless population.
Each week, Amistad's director Mark Colville works to prepare meals for the hundreds of homeless New Haven residents that have fallen through the cracks of the city’s support services.
Around six New Haven residents also call his backyard home, creating what Colville calls a “Human Rights Zone.”
Located in “the Hill,” a historically Black neighborhood in New Haven, Colville’s service supports the needs of those living at Catholic Worker & along Grasso Blvd.
After killing an indigenous forest defender and charging tree-sitters and #StopCopCity demonstrators as domestic terrorists, Georgia and Atlanta authorities are reportedly preparing to prosecute protest movements under anti-mafia RICO laws.
The first terrorism charges were filed against #StopCopCity protesters during joint Georgia/Atlanta/DeKalb SWAT raids on forest defenders on Dec. 13-14.
At the time activists warned the escalation by police could turn deadly.
At a Dec 15 mtg of a ‘Community’ committee run by Atlanta Police Foundation, APD Asst. Chief Carven Tyus proclaimed that protest w/ ppl from other states was now terrorism: unicornriot.ninja/2023/community…
Tyus also celebrated arresting a man for filming police.